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Tasty New Culinary Adventures on
Arizona’s Fresh Foodie Trail®
Mesa, Arizona is garnering lots of national attention as
the culinary gateway in the Southwest with a flourishing
collection of charming, neighborhood farms and food-
centric outposts providing a year-round bounty of sea-
sonal goods for visitors to enjoy. These linked
experiences create the Fresh Foodie Trail® and carve
out the ultimate foodie road trip for those travelers with
a penchant for good eats. This guided path will find them
dining on homemade ice cream, peaches, heritage
grains, olives, and so much more.
The trail stops share more than just great food, it’s also a
chance for the gourmands-in-training to dive a little
deeper and discover why dining local matters and they
should get to know their farmer. In the Town of Queen
Creek, it is education-plus-experience that makes their
‘agritainment’ stops memorable. An assortment of sali-
vating, epicurean activities can be enjoyed, including
pasta and pizza making classes with ancient grains at
Hayden Flour Mills at Sossaman Farms, watching the
cold-pressing of fresh olives and tasting early harvest
and late harvest EVOO at the Queen Creek Olive Mill, or
foraging for the freshest produce with the farmer at
Schnepf Farms.
Another standout on the trail is Jalapeno Buck’s, tucked
away in the middle of one of Mesa’s original citrus or-
chards that dates back to 1915. This BBQ-meets-South-
west roadside restaurant packs them in and people
come from other states just to load up on brisket and
pulled pork. The flavor profiles here are rich and tasty
with homemade ‘secret recipe’ sauces, salsas and baked
beans.
Visitors that want to put the focus on the food and let
someone else take the wheel can reserve a full-day
Fresh Foodie Trail® tour with premier tour outfitter DE-
TOURS offering guest pick-up and drop-off at all area ho-
tels.
For a complete list of Fresh Foodie Trail® stops or to
download the Arizona Agritourism guide, go to
www.FreshFoodieTrail.com.