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Og-Woi Peoples Orchard & Garden in Salt Lake City on April 23, 2023.

Jarvis: The Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden is for Healing

By Caroline Jarvis, Opinion Writer May 22, 2023

  By resisting commodification, gardening becomes an effective form of protest. And if gardening is a form of protest, guerilla gardening is even more so. Salt Lake City’s Og-woi People’s Orchard...

Gardening at Legacy of Lowell Saturday Service Project 2017. Courtesy of the Bennion Center

Buening: Gardening Is a Form of Resistance

By Sarah Buening, Assistant Opinion Editor January 15, 2022

  How often, when we purchase food from the store, do we stop and think about how it got there? For those of us that buy exclusively from supermarkets, probably not very often. But food is essential...

Edible Campus Gardens at the University of Utah. (Chronicle archives)

Environmental Humanities Program Hosts Writing Workshop and Author Talk Series

By Brooke Williams, News Writer April 17, 2021

  The University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities Program is hosting a new six-part writing workshop series this spring, focusing on the intersection of gardening, ecology and social justice. The...

(Courtesy Pexels)

Barron: The Failure to Grow Community Support for the Wasatch Gardens

By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer January 14, 2020

While only 33% of Utah is considered to be desert, the state is home to about 50 USDA-labeled “food deserts.” In a food desert, low-income residents have limited access to fresh and nutritious food...

(Courtesy Flickr)

Christopherson: Eliminating Big Oil’s Impact, One Garden at a Time

By Nain Christopherson, Assistant Opinion Editor August 27, 2019

This summer, I participated in a literature seminar on oil culture, a course about the ways in which oil supports and even fuels modernity. Unsurprisingly, our readings and discussions about plastic pollution,...

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