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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

A pecan pokes through its husk in Saint David, Ariz. on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. Thanks to an unseasonably cold week this month, some pecan husks have already started to open. (Photo by Hannah Dahl)

Boosting the pecanomy: Arizona pecan production peaks

Hannah Dahl November 6, 2018

Here’s the news in a nutshell: Southern Arizona pecan growers make up a big slice of the state’s agricultural pie. Harvest season is nearly here. In the days following the first frost, large...

A native cactus bee (Diadasia rinconis) sits on its preferred flowering plant. Photo by: © Bruce Taubert

Native bees do it better

Kaitlyn Fletcher October 2, 2018

  A native bee wraps its hind legs around a flower and vibrates its wings to unlock the flower’s hidden treasure –pollen. Its fuzzy body coated in yellow, the bee flies off to discover...

Tyler Crosby of Crosby Mint Farm stands at the farm's booth at a farmer's market on the University of Arizona campus Wednesday, April 25. Crosby's family has operated a mint farm in Tucson for 10 years. (Photo by Ava Garcia/Arizona Sonora News Service)

Climate change could shake up Arizona agriculture

Ava Garcia May 15, 2018

The agriculture industry has a tough job ahead of it. The United Nations estimates the world will need 70 percent more food to feed the global population by 2050. But the real challenge lies...

Don Guerra prepares for the opening of his bakery Barrio Bread Saturday, April 28, 2018. (Brieana Sealy / Arizona Sonora News)

Podcast: A discussion with Barrio Bread’s Don Guerra on community baking and ‘Breaducation’

Brieana Sealy May 2, 2018

“I’ve always felt strongly about doing something for my community and having more of an investment, not just a business to make money but in connecting my community through bread,” Don Guerra,...

Donna Bruce holding one of her chickens, in front of her plant beds, on her farm Sharing Life's Abundance (Photo by: Amanda Sladek / Arizona Sonora News).

Arizona leads nation in female farmers

Amanda Sladek April 19, 2018

In Queen Creek, Arizona, you can find a 1.33-acre lot growing oranges, apples, figs, peaches, pears, grapes, sugarcane, lettuce, tomatoes, pepper, eggplant, okra, corn, green beans – and also raising...

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