Friday Food Facts

Arizona’s wine grape harvest recently wrapped up. Our state is host to three major wine-grape growing regions. During the holidays, it’s time to enjoy Arizona’s award-winning wines!

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants! But stick to eating Arizona’s quality beef and pork. Both are quality protein meats we raise here in our state.

National Lemonade Day is August the 20^th. Get some fresh Arizona lemons and celebrate this entire month with some fresh squeezed lemonade. Arizona citrus is one of the state’s five C’s, a good source of vitamin C. 

Arizona agriculture needs water, and you need Arizona agriculture. While Arizona agriculture is known for using 70% of our state’s water, we benefit 100% from what our state’s farming and ranching grows and raises. Water use for Ag is critical.

Ancient grains have become popular with the public. And, Arizona is an excellent region to grow some of these specialty grains, often known for their unique tastes and deep root systems for pulling quality nutrients from the soil.