Gardening & Farms
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…