Utah Farmers
Expect Few Frills and Lots of Farm Fresh Food at Farmers Markets This Summer
Farmers markets may not be as fun, but they will be open and the market community is working to make sure the experience remains rewarding for farmers and foodies.
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…
Wasatch Blossom Receives International Spirits Competition Medal
This uniquely-crafted liqueur is one of three farm-to-bottle products and one that is often described by the distillers as “a selfish experiment that went crazy.” It is the top-selling Utah-made…
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…
The future of farming in Utah: an interview with Jack Wilbur, a hybrid farmer
The future of farming will look very different than it does today, just like the farming of today looks drastically different than it did 20, 30 years ago. However, the…
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…
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…
Krishna Food Forest & Farm—what is the permaculture concept?
The Krishna Food Forest & Farm , located behind the Sri Sri Radha Krishna temple in Millcreek, is a wonderfully accessible place for anyone in the area to learn about ecological food…
Solar farms present opportunity for sheep ranchers in Utah
Solar farms present opportunity for sheep ranchers in Utah by having sheep roam the solar farm munching the weeds that grow between solar panels.
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…
Paizlee’s Grass-Fed Beef
Small farms have their hard work cut out for them. Sustainable agriculture comes with significant challenges
Three Young Farmers You’ll Find at SLC’s Rio Grande Winter Market
Three Young Farmers You’ll Find at SLC’s Rio Grande Winter Market
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…
Putting the Aggie in Agriculture: Student-run Garden Provides Fresh Produce and Experience
As spring brightens and days lengthen, students in Utah State University’s Student Organic Farm class are diligently monitoring the temperatures in their hoop houses and the soil moisture in their…
Woodyatt’s Montmorency Cherry Orchard: Tart Cherries Make a Sweet Business
Chock-full of antioxidants and a natural source of melatonin, the benefits of cherry juice have been making health headlines in recent years. “People love it,” says second-generation cherry farmer Dan…