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Fill Your Plate Cares about Your Child’s Nutrition
By Bailey Roden, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern The Fill Your Plate Blog is jam-packed with wonderful information about how to provide your child with the…
Arizona Lemons, Worthy of a “Pucker Up!”
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Outreach Director The 2017/18 crop results for Arizona lemons are in: Production this season is slightly down from…
Fill Your Plate with Avocados!
By Erika Guzman, Current ASU Nutrition Student Avocados seem like a bandwagon fruit (yes, it’s a fruit), but in reality, it’s a delicious, healthy…
Arizona Pork is Yummy
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Outreach Director In 2016, Arizona hogs brought in $47.5 million in cash receipts to our state, according to the…
Nutrition for the Life Cycle Series – Nutrition During School-Age Years
By Emily Carver, Recent ASU Nutrition Student This is part five of a five-part series on nutrition within the lifecycle. Read part one, part two,…
Nutrition for the Life Cycle Series – Nutrition During Preschool Years
By Emily Carver, Recent ASU Nutrition Student This is part four of a five-part series on nutrition within the lifecycle. Read part one, part two…
Nutrition for the Life Cycle Series – Nutrition During Toddler Years
By Emily Carver, Recent ASU Nutrition Student This is part three of a five-part series on nutrition within the lifecycle. Read part one and part…
Nutrition for the Life Cycle Series – Nutrition During Infancy
By Emily Carver, Recent ASU Nutrition Student This is part two of a five-part series on nutrition within the life cycle. Read part one here.…
Nutrition for the Life Cycle Series – Nutrition During Lactation
By Emily Carver, Recent ASU Nutrition Student First in a series Your world has changed forever. You just welcomed a beautiful new baby into the…
We Should Be Bullish about Barley
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Outreach Director This year, Arizona farmers intend to plant 11,000 acres of barley, lowest acreage since 1928 when only…
Calcium and Your Colon: How Calcium Just Might Save Your Life
By Emily Carver, Recent ASU Nutrition Student When thinking about calcium, the first thought that generally comes to mind is milk and bones. Growing up,…
In a World Full of Kale, Why Not be a Green Bean?
By Sarah LeVesque, Recent ASU Nutrition Student I’m a lover of all things kale, but lately, I’ve been thinking about green beans: where have they…
15 Meal Planning Guidelines For Your Preschooler
By Alise Robers, Recent ASU Nutrition Student Getting little ones to try new foods, or eat what you put in front of them can be…
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