A small selection of food trucks has established a semi-permanent location at Civano Nursery at 5301 S. Houghton Road, selling everything from wild-salmon burgers to Cuban-inspired fare on a regular basis.

The trucks set up around 11 a.m., Thursday through Sunday. This week it looks like Dragoon Cafe, Jamie's Bitchen Kitchen and Guero Loco's Bubba Que are scheduled to be there. If you're on Facebook, you can check in over here for more info.

If you can't wait until Thursday, Guero Loco's Bubba Que will be out in front of the National Bank of Arizona at 330 N. Wilmot Road today from about 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jamie's Bitchen Kitchen looks like it's taking today off, but tomorrow it'll be parked in front of the Sportsman's Warehouse at 3945 W. Costco Drive.

If you are looking for authentic Italian cuisine downtown, be sure to visit Caffe' Milano before it closes for a month. Starting on Thursday, June 14, the restaurant will be closed and will reopen on Wednesday, July 18. The owners return to Italy each summer to find new recipes and to visit family. Caffe' Milano is located at 46 W. Congress St., next to the Fox Tucson Theatre. Call 628-1601, or visit www.caffemilano.com for more information.

I am not sure what is up with chef Steven Schultz's The New Red Sky and Luna Bar up at 2990 N. Swan Road, in Plaza Palomino. The notification on the place's website says it's closed for several weeks for customer's "safety and comfort" during construction. But it's said that for far longer than several weeks, so who knows.

Picazzo's Organic Italian Kitchen, which has been offering up decent Italian fare and a slew of gluten-free options at 7850 N. Oracle Road for a while now, is also closed. Again, not sure if it's for good, but the phone has been disconnected. Picazzo's opened and closed more than once in the past couple of years.

Le Delice Bakery and Cafe at 7245 E. Tanque Verde Road has also closed for the umpteenth time. This place has changed owners several times, falling back into the hands of original owners Maurice and Nicole Cochard in late 2010. The phone is disconnected, and nobody's home.

And, as mentioned earlier this week, Breathe, Drink and Design just off of Fourth Avenue has also closed.

(Note: The above video was filmed before Dos Manos Farm's owner knew the operation would be taking a forced break for the summer.)

Dos Manos Farm, the local-agriculture project started earlier this year by local-food advocate and all around decent guy Noel Patterson, has been bulldozed. But Patterson is already looking at other opportunities that would allow him to continue his mission to make more local food available in and around Tucson.

Patterson said yesterday that the land he was farming at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona's Marana Heritage Farm was taken back by the City of Marana and that work has begun to turn it into a parking lot for nearby development. Patterson wanted to make it very clear that the action was expected and that the deal was amicable for all parties involved.

But Patterson - who is more dedicated to the local-food movement than just about anybody I've come across - is already looking at a variety of options that would allow him to continue on with Dos Manos Farm, albeit in a new location he hopes will be closer to Tucson. He's also wants to start offering workshops on everything from bee-keeping to raising chickens for meat and eggs.

The last of the produce from the first Dos Manos Farm will be available at the farmers' market this Saturday at Maynards Market and Kitchen. Patterson said he is relatively sure he will be back at the market before long with produce, honey and eggs from other projects he has going.

For those who want to keep up on what Patterson is up to - and if you're into the local-food movement, he's the guy to watch - you can keep up with him on Facebook over here.

Meet Jared McKinley. More accurately, meet Jared McKinley's alter ego Kitty Katt McKinley, which he uses when producing and promoting some of this city's more creative and memorable events through Powhaus Productions and his new company MEOWmeow Productions.

McKinley also happens to be an amazing gardener who has founded a new group called the Arid Land Homesteaders League. The organization's website is an excellent blend of good writing and an ever-growing selection of do-it-yourself food-production tips. You can read all about it right here.

When he's not in the garden or organizing parties - his underwear party hits Hotel Congress on Saturday, June 16 - he waits tables at Hub Restaurant and Ice Creamery and brews aerated compost tea for Merlin Organics. He took a moment this week to discuss the Arid Land Homesteaders League:

TW: Tell me a little about the Arid Land Homesteaders League. How is it different from your previous entity, Tucson Urban Gardener.

