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Month: April 2010
14 Tips for Protecting Your Back in the Backyard
As cool weather departs and summer returns to Arizona, homeowners kick into high gear planting, trimming and focusing on summer gardening. Gardening regularly calls for…
Where Can I Get Farm-Fresh Vegetables Delivered Right To My Door?
You haven’t really eaten your vegetables until you’ve eaten them from a CSA! By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau You want more vegetables in your…
Breakfast in a Corn Field
This morning I ate breakfast in a cornfield. No, I’m not having flashbacks to the movie, “Field of Dreams.” The cornfield was the setting for…
Arizona BBQ Fans Invited To Enjoy Free Barbecue Meal From Award Winning Joe’s Real BBQ on May 5th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_396" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Getting ready for #freebbqday"][/caption] Arizona BBQ fans are invited to experience one of Arizona’s most famous barbecue restaurants for free! On…
Former Farm Girl Was the Best Pie Maker in the County!
Local celebrity and Arizona foodie Jan D’Atri discovered another Arizona [caption id="attachment_392" align="alignright" width="109" caption="Lucille Howard made the best Apple Pie!"][/caption] cook and in the…
Earth Day 2010: How Some Arizona Farmers Celebrate Every Day!
[caption id="attachment_386" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Buying locally grown produce is earth friendly. Check out the u-pick garden at Schnepf Farms. Photo credit: Foskett Photography"][/caption] Most Americans…
Arizona Beef: Some of the Most Flavorful in the World!
[caption id="attachment_380" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Future Rancher Cort Tomerlin is raised on natural beef and his boundless energy attests to that fact. "][/caption] By Julie Murphree,…
A Day for Chicks to Shine! Mom Bloggers Flock to Hickman’s Family Farms
[caption id="attachment_373" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Mom Bloggers go hands on at Hickman Egg Farms"][/caption] By Jody Serey, Contributor to Arizona Farm Bureau In early March, the…
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…
Food Safety, a Joint Effort You Can Help With
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau [caption id=”attachment_345″ align=”alignleft” width=”300″ caption=”Iceberg lettuce is one of the leafy green products under the Arizona Leafy Green Products…
A Dining Experience I Will Never Forget..Dinner Down the Orchard
[caption id="attachment_362" align="alignright" width="214" caption="Dinner Guests at Schnepf Farms"][/caption] By Wendy Kenney, Contributor to Arizona Farm Bureau I didn’t know what to expect when I…
Social Media Goes Rural…
Farms have been using technology and modern equipment to provide the best possible agricultural products at the most competitive rates, but did you know that…
Arizona Food Prices on the Rise
For the first time in 15 months, Arizona retail food prices at the supermarket increased in the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest…
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