Welcome to SWAAN

Helping people integrate trees, crops, and animals to regenerate Southwest landscapes.

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Welcome to SWAAN

Helping people integrate trees, crops, and animals to regenerate Southwest landscapes.

Join

save the Date! Swann con in tucson, az april 24-26

Conference Sessions

Join us in Tucson Arizona for conference sessions held at the University of Arizona ENR2 Building. Hotel information coming soon.

Field Trip

Conference Sessions

The second day of the conference will take us to a series of locations around the Tucson area. We will visit historic gardens and neighborhoods that are transforming their street with agroforestry concepts.

Leadership Meeting

Conference Sessions

Leadership Meeting

Our third day will be a meeting of current and future leaders of our network. If you are interested in joining the leadership team or a committee, please attend.

About Us

MISSION

The Southwest Agroforestry Action Network (SWAAN) mission: Helping people integrate trees, crops, and animals to regenerate Southwest landscapes. SWAAN’s scope of interest is forest-agricultural activities on tribal, state, federal, county, municipal and private lands in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.

Events

Recent Events:

SOUTHWEST AGROFORESTRY ACTION NETWORK

3rd Annual Conference

Urban, Rural & Indigenous Agroforestry in the Southwest - Let's Network!

When: July 11, 2022 to July 13, 2023

Where: Littleton, Colorado

See conference recordings here.

Who attends our events

Agricultural producers, Tribes, ranchers, community gardeners and orchardists, permaculturalists, water harvesters, and others who produce food for themselves.
Representatives of government agencies, cooperative extension, universities, and nonprofit organizations who support sustainable solutions for agriculture, forestry, and communities through their programs.
People interested in community food forests and forest-agricultural activities including alley cropping, forest farming, riparian forest buffers, silvopasture, windbreaks, and shelterbelts.

Recordings of past programs listed here.