Gardening & Farms
A Labor of Love: Arborist Christopher Little cares about trees
Little’s business, which he started in 2005, Arbortec Tree Preservation, LLC has a healthy client list. Besides maintaining established trees, Little will consult with businesses and homeowners to select the…
Krishna Food Forest & Farm—what is the permaculture concept?
The Krishna Food Forest & Farm , located behind the Sri Sri Radha Krishna temple in Millcreek, is a wonderfully accessible place for anyone in the area to learn about ecological food…
Wasatch Community Gardens: cultivating good health for your body, for your community
Wasatch Community Gardens has cultivated good health for your body and for your community for the last three decades, because they know agriculture is, or should be, connected more to…
Salt Lake City—conserving water for spring garden preparation
Hugelkultur Beds Salt Lake City—Conserving water for spring garden preparation comes with a German accent. Many of you are getting started with spring preparation for your vegetable garden this growing…
The Great Chemical Myth – Cheap Fertilizer, Cheap Food, High Social Cost
When it was discovered that nitrogen was the most important ingredient for both explosives and fertilizer, our military industrial complex and food production became dependent on vast stockpiles of synthetic…
Local Native Wildlife: Pigeons, Squirrels, and Blackbirds, Oh My!
As a longtime promoter of local native wildlife, I have always been intrigued by native animals adapting to the urban environments of Salt Lake City.
Three Nontraditional Home Gardens in Salt Lake City
There are a wide range of garden projects possible. All that’s required is some creativity, resourcefulness and a willingness to get started!
Hosta House: Filling His Yard with Hostas Led to a Home-Based Business
Burton Johnson describes Hosta House as “a shady business”. But unlike other shady operations, which require stealth and evasive practices to elude the authorities, this shady business is actually legal.…
Wasps Can Be Wonderful
Everyone knows that honeybees are good for your garden. They are natural pollinators and all around good guys. But what about the other flying, buzzing garden visitors; wasps, yellowjackets, and…
The World Beneath Our Feet: Organic Soil Supports a Rich Mix of Life
What do you see when you look at garden soil? If you simply see dirt, you may be surprised to learn that a single tablespoon of healthy soil contains more…
Liqui-Dirt: Grow Good Soil to Grow Good Crops
Most farmers in Utah have heard the old-fashioned term “dirt farmer”—it harkens back to the Great Depression when the plains lost most of their top soil, the greatest asset of…
How to Dramatically Improve Your Garden Soil with Inexpensive Cover Crops
“Let it be known, I am a fairly lazy gardener,” says Geneva Lawrence, long-time Sugar House horticulturist, of her extensive backyard filled with five raised beds, grape and berry vines,…
Foraging Wild Spring Foods
Most foragers assume that the best foraging is during the late summer and fall when the wild berries start to ripen and the high mountain mushrooms start pushing up through…
DIY Greenhouses: Get a Go on your Gardening
I have designed, built and managed a variety of different greenhouses over the past 40 years. All of them have been primarily intended for starting hundreds of transplants for many…
Backyard Urban Gardens Bring Garden Bounty Right to your Doorstep
It’s the conundrum of the current agricultural era. As more traditional farmland is converted to residential and commercial development, and less arable land is affordable for farmers of any age,…
