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…
Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region. Before Arizona became known for its cotton and citrus, before farmers moved west to tame the land, before Spanish explorers first set their eyes on the Grand Canyon, the Tohono O’odham…
With acres of growing corn and veggies, bright colorful signs, tractors, and child size gardening equipment, it is not a surprise that this place stands as a staple for school field trips, summer camps, and toddler play dates. “I was out here on my own with a shovel on MLK day in 2010, starting to get things moving….
Some are vacuumed. Some are swept. Others are crushed, baited or trapped. The rest are kept out with caulk, window screens, door sweeps or, as a last resort, sprayed with chemicals. In some schools, the spray comes first. “We have a season that never stops,” said University of Arizona entomologist Dawn Gouge, about school pests…
Fido’s licks and tummy rubs just might be good for your health. Arizona researchers are studying the biological connection between humans and dogs that could be shared through saliva, skin, and even feces. Scientists at the University of Arizona created the Human-Animal Interaction Research Initiative (HAIRI) to study the health links between humans and animals….
