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 chickens for meat and eggs, sheep for meat and goats for milk. It is one of 7,835 farms in Arizona run by a woman. The…
GANADO – Maggie Mannie, 83, assisted by her tall, strapping grandson, walked into Hubbell Trading Post with business on her mind. In one hand she held her cane and in the other, two rolled-up weavings, her own handwork. Edison Eskeets, the post’s trader, stepped up to the old oak counter and looked over Miss Mannie’s…
—-[UPDATE, March 23 — The bighorn-sheep reintroduction project was backed primarily by hunting groups, The Arizona Daily Star reports today].—- —-[UPDATE, March 17 — Another bighorn sheep is eaten by a mountain lion doing what comes naturally.]—- —-[UPDATE, March 8 — Criticism of the bighorn sheep program and its emphasis on eliminating the threat from…
