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Filling Your Plate With Beets
By Sarah LeVesque, Recent ASU Nutrition Student Beta vulgaris! Almost sounds like a spell in a whimsical film on sorcerers. But it won’t make beets…
Watermelon Facts
By Arizona Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom It’s Summertime, the sun is out and the weather is great! The only thing that could make…
Fiber is your friend
By Kat Brown, Recent ASU Nutrition Student What is Fiber? Fiber forms the support structure of leaves, stems, and plants. It is the part…
Fill (Not Garnish) Your Plate with Green Onions
By Erika Guzman, Recent ASU Nutrition Student Green onions. Scallions. Spring onions. All interchangeable names for the delicious fresh green onion vegetable without the…
Fill Your Plate with Cantaloupe
By Kevann Jordan, Recent ASU Nutrition Student As mentioned on Fill Your Plate, Arizona ranks second in the production of Cantaloupe nationwide. This beautiful melon…
16 Arizona Dairy Facts You Need to Know
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Outreach Director Our Arizona dairy milk is one of the freshest, most local products you can purchase daily.…
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…
Planting Through the Low Desert Seasons
By Cricket Aldridge, Urban Farm Lifestyle Editor One of the coolest things about gardening in the Sonoran Desert is that we can grow every…
Let Fill Your Plate Fill Your Plate
By Ashley TenBrink, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student I have a question for you. Are you interested in buying ‘real food’, from ‘real…
7 of Arizona’s Best Picks
By Kevann Jordan, ASU Communication Nutrition Student According to the Arizona Farm Bureau and the United States Department of Agriculture, the following seven nutritional gems…
We Need to Have a Heart to Heart about Dairy
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Something has happened in the last 20 years, and fast-fading fad diets have become a societal norm. To…
So, How’d Farm Bureau Become the Friendly Food Price Checker?
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau Communication Director Years ago, Arizona Farm Bureau merged with Farm Bureaus across the United States to join forces and…
An Open Letter to Dairy Cows
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Dear Dairy Cows, It’s Dairy Month, and I’d like to recognize you! I’ve lived in Arizona my whole…
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