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.”
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…
A small bird is part of a big plan to help endangered animals in Arizona. The Working Lands for Wildlife project is helping private landowners preserve habitats of endangered animals, including the Southwestern willow flycatcher. The Natural Resources Conservation Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and their partner the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
Cada vez más y más Arizonenses están regresando a su raíces a través de la jardinería comunitaria. Los jardines comunitarios en Tucson, Phoenix, Mesa, Flagstaff y otras ciudades por todo el estado están e su cumbre, como parte de iniciativas de la ciudad o a través de organizaciones privadas. En Tucson, la cantidad de jardines comunitarios…
Shane Barela is bringing tea to the masses. Via golf cart. As owner of Scented Leaf Tea House & Lounge in Tucson, Barela has designed a mobile cart to sell six teas on tap. Starting this fall, the golf cart will be outfitted with a solar-powered ice machine, pastries, and speakers blasting alternative rock. “If…
