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Scott Siedman “The Honey Bee” —Collection of Catherine Beall (The Hummingbird and The Honey Bee)

cott is Los Angeles born, southern California bred and educated…for better or worse, having graduated from Cal Arts with a BFA. He moved first to San Francisco, then to Canada for a few years, where he worked as an illustrator and muralist. From there he went to Tahiti on assignment for Vancouver magazine, was popped by Immigration at the airport coming back (never bothered to get legal), and deported as an undesirable alien, adding insult to injury.

He landed in Washington, DC for a while, working as an illustrator for the Washington Post. “The summer weather there is sadistic,” he says.

“John Kennedy called it a city of southern efficiency and northern hospitality.”

After some time traveling he settled in Bolinas, California, where he made ceramic sculpture, grew pot and magic mushrooms and performed with a theater collective, where he also designed his first theater sets.

After a second move to San Fransisco he had his first solo show of paintings, Dirty Pictures, a series

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of oil paintings and drawings using sexualized religious iconography, at Morphos Gallery.

Back in theater, performing and designing sets again, he also began to write stories for film.

Now back in Los Angeles, he continues to paint. Recent shows include Sacred Porn, Unspeakable, Propaganda, Larger Than Life, and Obscenery.

This samba dancer, Burning Man habitué and wannabe lounge crooner is currently co-writing a fake reality TV show. He is also in pre-production on a feature film as production designer, is still painting in oils, and continues designing sets and graphics for theater.

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THE CHANGING FACE OF GARDENING GRETA DEJONG City-dwelling foodies forgo lawns and petunias for adventure, gambling and maybe a new and interesting ideas.

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PASSION FRUIT ADELE FLAIL Local urban farmers Sharon Leopardi and Carolyn Kenyon bring their passion for sustainable produce to the Salt Lake community.

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SAVING SEEDS STAFF The ins and outs of pollination and the importance of saving seeds.

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GARDEN SNOOPING GRETA DEJONG The garden tours of Salt Lake (and some tips on spying on your neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gardens).

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GARDENING WITH NATIVE BEES ALICE BAIN Build a house for native bees and they will thank you by pollinating your crops.

ROUNDUP UNREADY ALICE BAIN What this popular herbicide really kills.

GOJI BERRY MADNESS ALICE BAIN Why pay $20/lb. when you can grow your own? (Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get back to you on that!)

PLANTING GUIDE GRETA BELANGER DEJONG This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planting guide reflects some of the changes occurring in the city garden, such as the popularity of raised beds, intensive planting and trellising.

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EDITORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTEBOOK GRETA BELANGER DEJONG

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DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T GET ME STARTED JOHN DEJONG

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND 2012 Utah Legislative round up;

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Feds report coal strip mine bad for wildlife, parks; everything you need to know about oil shale; UMFA aquires activist art; Utah losing out on oil and gas money.

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP Death and/or taxes.

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ANIMALIA CAROL KOLEMAN Ideas, profiles, products & news for all things animal.

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SHALL WE DANCE? AMY BRUNVAND Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture? Our culture!

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COMMUNITY RESOURCE DIRECTORYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; NEW LAYOUT! A network of businesses and organizations that are making a positive difference.

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YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH: PRASARITA PADOTTANASANA CHARLOTTE BELL Breathe like a starfish.

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COACH JEANNETTE JEANNETTE MAW The Top Five vibe kickers and their antidotes.

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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH SUZANNE WAGNER Dealing with drama.

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URBAN ALMANAC DIANE OLSON Day by day in the home, garden and sky.

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pril 2 is the birthday of my big brother, Jerome D. Belanger. April is also the month in which CATALYST first appeared 30 years ago. There is a connection. A serious one. I would not be doing what I do today were it not for Jerry (or Jd, as he calls himself these days.) Jerry is the author of many books on self-sufficient living including two in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Complete Idiotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guideâ&#x20AC;? series, and a beautiful novel, The Place Called Attar.

In high school Jerry read books, raised rabbits, ran track, and adored his baby sister. While in the Marines, stationed in Hawaii, he introduced me to exotic music. Still in college, he started a magazine; my parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; root cellar became the darkroom and I got my first taste of the publishing world. He read the Rosicrucian Digest, which I thought was the most mysterious thing in the world. During Vietnam, when I was in the 6th grade he donated some bucks to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in my name (he went to UW-Madison, as did I, eventually), probably making me the youngest American with an FBI file.

When I was in high school, he put a photo of me, holding a kid goat, on the cover of his new magazine, Countryside. That cover appeared in the first issue of the

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Whole Earth Catalog; even then, that felt prophetic. I was definitely not going to spend my life working for the phone company.

When I was in college, he let me work at the magazine. I graduated and he gave me my first job.

Nepotism? I like to think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been years in training.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d grown up gardening but my few years working with Jerry in the mid-70s were life-changing. I learned volumes about gardening. I learned about soil science, food preservation, nutrition, natural healthcare, alternative energy and a lot about small livestock diseases. I learned to write. I found my voice.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retired now. We rarely see each other or talk. But I thank him every day.

Philosophically and practically, CATALYST would not exist without Jerry. Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think a guy who lives and gardens on the edge of the Chequamegon National Forest in central Wisconsin could have a meaningful impact on the state of Utah?

He was a man ahead of his time, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad I was there to be inspired.

Happy birthday, bro.

Love, Gret Greta Belanger deJong is the editor and publisher of CATALYST. GRETA@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

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grew up on New Yorker cartoons.

My parents had several coffeetable books full of cartoons

by Charles Addams and other cartoonists that my sister and I would pore over until we got the jokes.

One of those cartoons seems appropo in this electoral season.

Circa 1935, in a time when news reels preceded the feature movie, it depicts a group of “One hundredth of one percenters” bundled up in diamonds and furs.

“We’re on our way to the Trans Lux to hiss Roosevelt,” reads the tag line.

The rich have always pooh-poohed populists in this country and Barack Obama is right down there with Roosevelt in the Populist Pan-demoneum of the Republican faithful.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case in 2010 made it a whole lot easier for the super rich to hiss populists. Not just hiss, but distract, confuse and shout down.

It’s a little complicated. The money, or rather “free $peech,” has to come from a corporation and must be $pent by an un-affiliated

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Free-for-all speech How the right to express our views evolved into the right of corporate persons to shout us down

BY JOHN DEJONG Some pundits believe that a lack of civil involvement is at the root of our poisoned political atmosphere. In fact it is a tidal wave of uncivil involvement that lies at the root of our problem. The playground is overrun by bullies butting in on other people’s games, shouting their songs down and arguing like fools or the psychotic.

Which brings me to another New Yorker cartoon. A recent addition to the canon, it features a couple watching a politician on the television in dismay. The husband says to the wife, “Is he psychotic or just appealing to his base?”

Just before the Iowa caucuses, gambling billionaire Sheldon Edelman transfered $20 million worth of “free $peech” from the bank account of one of his numerous corporations to Newt Gingrich, or rather to a bank account of the Friends of Friends of Newt Gingrich Political Action Committee or some such pseudo nom, to be spent on

Ummm...

With the knowledge and craft that characterizes today’s public relations profession, the “political message” is likely to be utterly persuasive in a subtle, subconscious, insideous way.

Political Action Committee. Which means that, while any or all of the PAC staff may have worked for, or may, in the future, work for the candidate again, the PAC may not directly cooperate with the candidate’s campaign committee. There doesn’t even have to be one of those “I approve of this message” messages at the end of the political message.

Therein lies one facet of the insideous nature of the Citizens United ruling: It became possible to deface democracy with ugly, anonymous graffiti.

negative advertising, focus groups, push polls, spin doctors and purple prose meisters, sandwiches with the crust cut off for further fundraising efforts and sandwiches, crust-on, for precinct captains.

The PACs don’t even need to spend the free $peech on speech.

Nothing needs to be said about where a candidate stands on the really important issues facing our country.

But never mind what it’s really used for, it’s all free speech, all $20 million of it, according to our sitting Supreme Court. It’s not a bribe, it’s a

retainer fee on the politician’s ear.

It’s not a gift, although the best gift you could ever give a politician is the office he’s running for.

For all the Republican bluster about “activist judges” and the need for a strict interpretation of the US constitution, you never hear a word from them about what may be the

better serve its own interests if it retained some democratic trappings —political opposition, a free press, and a controlled “circulation of the élites,” where the glimmer of a hope might remain that the best candidate wins, not the one with the monied connections.

It comes down to whether we want to live in a democratic political system or a capitalist political system. Mitt Romney and many in the Republican party really don’t believe we live in a democracy but rather a republic where the truest citizens are the richest citizens.

As Supreme Court Justice Stevens said in his dissent in Citzens United: “A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.” And that is what they would like us to believe.

At the time it was written, free speech meant standing on a soap box and personally letting your fellow citizens know what you thought. And, more to the point, why you thought what you thought. most radical deviation from the original wording of the constitution.

At the time it was written, free speech meant standing on a soap box and personally letting your fellow citizens know what you thought.

And, more to the point, why you thought what you thought. Either that or you printed up a bunch of broadsheets and pasted them to the sides of buildings.

The old way had numerous advantages for democracy. For one thing, listeners could consider the source. If some fool, canny or otherwise, spouted utter bull, we could ignore him. As it is, we are likely to be assaulted by the same tripe during the next 14 commercial breaks with no clue, other than which direction the slings and arrows are coming from, as to the identity of the loud-mouthed fool.

And with the knowledge and craft that characterizes today’s public relations profession, the “political message” is likely to be utterly persuasive in a subtle, subconscious, insideous way.

One of the Republicans’ favorite authors, James Burnham, hit the nail on the head. In his book The Machiavellians, written in 1943, he argued and developed his theory that the emerging new élite would

But apathy and capitulation aren’t the way we do things in America.

There are many ways to take back our democracy. One way is to make our voices heard across the country for the causes we beleive in. Ordinary citizens don’t need to be limited to their own neighborhoods in their political activism. Back in 2006 I helped MoveOn.org defeat Pennsylvania’s Rick Santorum in his run for reelection to the US senate. I hosted a half dozen house parties where, using scripts and lists provided by MoveOn.org we called hundreds of fence-sitting voters in Pennsylvania, as wll as acoupel of races in Arizona and Colorado. When Santorum was defeated it was one of the proudest days in my life and all I did was use my right to free speech to affect an election on the other side of the country.

Another way to take back our democracy is to pass an amendment restricting corporations’ political activities. If you haven’t signed the petition to put a referendum on corporation personhood on the ballot in Salt Lake City next November, go to MOVETOAMEND.ORG/UT-SALT-LAKECITY and find out where you can sign the petition. Do it before the deadline, April 15. u John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST.

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Utah losing out on oil and gas money When former Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal spoke at the University of Utah recently he said, “If you are going to be governor of Wyoming you’ve got to understand that more oil and gas production doesn’t always mean more jobs or revenue.” He explained that the main benefit

2012 Utah Legislative round up In the 2012 General Session, the Utah Legislature passed both good and bad environmental bills. A positive trend in citizen involvement included record attendance at both Democratic and Republican caucuses (where they choose the delegates that choose which candidates you get to vote for), and an outbreak of citizen activism that convinced Governor Herbert to veto a bad anti sex-education bill.

Good The Legislature tried and failed to override Salt Lake City ordinances that control automobile idling and billboards.

SB122 means urban farms can qualify for lower property tax.

SB78 implements a study of property tax subsidies for water projects and could eventually lead to common-sense reform of Utah water management.

SR3 encourages the inclusion of air quality information in driver’s education.

Maybe good, maybe bad?

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HB 176 requires a report detailing the impacts of any increased protection of public lands (but no such report for activities that harm the environment).

Definitely bad HJR3 demands that the federal government hand over all federal public lands to the State of Utah.

HB148 threatens to cut public education funding even closer to the bone if the federal government doesn’t hand over all public lands to the Utah to State by December, 31, 2014.

Also authorizes squandering taxpayer money on expensive lawsuits if the feds don’t comply (an attached Legislative Review note says the bill is unconstitutional).

