Arizona leads nation in female farmers

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…

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Desert dwellers get down in the dirt

  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 in desert lands can seem impossible. The days are warm—hot, even—and rainfall is few and far between, but what many desert dwellers do not…

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Arizona communities fighting food desert

  Imagine making a 100-mile trip every time you need fresh produce. More than 700,000 Arizona residents have no other option. Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa, has 55 food deserts and the residents make up more than half of Arizona’s population, according to the Food Desert Locator released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Food desert…

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