John Slattery teaches people how to gather and eat wild plants of the Sonoran desert region into Sonora, Mexico, and the greater Southwest and Mountain West. He also helps the community build relationships with local plants through his Sonoran Herbalist Apprenticeship Program. He founded Desert Tortoise Botanicals in2005 after completing a clinical herbalist training at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine and has since maintained a clinical practice in Tucson, Arizona.