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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

There’s more to agave than tequila

There’s more to agave than tequila

Carly Oseran May 2, 2018

  You can sip me, you can eat me and you can moisturize with me—what am I? The agave plant. Today, this plant is widely known as the key ingredient in the alcoholic beverage that is...

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...

Tom Orum, right, and Nancy Ferguson, left, stand under a tree near the Visitor Center at Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Ariz. (Photo by: Ava Garcia / Arizona Sonora News)

Tucson couple carry out annual saguaro census

Ava Garcia February 12, 2018

For desert dwellers, saguaros are a part of daily life. Scattered in front yards, cropping up along the side of the road, sprinkled on mountainsides, the hulking cactuses are nearly omnipresent in...

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