I just found this website and forum (THANKS Bob Harper) and I'd love to converse with other crazy neighbors that think/hope we can raise figs in this high desert of ours.

Welcome to the forum AmyGrace, I am sure you will find some crazy neighbors to converse with, if not, there are plenty of other members that are highly skilled in figtalk.

Welcome to the forum, Amy.  I didn't know Arizona had a zone 5.  Cold growing region is not usually the first thing that comes to mind when I picture Arizona.

Good luck Amy. Not sure where you are located, but I recently spent a year in Show Low , where at 6500 ft elevation my growing season was so short that I have a hard time imagining figs ripening without a greenhouse. I know all of N. AZ is not quite as high, and all of AZ is going to get a lot of sun in the growing season.

Flagstaff is about 7,000 feet! BUT... We get lots less snow than Show Low.
I'm assuming I'll be starting any cuttings I can buy in pots until I can plan for giving the roots more room by planting in the ground. Then I expect I will be mulching, burying, and wrapping during winter. I also have a small portable greenhouse that I may put over fig trees once they're out of their pots. The greenhouse is how I start most of my garden in the early spring.
I've been lurking on this website for a while, and some pictures that I saw of horizontal main trunks in Japan seems like a great way to go.
I have plenty of patience and time, not near as much money, and I don't think I can afford to buy already-potted trees. Even so, I'm trying to grow as much of my own food as possible including goats, chickens and my regular vegetable garden. A tough thing to do here in the high desert.
Thanks for all the well wishes, I'm pretty sure I will need them.

Welcome Amy!   Once you get hooked on figs, your fix never ends!!!!!  And if you have farm animals, you will need to keep goats and others away somehow or they will strip your tree of anything green and you will be sad.

My goat "herd" of 4 is housed in their own pen with the horse

Welcome!  We do have a member in AZ so hopefully he'll chime in soon.  We also have others in 5b who will be able to tell you what figs work best for them.

Cool! Not only am I in 5b, but our elevation keeps the growing season short.

Hi Amy. Jodi here in Camp Verde in the winter and Flag in the summer.  I am so happy to see a fellow Arizona fig lover.    What are you growing?  I have texas everbearing, black mission, panache and peters honey in the ground.  Trying celeste, ronda de bordeaux, black mission and celeste in pots. Would love to share fig stories.  Best, Jodi