Kimi’s Celebrates 5th Anniversary Kimi’s Chop & Oyster House is celebrating its 5th anniversary at their Sugarhouse location this month. To help celebrate the 5th birthday and the beginning of a 6th year in business, Kimi’s will host a special Customer Appreciation 5th Birthday Jazz Celebration on Thursday, October 24th, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. The Jazz Celebration will … [Read more...]
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Wasatch Community Gardens: cultivating good health for your body, for your community
Wasatch Community Gardens has cultivated good health for your body and for your community for the last three decades, because they know agriculture is, or should be, connected more to culture than to business. Wasatch Community Garden brings plants and people together In the Salt Lake area, this robust group is making sure that agriculture remains linked to culture, crops, … [Read more...]
The Sugar House Community Garden
Until recently, the only thing growing in the abandoned tennis courts in Sugar House were weeds of neglect. But thanks to the nurturing care of Aimee Horman, Heidi Spence, Tamerin Smith and Mark Morris, The Sugar House Community Gardens have grown into a positive force for the neighborhoods around 2225 South and 900 East. Construction on the new street car in Sugar House … [Read more...]
Gardening in Pots: Anyone Can Grow a Garden
After gardening virtually all of my life, and later teaching gardening classes through West High School’s Community Education Program, I have concluded that almost anyone can grow a garden. The only real requirement is about six hours of direct sunlight for any location. It could be a small corner of your yard, a patio, or even an outside deck on the east side of a high-rise … [Read more...]
A Model for a Profitable Company Garden
Six years ago, Merit Medical Systems founder and CEO, Fred Lampropoulos, looked out his office window and watched as throngs of employees from the medical device company’s South Jordan campus walked across the street to a 3-acre farm to pick tomatoes and peppers thanks to an invitation from a local farmer. He saw the enthusiasm from his employees and an idea formed. In 2016, … [Read more...]
Ogden Group Foodscapes Yards into Edible Gardens
Last year, John and Holly Trimble grew 1,200 pounds of fruits, vegetables and nuts on the quarter-acre lot their house sits on in Ogden — enough so that their family of four only had to buy one bag of carrots the entire season. With more than 30 fruit and nut trees, garden beds and space-saving techniques like arbors heaped with squash and other climbing plants, the … [Read more...]
Red Acre Center – Community-Supported Agriculture Program Offers Fresh, Local Food
Sara Patterson’s love of gardening led her to start a farm that now feeds several dozen families and cofound a nonprofit that advocates for policies benefiting small rural and urban agriculture. The venture just outside of Cedar City is thriving. The for-profit Red Acre Farm sells shares in the operation, and in return, the 40 member families get food for three meals a day, … [Read more...]
Local Restaurants Helping Community During COVID-19 Pandemics
Tuscany Cares I received a very encouraging message this week from NBA All Star Mark Eaton, co-owner of Tuscany restaurant regarding how Tuscany has partnered with Wadsworth Brothers Construction to help feed vulnerable members of our community. Here is what Mark had to report and how we can all pitch in to help: “We have been giving back to the community in different ways … [Read more...]
Striving to Elevate Escalante Cuisine: Devil’s Garden Grill
Just six months before the opening of Devil’s Garden Grill in Escalante, President Trump slashed Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument’s protected lands in half with the stroke of a pen. Conservative lawmakers and some Westerners cheered the move as retribution from decades of federal overreach, but many local business owners were fearful of what this could mean for their … [Read more...]
Ty’s Garden Dedication in Memory of Dr. Ty Harrison
Dr. Ty Harrison's Story A special unveiling took place on October 11 of a monument to a man who touched countless lives, and had more titles than the letters in his name. The eastern edge of Hidden Hollow Nature Preserve in Sugar House was officially renamed and dedicated to Dr. Ty Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Biology at Westminster College, an environmentalist, … [Read more...]