Little has changed in the way beekeepers harvest honey in Arizona, but industry experts remain hopeful that the state’s product is among the best. “Honey stands alone from other sweeteners because it’s not something that man has to process,” said Rey Simmons, owner of Simmons Honey Ranchito in Douglas. “It’s made by the bees…
Environmentalists are looking to their point fingers at a certain beast to blame for the destruction happening in the Kaibab Plateau region of the Grand Canyon. The culprit- Beefalo. Beefalo? These animals are the spawn of a experimental batch of crossbred domestic cattle and bison. And they are being blamed with chewing up the North…
It all started as a measly rack of t-shirts outside of a yoga studio and now it claims to be the only sustainable, organic and American made clothing store in the Arizona. Alok Appadurai is the owner of a store called Fed by Threads in downtown Tucson. Appadurai is passionate about providing sustainable clothes for…
PEARCE, Ariz. – Chances are, if you’ve enjoyed a chile pepper or any type of chile product recently, those peppers can trace their origins back to the 1500 acres that make up Ed Curry’s farm in the Sulfur Springs Valley, 80 miles southeast of Tucson. Curry Farms is, and has been, the center of chile…
First-grader Cooper Goffeney peered through the magnifying glass to scan a tree branch for butterfly larva. His class at Davis Bilingual Magnet School in Tucson that day was learning about insect biology.