HB187 forbids you to take photos of farm animals.

SB245 allocates $750,000 for killing coyotes, supposedly in order to improve mule deer hunting.

SB21 concentrates the power of the Environmental Quality Board in the hands of the Executive Director.

SCR10 promotes development of the Wasatch Mountains watershed and backcountry through ski area interconnects.

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to the state from oil & gas production is via severance taxes (that is, taxes on impacts from the industry) that fund, among other things, Wyoming schools.

It turns out that Utah severance taxes are exceptionally low. If Utah were collecting the same severance tax as Wyoming or North Dakota, there would be a lot more money for schools, and no need for the Utah Legislature try to sell off our public lands heritage.

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Feds report coal strip mine bad for wildlife, parks Both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service (NPS) opposed plans to expand a coal strip mine near Bryce Canyon National Park. Noting that tourism represents 60% of the economic base in Garfield County, the NPS objected that developing the Alton Coal Tract would introduce industrial development to a wildlands landscape, with impacts to air quality, dark night skies, and wildlife habitat. NPS disputed the claim that the projected 25-year impacts could be considered “short term.”

Likewise, the Fish and Wildlife Service recommended withdrawing the tract for sale due to impacts on sage grouse, Utah prairie dogs and migratory birds. They estimated that restoring wildlife habitat would take 35 years after the mine ceased operation.

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Everything you need to know about oil shale At the 2012 Energy Summit Governor Gary Herbert railed against “bureaucrats from the Department of Interior [who] took nearly 1.8 million acres of Bureau of Land Management land off the table for oil shale and tar sands development,” but the governor’s boosterism doesn’t change the fact that oil shale is a bad deal for Utah. According to a new report from Western Resources Advocates, oil shale is a poor energy source with a huge climate impact, and processing it sucks up vast quantities of precious water: “As we found in our research, any reasonable analysis of commercial oil shale production would make it hard to conclude that this is a wise energy pursuit.”

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UMFA acquires activist art The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) has acquired two artworks with local relevance by Los Angeles artist Andrea Bowers: “Tim DeChristopher (I Andrea Bowers: “Tim DeChristopher Am the Carbon Tax)” (2010, (I Am the Carbon Tax)” graphite on paper) and “The United States v. Tim DeChristopher” (2010, single-channel HD video). Bowers, whose political art focuses on nonviolent direct action, is the 2012 Warnock Artist in Residence at the University of Utah. She will be leading projects at the University of Utah and Artspace through May 2012.

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Death and/or taxes What do body piercings, pet grooming and gutter cleaning have in common?

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

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axes are both the carrot and the stick in a passive-aggressive whack-a-mole arcade game government carnival designed to make us better people whether we like it or not. They are the lubricant that keeps the country moving. If there ever was a flat tax across all states and towns, politicking could be cut by two-thirds. Of course the electorate would still have to spend some time yelling at each other about how to spend the flat tax revenue, but an efficient, motivated legislature could do that in about two weeks.

I don’t know why death and taxes are always lumped together as sure things. I’m starting to come to grips with death, but I’ll never live enough lives to understand the tax code.

Depending on your point of view, our system is either brilliant or stupid. Maybe its intent has always been to keep people confused serfs of the government while simultaneously employing an army of accountants, lawyers and politicians to keep the house of cards from being crushed by all the juggled balls they are trying to keep in the air.

However, that metaphor-laden theory would imply that there was premeditated intelligence involved. It is probably more likely that the tax code is the result of hundreds of years of accumulated wellintentioned bad ideas mixed with meanspirited political pandering that no amount of gravitational force can ever bring back down to earth.

I especially like the syntax of sin taxes because we can only seem to agree on alcohol and cigarettes as the two major revenue-generating sins. Every time someone goes after sugary soda, cupcakes, bacon or private jets, people cry governmental oppression. Sin taxes are a way for government to claim they are doing something for your health while secretly hoping you don’t quit sinning because then they would have to tax nice things.

The nice things that are the opposite of sin taxes are tax deductions for grace-

worthy institutions such as charities, churches and home mortgage interest.

Apparently it is much easier to feel good about something if you know it keeps the government from getting its paws on a few more dollars.

Taxes really get goofy when you look at some of those specific to states or even cities. These are just a few of the more unusual ones I skimmed from the Magic 8-Ball of information we call the Internet—so you know they are real.

In Colorado essential food items are tax-free, but straws and cup lids are subject to sales tax because they are considered to be nonessential food items.

In Kansas, untethered hot air balloon rides are exempt from sales tax because they are considered a legitimate form of air transportation.

Tethered hot air balloon rides, on the other hand, are considered to be an amusement ride and therefore are subject to sales tax.

In Arkansas, body piercings, pet grooming and gutter cleaning are all subject to the same 6% sales tax.

Pittsburgh has a 5% amusement tax on anything that offers entertainment or allows people to engage in entertainment.

The Pittsburgh Pirates were given an exemption (my addendum).

Texas has a tax-free weekend where cowboy boots are tax-exempt, but rubber work boots are not.

In Ohio, a corpse in a mortuary gets makeup applied on it without getting taxed, but a living person is taxed for the makeup that gets applied in a beauty salon.

The history of taxes is actually interesting reading if you are stuck between football and baseball season. For instance, I always thought there was special meaning to the number 1040 since the 1040 federal tax form has been around since 1913. But turns out the form was named that only because form number 1039 was already taken and form 1041 was yet to be printed. u Dennis Hinkamp swears to the IRS that he really did give $1,500 worth of sweaters to Deseret Industries.

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IN THE GARDEN

The changing face of gardening

by Greta Belanger deJong

ity gardener? Urban farmer? Either way, it’s just a label identifying someone who gets serious pleasure out of playing in the soil. We could say the gardener is more about looks, the farmer takes something home. As with every holistic process, it’s both.

What we call farming is no longer a question of size: Some of your “fields” may be measured in inches or feet rather than acres.

Say, an orchard of a few dwarf apple trees trained to a trellis alongside the garage, and a container of eggplant and tomatillos on a roof porch.

Your produce is likely grown in raised beds—and your beds, like mine, might be in the driveway. For a voracious gardener, every open space where sunshine falls is up for grabs, including patios, front yards and, yes, even rooftops.

We plant our rows more closely than our parents or grandparents did. We may plant fewer

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seeds, so there are fewer plants to thin (which may feel so, so cruel but is necessary). Because of the raised beds, we never walk on the soil, so it doesn’t need to be tilled.

No need for a Fred Montague (right) Dan Potts (left)

rototiller allows for narrower paths.

We use trellises, training just about everything to grow upright, which allows us to plant more intensively. The closer plantings shade the soil, keeping it cooler in the heat of summer, and slows the growth of weeds.

It’s not exactly new. But it is urban. In France, expert gardener Dan Potts tells me, people grew everything their citizens needed within their cities. Everyone had a potager—a kitchen garden. A little bit of everything in a compact space.

Because of limited space, we tend to mix it up a bit: Instead of a 10-foot row of beets, we may have a few square feet of beets, then some onions, a broccoli plant, maybe kohlrabi. Nasturtiums and French marigolds may cluster near a few basil plants, with thyme and moss roses around the pathway’s stepping stones.

We’ve learned that mulching conserves moisture. We make our small bits of earth stay lively, by planting even as we harvest. We’ve gotten curi-

ous about winter gardening, and are learning that we can grow spinach in hoop houses, harvest carrots all winter, and plant peas as early as we like, all without a greenhouse.

We’re learning to be adventurous—to gamble: Winning an early feast is worth the risk of losing a few seeds.

Soil is something we acknowledge as being alive—and so we feed it. It’s not just a substance that props up the plants. We raise worms. We compost. We’re getting the hang of when and how to water—in the cool of late night or early morning, some plants more (or less) than others. Dan Potts says to challenge your plants a bit every day.

Letting them wilt a little in high heat makes them more resilient.

Gardening in small spaces does not mean that one just has a smaller version of the classic sunny rectangle. Garden planning begins with looking at what you’ve got: “The physical nature of the site offers possibilities and constraints. It is usually wiser to adapt the garden plan to the existing site than to try to force the landscape to fit a human-contrived ‘grand design,’” writes Utah biologist and gardening guru Fred Montague.

You can take advantage of plastic row tunnels, floating row covers and breathable pots to extend your season. You can also challenge the temperature averages. Fred says, “Plant early, plant late, and plant often.”

Rule of thumb is to begin planting four to six weeks before the last frost which, in Salt Lake City (zone 5) is April 26. So, weather permitting, you can plant as early at March 15. If you’re in surrounding canyons, your site is a wild card and you’re the best judge.

At whatever elevation, the ground must be dry enough: “Squeeze a handful of dirt into a ball and drop it from about three feet; if it falls apart, plant,” says Dan. I’m still mulling over the use of the word “farm.” We say “urban farm” a lot these days, usually if there are chickens and bees on the premises, but more and more it seems to ring true with people who are growing their own food of any sort.

It may not be a livelihood for many of us (though in this issue of CATALYST you’ll meet a few for whom it’s a passion that pays). And it may not mean a hill of beans to the agribiz behemoth that monocrops the wide open spaces. But it is changing our relationship to the food we eat. It is growing our knowledge. Maybe the pleasure we take in today’s urban farm— okay, call it an urban hobby farm—will someday mean the world to us. u Greta Belanger deJong is the editor and publisher of CATALYST. GRETA@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

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Passion fruit Two local urban farmers bring their passion for sustainable produce to the Salt Lake community

BY ADELE FLAIL he Wasatch Front supports a growing legion of foodies and environmentalists interested in sources for fresh, organic, locally-grown—and, of course, delicious—fruits and vegetables.

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Whether you prefer your dishes salted with the sweat of your own brow, or you find that the fruits of someone else’s labor taste the sweetest, up-and-coming urban farmers Carolyn Kenyon of Kenyon Organics and Sharon Leopardi of B.U.G. Farms are bringing the products of their passion for sustainable, healthy, and local food to your table.

the Downtown Farmers Market are vital for the role they play in supporting small-scale, organic agriculture, the concept of community is Sharon Leopardi started B.U.G. with a model based on the SPIN (Small Plot INtensive) agricultural model.

key for many consumers and gardeners.

Luckily, finding sustenance from the local community is possible even in the heart of the Salt Lake sprawl: Whether you prefer your dishes salted with the sweat of your own brow, or you find that the fruits of someone else’s labor taste the sweetest, up-and-coming urban farmers Carolyn Kenyon of Kenyon Organics and Sharon Leopardi of B.U.G. (Backyard Urban Garden) Farms are bringing the products of their passion for sustainable, healthy and local food to your table—and if they aren’t literally in your backyard yet, well—the growing season is just getting underway.

Kenyon Organics Carolyn Kenyon focuses on providing heirloom seeds or plant starts for the home gardener. With a degree in interior design, it seems that Kenyon wasn’t always destined for the physically demanding, dirtunder-the-nails life of a farmer, even one located in the urbane environment of a major city. And happenstance rather than fate played a role in setting Kenyon on her current path. Kenyon says that she just wasn’t that in to tomatoes— until a friend turned her on to heirloom varieties. And Kenyon remembers thinking, “if heirloom tomatoes were so much better, maybe heirloom peppers were better, too...” a train of thought that grew organically until she became fully invested in the idea of healthy and sustainable local food.

During this time, Kenyon noticed a disconnect between food and health, even among her own friends and family, and she considered starting a business that would let her share the benefits—to human health, to the environment, as well as to the taste buds—to sustainable and healthy food. However, she had another roadblock to overcome: As a resident of Sugar House without land of her own, she lacked the means to put her plan into action. In 2008, a neighbor granted Kenyon the use of a backyard plot, and that season, she started her operation by planting 300 tomatoes and selling the produce at the Downtown Farmers Market.

She has since backed off on produce—planning to provide only that which she can sell at her own produce stand—but Kenyon has expanded her commitment to helping others in the community enjoy heirloom varieties in their own gardens, through seeds and starts.

