utah farmers
Is the Temptation of Big Money Causing Increasing Number of Utah Farmers to Sell their Land?
Why work if your farm is worth millions? Why not instead just sell and never work another day in your life?
Tagge’s Famous Fruit & Veggie Farms on the Biggest Challenges that Utah Farmers Face Today
A megadrought. An increase in the cost of land. The high price of diesel fuel. Fertilizer doubling in price. An increase in labor costs. This is what Utah farmers face…
Utah’s Disappearing Farms
Utah’s farmers markets are booming, the local food movement is stronger than ever, and local farmers-market farmers are making record profits ― so why are we building over the top…
Easy Bee Farm: Growing Food on Easy Street in Moab Utah
Easy Bee Farm located on Easy Street in Moab, Utah serves Community Supported Agriculture subscribers with weekly bundles of produce.
3 Exceptional Farmers You Will Find at Ogden Farmers Market
We highlight 3 exceptional vendors participating at Ogden Farmers Market: Better Food Farm, Sunshine Family Farms and Woodyatt Cherry Farms.
The High Cost of Cheap Food
In just four generations, the main health worry of all inhabitants of the western world has shifted from starvation to obesity.
Bulldozing Utah Farms For Vacation Condos: Is this what progress looks like?
Why now are so many of Utah’s political leaders so ready to rezone agricultural areas into residential and vacation properties? According to the ranchers Utah Stories spoke to, it is…
Farmers Feeding Utah: Utah Farm Bureau launches program to support farmers and feed those in-need
On May 7, Utah Farm Bureau Federation- UFBF launched the campaign Farmers Feeding Utah with the goal of raising funds to purchase products from struggling farmers and ranchers to give…
RAZZZZZ … Berries!
Raspberries are fragile, requiring care and cultivation. Thayne and Cari Tagge are hoping their efforts will result in some of the best dazzling razzleberries in the market. The Tagges are…
Frei’s Fruit Market
For 63 years, the Frei family has operated their open-air fruit market on Old Highway 91 in Santa Clara, Utah. Despite new roadways and changing consumers, Frei’s Fruit Market has…
Fertile soil, the Soil Food Web, and High Desert Soilworks
Fertile soil is imperative for any successful farmer or grower. The Soil Food Web is the colony of organisms living in the soil. The food web is a complex living system that…
Farm land or house lots?
Suburbs march into farmlands cul-de-sac by cul-de-sac. But in Cache Valley the advance has slowed.
Ferguson Fruit Orchard
Extensive preparations serve him and his crew when it comes time for harvesting. Starting around July 20, the unofficial harvest season start date, employees work round the clock to harvest…
Bangerter Farms update: “I can guarantee the land will never be anything but a farm.”
A year after Farmington granted agricultural protection for the Bangerter family farm, a 22-acre plot of farmland, and ended any effort to put soccer fields on the site, the city’s…
Every farmer is a gambler, every gardener is a believer
Utah Stories dedicates this issue to the gamblers and believers who each year bet and pray that their efforts will bring forth a harvest we all can share.
Snuck Farm: Ethics and Agriculture Transcend Generations
Page Westover started Snuck Farm in Pleasant Grove in 2015 on land that her grandparents inherited from their grandparents. From the beginning she wanted it to be something different. She…