Friday Food Facts

Merry Christmas from Arizona’s farmers and ranchers! Arizona agriculture is a 23-billion-dollar industry. We’re looking forward to providing an abundance of nutritious and fresh food for our Arizona families. FillYourPlate.org helps you locate farms for holiday excursions like 4^th generation Schnepf Farms in Queen Creek.

In festive recognition of Arizona’s holiday season, put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne and watch it continuously rise and fall. Arizona’s sparkling wines are award-winning! On Arizona Farm Bureau’s Fill Your Plate, one of the most popular agriculture items searched, is wine!

Hungry for Apple pie, instead of pumpkin, this Christmas? So many kinds of apples exist that if you ate one new variety daily, you’d need 20 years to consume the 7,500 varieties. This Christmas enjoy Arizona’s crisp, sweet apples in your holiday pie!

A traditional Christmas meal includes turkey or prime rib, vegetables, pumpkin pie, and more. Don’t forget milk and cookies for Santa! As a result, nearly everything we eat on Christmas Day can be grown or raised in Arizona, like the beef my family raises on our family ranch.

Both basic methods of farming, Arizona Organic and Conventional farming are more alike than different. They both have well-established markets. They both use approved pesticides and they both feed us with the same nutrition.