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Making Sure Everyone Has Access to Locally Grown Food
[caption id="attachment_10684" align="alignright" width="298"] Learn how low income families are able to fill their plates with locally grown food (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com)[/caption] In the war…
What to Do in Your Garden this Month
[caption id="attachment_10647" align="alignright" width="300"] Make sure you prune the excess buds from your fruit tree for the healthiest fruit production (photo credit: BigStockPhoto.com)[/caption] April is…
How to Make Your Own Popsicles
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] Follow these tips to make refreshing homemade popsicles this summer. (Photo credit: Growing a Green Family)[/caption] Summer’s here, schools out, and…
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Follow these tips to grow tomatoes in the Arizona desert. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] When it comes to home gardening, tomatoes are…
What Factors Impact Food Prices? – Part 1
There has been a lot of talk on the news lately about how this news story or that news story will definitely result in the…
Pasta Primer
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Different types of short pasta (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] When it comes to comfort food, there are few things more comforting on…
How Sustainable is Our Food Supply?
Access to adequate amounts of healthy food is one of the most important things that differentiate thriving regions from those that are faltering. Security to…
Potato Industry Ponders Possible Bumper Crop
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] What is your favorite potato recipe? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] This year’s potato crop could be substantially larger than 2011’s—up to 41…
World Hunger: 7 Billion Hungry Mouths to Feed
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Percentage of national population suffering from malnutrition, according to United Nations statistics. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"][/caption] July 11 is World Population Day,…
Interesting Information about Arizona Agriculture
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Grand Canyon, Arizona. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"][/caption] When people picture Arizona, they see the desert, the Grand Canyon, and lots of cactus. …
Peanut Shortfall Yields Peanut Abundance
Peanut prices rose in 2011 due to a smaller peanut crop. Farmers respond in 2012, planting more acres. Image via Wiki It’s not new news…
A Picture of Arizona Agriculture
Here in Arizona, we are blessed with a long growing season and weather that supports our amazing Agriculture industry. Our farmers and ranchers work hard…
Will the World Population Overwhelm the Earth’s Capacity to Grow Food? -The Conservation Conversation
In 1970, the world’s population was about 3.3 billion people. In 2010, the world population was around 6.6 billion people. At current growth rates, the…
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What Nutrition is in Mushrooms? Nature’s Low-Calorie Powerhouses
Mushrooms have long been a curiosity, popping up in fairy tales as enchanted homes for woodland creatures or as potent ingredients in ancient potions. But…
What Nutrition Does Corn Have? Kernel by Kernel
In Arizona, we grow two kinds of corn: sweet corn and field corn. Sweet corn is grown for human consumption, and the field corn is…
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