After seven days in the desert scrubland, the scientists left with a sample of nature's bounty: wild tepary bean plants.

Indigenous communities in the Sonoran Desert have cultivated the tiny, drought-tolerant tepary bean for millennia.

And tepary bean has to be grown in the wild.

He explained that the tepary bean was a neglected crop, grown by native Americans in the southwest US and Mexico in very hot and dry environments.

So and other agricultural practices is one there's a tepary bean recipe in the book.