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Don’t Lose Sleep over the Nightshade Family of Plants
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern The Nightshade family of plants (Solanaceae) includes many fruits and vegetables that you may be familiar with, and…
Do Honey Bees Need Pesticides, or More Specifically, Miticides?
By Amber Morin, Arizona Farm Bureau Field Manager and southern Arizona rancher with her family Miticides, as the name implies, is an agent used to control…
Hive-proud Honey Bees
By Amber Morin, Arizona Farm Bureau Field Manager and southern Arizona rancher with her family With all the talk surrounding honey bee declines, you might…
Arizona Farmers get more Crop per Drop
By Lauren Scott, Arizona Farm Bureau Intern Water is important to farmers and ranchers across the globe, it grows their crops and waters their livestock,…
What Kids Can Learn from Gardening
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Gardening is a great way to get outdoor time with the whole family. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] There is a wealth of…
Grow What You Eat, Cook What You Grow
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Do you know what it takes to grow what you eat? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Whether you are growing your own food…
Let’s Talk Tomatoes
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] What is your favorite way to eat a tomato? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Tomatoes may be the most complex vegetable in our…
Get Your Garden Growing
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Arizona is a great place to garden. Image by Helen K via Flickr"][/caption] One of the great things about living in…
Community Gardens Growing In Popularity in Arizona Desert
By Jody Serey [caption id="attachment_3225" align="alignright" width="369" caption="Everyone gets involved at the Community Family Garden on Camelback"][/caption] When times get tough, it seems the tough…
It’s High Cotton but High Costs
[caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”With the next Arizona cotton harvest just around the corner, expectations on cotton prices are cautionary as the costs to grow…
Arizona Farmers are Busy Planting
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau If you haven’t noticed, Arizona farmers are busy with planting. The weather is warming up just right especially for…
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