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Students run the Manzo Market every two weeks, where they sell produce from their garden and eggs from the school’s chickens. Photo by Moses Thompson

Feeding Our Future: The Manzo Model for Growing a School Garden

Sep 29, 2016 In an age of shrinking education budgets, should school gardens be a line item?

Paralympian Jen Poist Brings Home the Gold!

Sep 29, 2016 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Counting the youth vote; RinCon 16 invites Arizonans to get their game on; and how a school garden has transformed a west-side Tucson elementary school on “Feeding Our Future".

Richard Shelton Talks About "Nobody Rich or Famous"

Sep 23, 2016 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Feeding Our Future examines "Putting Native Foods Back on the Plate"
Samantha Felix and Jesse Pablo run TOCA's Project Oidag, which means "garden." Click to listen to them describe their work teaching youth about traditional foods.

Feeding Our Future: Putting Native Foods Back on the Plate

Sep 22, 2016 Why did the Tohono O'odham stop eating and growing their Native foods?

eButterfly

Sep 16, 2016 The eButterfly project is looking for the public's help in documenting the comings and goings of butterflies...

The Debut of Feeding Our Future

Sep 16, 2016 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Arizona Theatre Company overcomes financial struggle to launch 50th season; Tucson's Chinese community hosts Lunar Festival; eButterfly uses crowd sourcing to help science.
Chef Cecy Arosemena (left) and Marisol Flores-Aguirre, director of the Women's Business Center of Southern Arizona. The WBC is housed at the YWCA and serves more than a thousand clients a year -- the majority are food entrepreneurs.

Feeding Our Future: Incubating Food Start-Ups in the City of Gastronomy

Sep 15, 2016 Independently owned food businesses are the largest-growing sector in Tucson’s economy, but launching a successful food business takes more than just a good recipe.
Sirena Rana began exploring the Arizona Trail in segments before completing it twice.

The Arizona Trail Opens New Paths for Tucson Resident

Sep 9, 2016 Accident leads to exercise and new discoveries

The Monkees and The Zombies Bring the Spirit of 1966 to Tucson

Sep 8, 2016 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Remembering a Tucson woman who flew in WWII; and finding healing on the Arizona Trail.

A Promenade Down Memory Lane With Square Dance Caller Marshall Flippo

Sep 2, 2016 Marshall ‘Flip’ Flippo: 'You can't help but go to a square dance and see a lot of smiles.'

Meet Marshall Flippo, an 89-Year-Old Square Dance Caller Who Still Loves His Work

Sep 1, 2016 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Results from the state primary; the impending launch of OSIRIS-REx; and Gene Wilder remembered.
Danny and Roni Ashford in 1972.

Nogales Through the Eyes of Young Lovers Now Grown

Aug 12, 2016 Children's book author Roni Ashford draws inspiration from her hometown, heritage and childhood.

Jerome: From Mining Boom Town to Artist Haven

Aug 12, 2016 The town, which once housed 1000s of minors, now welcomes 1000s of tourists each day.

Jerome: From Mining Boom Town to Artist Haven

Aug 12, 2016 The town, which once housed 1000s of minors, now welcomes 1000s of tourists each day.

The Improbable Tale of Lake Havasu's London Bridge

Aug 12, 2016 "Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Sydney has the opera house, Pisa has the leaning tower and we have the London Bridge."

The Improbable Tale of Lake Havasu's London Bridge

Aug 12, 2016 "Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Sydney has the opera house, Pisa has the leaning tower and we have the London Bridge."

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