Category: Arizona
Date Farming
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Date-Farming-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.8KB)Some farmers need expensive, high tech equipment to harvest their crops. This crop requires a very low-tech method of harvest,…
Farming the Trees
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Date-Farming-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.6KB)David’s farm is just 2 ½ acres in size…but that does not mean he’s not busy. In fact, the crop…
Raising Cattle in the Heat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/McElhaney-Cattle-Company-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.3KB)Angus Brown is used to dealing with 120 plus degree heat and three inches of rain a year. It’s a…
The McElhaney Cattle Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/09Mar10-McElhaney-Cattle-Company-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Along Interstate 8 in Southwestern Arizona, you can find one of the largest cattle operations in the nation. It’s called…
When Life Gives You Lemons…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Spencer-Citrus-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.1KB)When life throws you a lemon, you make lemonade. Mark certainly has plenty of lemons, but he doesn’t have to…
A Citrus Family Tradition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Spencer-Citrus-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.3KB)You’ve probably bought their fruit and not even realized it. This is a family-owned citrus packer that grows, packs, markets…
Sunset Volcano Crater National Monument
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Sunset-Volcano.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Although it’s been about a millennium since this place rumbled to life, the mountain still speaks of the event that…
