Gardening & Farms
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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…
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A Model for a Profitable Company Garden
In 2016, Merit Medical launched its employee garden program on one-acre of previously unused land, creating 80 100-square-foot garden beds for employees to adopt.
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CHEMICAL REACTION: How Our Green Lawns are Hurting Us
are all those green lawns really necessary nowadays, with their excessive water consumption and chemical runoff, and what are the alternatives?
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Ogden Group Foodscapes Yards into Edible Gardens
Foodscaping Utah formed in 2018 with the goal of helping other Ogden homeowners transform their lawns and other underutilized spaces into abundant edible gardens.
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Urban Homesteading: Divest from Wall Street, Invest in Local Food
Urban Homesteading is not “tuning in and dropping out” — as the misguided back-to-the-land movement transpired in the 1960s, but it’s “tuning out and settling in” — tune out of…
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Urban Gardening: Self-Sustaining Lifestyles
“A lot more people are thinking of gardening because of the coronavirus,” says Central Garden Club member Linda Dudley. “You can start with a five-gallon bucket and grow your first…
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How To Trim Your Rose Bushes
When pruning roses, it helps to keep in mind the rule of thirds; never cut back more than a third of the bush, anything more than that can put too…