text: If you Yelp you are generally some kind of foodie If you are a cooking foodie driving south the Casa Blanca Market has a rare item that will make you Foodie Cool Tepary Especially if you know some tepary facts If you want to know more read on nnIf you have ever watched Chef Ron BenIsrael work his Reality TV time of tasteful peculiar humor pronouncing You were no sweet genius or You are a Sweet Genius you might appreciate my pronunciation Oodham people you are Ag GeniusnnThe indigenous people living around Our Fair Megacity were named Pima by Spanish and English speaking people Look it up They call themselves Oodham Oodham genius gave the world long staple Pima cotton one of our planets most important commodities A less known ag product is teparynnImagine a swimming pool Walk to four feet deep Imagine standing on a golf course or lawn Imagine four feet of water covering every inch of green That is how much water it takes to have a decent not even great lawn in the Sonoran Desert It takes about inches less water to grow a crop of that amazing cellulose fiber cottonnnPull the plug on your imaginary water source Drain it to four inches deep In his book Gathering the Desert Gary Nabhan reported tepary beans need four inches of irrigation to make a crop A crop that with a little corn squash wild spinach mesquite cactus agave saguaro fruit and other foods fed healthy active genius indigenous people in the Sonoran Desert for thousands of yearsnnYou can buy tepary beans at Gila River Indian Community Convenience stores Plus all the usual Cstore gasoline pop beer and junk food nnHeres a link to the Oodham farmers growing them plus recipes for this Native American genius food plant Share some with friendsnnhttpwwwramonafarmscomrecipes