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Steam, Don’t Boil, Your Vegetables!
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03.03.2025

Steam, Don’t Boil, Your Vegetables!

By Heide Kennedy, Arizona Farm Bureau Communications Intern It has long been taught to us that eating our vegetables is very important. As a kid,…

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Try These Unique Winter Fruits that Grow in Arizona!
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02.10.2025

Try These Unique Winter Fruits that Grow in Arizona!

By Heide Kennedy, Arizona Farm Bureau Communications Intern Red and green grapes, apples, orange slices, pineapple chunks, melon chunks, and assorted berries. Those are all…

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Enjoy Summer Produce Through the Colder Months!
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10.14.2024

Enjoy Summer Produce Through the Colder Months!

By Heide Kennedy, Arizona Farm Bureau Communications Intern   If you grow a garden through the summer, you have firsthand experience that some of the…

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Adults Need Their Veggies Too!
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09.27.2024

Adults Need Their Veggies Too!

By Heide Kennedy, Arizona Farm Bureau Communications Intern If you’ve been around kids during mealtimes, you know that it’s often very hard to get them…

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Don’t Forget the Fruits and Veggies in School Lunches!
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08.12.2024

Don’t Forget the Fruits and Veggies in School Lunches!

By Heide Kennedy, Arizona Farm Bureau Communications Intern Now that the school season has begun, and the kids are back in school, making and packing…

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Eat Your Fruits
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08.28.2023

Eat Your Fruits

By Heide Kennedy, Arizona Farm Bureau Communications Intern We’ve all long known the importance of getting lots of fruits into our diets. Eating fruits regularly…

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Are Wellness Shots Worth the Hype?
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08.02.2023

Are Wellness Shots Worth the Hype?

By Heide Kennedy, Arizona Farm Bureau Communications Intern You’ve probably noticed these little, tiny vials of red, green, or yellow colored liquid in the juice…

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“Yucky” Veggies Made Yummy!
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11.02.2022

“Yucky” Veggies Made Yummy!

Let’s be honest. Some vegetables are just downright unappealing. Even for me, a huge vegetable fan, there are still vegetables that are hard to choke…

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Americans are Deficient in Veggies
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11.06.2015

Americans are Deficient in Veggies

By Angela C Torrence, ASU Nutrition Student When I was a kid, broccoli and cauliflower were my enemies at the dinner table. I remember throwing…

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