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Settling in to a comfy corner of a local coffee shop with a good book is a simple joy that was put on pause for much of the past year.
But as more people resume dining in, metro Phoenix cafe fans have a few new options to try for their morning coffee or afternoon iced tea.
Some existing coffee shops have opened new locations, bringing their menus closer to fans across the Valley. Others are opening for the first time with baristas pulling some of their new machines very first espresso shots.
Not all of these new locations are traditional cafes either. There s a new coffee window handing out drinks to customers enjoying a garden backyard
2075 E. Benson Highway, 78 W. River Road While both Grassp Delivery and Desert Bloom Re-Leaf Center provide solid delivery of fresh bud and locally crafted edibles, it s Earth s Healing s delivery that wins the top spot in this category, which has been more important than ever in the last year. While delivery services in Arizona are only available for medical patients at the moment thanks to state law, cardholders can order anytime between 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily (9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays) and later that day, a friendly courier will turn up at your place with your meds. You ll have to pay through Alt Thirty Six, which is kind of a PayPal for the cannabis community, so be ready to set up an account. Earth s Healing covers most of the metro area with a simple fee: If your order is between $40-$100, it ll cost you 10 bucks; if it s between $101-$200, it ll cost you five bucks; and if you re splurging on more than $200, it s free.
Gary Nabhan
You might know ethnobotanist and author Gary Paul Nabhan from his work founding Native Seeds/SEARCH, the massive seed bank that preserves all manner of indigenous plant variants to ensure future genetic diversity as corporate farming operations embrace monoculture. You might know him from his work as science director at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, or his work at the UA s Southwest Center, or his contributions to the annual Agave Festival at Hotel Congress. In short, Gary has left a big footprint in our natural world.
This week, we re proud to present an excerpt from an essay about how he discovered his love of the richness of desert flora and fauna. It s the lead essay in a new book Nabhan has edited:
Yes, summiting fourteeners and rafting the Grand Canyon are unforgettable experiences you should totally have. But in a moment when we’re rethinking how to make the most of our time outside, why limit yourself to the expected? We came up with 23 surprising ways to get you inspired for 2021 and beyond.
1. Ski and Surf on the Same Day
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Photo: Chris Burkard)
Hawaii-based alpine ski racer Julia Mancuso, who surfed the Black Sea after competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, has a piece of advice for anyone who plans to attempt this iconic same-day duo: “Ski first, then surf.” You’ll be more motivated to take off ski boots than to put them on, she says. Here are three tried-and-true beach and mountain combos. Our pro tip? Pack a thick wetsuit. Taylor Gee
in which we are essentially picking up the cost to do their work for them on federal public land. that subsidy, the taxpayer pays for, and is transferred into the pockets of the timber companies. exactly. exactly. and probably the biggest western subsidy of all is really under the bureau of reclamation which is the water subsidies and the fact that we build these enormous water projects like the central valley project in california. that the whole purpose of the bureau of reclamation in 1902 when it was created was to make the desert bloom. to move people out west which a lot of subsidies are about trying to western expansion. hey, we got it. it s done. their people are there. but when you look at water, we ve lost billions of dollars providing low-cost water, pennies on the dollar of what that water is worth. and you have issues of then, you know, the drought and it s exacerbated by subsidies because people waste the water. this is the point i want to make from an ideological pe