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Better Living Through Beets
What’s your favorite beet recipe? Image via Wikipedia Long relegated to ethnic dishes and often categorized as that strange thing your Grandma tried to make you eat at Sunday dinner, the beet made a comeback in 2011 and popped…
Cherries on Top!
Whether you prefer them sweet or sour, cherries are a flavorful way to get in a serving or two of your daily fruit and vegetable requirement. Although cherries aren’t widely grown here in Arizona, some of the sweet varieties do…
Women in Blue Jeans Day, January 19th
If your only exposure to American culture was television or the movies, you would likely have a skewed view of American women. It would be easy to think that most of them spend their days climbing the corporate ladder clad…
National Popcorn Day Pops on the Calendar
Whether you pop it in your microwave, buy it at the movie theatre, or use it to decorate your Christmas tree, America loves popcorn. To help celebrate National Popcorn Day on January 19th, here is everything you ever wanted to…
Let’s Talk Tomatoes
What is your favorite way to eat a tomato? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Tomatoes may be the most complex vegetable in our refrigerator. For starters, they aren’t really a vegetable at all, at least botanically. But as members of the nightshade…
My American Farm Games: Farm Fun and Learning Wrapped into One
My American Farm is a cooperative project that aims to increase agricultural knowledge by using interactive, educational computer games. Most of the current games are aimed at students in the 3rd thru 5th grades, but recent additions have introduced new…
Focus on Agriculture: Farmer Engagement Must Move Beyond Feeding the World
Editorial by Mace Thornton, American Farm Bureau Producing a bounty of U.S.-grown food to sell and share beyond our borders remains a matter of deep pride to America’s farmers and ranchers. A growing body of evidence suggests, however, that Americans…
It’s Time Agriculture Takes Back ‘Sustainable’
Editor’s Note: A while back we ran this editorial from rancher, Troy Hadrick, in our Choices publication. He’s active in American Farm Bureau’s Young Farmer & Rancher program. He loves American agriculture and has a passion for spreading the truth…
10 Amazing Things about Asparagus
1. In a Class All its Own The asparagus plant was originally part of the lily family, the Liliaceae, like onions and leeks but was recently moved to the Asparagales classification. 2. It’s All Greek to Me Asparagus, whose name comes…
My Top 10 List of Summer Veggies
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau It’s summertime. Well, almost. So below are my top 10 Arizona vegetables for summer. I’m going to make sure I either purchase at a local farmer’s market or grocery store. And, they’ll be in-season…
5 Ways Your Diet Can Relieve Stress
If you are like us, your stress level is at an all time high and you are beginning to feel the effects of prolonged stress in your body. The constant release of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline weakens your…
Modern-Day Farms: “A Billion Acts of Green”
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau If you were old enough, you might remember April 22, 1970. That year was Earth Day’s inauguration year. It’s credited by many for launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the Clean…
Farm Profit Misnomer: Rising Food Prices Part 4
Fourth in a series on food prices. The first is here. The second is here. The third is here. By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau “Farmers will always respond to better markets,” says Buckeye, Arizona cotton farmer Ron Rayner. “Most…