Monthly Archives: April 2010

Earth Day 2010: How Some Arizona Farmers Celebrate Every Day!

Most Americans celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd. Farmers and ranchers celebrate Earth Day every day.

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Arizona Beef: Some of the Most Flavorful in the World!

“This is some of the most wonderful and flavorful meat I’ve ever tasted!”

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A Day for Chicks to Shine! Mom Bloggers Flock to Hickman’s Family Farms

Clint Hickman lets the mommy bloggers get up close and personal with one of the Hickman Family Farms’ chickens. It was a day for the chicks to shine.

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Imagining Arizona Agriculture in the Next 20 Years

By Pat Rorabaugh, Ph.D., Lecturer in the School of Plant Sciences and a hydroponic specialist with the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, University of Arizona. The Rillito Creek in Tucson has been running for a couple of months, a beautiful sight … Continue reading

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Food Safety, a Joint Effort You Can Help With

By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Food safety has to be a cooperative effort involving the local, state and national levels, but it all comes down to what happens close to home, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official … Continue reading

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