utah farms
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…
What Would Brigham Young Do?
Like the days of the Silver Rush in the 1860s, there is a land rush today, and nearly everyone is looking to cash in, especially members of the LDS Community.…
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.
A Visit to Utah’s Largest Medical Cannabis Farm
Utah Stories visits Utah’s largest locally owned medical cannabis farm tucked in Garland Utah, a small town of about 850 households.
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…
Why Are Beef Prices Skyrocketing? Can Utah Ranchers Survive?
Covid-19 has revealed the huge problem Utah cattle ranchers face due to multinational corps controlling beef processing. Never before have cattle ranchers in Utah received so little for their cattle…
Utah Farmers Adapting to Farmers Market Changes: Getting Creative with Selling Utah Local Goods and Produce
Downtown Farmers Market is going to look a little differently this year. The typical festival-type atmosphere of the event will be reduced to simply a place to pick up essential…
Bangerter Family Farm Wins Zoning Battle for Farmland Usage
The lack of value that cities place on farms — even one of Utah’s oldest family farms — was demonstrated when Bangerter’s property garnered media attention when the City of…
Farms vs. Suburbia: Does Population Growth Mean the End of Family Farms?
The Wasatch Front has been growing out rather than up for years. Sprawl is now threatening Utah’s most successful family farms. Over eighty percent of Utah residents say they want…
Utah is at an Impasse Over its Water Strategy
The future state of Utah’s water resources is under debate.
Utah Ranch Viable Thanks to Wildlife not Livestock
How one family ranch was saved by creating a habitat for wild game and partnering with the state and hunting outfitters.