Kenyon Organics offers over 500 varieties of heirloom veggies, with over 150 varieties of tomato alone. Since 2010, Kenyon has been developing her own lines of non-hybridized heirloom plant varieties. And while her operation has expanded to include four plots in Sugar House, two in Holladay, and a couple of employees, Kenyon does all of the selecting for her lines herself, breeding for flavor and nutrition, as well as incorporating the feedback of her customers in creating the next generation of plants.

B.U.G. Farms Sharon Leopardi started B.U.G. with a model based on the SPIN (Small Plot INtensive) agricultural model: “SPIN provides a helpful framework with which to manage a highly productive, small scale, urban, sustainable farm.”

Some of the tenants of this model focus on plots less than an acre in size—a perfect fit for an urban farmer—and high-intensity planting regimes for many different crops. Leopardi sells her produce to a variety of local restaurants (you’ll encounter her produce at Copper Onion, Pago, Forage and Caffe Niche, to name a few,) but most of her effort is put into running a CSA (community supported agriculture), another tenet of the SPIN model. Members buy a weekly subscription to in-season produce—a model Leopardi prefers to that of the farmer’s market. Knowing the numbers ahead of time, Leopardi can tailor her efforts

to the output needed to feed her members: “I know that the food will be used, that no food with go to waste.”

Leopardi’s route to urban farmer wasn’t a given—Leopardi’s parents weren’t gardeners, and she admits to sharing the near-universal hate that most children have for yardwork—but for Sharon Leopardi, it grew organically out of her interest in the natural world, and especially, her love of Utah’s deserts. While pursuing degrees in geography and environmental studies at the University of Utah, Leopardi took every class that would let her get out of doors, preferring to feel a connection with a place, rather than to the idea of it. One spring, she took a class about global environmental issues with Fred Montague, a local leader on the Utah sustainability and urban homesteading scene, and the author of Gardening: An Ecological Approach. Fired by the idea that growing one’s own food was one of the most radical things a would-be environmentalist can do, Leopardi got her first plot that summer at a community garden.

Leopardi gained more experience by WWOOFing—the World Wide Opportunities on ORganic Farms (WWOOF.ORG) pairs volunteers up with organic farms, allowing experienced farmers share their knowledge with newcomers. She worked for Wasatch Community Gardens.

In 2009 Leopardi launched B.U.G. Her goal was to provide food to the local community using local resources. Her primary plot is located near Wasatch Commons co-housing, but she maintains several plots located near the homes of her employees.

Community For Sharon Leopardi the relationship between consumers and the people growing your food isn’t limited by a single transaction. B.U.G. Farms sends out weekly emails that share updates about what’s happening in the garden and suggested recipes that help members figure out what to do with their assortment of veggies. Leopardi also plans more social events based on last year’s end-of-season potluck— another way for her community of locavores to stay connected with the land and with the people growing their food, even when the demands of family and work. And while she doesn’t require CSA members to pitch in, those interested in learning more can speak with Leopardi about volunteering or other ways of supporting or being involved with B.U.G. Carolyn Kenyon likewise sees her commitment as extending beyond the simple act of handing over seeds to would-be gardeners: “I want people to start up urban farms: I don’t consider it competition, I see it as working towards something together.” In the winter months, before the demanding labor of prepping beds and tending plants becomes too onerous, she hosts “Seed Saturdays,” weekly open-house events that allow visitors to peruse her seed selection, but also to ask questions and seek advice one-on-one about their gardening trials and dilemmas.

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Carolyn Kenyon focuses on providing heirloom seeds and plant starts for the home gardener.

Sharon Leopardi’s farming operations differ in their methods and goals, both ultimately focus on seeing that the local community is fed sustainably, at least in part, from its own land-base. And for both, the commitment to community goes beyond the commercial aspects of selling produce, plants, or seeds, to the kind of education and community connections that are truly nourishing. u Adele Flail is an artist and a burgeoning urban homesteader on SLC’s west side. She is also coordinator for The Leonardo. She recently illustrated a book forthcoming from Gibbs Smith publisher, The Nature Lover's Almanac.

B.U.G. Farms Sign-up for new or returning CSA members is ongoing for the 2012 season. BACKYARDURBANGARDENS.COM Sharon Leopardi’s favorite tomato varieties: Dagma’s Perfection, Isis .Candy, Vintage Wine Kenyon Organics Focusing on heirloom plants for the home gardener. Visit the website for more information, or visit the Etsy shop for seeds: KENYONORGANICS.BLOGSPOT.COM/ ETSY.COM/SHOP/KENYONORGANICS Carolyn Kenyon’s favorite tomato varieties: Neve’s Azorean Red Beefsteak, Black Brandywine, Black Cherry, Green Zebra, and Amana Orange.

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Open pollination, heirlooms and saving seed

“Grow a hybrid seed, eat for a summer. Grow an open-pollinated seed, eat for generations.”

— Caleb Warnock

open pollinated: a plant whose seeds will reproduce “true,” which means the seed will grow into the same type of plant from whcih they were borne. Open-pollinated is the opposite of hybrid.

IN THE GARDEN self-pollinated: Plants that have both male and felmale reproductive organs and can thus fertilize themselves. cross-pollination: The transfer of pollen among genetically similar plants, accomplished by such natural agents as the wind and insects. hybrid: a plant created by mechanically pollinating two genetically dissimilar plants.

An F1 hybrid is a plant resulting from the first generation of seed produced from that union. Most modern hybrids are F1 and will not come true to seed.

—from Gardening From the Heart: A Natural Garden Primer, by Tina James (Randall Books)

Once upon a time, farmers and gardeners ensured their next year’s crops by always saving seed from the previous harvest. Crop plants were exclusively open pollinated; they had evolved to fit into local ecosystems over generations, and had been adapted by farmers for reliable performance over many years. Individual plants from these varieties might vary considerably, but the strain as a whole would “come true” from the seed collected. Open-pollinated heirloom varieties developed resistance to local pests and diseases and were well adapted to the local climate.

With the advent of hybrid seed, farmers could attain a much more standardized crop with certain desired characteristics (a bruiseresistant tomato, for example). The seeds from such crops would not produce true copies of themselves, however, so it was not worth saving.

Farmers would have to buy the next year’s seed from the seed supplier again.

With the rise of monoculture farming, many open pollinated and heirloom species of crop plants have already been lost or are currently facing extinction. But recently, gardeners have been rediscovering the joys of open pollinated varieties and the satisfaction of saving seed.

Your future isn’t likely to depend on it, at least not yet, but seed-saving is a fun experiment and may yet prove to be critical. In the meantime, you’re learning something new.

Garden author Tina James advises beginning your seed-saving exploits with plants that are self-pollinated.

“This gives you all of the annual and biennial flowers and herbs to explore as well as such vegetables as beans, peas, eggplant, lettuce, okra and peppers,” she writes.

If you think you might like to try your hand at seed-saving this year,

buy open-pollinated seed. The packet may not be clearly marked “open pollinated,” but may have the letters “OP” appended to the varietal name.

If you are buying plants from a nursery, ask whether they are open pollinated varieties. Here is an “honor roll” of open pollinated varieties: WWW.GARDEN.ORG/SUBCHANNELS/CARE/ SEEDS?Q=SHOW&ID=293&PAGE=5 Open pollinated seeds can be selfpollinated or cross-pollinated, depending on the crop. Self-pollinated plants will always come true from seed, where cross-pollinated varieties such as brassicas will need segregation from each other in order not to produce hybrid seed. It is possible to segregate cross-pollinators physically, but not practical. Instead, plant varieties that mature at different times.

Bok choy, for example, can cross with with turnips, broccoli and Chinese cabbage. If you want to save the seed, grow the extra-dwarf version, pak choy. This short, fast variety matures before the others, so it’s safe from what Caleb Warnock calls “unwanted cousin pollen.”

Lettuce is easy: Literally, let it go to seed. When the plant gets all leggy and turns yellow, the seedpods are dry and ripe for picking.

Tomatoes require special care, but are easily doable and extremely rewarding. (More about that closer harvest season.)

While you can generally rely on honeybees or native bees for pollination (see p. 18), you might want to exert extra effort if you plan to save seeds from pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, summer and winter squashes, and gourds (this is known as the cucurbit family) to guarantee that the seed is identical to its parent plant. Google “pollination methods: Cucurbits” and you’ll find what you need. You’ll also find clear instructions in The Forgotten Skills of SelfSufficiency used by the Mormon Pioneers, by Caleb Warnock (2011: Bonneville Books).

Root vegetables (beets, carrots) require two years to produce true seed. If you’re a beginning seedsaver, you probably want a quicker reward time. Skip these for later.

Label your seed and store in a cool, dry place.

Main thing to remember right now: There’s no sense in saving seeds from hybrids, which will not breed true. If you think you might want to try your hand at saving seed, buy open-pollinated seed. u Staff

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That storied horticultural event (for many of the gardens, as well as their houses, were ambitious and grand) is from bygone days. A more downhome version is the Wasatch Community Gardens’ Tour de Coops. Know that if people have poultry, their gateway drug to food production was likely a vegetable garden, with maybe some xeriscaping and a pond for good measure.

You’ll see a lot more than hen houses on these tours. Go. South Valley Tour (Holladay, Cottonwood Heights, Sandy, Draper), June 23. Downtown tour, June 30. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

An outing with the intriguing title of Hidden Garden Tour happens each summer to the south. Master Gardeners of Utah County host this year’s tour on June 15 & 16. Visit 10 gardens from Orem to Mapleton.

The tour includes gardening classes before the tour begins, both days.

Tour co-chair Denise Boyer tells me we’ll find cottage gardens and estates, gardens designed by homeowners and landscape architects,

vegetable gardens (of course), and a BYU botanist’s garden of native plants. Watch website for details.

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Red Butte Garden tours: This might seem more like ogling than snooping. But I advise you to take on a snoop’s demeanor. You want to know just what is the name of that iris resembling a parrot’s plume (maybe you can buy some at the upcoming plant sale) or see how they pruned the rosemary. If you’re lazy, you can go to their website and tour the garden right now. Of course it’s not the same. But it’s pretty.

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Gardening with native bees Utah’s native bee species fill in as pollinators for overworked honeybees

BY ALICE BAIN

he majority of our food crops rely on insects to pollinate them and allow them to set fruit. Without bees, our diets would be a lot less healthful and tasty. The wellbeing of our pollinators is important to our survival!

While the beleaguered Mason or blue European honeybee strugorchard bee gles for a comeback, here in Utah, luckily, we also have around 900 different species of native bee, all evolved here and active in pollinating our gardens and our crops. These bees are solitary and not aggressive—they do not build colonial hives like honeybees, and they will sting only when highly provoked (captured in the bare hand, for example). “You can be

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In addition to the beleaguered European honeybee we also have around 900 different species of native bee, all evolved here and active in pollinating our gardens and our crops. right next to these bees as they fly around and they basically ignore you,” says Trent Toler, an entomologist who worked for several years at the USDA Bee Lab at Utah State University in Logan.

If you don’t have the inclination to tend a hive and reap the benefit of honey (as well as suffer the stress of death, disease and loss, should your

colony collapse), you can still help out the pollination effort with a minimum of care and cost. Trent says you can attract these gentle workers to your

Leafcutter Bee

garden.

First, make sure you have a good variety of flower species (in addition to your crop species) for the bees to feed upon; and, most important, provide nesting sites for them. “Many of these native bees are twignesting,” he says, “and the main limiting factor on the population is how many nest sites exist at a given location.”

A few years ago, Trent noticed that some native leafcutter bees were nesting in screw holes on his porch from where an awning had been removed .

“The holes had been filled in and the ends neatly papered over with bits of leaf.”

Wanting to encourage these native pollinators in his garden, Trent made a “bee block” nest site for them out of a block of scrap wood.

“I took a 4x4-inch piece of untreated lumber

about 18 inches long, and drilled a bunch of holes into the front of it with a 13/64ths-inch drill bit,” he says. “It was as simple as that.”

