Gardening & Farms
Preserving Utah’s Fruit Highway: A Battle Against Urban Development
Once Utah’s orchards are gone, they’re gone for good. Land along the east benches, from Utah County to North Salt Lake, has long been developed for housing, but this has…
Working Cats Program Helps with Pest Control in Utah
Best Friends Animal Society came up with a new solution to help feral cats and those that need pest security.
Moab Schools Prioritize Youth Garden Project
Remember your school lunches growing up? Left-over impressions of Taco Tuesday, pizza and chocolate milk are a common experience. In Moab, kids get a taste of something fresh and real…
Smith Orchards: A Tale of Tree-Ripened Delights and Environmental Stewardship
Scott Smith says he’s been farming “about as long as I could walk.” On property owned by his family since the mid-1800s, Smith uses environmentally-friendly methods to grow tree-ripe fruit.
Beyond the Cafeteria: Local Produce Initiatives in Wasatch Front Schools
The demand for fresh school lunches far outweighs the supply, making it difficult to provide a homegrown, farm-to-table experience for students in many schools across the Wasatch Front.
The Food for Families Project
Volunteers work at Village Cooperative Gardens in exchange for produce. Shares also go to homeowners in the neighborhood and families in the community
Tips for Gardening with Nature
As a longtime gardener, I have learned a few techniques to garden with, not against, nature. Here are a few tips.
Watering Today: Utahn Develops an App to Help Save Water while Maintaining Green Lawns
Watering Today, an app developed and recently released by a Utah helps reduce the amount of water used for irrigation.
Local Flavors: Utah Fab Farm to Fork Regional Restaurants
. It’s hard these days to find restaurants that don’t lay some sort of claim to farm to table or farm to fork cooking. Well, here are a handful in…
The Power of Orchids
Although far removed from the tropics where they bloom in thousands of varieties, orchids are abundant here in the high desert of Utah.
Mount Olympus Community Garden Serves as a Classroom for Kids
Howard Driggs Elementary School kids in Holladay learn life skills by gardening at Mount Olympus Community Garden.
Growing Sprouts in your Kitchen
Healthy Eating Without Having to Weed My husband Ken and I have killed more plants than we have kept alive. Every orchid he has brought me has turned into a…
The Freshness Factor: 8 Utah Farm to Table Restaurants You Will Love
Eight local chefs and restaurateurs who place a high value on freshness and do their damndest to source produce locally whenever possible.
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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…
Shroom Boom: Ogden Mushroom Farm Brings Colorful Fungi to Utah
In Ogden mushroom farmer Adam Wong is producing a whole range of colorful shrooms in his highly controlled indoor facility for restaurants, grocery stores and farmers markets.
40 Acres Not Necessary: Utahns are Homesteading in Urban Backyards
In today’s world, homesteading means having chickens, growing a garden, beekeeping, or possibly raising goats or pigs. Not only does homesteading put dinner on the table, it also offers a…