Madison Thomas joined KGUN 9 in July of 2023 as a multimedia journalist. She graduated from Arizona State University in May of 2023 with a degree in journalism and mass communication, a minor in political science and certificate in cross-sector leadership.
TUCSON , Ariz. — Today on the Westside , the San Ysidro festival was held at Mission Garden located at 946 W Mission Ln.
The annual festival is used as a time to not only remember San Ysidro as the patron of laborers and farmers, but also to do some harvesting. The event started at about 8 in the morning with a procession which was led by a priest blessing the garden.Then it was time for the work to begin. After a demonstration, visitors began harvesting the plot of Pima Club Wheat with the same techniques that were used over a century ago. From there it was threshed by horses walking on it and then winnowed and milled.
The goal of the festival and the garden as a whole is to help educate. Mission Garden’s Community Outreach Coordinator, Kendall Kroesen said, “The whole mission here is to recreate in different plots around the garden the agriculture of many different eras of our long, long agricultural history — over 4,000 years, maybe as much as 5,000 years.”Madison Thomas joined KGUN 9 in July of 2023 as a multimedia journalist.
Tucson Westside Festival Garden Harvesting Mission Garden Wheat
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