Mark Moody hopes that his homegrown mesquite flour will become a staple of Southwestern cuisine. But building a mainstream market for the pods of a desert tree isn’t an easy job. For the accompanying story, see Return of the pod man.

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The mesquite wrangler

by Cally Carswell, High Country News
November 10, 2009

<h1>The mesquite wrangler</h1> <p class="byline">by Cally Carswell, High Country News <br />November 10, 2009</p> <p>Mark Moody hopes that his homegrown mesquite flour will become a staple of Southwestern cuisine. But building a mainstream market for the pods of a desert tree isn’t an easy job. For the accompanying story, see <a href="../../issues/41.19/return-of-the-pod-man">Return of the pod man</a>.</p> <p> flashembed("flowPlay", { src:'http://s3.amazonaws.com/hcn-media/FlowPlayerDark.swf', width: 626, height: 380 }, {config: { autoPlay: true, showMenu: false, autoBuffering: true, initialScale: 'orig', videoFile: 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/hcn-media/2009-11-06-Mesquite.slideshow.mp4' }} ); </p> <p id="flowPlay">Please wait while the player loads. Note: you must have Javascript enabled and the Adobe Flash Player installed.</p> <p>Music by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glenn_Jones/This_is_the_Wind_That_Blows_it_Out/Faheys_Car" target="_new" rel="noopener">Glenn Jones<br /> </a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/the-mesquite-wrangler/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=97689&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/articles/the-mesquite-wrangler/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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