Healthy Utah
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…
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.
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?
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.
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…
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,…
Proposed Promontory Landfill Hits a Roadblock
Box Elder County documents reveal cozy ties between commissioners and Promontory Point Landfill
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.…
Why are Utahns Curbing the Obesity Epidemic?
Why Doesn’t the Government Concentrate on the Overall Health of Americans Rather than Concentrating Almost Entirely on Treating Sickness?
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.”…
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…
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.
Recovering from Substance Abuse in Isolation
Social distancing and isolation not only set the stage for increased substance use, but also made it harder to recover from substance abuse.
Suspicious skies: Is Our Planet Being Inundated with Unknown Substances without Our Consent?
Chemtrails have been widely shouldered into the category of conspiracy theory — the notion that the government has long been involved in clandestine programs aimed at weather modification for the…
Are Sports More Important than Safety?
Masks, staying 6 feet apart, distance learning, why don’t these apply to high school sports? Are sports more important than safety?
Will Utah Have Enough Water to Sustain Its Booming Population?
Utah’s dry climate is all the more reason water managers need to carefully consider an ‘all of the above’ approach to ensure there’s enough water to meet Utah’s ever-growing population…