The bees moved in and filled the holes with nest cells—each drill hole might house five or six cells, with each cell containing a single bee egg and a ball of pollen ready to feed the young bee larva when it hatches. Trent suggests helping the bees stay healthy by providing new blocks every year.

Native bees are so popular with gardeners now that you can buy them online.

Mason or blue orchard bees (Osmia lignaria) are available for purchase at several different sites.

April is a good time to order the bees, as they typically emerge in May, just in time to get to work in your garden. $48 will get you 40 bees; that will make as many bees as you give them housing for.

“Mason bee houses” are also on sale at many gardening sites, and even from Sears and Kmart. These are fancier versions of the bee block that Trent made for himself. Some come with replaceable paper straws for the cells that will allow you to get multiple disease-free years out of a single block.

“Encouraging native bees is mostly a matter of paying attention to what’s going on in your garden already,” he says.

Besides the leafcutter bees, Trent also found a species of ground-nesting native bee in a patch of bare soil in his front yard. “The ground-nesters are less common, but you can find them in flat, packed, clay soil — you’ll see many little round burrow-entrances in it. During the growing season, bees will be flying in and out of those burrow holes all day, provisioning them.”

If you find ground-nesting bees in your garden, leave them alone. “The bare soil might be a little ugly,” he says, “but you can just put a little border around it and tend your plants somewhere else, knowing that your garden is being well-pollinated!” u Alice Bain is an editor at CATALYST and a Salt Lake-based artist. Look for her blog updates, appearing several times a week, at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

Create a simple house for native leafcutter or mason bees Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need: block of plain pine, fir, or hardwood (avoid pressure treated, cedar, or redwood), 4x4 in., any workable length drill with sharp bits of varying sizes: 13/64, 7/32, 1/4, 5/16 pen or woodburning tool beeswax, foil tape or water-based polyurethane sealant Trent recommends first-timers use a few different sizes of drill bit; different bees prefer different-sized holes, and you likely donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what species of bee you have in your area. Use a sharp bit so the hole insides are as smooth as possible.

Marking the front of the block with irregular patterns will help the bees navigate and remember whose hole is whose.

To keep parasites out, seal the back and ends of the block with the beeswax, tape or sealant.

Where to hang: Choose a sheltered place with some sun but not too much.

An east-facing porch is perfect.

Happy native beekeeping!

Instructions for building a mason bee house: TINYURL.COM/BUILDNESTINGBLOCK, TINYURL.COM/BEEMODULARHOUSE. USU-USDA Bee Lab: WWW.LOGANBEELAB.USU.EDU.

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SCIENCE & HEALTH

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Roundup unready What this popular herbicide really kills

BY ALICE BAIN n 1974 when Monsanto first patented the glyphosate-based herbicide they named “Roundup,” it was hailed as an agricultural breakthrough. Previously, the most effective herbicides available were dioxin-based, persistent in the environment, and highly damaging to animal life. Glyphosate was benign by comparison.

However, we’ve made up for this supposed lowered toxicity by using an almost inconceivable amount of this stuff. It’s sprayed everywhere from city ornamental gardens to suburban back yards, and genetically-modified “Roundup Ready” crops like corn and soybeans are sprayed with it during the growing cycle.

the low-grade systemic poisoning that can occur from daily environmental exposure. Some industry studies show that glyphosate in isolation produces fetal malformations in lab animals. There is also evidence that it

fertilizer. This is bad news for both gardens and waterways.

Understanding the manner in which

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Plants that die of Roundup preserve the glyphosate in their dead roots, stems and leaves — and the chemical can be re-activated as this plant matter decays.

Trouble with the “inactive” ingredient

In spite of Roundup’s original “safer than table salt” ad campaign, acute poisoning with Roundup (less than half a cup) can bring on symptoms leading to coma or death.

The tricky part is that Roundup and similar glyphosatebased weedkillers are compounds of many ingredients, and that at least one of those ingredients, the surfactant POEA (polyethoxylated tallowamine) is more toxic to animal life than the glyphosate. Yet glyphosate is the listed “active ingredient” in Roundup, and much of the herbicide’s touted low-toxicity is based upon studies of this ingredient only, disregarding the other “inactive” ingredients that go to make up the compound.

While it’s a rare person who will drink half a cup of Roundup, more pernicious than acute poisoning is

causes cell death in human embryos, placentas and umbilical cords. In Argentina, some provinces that grow large harvests of GMO soy have found that local rates of birth defect and cancers have ballooned. In one area, childhood cancer rates tripled and birth defects quadrupled after the introduction of glyphosate-resistant GMO crop agriculture.

How it works The weed killer acts as an endocrine disruptor, inhibiting progesterone production. It may cause genetic damage at even sub-agricultural levels.

Even though Roundup breaks down more quickly in water, frogs and fish are far more sensitive to it than terrestrial animals. Runoff containing glyphosate-based herbicides can cause fish kills.

The compound does not degrade as quickly in soil as Monsanto reported. In loamy, humus-based soils, the half-life of Roundup may be only about three days, but in clay soils— prone to shedding water rather than absorbing it—it may hang around for months or even years.

...and works....

Additionally, plants that die of Roundup preserve the glyphosate in their dead roots, stems and leaves— and the chemical can be reactivated as this plant matter decays, especially if the soil is subsequently treated with a phosphorus-bearing

glyphosate kills weeds is important: Basically, the chemical disrupts a metabolic pathway inside the plant and disables its immune defenses.

Naturally occurring soil pathogens (bacteria and viruses) then move in and quickly kill it off. Weeds grown in sterile soil will not die when treated with Roundup.

A new kind of pathogen?

Glyphosate itself also kills a great many soil microbes—so the ones that survive create a highly unbalanced soil ecology. Pathogens that affect both plants and animals thrive in these disturbed conditions.

Glyphosate kills soil microbes —so many that the survivors create an unbalanced soil ecology.

Don Huber, emeritus professor of plant pathology at Purdue University caused a huge stir in January 2011 when a letter he wrote to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was leaked to the public. Dr. Huber asked Secretary Vilsack to stop deregulating Roundup Ready crops until further research was completed, saying he had found evidence of an overabundance of a new kind of pathogen in feedstock from crops treated with glyphosate, and that this pathogen was apparently

implicated in animal miscarriages and infertility. An interview with Dr. Huber and the text of this letter can be found here: TINYURL.COM/HUBERINTERVIEW

Selective pressure on an ecosystem always creates adaptation—this is evolution in action. Thirteen states are now reporting weeds resistant to Roundup. There are 15 confirmed glyphosate-resistant weed species,

within a group of 63 that have shown to be developing resistance.

Roundup on the rise The use of glyphosate doubled from 2001 to 2007, according to the EPA. Agricultural use in the U.S. has increased eightfold since 1992. The U.S. Geological Survey reported last August that glyphosate is ubiquitous in the Mississippi River after flood-

Eternal vigilence is the price of freedom from bindweed The three great inevitabilities in any gardener’s life are death, taxes, and field bindweed. Convolvulus arvensis, now classed as invasive “pernicious weed,” was brought over from Europe or Asia in the 1700s. The vine is indefatigably vigorous and incredibly difficult to kill: Underground roots store energy in starchy rhizomes and may easily extend downward 20 feet or more in length, as they will continue to grow until they hit the water table. Bindweed out-competes native and cultivated plants, and it is common in gardens, grasslands, riversides and disturbed environments such as roadsides and empty city lots. Bindweed seeds can remain viable in the soil for decades.

Fighting a pitched battle against bindweed can be frustrating in the extreme, especially if you wish to avoid herbicides. The green parts of the plant easily break off the root system, and the plant will regenerate over and over again from the roots. If ever you waffle on the subject of using Roundup, it will likely be in response to an invasion of bindweed.

Diligently weeding new sprouts from an old root system does pay off. Weeding the same patches over a course of years may eventually exhaust the root system.

The best advice is: vigilence and diligence. Pull those pointy little leaves the day they emerge. Know the places it likes to frequent and visit them daily. By all means, wherever you are, if you see a bindweed in bloom, do everyone a favor and rip it out before it goes to seed.

Bindweed is also a meditation—it challenges us to become more process-oriented and aware of our surroundings. Life, like a garden, is never completely under our control—but with patience and attention, we can create a space of restful harmony.

Failing sanguinity, try boiling water or a flame weeder.

Find other organic strategies for combating bindweed here: TINYURL.COM/BINDWEEDSTRATEGIES

Nontoxic home alternatives to the most widely used herbicide in history

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oundup was originally promoted as a way for farmers to cut back on tilling (the standard form of weed control) and curb the problem of erosion. It also helped phase out the pesticides associated with deadly dioxins. Forty years later, it has solidly ingratiated itself into the agricultural sector, with its own line of Roundup-ready grains. It is also, according to the EPA, the second mostused pesticide in the home and garden sector. There is little doubt that glyphosate-based weedkillers are being overused. The truth is that we just don’t need the stuff.

Farmers have serious issues to deal with regarding erosion, weed control and the accompanying genetically modified seed situation.

The following practices do not apply to them.

These alternatives are workable for the home and garden, however. If we expect people whose livelihoods may be at stake to make healthy choices regarding pesticides and the environment, it behooves us to do the same.

Many common weeds can be adequately controlled using organic, non-toxic alternatives: VINEGAR. Plain old acetic acid—white vinegar—can be sprayed on weeds. It causes chemical burns on the leaves that will kill the plant, but unlike glyphosate, soil microbes readily break it down.

Vinegar will affect any plant it touches so be careful where you spray it. Using a paintbrush to apply it directly to selected leaves can eliminate overspray in plant beds. Adding a teaspoon of vegetablebased liquid dish soap to a quart of white vinegar and a quarter cup of table salt creates a systemic organic weed killer that is effective when sprayed at the base of the undesireable plant. This

ing. “Glyphosate is the mostly widely used herbicide in the world,” says Paul Capel, USGS chemist and an author on the study. “We know very little about its long term effects to the environment.” German scientists report glyphosate in human urine at five to 20 times the rate allowable for drinking water.

Addressing the UK Houses of Parliament this past January, Don

recipe also works well for weeds growing in sidewalk cracks.

ESSENTIAL OILS. Clove, peppermint, tea tree, pine, and citronella can be used just like vinegar, painted directly on leaves. If you add a surfactant (vegetable soap) you may also be able to get the weed to absorb the oil systemically and kill the root system as well. Use these formulations carefully because each oil has its own harms and benefits—remember, the dose makes the poison. Too much tea tree oil is also bad for humans!

SOLARIZING. For a larger area, cover with clear constructiongrade plastic after watering.

Keep the plastic on at least a month to kill weeds, then replant. What about beneficial soil organisms? According to a UC-Davis report, solarizing increases populations of mycorrhizal fungi and fungi and bacteria that aid plant growth, making them more resistant to pathogens than nonsolarized or fumigated soil. Earthworms are generally thought to burrow deeper in soil to escape the heat.

NEWSPAPER MULCHING. Spread newspapers over the area and then rake a couple of inches of good topsoil over them, dig holes through the topsoil and newspaper and plant into the holes.

FLAME WEEDERS. Available at garden stores and big-box hardware stores. Get rid of your weeds with fire!

RUBBING ALCOHOL. Try a solution of one tablespoon rubbing alcohol to one quart water in a garden sprayer.

BOILING WATER. Right out of a kettle—pour it directly on the weeds, but make sure it doesn’t splatter on you or any plants you want to keep!

Huber referred to glyphosate agriculture as a serious threat to the environment, livestock and human health.

Once considered a silver bullet, Roundup and its knockoffs more resemble a ricochet. It looks like the collateral damage has just begun. u Alice Bain is an editor at CATALYST and a Salt Lakebased artist. Look for her blog updates, appearing several times a week, at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

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ycium barbarum, the goji berry, has become very popular in recent years.

The berries are native to southeastern Europe and Asia, and their high levels of antioxidants have gained the small red fruit a reputation as a superfood.

