This non-profit organization carries seed from traditional crops of the southwest. They also provide services ranging from supplying these seeds to Native Americans to dispensing information on diabetes and how a traditional diet may help to prevent and treat it. The offices are located in Tucson and Santa Fe. Another organization Gary Nabhan is associated with is the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum . Also located near Tucson, it has almost two miles of paths covering twelve acres.
Several exhibits are available including a walk-in aviary, bighorn sheep, and underground animals.
All of the animals are placed in natural settings. Instead, Nabhan spent his time making observations about the Papago people and their culture. If this book were to go into all of the theories about what, why, and how the Papago are what they are today it would be about a thousand pages. A perfect example is the gifts left in the cave of I'itoi. This event in the book where Gary Nabhan was told to leave whatever, even a cigarette butt, really is a good example of outside influence on the Papago.