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Arizona Sonoran News

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...

Eggplants and tomatoes in the beginning stages of growing.

Desert dwellers get down in the dirt

Elena Gonzalez February 23, 2018

  There is not a more relaxing springtime activity in Arizona than gardening on a cool, 85-degree day surrounded by sky-high saguaros and the dry, cracking dirt floor beneath you. Gardening...

A young boy harvests cholla buds. Photo courtesy of TOCA.

Historical crops may be the future of sustainable agriculture

Gareth Farrell May 6, 2015

Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region.Before Arizona...

Photo credit: Ajo center for sustainable agriculture

Arizona communities fighting food desert

Yara Askar October 9, 2014

  Imagine making a 100-mile trip every time you need fresh produce. More than 700,000 Arizona residents have no other option. Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa, has 55 food deserts and the residents...

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