You can buy goji berry juice drinks at health food stores, and dried goji berries are available for sale, but not cheaply. Often a pound will cost you

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old rail line to the “golden spike” at Promontory Point. The plants are drought-tolerant, enjoy full sun, and can survive the extreme heat of the Utah

rangy for its situation. Pruning back will encourage more berries to grow and help control the thorns that develop on older wood.

Starts of the goji berry are avail-

scrape the seeds out. Start them in a germinating tray—within a week you should see little roots out of the seeds, and you can then plant them out into starter pots. They will develop a taproot that will quickly reach the bottom of the pot. The plant will stop growing once the root gets to the bottom of the pot, so use a deep pot and be prepared to repot often! Larger sprouts and cuttings can be grown in five gallon

Goji berry madness Grow this super-nutritious shrub in your own backyard

BY ALICE BAIN $20! These dried berries are imported from China and Mongolia—but did you know that goji berries also grow in old gardens and in the wild all over Utah?

In the mid-1800s, the great transcontinental railroad was under construction. Thousands of Chinese workers were recruited and brought to America to build the western leg of the railroad. They swung hammers for the Central Pacific Railroad Company, set a record for laying 10 miles of track in a single day, and they left behind a botanical legacy for us: the goji berry.

The largest camp of Chinese workers in Utah was at the Sinks of Dove Creek, just west of Kelton, a present-day ghost town on the northwest corner of the Great Salt Lake. Goji berries have been found still growing there, and all along the

You can buy goji berry juice drinks at health food stores, and dried goji berries are available for sale, but not cheaply. Often a pound will cost you $20!

These dried berries are imported from China and Mongolia—but did you know that goji berries also grow in old gardens and in the wild all over Utah? summer as well as the biting cold of our winter—the ones along the rail line have been surviving and seeding themselves for 150 years.

Also known as the wolfberry, the boxthorn, the matrimony vine, the murali (in India) and the Duke of Argyll’s tea tree, this deciduous perennial grows to a height of three to 10 feet, forming a rangy bush that is usually a little wider than it is tall.

It is a long-lived member of the Solanaceae family, which also includes potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, chili peppers, tobacco, and nightshade. The plant generally produces the bright red goji berries in its third year of growth, from small, star-shaped flowers that may be purple or white. In China, the leaves are eaten as a vegetable, and can also be dried and made into a tea. The leaves have an even higher antioxidant quotient than the berries.

Gardeners should prune the goji berry plant when it becomes too

able from several nurseries in Utah.

The Phoenix Tears Nursery in Logan sells cuttings from those same Promontory Point bushes that the Chinese workers left behind. The nursery had their plants DNA tested and compared with commercially available goji berries from Ningxia province in China, and found them to be an almost completely perfect match.

Goji can grow in almost any kind of soil, but prefers well-drained alkaline soil. They can easily be grown in containers or trellised like a vine. Plants can also be trimmed to retain a tighter, bushy or hedgelike appearance. Plant starts just after the last hard frost date or about a month before the first hard frost date in the fall (see chart on p.

24 for first and last frost dates throughout out variable city).

Goji berry plants can also be grown from seed. Soak the dried fruit in water for a day, and then break open the fruit and gently

buckets with drain holes punched in the bottom. Cuttings are easily taken from larger plants, and you can grow enough of your own plants to create a hedge this way far more easily than starting them all from seed (although that is exactly what CATALYST managing editor Pax Rasmussen is doing right now).

To plant goji in your garden, choose the area carefully. The plants will need pruning and will require attention if they are not to become invasive when they start to send out lateral shoots after the third year.

If you find you enjoy goji greens as a salad, you can grow some container plants inside a greenhouse or in a sunny window location for extra nutrition in your winter diet! u Alice Bain is an editor at CATALYST and a Salt Lake-based artist. Look for her blog updates, appearing several times a week, at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

Plant sales The legal addiction

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lant sales amount to horticultural gluttony for many of us. Red Butte Garden and Wasatch Community Gardens’ staff and volunteers labor for months beforehand to indulge our buying habit, the proceeds of which support and publicize their other endeavors.

Red Butte Garden plant sale: Friday, May 4 (members only) and Saturday, May 5 (public sale). 300 Wakara Way. A nice thing about this sale is the high level of expertise employed throughout the process: Each staffer has a horticultural specialty and takes on the responsibility of promoting that area for the sale. According to Marita Tyrolt, the garden’s chief horticultural specialist, they work with mostly local growers and choose plants based on buyers’ proven interests, the staff’s knowledge of good stock, and information on the latest and greatest in new cultivars. Red Butte also grows veggies in its own greenhouses.

Red Butte relies on its cadre of over 100 volunteers to put it all together. Marita says it takes three to four days just to set everything up. Red Butte donates leftover plants to nonprofits such as the University of Utah Neighborhood Partners, the Cancer Wellness House, and Neighborhood House.

The Red Butte garden sale offers trees, shrubs, bushes, ground covers, annuals, conifers, herbs and perennials—more than most garden centers, according to Marita.

You’ll find 27 different varities of peppers—

both hot and sweet—and 57 varieties of tomatoes, including heirlooms.

Additionally, several local plant societies will be there: Wasatch Rock Garden Society, Utah Community Forest Council, Tree Utah, Utah Rose Society, The Water Garden Club, the Hosta Society and the Utah State Master Gardeners.

Interested in volunteering? Visit REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG/SPRING_PLANT_SALE or call Meghan, 801-585-5688. Also, if you were thinking of getting a membership, do it now and get first pick of the plants with an early admission!

Saturday, May 12 - Wasatch Community Gardens plant sale. 720 S. Guardsman Way (1580 E.) Except for some seed orders, all of the vendors are local. Wasatch, like Red Butte, depends on volunteers to carry out a smooth operation.

Last year, 166 people helped set up everything the day before. Any remaining plants go to various community and youth gardens.

For those of us who have shown up at 9 a.m. and missed some of our target foliage, Executive Director Claire Uno promises that they “will not run out this year!” They have tons of herbs, organic compost and a better variety of everything than ever before.

Wasatch could use more volunteers, not just for the sale, but all year. Go to WASATCHGARDENS.ORG/VOLUNTEER.

—Kay Denton

Pull out & save!

A new planting guide for your modern planting techniques!

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his year’s planting guide reflects some of the

changes occurring in the city garden. With the popularity of raised beds, intensive planting and trellising, the old planting charts that recommend planting 200 feet of lima beans in rows two feet apart are not so useful.

In this chart you’ll find these improvements: • Planting dates are geared toward the Salt Lake Valley, not all of Utah (see “Salt Lake City area— first and last frost dates” for even more useful detail).

• Fewer seeds to plant per foot (resulting in less thinning).

• More plants remaining after thinning (more intensive planting, possibly to accommodate vertical strategies).

• The space between rows is less (less unnecessary space to weed, more space for gardening).

• Based on the assumption that the gardener is using raised beds.

• Offers some interplanting suggestions. Fred Montague says interplanting makes fuller use of garden resources (e.g. shallow-rooted plants with deep; short shadeloving plants with tall sun-loving ones). It also offers some protection and encourages plant yield.

References and influences: Fred Montague, Gardening: An Ecological Approach (Mountain Bear Ink) Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening (Rodale) Toby Hemenway, Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Homescale Permaculture (Chelsea Green) Louise Riotte, Carrots Love Tomatoes (Storey)

Salt Lake City area first & last frost dates Area SLC SLC/City Creek WTP* SLC/east bench SLC/Intl. Airport SLC/SUB SEW SLC/Triad Center SLC/U of U Sandy Bountiful/Val Verda Draper Ogden Park City Park City/Meadows Provo/Airport

Early 19-Mar 30-Apr 31-Mar 11-Mar 20-Apr 16-Feb 03-Apr 27-Apr 11-Mar 14-May 18-Apr 20-May 07-Jul 04-Apr

Avg 12-Apr 22-May 26-Apr 26-Apr 5-May 7-Apr 01-May 13-May 17-Apr 03-Jun 13-May 09-Jun 07-Jul 21-May

Late 30-Apr 14-Jun 13-May 28-May 18-May 1-May 06-Jun 20-Jun 09-May 30-Jun 16-Jun 21-Jun 07-Jul 03-Jul

Early 11-Oct 18-Sep 18-Sep 17-Sep 15-Sep 26-Oct 18-Sep 03-Sep 08-Oct 13-Sep 10-Sep 09-Aug 05-Sep 31-Aug

Avg 31-Oct 30-Sep 19-Oct 18-Oct 3-Oct 4-Nov 21-Oct 24-Sep 24-Oct 21-Sep 07-Oct 09-Sep 05-Sep 25-Sep

Late 21-Nov 12-Oct 3-Nov 14-Nov 25-Oct 15-Nov 16-Nov 14-Oct 14-Nov 04-Oct 26-Oct 03-Oct 05-Sep 23-Oct

* water treatment plant View a more complete chart of frost dates across Utah at: CLIMATE.USURF.USU.EDU/REPORTS/FREEZEDATES.PHP

New and improved!

2012 Planting Vegetable

Planting date

# of seeds/plants for 1 ft. of row

Planting depth (")

Between rows

Beans (bush)

May 5 - July 1

3-4 seeds

1-1.5

2-3 ft.

Beans (pole)

May 5 - July

2-3 seeds

1-1.5

2-3 ft.

Beets Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage

March 25 - July 15 Feb. 15 - April 1 March 15 - April 15 Feb. 15 - April 1

5-10 seeds 1 plant 2 - 4 seeds or 1 plant 1 plant

.75 - 1 3-4 .75 - 1 3-4

15-18 in.

18-24 in.

12 in.

1-2 ft.

Carrot

March 25 - June 15

15-20 seeds

.5 - .75

2-3 in.

Cauliflower Chard Corn Cucumber Eggplant Endive Kale Kohlrabi Leek Lettuce (head) Lettuce (leaf ) Melon Okra Onion (sets)

March 25 - May 1 March 25 - July 15 May 5 - July 1 May 5 - June 20 May 20 - June 1 March 25 - June 15 July 1 - Aug. 15 March 15 - Aug. 1 April 1 - May 1 March 25 - May 15 March 25 - May 15 May 15 - June 1 May 25 - June March 15 - May 1

1 plant 5-10 seeds 3 - 4 seeds in a hill 2-3 seeds 1 plant 1 - 2 seeds 2 - 4 seeds 10 - 15 seeds 7 - 10 seeds 1 plant 20-25 seeds 3 seeds in a hill 4 - 6 seeds 6 - 12 sets

3-4 .75 - 1 1 - 1.5 1 - 1.5 3-4 3 - 4.5 .5 .5 - 1 .5 - 1 2 - 2.5 .25 - .5 1-2 1 - 1.5 2-3

2 ft.

1 ft.

2 ft.

1 ft.

18 in.

18 in.

18 in.

1 ft.

6 in.

1 4 in.

4 ft.

3 ft.

4-6 in.

Parsnip Pea

March 25 - May 1 March 15 - May 1

10-15 seeds 6-12 seeds

.5 - .75 1.5 - 2

1-2 ft.

12-18 in.

Pepper Potato

May 20 - June 1 March 25 - May 15

1 plant 1 piece

3-4 3-4

2-3 ft.

2-3 ft.

Pumpkin Radish Rutabaga Spinach Squash (summer) Squash (winter) Sweet Corn Tomato

May 1 - June 1 March 15 - Sept. 1 June 15 - July 1 March 15 - May 1 May 5 - July 1 May 20 - June 1 May 5 - July 1 May 1 - June 1

2 - 4 seeds in 10-12 seeds 10-15 10-15 seeds 2 - 4 seeds in 2 - 4 seeds in 3 - 4 seeds in 1 plant

1 - 1.5 .5 - .75 .75 - 1 .5 - .75 1 - 1.5 1 - 1.25 1 - 1.5 3-4

4 ft.

15-18 in.

2 ft.

15-18 in.

3-5 ft.

4-7 ft.

2 ft.

1-3 ft.

Turnip

March 15 - May 1

20 - 30 seeds

.5 - .75

1-2 ft.

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Guide for Utah Thin to # of plants/ft.

