The kitchen is crowded as students rush to make salads, fresh mozzarella, and Italian potato dumplings for their daily family meal. Caridad Community Kitchen in Tucson is not the average culinary training program. The students have little to no income and are interested in a fresh start, said Jon Wirtis, executive chef and instructor. “We do have people…
Arizona’s mountains are attracting goat dairies, creating a new market of award-winning artisan cheeses.
Since 2003, when the first commercial goat dairy was certified in Arizona, five more have emerged, totaling about 600 goats producing milk and cheese under state regulation.
“Goats are fun,” said Kathryn Heininger, co-owner of Arizona’s first certified goat dairy, Black Mesa Ranch, in Snowflake. “They are like big, productive puppy dogs.”
In 1966, Wes Ricks, then 19, was a river rat plying the waters of Vietnam while serving in the Navy. “We were getting shot at all the time,” said Ricks, now a professional musician from Phoenix. Ricks knew what he wanted to do when he returned home. “When I was going into Indochina to serve over…
Marshall Trimble is a man of many passions. From his 40 year teaching career at Scottsdale Community College, to his stage and dinner theater musical performances, and writing his own history books, the 76-year-old Arizona native has one common thread to connect it all: his passion for history. Trimble was raised in Ash Fork, Ariz.,…
After purchasing their new home in Mesa in 2009, Dennis McClung sketched out a plan for the broken swimming pool in their new backyard. Make it a greenhouse. One year later, the “Garden Pool” was finished. What was once a large, deep, swimming pool, is now a greenhouse, home to fish, chickens and vegetables aided…
