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Raw Milk Controversy Affects Local Utah Farms
Raw milk is in high demand and is also highly regulated. The key is finding the right balance to provide safety while allowing access to a product people want.
Bears Ears Farms: Connecting with the Earth and Community
Bears Ears Farms is the largest hemp producer in the state. Owner, Jana Bailey, is a 4th generation farmer in Blanding, where they seek to honor the land and the…
The Legacy of Johnson Farms
“Progress” threatens the 100 year legacy of Johnson Farms in Cache Valley. But the family is determined, switching from a dairy farm to more profitable produce farming.
Farmstead & Artisan Cheese Tasting, 10 Years of Avenues Proper and Camp Cooking, Utah
Special Farmstead & Artisan Cheese Tasting on May 26th. Avenues Proper will host a special beer dinner to commemorate their 10th anniversary. Learn Camp Cooking at U. of U.’s Lifelong…
Green Phoenix Farms Helps Homeless Women Get off the Streets
Green Phoenix Farms assists homeless women in getting off the streets and into productive roles by growing fresh produce at their farm in SLC.
Historic Wheeler Farm: A Park and One of the Last Functioning Farmsteads that Withstood Housing Development of Salt Lake
Historic Wheeler Farm is known primarily as one of the happiest places in Salt Lake Valley. But happiness isn’t all it provides. It also is, in part, a functioning farm,…
Tagge’s Famous Fruit & Veggie Farms on the Biggest Challenges that Utah Farmers Face Today
A megadrought. An increase in the cost of land. The high price of diesel fuel. Fertilizer doubling in price. An increase in labor costs. This is what Utah farmers face…
Frog Bench Farms
I recently chatted with Joe and Paula about urban farming, amateur gardening, supplying restaurants with boutique produce, and where the name “Frog Bench” came from.
Utah’s Disappearing Farms
Utah’s farmers markets are booming, the local food movement is stronger than ever, and local farmers-market farmers are making record profits ― so why are we building over the top…
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Down on the [Urban] Farm: A Visit With Frog Bench Farms
Tucked away on a quiet, residential street in a neighborhood near Foothill Boulevard is an urban farm that supplies produce, cut flowers, microgreens, and more to many of our area’s…
Stocking Up on Farm Fresh Produce and Foods from Bill White Farms Earthganic
You can stock up on everything from Bill White Farms’ “Earthganic” farm fresh eggs and fresh seafood, to savory soups, Italian sauces and meatballs, pizza kits, ground Mangalista pork, BBQ…
Bulldozing Utah Farms For Vacation Condos: Is this what progress looks like?
Why now are so many of Utah’s political leaders so ready to rezone agricultural areas into residential and vacation properties? According to the ranchers Utah Stories spoke to, it is…
Doing Well By Doing Good — A Visit to Bill White Farms
Bill White Farms is a state-of-the-art, multi-use complex consisting of crops, orchards, greenhouses, a fish pond, outdoor gardens, meeting and office spaces, beehives, hydroponic gardens, duck ponds, a market/farm stand,…
Solar farms present opportunity for sheep ranchers in Utah
Solar farms present opportunity for sheep ranchers in Utah by having sheep roam the solar farm munching the weeds that grow between solar panels.
Bangerter Farms update: “I can guarantee the land will never be anything but a farm.”
A year after Farmington granted agricultural protection for the Bangerter family farm, a 22-acre plot of farmland, and ended any effort to put soccer fields on the site, the city’s…
Bill White Farms: Products for People, not Corporate Profit
If a man is lucky, there comes a point when his life’s work and his legacy combine to benefit others. Bill White is a lucky fellow in this respect. His…