Utah Farmers
Mesa Farm Market: The Purple Store on HWY. 24
Mesa Farm Market, on Highway 24 between Hanksville and Capitol Reef National Park, offered home-produced goat cheeses. After 27 years Randy and Roseann are taking a step back.
Growing Citrus Trees in the Middle of Urban Sprawl in Ogden, Utah
the largest fruit-bearing citrus collection in Utah, soaking up the warmth of the sun on the property, wedged inside of a neighborhood between two houses and behind a new development.
The Last Orchard on Orchard Drive in Bountiful, Utah
Today, there’s only one professional orchard still in production on Orchard Drive in Bountiful Utah. It’s run by Jack Wilbur.
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?
The Seventh Day Adventist Faith Based High School in Castle Valley, Utah Hopes to Produce Half-a-Million Pounds of Potatoes this Year
Castle Valley Farms, a part of Castle Valley Academy rooted in the Seventh Day Adventist faith hopes to produce half-a-million pounds of potatoes.
Local Flavors: Utah Fab Farm to Fork Regional Restaurants
. It’s hard these days to find restaurants that don’t lay some sort of claim to farm to table or farm to fork cooking. Well, here are a handful in…
Etta Place Cidery from Torrey Utah
Ann Torrence and Marc Roberts turned their property near the Fremont River in Torrey, Utah into Orchard and started Etta Place Cidery.
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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…
Cash or Crops? Is Clark Burgess Selling His Orchards this Year?
With the land fetching around $1 million per acre or more, Burgess and his children are realizing that the enormous difficulty of maintaining operations compared to the enormous ease of…
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.
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.
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…
Doing Well By Doing Good — A Visit to Bill White Farms
Bill White Farms is a state-of-the-art, multi-use complex consisting of crops, orchards, greenhouses, a fish pond, outdoor gardens, meeting and office spaces, beehives, hydroponic gardens, duck ponds, a market/farm stand,…
Red Acre Center – Community-Supported Agriculture Program Offers Fresh, Local Food
The nonprofit Red Acre Center for Food and Agriculture lobbies for legislation that boosts community-supported agriculture programs, or CSAs. The for-profit Red Acre Farm sells shares in the operation, and…
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…