Days to harvest

Compatible plants

3-4

70 - 80

3-4

60 - 65

3-6 1 1 1

50 - 60 60 - 70 see cabbage 60 - 70

4-6

60 - 70

1 1-2 1-2 2-3 1 1 1 2-3 4-6 1 4 4 ft. (1 hill) .5-1 3-6

50 - 60 40 - 50 66 - 90 50 - 60 70 - 60 70 70 50 - 50 100 60 - 70 40 - 50 110 - 120 90 40 - 50

potato, corn, cucumber, strawberry, celery, summer savory, petunia corn, summer savory broccoli, cabbage onion, kohlrabi, broccoli, cabbage see cabbage see cabbage potato, celery, dill, chamomile, thyme, tomatoes, sage, peppermint, mint, rosemary, beet, onion, nicotiana peas, leaf lettuce, chives, onion, leek, dill, rosemary, sage, tomato, radish see cabbage

4-6 6-12

30 - 40 60 - 70

1 1

60 - 70 60 - 100

n/a 12 2 6-12 n/a n/a 1-2 n/a

90 - 110 .25 - 30 .105 40 - 50 50 90 - 120 66 - 90 60 - 65

2-3

60 - 70

beans beans, corn, radish, sunflower, nasturtiums beans, catnip

Incompatible Plants

onion onion, beet, kohlrabi, sunflower pole bean tomato

strawberry, pole bean, tomato

potato, aromatic herbs

Remember the edible perennials Make room for permanent plantings of perennial fruits & vegetables in your garden:

see cabbage see cabbage onion, celery, carrot carrot, radish, strawberry, cucumber carrot, radish, strawberry, cucumber

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Plants, soil, water, sun. What better place for a dog or cat to dig and chew, tear things up, and run around? Wait, it’s your garden we’re talking about! There is no easy fool-proof system to keep your cat or dog out, however, the following tips will help you remain sane as your pet negotiates its way through the garden.

• Cats don’t like to walk on bristly or uncomfortable material. Ugly but easy: Lay chicken wire on top of your soil before you plant. You can also mulch your garden bed with sharp-edged pine cones, if you have a small garden and live near a large forest.

• Dogs and cats don’t like the smell of Coleus canina, also known as the scaredy cat plant. Other plants with unpopular scents are rue, lavender and pennyroyal.

• A very effective tool is the Scarecrow Sprinkler. It detects and sends a blast of water toward your carouser (and we know how popular water sprays are for dogs and cats).

• Spread orange, grapefruit or lemon peels around plants to act as natural repellents.

And now for the payoff—for your pets, that is: Their very own kitty/dog garden that will distract them from crashing yours!

For cats, plant a separate bed of catnip plants for hours of play. Plant wheat and oat grass which they love to nibble on. And create a sandbox to play in (mind you, it will need cleaning often, but it’s better than cat poop near the veggies).

If your dog likes to dig, try a sandbox for

her as well, and work on training to dig just in that. I’ve heard of burying dog poop where you don’t want digging, but that won’t work if it’s around your plants, and they’ll just go somewhere else to dig.

Which brings me to: Composting dog/cat poop? Unfortunately there’s no recycling these babies.

Carnivore/omnivore poop does not equal herbivore manure—they’re a very different thing. Too many pathogens and nasties to get rid of in our meat-eating pets.

We haven’t yet tried this at CATALYST but we’ve heard interesting things about the Doggie Dooley, a sort of bin with a lid that you bury in your yard (lid exposed). It reduces waste to a ground-absorbed liquid, controls odors and keeps insects away.

Now you’ve got quite the project on your hands this spring. When you plant your own garden, design your pet’s garden while you’re at it and you’ll both be saner for it.

Babes in the woods (and elsewhere): What to do Spring is the season for wild babies, and some run into problems and need human assistance, but how do you know when that’s the case and what to do?

If a mammal is found alone with siblings, most likely everything is fine and mom should be back soon. If it appears that a lone baby is injured or abandoned, it’s best to leave them where they are and call the Department of Wildlife Services (DWR) with the location.

Birds are different: If they are featherless, they are completely dependent on their parents. And if you find one without feathers on the ground, with or without siblings—as often happens after heavy winds—put them back into their nest. If that’s not possible, create a ‘fake’ nest and place it off the ground and away from predators. Wives’ tale alert: Touching the birds will not cause their parents to reject them.

Birds that are learning to fly (fledglings) probably don’t need any assistance but this can seem confusing as they crash and stumble their way through their first experiences in flight. Just watch them and make sure they don’t appear to be injured.

14th Annual May 18-19, 2012 This year’s theme:

‘Birding as Families’ Davis County Legacy Events Center 151 South 1100 West Farmington, UT Visit our website for a detailed schedule and online registration for the events that interest you most.

Don’t try to rehabilitate any birds or mammals you may find. Instead, contact appropriate officials such as DWR and they will tell you where to find a certified Wildlife Rehabilitator near you. Though you may have good intentions, trying to save a wild baby yourself may mean the difference between it finding its way back to where it belongs or possible death.

801-538-4700 or DWRCOMMENT@UTAH.GOV. Thanks to wild life rehabilitation expert, Debbie Souza Pappas for her sound advice.

A Day of Zen: with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman, Sensei BMZ City Center, SLC April 14, 2012

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Recommendations Read: Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz. A surprisingly intuitive read of dogs’ inner souls by a scientist. Horowitz cautions against anthropomorphizing dogs and instead to understand them for the canines they really are.

Watch: Madonna of the Mills.

Considering the subject matter, this is actually an uplifting documentary about a woman who infiltrates the puppy mill industry in Pennsylvania. Laura Amato rescues 2,000 dogs from one of the worst puppy mills areas in the country (Pennsylvania ranks 5th worst for this after Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma). Watch her journey as she visits the mills and asks for retired breeders and unsold puppies who are then placed in permanent homes. MADONNAOFTHEMILLS.COM

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Café Solstice Cafe Solstice inside Dancing Cranes Imports offers a variety of loose teas, speciality coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. Lunch features veggie wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups and more. Our dressings, spreads, salsa, hummus and baked goods are all made in house with love! Enjoy a refreshing Violet Mocha or Mango & Basil smoothie with your delicious homemade lunch. SOLCAFE999@GMAIL .COM. $, V, TO, CAT. Coffee Garden 254 S. Main, inside Sam Weller’s Books and 900 E. 900 S. 355-4425. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a-12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. $, V, P, TO, Wifi.

Cafe SuperNatural Organic, locally grown, gluten-free, fresh cooked to order, raw foods, fresh juices and smothies, superfood shakes, great food to go or dine-in. Discounts for Prana Yoga participants. Located in Prana Yoga. Free convenient parking

in Trolley Square’s 600 East parking garage. Mon-Sat 10a-9p: Sun 10-3p. $-$$, V, P, TO, CAT, Wifi.

Kathmandu 212 S. 700 E. Downtown SLC 801-355-0454, and 3142 S. Highland Dr. 801-466-3504. The Kathmandu makes it easy to enjoy the delicacies of India and Nepal without actually having to visit these exotic places. Whether you are having a party or just a night out, Kathmandu is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a special meal with your friends and family. M-Sat 11:30a-2:30; 5p-10, Sun Noon 9 p.

INFO@THEKATHMANDU.NET. $, V, TO, CAT. Nostalgia 248 E. 100 S. 532-3225. Salt Lake’s best-damn coffee, sandwiches, salads, soups and fresh pastries. A great destination for casual business meetings or a relaxed environment to hang out with friends. Local artists also find a home to sell their work in a hip environment. Outdoor seating available. Beer from local breweries. Free wireless Internet available. WWW.NOSTALGIACOFFEE.COM. $, V, B, TO, P, CAT, Wifi.

Omar’s Rawtopia 2148 S.Highland Dr. 486-0332. Raw, organic, vegan & scrumptious. From Chocolate Goji Berry smoothies to Vegan Hummus Pizza, every dish is made with highest quality ingredients and prepared with love. Nutrient dense and delectable are Rawtopia’s theme words. We are an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-

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Performance U of U dance concert The University of Utah Department of modern dance presents the senior concert, “On Your Mark”—the culmination of a fouryear intensive degree program focusing on creating dancers and artists and preparing them for the professional world. Each week-

end will feature the choreography of seven and eight (respectively) of the 15 graduating seniors. Both concerts will also feature New York choreographer Kendra Portier’s most recent work, created specifically for the graduating class.

ness and directness of the Punk-era and set to an original score by Rhys Chatham.

In “Duet,” Bill T. Jones explores pure movement and abstraction and draws on the tension between and the elegance inherent in two people moving together in perfect unison.

“On Your Mark” modern dance senior concert, Apr. 5 & 12, 5:30p; Apr. 6-7 & 13-14, 7:30p. $10.

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Iridescence, Apr. 26-28, 7:30p. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. $30.

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Iridescence This collection of performances features the choreography of Bill T. Jones, Keith Johnson, Charlotte Boye-Christensen and Tony Award winner Karole Armitage.

“Secret Dark World” (premiere), by former Ririe-Woodbury dancer Keith Johnson, is a timely and thought-provoking work inspired by the secret languages of children, the brutality of childhood/adolescence and how these formative experiences shape our lives.

“West” (premiere), by Charlotte BoyeChristensen explores the sociopolitical and physical landscape of a land marked by contrasts, tension, freedom and violence—a place of endless vistas, spaces untouched by civilization and a land of refuge for the free-spirited.

“It’s Gonna Get Loud,” by Karole Armitage (coined the “punk-ballerina” by Vanity Fair), draws inspiration from the raw-

Get Out and Garden!

Spring is finally here! It’s time to get that garden in gear. Everything in the garden relies on great soil, so plan to attend Know Your Soil on Apr. 14, 10a-12p ($10) at Wasatch Community Gardens (location TBA). WSG can also help you keep that soil moist with Rainwater Harvesting, Apr. 21, 2p ($10, $25 to take home a rain barrel of your own).

The U of U’s Lifelong Learning program has some great gardening classes this month, too: Native Plant Propagation, Apr. 14, 10a-1p ($55) and Waterwise Landscaping, Apr. 17, 6:30-8:30p ($72) are at Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, while Maximize Your Garden Production, Apr. 23, 6:30-8:30p ($52) is at the Education Annex (1901 E. South Campus Dr). The Conservation Garden Park (8215 S 1300 W) in West Jordan has some useful classes this month, too: Great Utah Native Plants for Your Landscape, Apr. 7, 10-11:30a; Vegetable Gardening Basics, Apr. 12, 6:30-8p; How to Grow Plants in Containers, Apr. 28, 10-11:30a. Their classes are free, but registration is required.

If you’re looking for inspiration, don’t miss Red Butte Garden’s Orchid Show, Apr. 7-8, 9a-7:30p (5p on Apr. 7)—bring your mom, or their Spring Bulb Show and Competition, Apr. 21-22, 9a-7:30p.

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Underground Gypsy Cabaret The Underground Gypsy Cabaret features local and touring underground musicians and an assortment of dance, cabaret, burlesque and cirque performers creating a one-of-a-kind entertainment adventure.

Throughout the night, the audience will experience a variety of exciting and exotic performers that can include belly dancers, contortionists, aerial and trapeze artists,

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams In this documentary, legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog takes us through the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, which contains artwork dating back 30,000 years. Following the film, archaeologist Dr. Laurel Casjens will explore the topic of Utah’s hauntingly beautiful rock art and how it helps connect us to the people who lived here long ago.

Science Movie Night: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Apr. 10, 6:30-9p. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. NMHU.EDU

burlesque, magic and illusion, juggling, fire dancing, sword swallowing and more—all presented with live original music! It is an evening of unbridled passions, pulsating rhythms and undulating melodies spun together with the elemental energies of Gypsy magic.

Underground Gypsy Cabaret, Apr. 13, 9p-1a.

Bar Deluxe, 666 S State St. 21+, $7.

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Film CIRCUS film series Don’t miss the first of this three-part PBS documentary series, CIRCUS, which follows the Big Apple Circus on an unforgettable journey from the big top to the back lot— where nail-biting drama unfolds.

