Healthy Utah
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Why You Should Visit Mystic Hot Springs in Monroe Utah
As you soak in one of the five old cast iron clawfoot tubs that have become part of the permanent landscape, you remember that water is life. Hot water abundantly…
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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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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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A Brief History of the Great Salt Lake
From the 1880s to the 1950s, visitors and residents floated and swam in the Great Salt Lake. But due to years of dumping untreated sewage and wastewater into the lake,…
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7 Healthy Dining Destinations
Comfort foods have reigned in our kitchen during isolation. But as we begin to finally come out of the pandemic, we should regain focus and maybe stride to eat better.…
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Utahns Love Their Essential Oils, but Can the Science Back Any of Their Claims?
Utah-based Young Living Essential Oils has boasted of having over 3,000 global employees, more than six million members, and of being the “world leader in essential oil research and development.”…
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Why Should You Adopt an Older Dog?
Somewhere out there is an old dog, probably at an animal shelter; a wise, scruffy old dog that would love to snuggle up to you and tell you it’s okay…
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Moab Woman Keeps 100-Year-Old Farming Tradition Alive
Mary Engleman is keeping the legacy and tradition of farming by keeping a 100 years old farm near Moab Utah alive.