Bring your gardening questions for a live Q&A and a Southwest Native Plant Primer book release party! Authors Jack Dash and Luke Takata will be at Desierto Books to answer your most pressing gardening questions. Copies of the book will be available for sale (and signing). Admission is free and open to the public.

Jack Dash is a naturalist and writer based in Tucson, Arizona. A graduate of Prescott College, Jack is a board member of The Arizona Native Plant Society and coeditor of Plant Press Arizona. He is the Gardens Manager at Tohono Chul botanical gardens and regularly speaks on, writes about, and guides trips related to botany, horticulture, and natural history in the Southwest.

Luke Takata is a photographer and storyteller based in Tucson, Arizona. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute’s BFA Photography program and the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Practice and Visual Storytelling program, where he was a Director’s Fellow. Takata has been recognized as an Award of Excellence winner by the Newhouse School at Syracuse University’s Alexia Foundation grant, and his photographs are a part of the permanent collection at The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos.