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Foodscaping Utah, an Ogden-based nonprofit, recruits volunteers to help with the work and asks participants to donate some of what they grow to the community in return.

Alfalfa dominates Utah farm fields. It also takes a lot of irrigation. So, some farmers and ranchers in Utah’s Colorado River Basin are experimenting with alternative crops that might help agriculture diversify and survive in a future with less water.

Native Americans have grown food in the desert for ages, but many tribal agricultural traditions have disappeared. Now, people in southeast Utah are working to bring Navajo traditions back — one fruit tree and garden bed at a time.

Replacing lawns with desert plants could help save water in drier parts of Utah, such as Washington County. But the shift can be daunting. The Parade of Gardens Southern Utah hopes to change that.

From cherries to apricots to pears, Utah has thousands of fruit trees on public and private property. Individuals and community organizations are working to make sure all that food doesn’t go to waste.

Utah is home to more than 1,000 native bees. But those species are more in jeopardy than the honeybee population.

USDA planting data shows a warming trend in Utah which means “we could potentially plant some new things in our gardens,” said Red Butte Garden horticulturist Crystal Kim.

The “leave the leaves” social media movement can help improve Utah’s dry soil, but people should be careful about where they leave their leaves.

Horticulturalists at Colorado State University judged flowers in their annual trial garden. It’s one of the largest university trial gardens in the nation – and many Mountain West states look to it to decide what flowers to market.

Don’t wait till the fall. Beehive State gardeners can act now to plant late-bloomers or, even better, they can put off trimming up the yard.

The blessing and planting of seeds is a yearly ceremony at Wasatch Community Gardens. It’s centered around culturally significant growing practices of people from Latin America.

Salt Lake City is taking public input on the future of a community garden near the Jordan River on the west side of town. The project has been a source of frustration among residents who say they weren’t consulted about it when it was created.