Topic: Local Harvest

Orach: Nutritious, attractive and easy to grow!

By Jim French | June 30, 2017

The scene was the annual seed swap at the Sorenson Center about eight years ago. This guy had a large bag of reddish seeds that resembled parsnip seeds, only they weren’t. “They ca …

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Perennial onions Easy and yummy!

By Staff | June 7, 2017

Let’s face it, sometimes it’s nice to have food plants just grow. No buying, no planting, no coddling, those are some of the wonders of growing perennial onions. Oh yes, they also …

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Register your hive

By Anna Zumwalt | June 7, 2017

Got a beehive? Join the club Here are some good reasons to register your beehive with the state. No apiary is too big or too small to be registered. You’ll get up-to-date info on d …

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The Krishna Garden

By Staff | June 7, 2017

A community permaculture food forest in the making The Krishna Food Forest is an urban story of reclaiming the land for the benefit of the a whole community. Six years ago the prop …

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The Scoop on the Coop

By Staff | May 4, 2017

As everyone with a flock of hens knows, every day brings presents (“oh, for me!?”) when it’s time to gather eggs. That pleasure is more or less available, depending where you live. …

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The 2017 Dirty Dozen: Strawberries, spinach top list of pesticides in produce

By Staff | May 4, 2017

The latest Environmental Working Group Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ is out. Analysis of tests by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that nearly 70% of samples of …

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How to be a Locovore

By Gwen Crist | May 1, 2017

Begin experimenting now! What does it mean to “eat local”? Where do I find locally grown food? Each fall during Utah Eat Local Week we explore these questions as we celebrate all t …

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Real Foods rebrands as Redmond Heritage Farms Store

By Caitlin Hoffman | December 5, 2016

As many of you likely know, the owners of Real Foods Market in Sugar House own their own farm. Redmond Heritage Farm in Redmond, Utah is home to the cows who produce the raw milk i …

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Over-Wintering Delicious Herbs

By Merry Lycett Harrison | October 2, 2016

Got a window that gets six hours of sun a day? You can grow herbs indoors! With fall  upon us, it is a bit disheartening to look out at the abundant fresh herb supply and imagine i …

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Locovores in the Kitchen

By Staff | October 2, 2016

Winners of the 10th Annual Eat Local Challenge recipe contest. Last month, Utahns participated in an exercise to “localize” their diet—that is, find foods that were grown within ou …

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