It’s the best time of year! Welcome to our annual, extra special, keep-all-year edition of Natural Awakenings Tucson—the 2024 Health & Wellness Guide. These pages are absolutely packed full of practitioners, businesses and professionals who are here in the Tucson area and beyond—all ready to help you in the next steps of your wellness journey.

The 2024 Health & Wellness Guide begins on page 14, with profiles and spotlights to help you get to know the Tucson wellness community better. You’ll also find an expansive Natural Living Directory starting on page 52, with plenty of new faces alongside many familiar favorites who have been working with our readers for years. This year, we also have several Book Spotlights to introduce you to local authors and practitioners who have written extensively using their healthy living expertise (page 24).

This edition also serves to focus on Sustainable Travel, just in time to plan some trips (both near and far) for this spring and summer. Find tips for traveling more sustainably on page 32, learn about agritourism—which became more popular in recent years—on page 36, contemplate the benefits of travel for kids on page 38 and more.

Of course, we also have great earth-friendly content for Earth Day that includes looking at the use of single-use plastics (page 46), connecting to the sentient Earth (page 13) and an action “Heal-Our-World Checklist” (page 12)—great to reference at home all year long.

I must extend a huge thank you to the local community members who participated in this issue of Natural Awakenings, and to each one of our readers, who are the reason we are all here.

To an exceptional wellness journey in 2024,

Holly