Home Grown: Enjoying the great outdoors from inside
April is a National Gardening Month and what better way to celebrate than by starting your very own container garden.…
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Home Grown: Harvesting Joy
For today’s Home Grown, I spoke to a girl who is using Instagram to advocate for agriculture.…
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Home Grown: Agriculture remains essential industry during coronavirus outbreak
In today’s Home Grown, we talk to one farmer who proves that whether rain or shine, the agriculture industry pushes forward.…
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Home Grown: How drying vegetables cuts down on food waste
One of the oldest domestic arts, dehydrating foods at home provides an easy, economical way to save surplus food for a later time and in turn,…
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Home Grown: The life of a farmer’s wife
From field to storefront, women in agriculture are helping to pave the way for a better…
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Home Grown: Farm Fresh Forks – a vegetable tasting experience
As the Winter Vegetable Capital of the World and 93% of the country’s winter leafy greens coming from the area, Yuma is the perfect place to launch…
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Home Grown: The Harvest Dinner takes you back to Yuma’s “roots”
It’s the week of the Ag Summit and soon the fields of the Colorado River State Historic Park will be decorated with the roots of Yuma.…
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Home Grown: Arizona Farm Bureau Discussion Meets over the years
A few weeks ago, Yuma’s own Kirk Dunn won runner up at the national Discussion Meet in Austin Texas at the 101st Farm Bureau Annual Convention.…
Continue Reading Home Grown: Celebrating 100 years of the Yuma County Farm Bureau
We all know that agriculture is essential to feeding America, but who do farmers go to when they need their voices…
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Home Grown: The 2020 Agriculture Summit – coming soon!
One of the biggest local agriculture events of the year is just around the corner!…
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Home Grown: The “Hemp-ress” and her “Hemp-ire”
If you are someone who is still skeptical about the Hemp industry, the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension wants to clear the air for growers…
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Home Grown: A “Labor of Love”
When you think about the produce on grocery store shelves, how often do you think about the workers who harvest it?…
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Home Grown: The Seeding Rural Resilience Act
A recent Morning Consult research poll finds that the majority of farmers and farm workers said financial issues, farm problems, and fear of losing…
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Home Grown: Field to Feast
It’s a new year and with that, often comes new resolutions.…
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Home Grown: Taking agriculture education outside
In today’s Home Grown we learn how the Arizona Department of Agriculture’s Ag in Schools Program combines classroom learning with hands-on…
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Home Grown: Females who farm
When you think of a down-home country farm, often you may think of a man wearing overalls with sweat on his brow and dirt on his hands.…
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Home Grown: Farming from above – a drone’s eye view of agriculture
Whenever I ask farmers what has changed within the ag community over the years, most of them say it’s the new technology.…
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Home Grown: Meet Robert Masson, the Rolodex of agriculture
Connecting farmers with resources YUMA, Ariz. (KSWT/KYMA) – Often times in agriculture, there are important positions that some people might not know…
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