Saguaro Syrup

Brown Tepary Beans

White Tepary Beans

Dried Cholla Buds

Founded in 1996, Tohono O'odham Community Action (TOCA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community-based organization dedicated to creating a healthy, culturally vital and sustainable Tohono O'odham Nation. In order to achieve these goals, TOCA has developed four current program areas: Tohono O'odham Basketweavers Organization; Tohono O'odham Food & Wellness System; Tohono O'odham Community Arts and Culture Program; and Youth/Elder Outreach Program.

The foods of the Sonoran Desert have sustained the Tohono O'odham for countless generations. From foods harvested in the wild to those that have been cultivated for centuries, these foods are delicious, nutritious and the roots of the O'odham Himdag – the Desert People's Lifeways.