CIRCUS film series, Apr. 18, 6p. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive. Free. UMFA.UTAH.ECU

The City Dark Taking cues from New York City’s unnaturally bright nighttime sky, this film explores the science of darkness and investigates the effects of light pollution on human health, global security and the natural world.

The City Dark, Apr. 24, 7p. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

Festivals & Fundraisers Holi Fest Redux Three weeks after the mammoth Color Fest in Spanish Fork (which drew thousands), the Salt Lake Krishna temple, located on four acres of land, will host its own follow up version of Holi. For those who missed Spanish Fork because the crowd was too big (or who went to the Spanish Fork but can’t get enough of ‘Holi Mayhem’), check out this inaugural. Live music, bonfires, food, gifts and more. Traffic may be

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Holi Festival of Colors, Apr. 14, 12-6p.

Salt Lake Krishna Temple, 965 E 3370 S. $2.

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Lone Peak Celebration: Save Our Canyons turns 40 SOCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10th Annual Lone Peak Celebration will feature Italian fare by Cannellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, drinks by Squatters, a special birthday dessert by Carlucciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and live music throughout the evening by the Cy Schmidt Band and The Folka Dots. The festival/fundraiser will also include a live and a silent auction to help raise money for the organization. Guests can look forward to bidding on a variety of products donated by local businesses, as well as gear and gift certificates from many big name outdoor retailers and others.

Lone Peak Celebration, Apr. 21, 6-10p. Salt Lake Hardware Building, 105 N 400 W. $30 ($40 after Apr. 10). SAVEOURCANYONS.ORG/LONEPEAK

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Spring Used Book Sale Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time again for the Friends of The City Library used book sale. Peruse thousands of books at great pricesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and all of the proceeds support the city library system.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keynote speaker, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, will discuss the neurobiology of social emotions such as compassion, admiration, inspiration and gratitudeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; including their deep visceral roots in the feeling and regulation of the body and consciousness. See website for full schedule and to register.

Mountain West Arts Conference, May 3, 7a-4p.

Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W 3100 S. $95/$65 student.

Talks & Body & Spirit Bikram Choudhury in Utah Like hot yoga? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this chance to hear the inspirational founder of Bikram Yoga speaking in Salt Lake for the first time.

Born in Calcutta, India in 1946, Bikram Choudhury began to learn hatha yoga poses at the age of four. He won the National India Yoga Championship at age 13 and retained the title for three years. At 17, he sustained a knee injury during a weight lifting accident â&#x20AC;&#x201D;he was crippled, and many doctors told him he would never walk properly again.

Bikram went back to school and worked on his yoga techniques again, and experienced a total recovery of function in his knee after six months of diligent practice.

He became a yoga master and began to promote the curative techniques of yoga therapy all around the world. He most famously developed the form of hot yoga to which he lent his name: Bikram yoga is practiced in a room preheated to 105F and kept at 50% humidity. The aim is to increase circulation to all the organs of the body.

Bikram in Utah, Apr. 14, lecture 5p, book signing 8p. JeannĂŠ Wagner Theatre, 138 W 300 S. $52. BIKRAMYOGASANDY.COM, ARTTIX.ORG

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Spring Cleaning Triple R: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Reduce waste, recycle what you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need, reuse what others donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need, share your abundance with the community. Bring what you have, take what you need. No money is exchanged. What is left after will be donated to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and others in need.

Spring Cleaning Triple R, Apr. 14, 10a-2p.

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Neurobiology & the arts The Mountain West Arts Conference is a day of celebrating the arts with networking, workshops, performances, professional development, art experiences and more.

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Psychic Fairs Crone’s Hollow’s Psychic Faire is a day of oracles and psychic readings. Join the gypsies and seers for tarot, tasseomancy (tea leaf reading), psychic readings and more.

After the fair, retire to Roy’s Rooms for a night of music featuring Ariana Saraha and Wounded Healer.

Also, don’t forget the psychic fairs held every third Sunday at Dancing Cranes Imports. Appointments are available a week before each fair.

Golden Braid is also having a psychic fair this month, with special guest George Woods. The grandson of Romanian gypsies and Argentinean immigrants, Woods trained at the American Institute of Hypnotherapy in Santa Ana, California.

Crone’s Hollow Psychic Faire, Apr. 14, 12-10p. 2470 Main St. $15.

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Buddhism & T’ai Chi at Red Lotus Buddhism for the mind and spirit, T’ai Chi for the body!

Eight-week Intro to Tibetan Buddhism starts Apr. 10, 6:308p; Eight-week Beginning Buddhist Practice starts Apr. 12, 6:30-8p. Free demo T’ai Chi class on May 4, 7-8p; Free Fundamentals of Wing Chun Kung-Fu demo on May 5, 910:15a.

Red Lotus / Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa, 740 S 300 W. URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG, REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM

Lectures Sexual Rights, Human Rights: The Case of Latin America Mario Pecheny, Ph D in Political Science from the University of Paris, will speak on Latin American issues of sexual and human rights. Pecheny is a professor of political science and sociology of health at the University of Buenos Aires. He is also an associate researcher in sociology and demography at the National Council of Science and Technology and the Institute Gino Germani, Argentina.

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Turmoil in the Middle East Senator George J. Mitchell, former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, will discuss the turbulent events in the Middle East, including Iran’s nuclear aspirations, civil violence in Syria, the “Arab Spring” and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also discusses how these events affect American policies, interests and security.

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Who’s culture? Our culture!

Reclaiming art, dance and music

BY AMY BRUNVAND

being snubbed by the committee that is planning the opening and closing ceremonies; Neo-pagans are re-inventing Morris dance with Goth costumes that look more Sacre du Printemps than Mary Poppins; and on YouTube there are videos of an anarchist group called the “Morris Liberation Front” dancing to a mandolin version of “I Fought the Law and the Law Won.” After a confrontation with a policeman one of the dancers proclaims, “We don’t have permission to dance! But we are going to dance anyway!

Collaboration and sharing is in our blood! It’s not for sale! Whose culture? Our culture!”

I understand Rob Hopkins’ concern—we don’t want to conflate transition to a lower energy future with rose-colored nostalgia about the past. But surely Morris dancing has persisted through the centuries for a reason, and the dancers themselves seem to understand pretty well what it’s all about. As Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters Magazine and the visionary behind Occupy Wall Street wrote in Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America™ (William Morrow), “American culture is no longer created by the people. Our stories once passed from one generation to the next by parents, neighbors and teachers, are now told by distant corporations with something to sell as well as to tell.” The spectacles that surround the production of culture have become the culture.

We can change that. In Salt Lake City, Tim DeChristopher’s support group, Peaceful Uprising, has launched a project called Communities of Resilient Resistance, distilling what they’ve learned through three years of organizing and activism. From their website (CORR.PEACEFULUPRISING.ORG): Start learning songs and teach them to your Beloved Community; Challenge yourself and your community by planning a Flash Mob, Mic-Check or Street Theater performance; Concentrate on a message or event that your community has coming up and get busy making art!

And one I’d like to add: Dance together. Collaboration is in our blood. It can be something we invent for ourselves. It could be the Elm Dance. It just might even be Morris dancing. u

Morris dancers are planning flash mobs for the 2012 London Olympics after being snubbed by the committee that is planning the opening and closing ceremonies. few months ago I went to an extraordinary workshop titled “Climate Change: Moving from Despair to Empowerment” that was based on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects. Through principles of systems thinking, deep ecology and engaged Buddhism, Macy addresses the fatigue and emotional numbness that sets in from coping with non-stop global crisis. Her purpose is to enable people “to reframe their pain for the world as evidence for their interconnectedness in the web of life, and hence of their power to take part in its healing.” The all-day workshop concluded with the Elm Dance, a spiraling folk dance that was created by people living in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster which serves, as Macy puts it, to “strengthen our cultural immune system.”

Macy writes, “It is crucial to know this: We can meet our needs without destroying our life-support system.” The hopeful alternative to the

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collapse of industrial society is known by many names such as sustainability, resiliency, re-skilling or transition. The Bible of the transition movement is The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience (Chelsea Green) by Rob Hopkins. “There is no reason why a lower-energy, more resilient future needs to have a lower quality of life than the present,” he writes.

“Indeed, a future with a revitalized local economy would have many advantages over the present, including a happier and less stressed population, an improved environment and increased stability.”

I was reading along, nodding my head in agreement when my mood was spoiled by this: “We need not all re-learn Morris dancing, deprive women of the vote, or re-embrace feudalism. We can adapt our culture to a more local context with creativity and the results will be beyond our current imaginings.”

What’s wrong with Morris dancing, I want to know?

The jab at Morris dancing was probably just reflexive on the part of Mr. Hopkins, who is British. Morris dancing is an English custom that is a remnant of pre-Christian seasonal pagan rites. (I wanted to learn more but The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 was checked out of the library. Who can there possibly be in Salt Lake City besides me who wants to read an academic study of Morris dancing?) In any case, British people generally consider Morris dancing twee and old-fashioned because, well, Morris dancers wear silly costumes decorated with bells, flowers and ribbons and they skip around in circles playing games with sticks.

But hell hath no fury like a Morris dancer scorned. In 1993 irate Morris dancers protested outside of the British Parliament against a proposal to replace their sacred May Day holiday with a different holiday in October (the dancers won); Morris dancers are planning flash mobs for the 2012 London Olympics after

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Cars not so cool anymore

done with that wasted space? A group in New York City, aptly named 596 Acres, mapped out all city-owned vacant lots in Brooklyn and found that the total land added up to: 596 acres. They then figured

According to an article in the New York Times last month, cars are declining as a symbol of status, freedom and cool in youth culture.

In 1998 (the year I graduated high school), about 65% of people ages 16 to 19 had driver’s licenses. That number dropped to 46.3% just 10 years later, according to the Federal Highway Administration.

More telling, research from the Gartner firm claims 46% of drivers aged 18 to 24 would rather have Internet access than own a car. Kids just don’t care that much about cars anymore. “They think of a car as a giant bummer—think about your dashboard. It’s filled with nothing but bad news,” says Ross Martin, the executive director of MTV Scratch— who GM has hired to try to figure out how to make kids think Chevys are cool again. I can’t help but hope he fails miserably.

Reclaiming the land Ever see vacant lots—lots that have been vacant and blighted for years, if not decades—and wonder: Couldn’t something productive be

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out how to jump through the bureaucratic hoops of tracking down agencies and individuals responsible for decisions about city-owned property—and managed to unlock three lots that have been blighted for more than a two decades. Along with other volunteers in the community, those lots are now being reborn as community gardens. 569 Acres is now looking to expand into NY’s four other boroughs—and hooking up with people to expand

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IKEA alternative When you buy furniture, especially from places such as IKEA or WalMart, you’re buying a product made of wood grown in one country (or

continent), cut and fashioned on another and shipped to a third. Not exactly the model of sustainability.

So what’s the alternative if you need a place to stack your books but don’t have much dough? Build it yourself!

Design firm Filson and Rohrbacher has created a set of plans for some really interesting and simple-to-build furniture—and are giving them away free (via Creative Commons License) on their website. Take the plans and your material—plywood, pine, aluminum or whatever else you’ve got lying around—to any machine shop with a CNC (computer numerical control) machine (there are several in Salt Lake). Then assemble the pieces yourself.

Finding a shop to machine the pieces isn’t difficult—just Google it—but if you’re really the DIY type, check out Make SLC. They’re helpful folks, and they have a CNC machine for use by members.

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ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Clark’s Green Auto Garage 801.485-2858. 506 E. 1700 So. Clark’s auto is a local family-owned full service automotive repair facility. We are committed to doing our part to minimize the environmental impact of automotive service and repair, and to incorporating sustainability principles throughout our operation. SLC-certified E2 business. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CLARKSAUTO Schneider Auto Karosserie 801.484.9400. Fax 801-484-6623. Utah’s first green body shop. 27 years of making customers happy! We are a friendly, full-service collision repair shop in Salt Lake City. Your satisfaction is our goal. We’ll work with your insurance company to ensure proper repairs and give you a lifetime warranty. WWW.SCHNEIDERAUTO.NET DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION E. Cook Design Build Services 12/11 801-879-3293, ERIC@ECOOKDBS.COM. Offering a holistic approach to conceptualization, design, and construction. Integrating lifestyle, budget, and environmental sensibility. Experienced in low-impact residential and commercial design; remote, off-grid, grid-tied, and urban construction; cabinetry and furniture; and green, found, and salvaged materials. Intent upon communication, thorough process, and client satisfaction.

