We hear it time and time again — “Eat your veggies!” From the grocery aisle to the farmers market, vegetables are plentiful. But it is all too easy to wind up with wan, dried-out carrots from the supermarket or overpriced broccoli from a farm stand.

Finding and eating locally grown foods can be a challenge for many living and working in Ahwatukee Foothills, but a new website has just begun to make access to local foods easy and fast.

What if, instead of juggling your schedule and battling traffic to get to the weekly farmer’s market, the market came to you? And what if selecting frilly greens and bumpy crookneck squash was as easy as clicking a button?

Aside from growing your own garden, there's probably not an easier way to get your veggies than having them delivered to your door. That's what Queen Creek Desert Roots Farm offers families who purchase a share of the harvest for a 12-week season.

How do we love the East Valley? Let us show you the ways. We’ve compiled a massive list of places and things that make us feel plugged into our little corner of the Phoenix metro area.

Traditional food practices, like growing veggies in your own backyard, are in again.

 Farmers markets aren’t the only way to purchase produce pulled fresh from Valley-area soil. CSA’s — farms that practice community-supported agriculture — are another option.

People line up to buy the Worischeck family’s blue, ivory and speckled brown eggs as fast as their hens can lay them.

Farmer Jeff Scott can remember many a long afternoon when he sat alone on the plaza at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park, offering his fresh-picked vegetables to a handful of regular customers and an occasional passerby. Solitude isn’t so much of a problem these days. The Willcox-area farmer’s bins of onions, squash and greens are the heaviest-hit attraction all night long at the Downtown Chandler Farmers Market.

Twenty-five people will win the lottery in Gilbert on Saturday -- but the green will come in the form of broccoli, basil, cilantro and lettuce.

South Scottsdale residents feel frustrated at being ignored by city government, a sentiment that sometimes erupts in incidents like a Thursday forum in which some questioned how developers intend to keep “Mexicans” out of an affordable housing project, according to two City Council members.

A developer’s plans to request a tax subsidy for a project adjacent to SkySong is raising questions about whether the high-tech research center is living up to its billing as a catalyst for private investment along McDowell Road in south Scottsdale.

Queen Creek Canyon State dominated the 1A boys state track meet with a title-winning 219 points.

A nonprofit group wants to bulldoze run-down apartments on SkySong’s southern border and replace them with 3-story townhomes, some of which would be set aside for residents living below the median income.

The newest neighbor to SkySong, billed as a hightech research park that will help revitalize south Scottsdale, is a nonprofit group that plans to use tax dollars to help build rentcontrolled housing.

The newest neighbor to SkySong, billed as a hightech research park that will help revitalize south Scottsdale, is a nonprofit group that plans to use tax dollars to help build rentcontrolled housing.

LOS ANGELES - "Dr. Phil" McGraw stated in e-mails that he had "no expertise" in making the diet pills he endorsed, according to court filings in a lawsuit alleging the TV psychologist made false statements about the products.

Federal authorities approved using electric stun guns on commercial aircraft in the United States, shooting Scottsdale-based Taser International’s stock price up nearly 17 percent Monday.