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Healthy Eating Series: 5 Ways to Keep Your Healthy Eating Resolutions Alive
The National Cancer Institute recommends that we eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. But in this fast world of ours…
Misguided Meatless Campaigns
By Stewart Truelsen Throughout the course of history there have been attempts to get people to stop eating meat. An early advocate of a meatless…
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Eating the Rainbow of Produce Is Your Path to Good Health (Part II in our Series)
I know it’s not like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but the benefits of eating the colors of the…
Growing Local Chefs
The Arizona Careers in Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) prepares high school students across the state for jobs in the culinary sector. In addition to their…
Healthy Eating Series: Discover How Easily You Can Get Back to Better Eating in the New Year
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau No. You don’t need to add to your New Year’s resolution list. But, you do need to grab hold…
How to Take Control of Your Own Food Safety
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Yeah! You and I are eating more fresh produce, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This…
Christmas On the Farm
By Gene Hall, Texas Farm Bureau It’s always a mistake to paint a mythological picture of farm life. The Norman Rockwell image never really existed.…
My Encounter with a Humanitarian
By John Augustine, Agriculturalist and Nursery grower In the era of unsung heroes, Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D. stands out as one of the greats. Not…
How to Dramatically Raise Food Prices and Decrease Production In One Easy Step
By John Hart, American Farm Bureau Federation With the United Nations climate talks occurring in Copenhagen and the recent finding by the Environmental Protection Agency…
Our Worker Gloves Are More Valuable than Michael Jackson’s
By Pennee Murphree, former cotton, wheat and alfalfa grower Why do I even watch the news? One of the more recent news items was about…
Make it Easy to Buy Local
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau So you want to purchase more locally-based products, but concerned about cost and availability? As communities around the country…
See How Easily You Can Talk to An Arizona Farmer
It started simply because families want to visit with farmers. Most got the bug at today’s farmers’ markets. But many want to continue the conversation.…
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