Love your community: The benefits of shopping local

June 30, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes A warm spring day dawns over the city center with its old brick buildings and light posts, conjuring images of bygone days of horse-drawn carriages, dead birds hanging in shop windows and women wearing far too much uncomfortable clothing for the 80-degree weather. The “good old days,” when life was simple and everything was less […]

Smiley’s Way

June 30, 2010

Reading Time: 4 minutes No matter how wonderful the art is, the community usually doesn’t care about about some random townie’s work. Why should they? We live in the Interweb Age, where eons of entertainment are a double-click away. Folks seem generally more comfortable with art by people they don’t know. Perhaps that removal is a stamp of approval. […]

Grow your own

June 30, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes Produce can’t get more local than from your backyard Though many UVU students live in apartments, there is still an option to grow vegetables and herbs from home. Consider buying from local nurseries or seed-swapping to make your new green adventure gastro- and economically friendly. Though we have officially left spring behind us, it is […]

Support local farmers directly

June 30, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute CSAs bring great opportunity for fresh produce Community-Supported Agriculture is a burgeoning movement in Utah in which customers pay upfront for summer-long harvests at local farms. Though most farms are outside of Utah Valley, many of them have drop-off points here. One local CSA is Roberts Ranch and Gardens. Like most other local CSAs, all […]