TEAM TOCA: Support School Gardens
CYCLING EL TOUR DE TUCSON FOR SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAMMING
You can support gardens in schools and the great programs for students during and after school.
For the past two years, TOCA has continued school garden activities throughout the summer. Find out how you can help:
http://www.crowdrise.com/fundraise_and_volunteer/donations/cyclingforschoolgardens/toca 

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TOCA Job Posting

UPDATE 2/1/2014 - SORRY- POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED - Join the TOCA team!  We are looking for a new Business Manager – an essential team member who can  help make all of our programs run smoothly.  A complete job description appears below.  Please share with anyone who might be interested.

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2013 Celebration of Basketry and Native Foods Festival- Hotel Reservation Deadline

Good Day friends,
Remember to book your hotel stay at Desert Diamond Casino and Hotel by November 25, 2013.
The Special hotel rate of $80.00 per night *plus tax will end November 25, 2013.
Hotel Reservation Link

If you have any trouble with booking please contact the Desert Diamond Casino Hotel directly at
 877-777-4212 or 520-342-3012 referring to the Celebration of Basketry and Native Foods Festival.

BINGO Sunday 11am-5pm

Location: TOCC Campus (New hall at Schuk Toak, HW-86 milepost 125.5)

TUES.OCT 29th - Bring Flashlights & Your Family - Costumes Welcome

The 2nd Annual "Tour de O'oidag"welcomes all, big and small, to our dusky walk among the gardens of Sells. Dress up and share Tohono O'odham foods along the way to a big costume contest at IOES Elementary School Oidag. Registration begins at 5pm at Senior Svcs:

 Link to TOCA's Facebook Announcement for this event

Sun. Oct 27 11am-5pm: Basket Bingo to Support TOCA's Basket Weavers

Play Bingo like Never Before at the New TOCC Campus Hall off HWY.

Play Bingo Like Never Before - At TOCC Campus Hall (New Campus off Hwy 86) - Blackout Prizes include a Maze Pendleton Blanket.

IOES Oidag Planting Day - 5pm Oct 16th

Wednesday, October 16th: Bring the whole family to the Indian Oasis Elementary Oidag for our community winter planting day! We will be planting beets, carrots, i'itoi onions, o'odham peas, and more! Squash and cheese and wheat popovers will be served under the watho. Come take part in helping grow the wonderful oidag that so many students love to learn in..and eat from! We will start planting at 5 PM and stay until the sun goes down.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=567219099999941&set=a.138994146155774.43102.137202393001616&type=1&theater

Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance (NAFSA)

NAFSA, whose 22 founding members include TOCA's 2 co-founders, Terrol Dew Johnson and Tristan Reader, has started its own Facebook page. Read their Call to Action and meet the founding members!  Link: https://www.facebook.com/nativefoodalliance?fref=ts

Harvest Festival 2013

We had nearly 600 people at Saturday's Fall Harvest Festival.

Thanks to all our hardworking staff and interns!  

TOCA's Facebook page will soon have photos:
 https://www.facebook.com/pages/TOCA-Tohono-Oodham-Community-Action/137202393001616?fref=ts

TOCA's Farmers in AZ Daily Star

A feature story in the Arizona Daily Star featured TOCA's Beginning Farmer Training Program as one solution to the challenges facing the Tohono O'odham Nation.  The article features TOCA Farm Apprentice Vernal Sam and other TOCA staff who are working to revitalize Tohono O'odham farming as an important for of empowerment, economic development, health promotion.... as a way of life.  Additional photos of TOCA's farmers in action are also featured in a photo gallery as well.

This article was published two other articles, one examining some of the poverty challenges faced on the Reservation and another on improving graduation rates on the Reservation.

TOCA Online Shop Open

Are you looking for traditional Tohono O'odham foods?  A special gift?  Native Foodways Magazine?

If so, TOCA's new online shop is the place for you!  Featuring exclusive Pendleton blankets, hand-crafted baskets, jewelry and original artwork, 100% of the proceeds from all sales support TOCA's continuing work to create a healthy, culturally vital, and sustainable community.

Native Foodways Magazine Released

The Premiere Issue of TOCA's Native Foodways Magazine has been released.  Check out the magazine website: www.nativefoodways.org.

I'itoi Ki Pendleton Now Available Online

TOCA's exclusive I'itoi Ki (Man in the Maze) Pendleton blanket is once again available.  Designed by TOCA and produced by Pendleton Woolen Mill – maker of Indian trade blankets for over a century – the blanket is available exclusively through TOCA.  It is available in person at TOCA's Desert Rain Gallery or through our online store: http://www.tocaonline.org/shop.html.

Food & Nutrition Magazine features TOCA

TOCA's Desert Rain Cafe is featured in the current issue of Food & Nutrition Magazine, a publication of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals.  Check out the article here:  Food & Nutrition Magazine Article

Spring 2013 TOCA Newsletter

Farmers Market on Alternate Fridays

Cholla Harvest -- April 15-18

Community Planting Day

Guest Chef Janos Wilder – Sold Out

Storytelling at Museum

Storytelling is an important part of the O'odham Himdag – the Desert People's Lifeways. TOCA sponsors storytelling events in local schools, detention centers, community centers and elsewhere.

We are happy to see other community organizations doing storytelling events as well.  This special event, presented by the Tohono O'odham Nation Museum and Cultural Center, presents a new dramatization of the story of Ho'ok Oks. We are excited to see this new production.

Tohono O'odham Nation Half Marathon

One of TOCA's partners is sponsoring a half-marathon later this month.  Traditionally, many Tohono O'odham were long distance runners.  We encourage all community members to get involved in this great event.