Features & Occasionals (4)

Outside: Where to Sleep Under the Stars

Friday, 29 June 2012 16:39 Written by Hannah Korevaar
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Last month Katherine Pioli wrote about light pollution and the 'dark skies' movement. Here we give you some tips on where to have a good night of star-gazing.

Slow is Beautiful: Bees' Brothers

Friday, 29 June 2012 16:32 Written by Adele Flail
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Insect-husbandry might not be the first place one’s mind goes when considering local farming operations... but where better for would-be locavores to start than with the goody whose producers symbolize Utah’s human inhabitants’ industrious nature? Bees' Brothers family operation in Cache Valley was awarded a Slow Food Utah micro-grant this spring. Their application was written by Nathan Huntzinger, just 13, with brothers Sam, 12, and Ben, 9.

In Their Element

Friday, 29 June 2012 16:25 Written by Alice Toler
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There's something quite extraordinary happening this month out on the salt flats in Grantsville. A festival, produced entirely by unpaid volunteers, is springing up among the pools at Bonneville Sea­base, Utah's unique landlocked saltwater SCUBA location.

Cultivating Food, Youth and Justice

Friday, 29 June 2012 16:18 Written by Kay Denton
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Mike Evans, director of Real Food Rising, gathered us volunteers into a circle. We were going to play a game in which he would read a statement about food and food production. If it pertained to us, then we should move to a different spot in the group.