Tag Archives: agriculture
Celebrate 70 Years of Farming and Fun with Schnepf Farms
Considered one of Arizona’s oldest operating family farms, Schnepf Farms continues to hit milestones as it celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.
Freezing temperatures threaten crop and festival of Arizona’s largest peach grower!
Arizona’s largest peach grower is being creative as they try and protect their largest crop.
CBS Sunday Morning News Show, January 30th will potentially include South Pole Food Growth Chamber
On CBS Sunday Morning News Show, January 30th [8:00 – 9:30AM] local times, there will be a feature story about Antarctica, which will potentially include the SPFGC (South Pole Food Growth Chamber) as a part of the storyline. Lane Patterson UA-CEAC graduate student in the Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering program was onsite last year when recording occurred. I hope that you get to see the results of a student, faculty and a small Arizona business collaboration providing Raytheon Company with controlled environment agriculture technology.
Hopi Agricultural Expo & Photo Exhibit
Known as Arizona’s Original Slow Food Farmers, the Hopi have been dry farming the mesas for thousands of years. Preserving the farming and cooking techniques through the Hopi Cookbook Project and the differences between Hopi and non-Hopi tobacco are just two of the presenter topics.