JM: This all started on accident. I am living in a rental. I am also fairly poor. I thought I was going to move until about a half a year ago when I decided to stay in this house. I started a garden, late in the season, and started writing about it. I am a writer, so it was natural. I revived this old blog I used to lazily maintain years ago when I was working for Dr. Andrew Weil. My writing on the subject started to really develop and the audience exploded. So that encouraged me to expand on the whole thing. The interest is very much there and so I am continuing to feed that interest.

Oxygen bar and tea house Breathe, Drink and Design at 416 E. Seventh Street has closed, saying the loss of business due to the modern-street-car project and the summer slow-down was too much to bear. From the place's Facebook account:

Hey everyone. Just wanted to thank everyone for your patronage and support throughout the last year. Unfortunately, we closed our doors at the end of this past month. It just got a little tough to keep the business going through all of the construction on 4th Ave. and we figured that it would be especially tough during the Summer with all the students out of town. These things happen, though.

But, hey... you never know when we might just get the crazy notion to do this again! So, what we want to say is "Thank you, and goodbye for now!"

Have a wonderful day, friends!

To be fair, one cannot overtly blame the construction downtown for this closure being that the success rate of a business model dealing chiefly in tea and oxygen has yet to be proven. That said, the construction surely did nothing to help the business out, and here's hoping we don't see more shuttered businesses before the construction dust clears.

Food trucks have come a long way since the little carts with hot dogs and pretzels. Adam Borowitz, blogger and Noshing Around columnist extraordinaire, has chronicled the Tucson food truck scene in his column and Food Truck Diaries. Read the latest post here.

And now there's a new book about the national trend. Last month, Workman Publishing released The Truck Food Cookbook: 150 Recipes and Ramblings from America's Best Restaurants on Wheels by John T. Edge. The book includes the following recipes from Tucson trucks:

• OOP’S HOT DOGS: Toritos (Stuffed Güero Chiles)
• EL GUERO CANELO: How to Build a Sonoran Hot Dog w/Jalapeño Salsa
• TAQUERIA SAMMY EL SINALOENSE: Top of the Dog: Guacamole Sauce, Red Onion in Vinegar

Read on below the cut for more information about the book and author:

A new restaurant called Amigos, Burgers and Beer is setting up shop at 6372 S. Nogales Highway. We have very little information about the restaurant at this point, but did come across this description while doing our hard-hitting, in-depth investigative internet searching:

We are a yet to be opened neighborhood grill and bar who will serve oversized burgers and sandwhiches in sports bar themed restaurant. Amigos is located in a predominantly Mexican-American area of Tucson, Arizona. It is a blue collar area and is owned by two good amigos who enjoy a cold beer, great burgers and the company of "amigos".

I'm pretty sure that location used to be called the Mustang Grill. We'll keep you posted as more details become available.

The old Furr's building at 4329 N. Oracle Road will soon be home to a Buffalo Wild Wings Bar and Grill. It's a chain eatery that most of you probably already know about, but those who don't can click on over here for more information.

In other hot-wing news, the owner of Redline Sports Grill, which is a stone's throw from where this Buffalo Wild Wings joint is going in, told me a few weeks back that he was adding a bunch of new wing flavors to his menu in an attempt to stay competitive.

I've always struggled with enjoying hot wings being that the effort-to-meat ratio is far above what I find reasonable, and innumerable beers do not seem to change my mind about it. But if you're one of the countless Americans who love the things, that block of Oracle Road is going to be the hot-wing hotspot in a few months.

It looks as if a Native New Yorker restaurant is preparing to move into what was formerly a Chuy's Baja Broiler location at 3100 E. Speedway Blvd.

We just got done checking the city's liquor license register and an application has been filed under the Native New Yorker name for the location. No word yet on when it could open, but it's going to take some time to scrub off all that Chuy's flair, so we're guessing it could be some time.

I am so glad to see that building being put back into use. I get a little misty every time I drive by and see it sitting all lonely and deserted. Has anyone out there eaten at a Native New Yorker? I haven't, but feel free to post any thoughts on the food it serves down in the comments section.