Tiny homes to the rescue! Salt Lake City, like most metropolitan areas, has an affordable housing crisis along with a growing homeless crisis, and tiny houses may be the solution. Mayor Erin Mendenhall has plans to “make measurable progress on a tiny home pilot project by facilitating at least six work sessions with community partners and using the findings to chart a path … [Read more...]
The High Cost of Cheap Food
In this year’s 10th annual Farm issue, we thought we would consider taking a look back at how much our food landscape has changed here in Utah. My Grandma told me that when she was a little girl growing up in Murray, immigrant Japanese farmers were famous for their amazing produce. Other farmers raised hens for eggs, and others kept pigs or cows. Most of her family’s food … [Read more...]
Sugar House Restaurant Site for Sale at 5.5 Million Dollars
When the Sizzler on the corner of 2100 South and 1300 East in Sugar House shut its doors for good last fall, my husband was oddly devastated. Although he hadn’t dined there in 29 years, he felt comfort in the stability it represented. “It has been there my whole life,” he laments. It was one of the few remaining monuments of the Sugar House he knew as a kid, and the lot it … [Read more...]
East African Goat Project of Utah: Refugee Kids Connecting with Their Heritage through Goat Husbandry
“It was really difficult to teach the kids how to handle a goat over Zoom,” says Katherine Wright, Goat Project Coordinator for the East African Goat Project of Utah. Like many youth activities in 2020, the Goat Project had to go remote and Wright can’t wait to get back in person with the refugee youth this spring. Teaching kids the basics of goat husbandry using dogs … [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...]
Need for Skilled Workers Remains High Even During Shutdowns
Trade schools balance need to train in-demand skilled works with pandemic restrictions Nicholas Labrum had already made a career change when the Covid-19 pandemic sent him searching for yet another option. Labrum had a degree from Utah State University in Sociology and had worked as a social worker with troubled teens before changing direction and going to to work for the … [Read more...]
Lex Scott, the Founder of Black Lives Matter Utah, is Sick of Protesting
Lex Scott, the founder of Black Lives Matter Utah, is sick of protesting. She would prefer that we didn’t need a Black Lives Matter movement at all but she isn’t going to quit until she sees real change. “We shouldn’t even have to have a Black Lives Matter movement in the first place, the only way we can get it to end is to pass real police reform in the nation,” said … [Read more...]
Ogden’s Historic Buildings Stand The Test Of Time
Who doesn’t like to go back and see the place where they grew up?” said Ogden social entrepreneur and developer Thaine Fischer. “If it's relatively unchanged and beautiful it gives us a sense of pride and security.” Vacant, demolished or neglected old buildings with boarded-up windows will quickly crumble. And nobody wants blight in their city. Thankfully, some key … [Read more...]
Destruction of Great Salt Lake in the Name of Progress
We are destroying the Great Salt Lake. We are turning this once mighty Great Lake into a cesspool. If “progress” wins, the lake will indeed die. The inland port, which promises to poison the food supply for millions of migratory birds, moves forward. The proposed landfill on the inlet of where the Salt Creek flows into the GSL, where thousands of ducks and … [Read more...]