Residential Design FB Ann Larson 801-322-5122.

Gardening The Reinvented Landscape 6/12 801-664-8662. PLANT, TRIM, MULCH, TIDY. Has your yard been the same for so long it’s become boring? Your yard should be your sanctuary! Let me help you make it so! Call for rates and schedule. KINGLET102@MSN.COM GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors 6/12 801-467-6636. 1900 S. 300 W., SLC We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natu-

ral fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing hardwood. Free in home estimates. Please visit our showroom. WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET, UNDERFOOTFLOORS@AOL.COM. GREEN SERVICES Five-Step Carpet Care. FB 801.656.5259, PC: 435.640.2483.

WWW.5STEPCARPETCAREUTAH.COM HOUSING Wasatch Commons Cohousing 3/13 Vicky 801-908-0388. 1411 S. Utah St. (1605 W.) An environmentally sensitive community promoting neighborliness, consensus & diversity. Balancing privacy needs with community living. Homes now available for rent or sale.

Roommates wanted. Tours 4th Wed at 5p and 2nd Sat. at 1p.m. WWW.COHOUSING.ORG, WWW.ECON.UTAH.EDU/COHO

HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 6/12 R. Dean Woolstenhulme, L.Ac 177 E 900 S Ste 101D, 801-521-3337. Acupuncture you can afford. Quality acupuncture on low sliding scale rates ($15-$40) makes health care affordable and effective. Relax in comfy reclining chairs in a healing community setting.

Acupuncture is good for allergies, back pain and more. Downtown SLC. WWW.SLCQI.COM Stevens Acupuncture 7/12 Keith Stevens L.Ac., 1174 E. 2760 S, Ste. 16.

801.467-2277, 209.617-7379 (cell). Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Boardcertified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Cathy Pollock, M.AmSAT 3/12 801-230-7661. Certified Alexander Technique teacher with 17 years experience. Beyond

good posture and body mechanics! Develop awareness. Let go of habitual tensions. Calm your nervous system. Embody dynamic ways of moving and performing. Learn to be easily upright and open. Breathe better, feel better, look better. Gain confidence and poise.

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Vedic Harmony 3/13 942-5876. Georgia Clark, certified Deepak Chopra Center educator. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being. Primordial sound meditation, creating health workshops, Ayurvedic wellness counseling, Ayurvedic oils, teas and books, Jyotish (vedic astrology). Georgia has trained in the US and India. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET Shiva Centre. 2065 E. 21st So. 801.485.5933.

WWW.SHIVACENTRESLC.COM. CHIROPRACTIC Great Basin Chiropractic, DC. 801-363-8899.

223 S. 700 East. GREATBASINCHIROPRACTIC.COM FB Integrated Chiropractic. 801-262-8400. 716 E. 4500 So., Ste. N250. MYINTEGRATEDHEALTH.COM FB COLON HYDROTHERAPY Rebecca Diehl, Certified Colon Hydrotherapist & Holistic Health Practitioner. 801-518-5073, 1104 E Ashton Ave. Ste. 108, REBECCA@FOURELEMENTSWELLNESS.COM. Balancing the body, mind, spirit and nature through multiple healing modalities. Optimize your health with colonics, detoxification, nutritional guidance, energetic healing, and inspiriation. I use state of the art colonic equipment and ancient healing methods… my approach is holistic, sensitive, loving, supportive, and professional. 12/11 CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY/COUNSELING Sheryl Seliger, LCSW 6/12 801-556-8760. 1446 S. 900 E., Email: SELIGERS@GMAIL.COM Powerful healing through dialogue & gentle-touch energy work. Adults: Deep relaxation, stress reduction & spiritual renewal, chronic pain & illness, head & spinal injuries, anxiety, PTSD, relationship skills, life strategies. Infants and children: colic, feeding & sleep issues, bonding, birth trauma. Birth preparation & prenatal CST.

FELDENKRAIS Carol Lessinger, GCFP 8/12 805-907-6875. Private sessions and classes to regain self confidence to recover after injury, alleviate pain, improve posture and balance, move skillfully with ease. Offers excellent help for people with MS and stroke, as well as skilled athletes, musicians, actors, and you too.

Over 35 years experience. CAROLLESSINGER.COM

Erin Geesaman Rabke Somatic Educator.

801-898-0478. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM FB Open Hand Bodywork. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 150 S. 600 E., #3B. 801.694.4086 WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM. FB Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. Feldenkrais®, Structural Integration and massage. Offering a unique blend of the 10 sessions with Awareness Through Movement® lessons. Discover the potential for learning and improvement at any age, as you come to inhabit your body with ease, vitality and integrity.

WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM HERBAL HEALING Millcreek Herbs, LLC 07/12 801-466-1632. Merry Lycett Harrison, RH (AHG), trained clinical herbalist, teacher, author and creator of Thrive Tonic Liquid Herbal Extract. Classes in medicinal and culinary herbs, herb gardening, ethnobotany, consultations, custom formulation, and wellness fair coordinator, professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. WWW.MILLCREEKHERBS.COM, WWW.THRIVETONIC.COM MASSAGE Healing Mountain Massage School FB 801-355-6300. 363 S. 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East). HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM

Conscious Journey FB 801-864-4545. CONSCIOUSJOURNEY.NET MD PHYSICIANS Web of Life Wellness Center FB Todd Mangum, MD. 801-531-8340. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions including chronic fatigue, HIV infection,

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Dr. Cameron is a family practitioner. He takes care of you. He cares. WWW.DRTODDCAMERON.COM

Eastside Natural Health Clinic 9/12 Uli Knorr, ND 801.474.3684; 2188 S. Highland Drive #207. Dr. Knorr uses a multi-dimensional approach to healing. He can help optimize your health to live more vibrantly and support your natural healing ability. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation; gastrointestinal disorders and allergies. Detoxification, food allergy testing and comprehensive hormonal testing available. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM Full Circle Care; Leslie Peterson, ND 1/13 801.746.3555. 150 S. 600 E. #6B.Integrative and naturopathic medical clinic offering a unique approach to your health care needs.

Specializing in thyroid, adrenal and hormonal imbalances; food allergies and gluten testing; digestive health; nutritional IV therapy. Men, women and children welcome!

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Inner Light Center A spiritual, Metaphysical, Mystical Community Sunday Celebration 10:00 a.m.

Empower your week by joining an open, heart-based Spiritual community to explore metaphysical teachings and invite personal, mystical experiences of your own Inner Light.

Spiritual Practices Metaphysics World Spiritual Traditions Prayer/Prayer Counseling Sacred Channeling Yoga Meditation Numerology . . . and more.

Coming - May 19 “Wellness Fair” 4408 South 500 East Salt Lake City, UT 801.268.1137 www.innerlightcenter.net

PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 9/12 801-557-6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 3098 S Highland Dr. Ste. 371. (Also Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction.

This unique form of therapy identifies sources of pain and assists the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider. WWW.PRECISIONPHYSICALTHERAPYUT.COM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 6/12 1-800-230-PLAN, 801-532-1586, or PPAU.ORG. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more.

ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Paul Wirth, Certified Rolfer™, LMT 1/13 801-638-0021. 3194 S. 1100 E. Move with ease, not pain. Working with the structural limitations in your body to help you feel stronger and more relaxed. MOSAICBODYWORK.COM Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM VISION CARE Wasatch Vision Clinic FB 801-328-2020. 849 E. 400 S. in Salt Lake across from the 9th East TRAX stop. Comprehensive eye care, eye disease, LASIK, contacts and glasses since 1984. We accept most insurance.

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MISCELLANEOUS LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION Alliance Francaise of Salt Lake City 7/12 801-501-7514. P.O. Box 26203, SLC UT 84126 International cultural organization conducts French language classes. Beginners through advanced levels taught by experienced native teachers. Three semesters, 10 sessions each.

Also offers Children's classes, Beginner and Intermediate levels. Monthly social gatherings.

In addition, we sponsor French related concerts and lectures. WWW.AFSLC.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law. 801.631.7811, ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM. MEDIA Catalyst. 801-363-1505. 140 McClelland, SLC. CONTACT@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

KRCL. 90.9 FM, KRCL.ORG KUER. 90.1 FM, KUER.ORG MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/12 801-268-4789, WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments.

Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM

Discover the innate body wisdom you possess.

Ecstatic Dance is an authentic, spontaneous, expressive, meditative movement practice.

Third Saturdays, 7-9p, $10, Prana yoga at Trolley Sq. and Columbus Community Center.

WWW.ECSTATICDANCESLC.BLOGSPOT.COM RDT Community School. 801-534-1000. 138 W. Broadway. FB MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/12 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 801-355-6375.

Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and T’ai Chi Chih (qi gong exercises). Children’s classes in Wing Chun KungFu. Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell 801-355-2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified.

Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana.

Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School FB 801-355-6300. 363 S. South 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 E.). Morning, evening, & weekend programs. Graduate in as little as 7 months.

8 students in a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice in a live day spa. ABHES accredited. Financial aid: loans/grants available to those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG

Songlines of the body ~ Mapping your way home 7/12 801-328-4456. Roz Newmark, 865 E. 500 So. Skillful yoga & joyful movement. Taught with an open hand and heart. Guided by a body seasoned with 30 years of experience as a professional dancer and dedicated yogi. Come join a class or call for more information. Rest in the clear voice of your body's wisdom. Tues. 4:30-6 p. (gentle yoga), Wed, 7:30-9a.

SPACE AVAILABLE For workshops, classes, ongoing groups 801-596-0147 Ext. 41, 5801 S Fashion Blvd, Ste. 250, Murray, UT. Center for Transpersonal Therapy. TWO large plush spaces. Bright & comfortable atmosphere, available for workshops, classes, or ongoing groups. Pillows, yoga chairs, & regular chairs provided, kitchenette area. Available for hourly, full day or weekend use. Two rooms available. 8/12

YOGA STUDIOS Avenues Yoga 1/13 68 K Street, SLC. 801-872-YOGA (9642).

Avenues Yoga is a friendly, down-to-earth place where all are welcome. We offer classes for all body types and ability levels, from Yoga Nidra and Restorative, to Power, Flow, and Core. Free Intro to Yoga every Saturday at 11:45am.

Introductory Special $39 one month unlimited. www.avenuesyoga.com

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Adopt-a-Native-Elder 6/12 801-474-0535. Adopt-A-Native-Elder is seeking office/warehouse volunteers in Salt Lake City every Tuesday and Friday 10 am-noon. Come and join a wonderful group of people for a fascinating and gratifying experience. We also need volunteers with trucks and SUVs, donating their expenses, to transport supplies for Spring and Fall Food Runs, Navajo reservation community events in southeast UT and northeast AZ. Contact Joyce or MAIL@ANELDER.ORG, WWW.ANELDER.ORG

Bikram Yoga—Sandy 12/12 801.501.YOGA [9642]. 9343 S 1300 E. Localsonly Intro: $39 for 30 days unlimited yoga. Our South Valley sanctuary, nestled below Little and Big Cottonwood canyons, provides a warm and inviting environment to discover and/or deepen your yoga practice. All levels are welcome. All teachers are certified. 38 classes, 7 days a week. See website for schedule and special classes. bikramyogasandyWWW.BIKRAMYOGASANDY.COM

MOVEMENT & SPORT DANCE Ecstatic Dance SLC 2531 S 400 E. Dance the way your body wants to, without choreography or judgment!

Centered City Yoga 9/12 801-521-YOGA (9642). 918 E. 900 S. Centered City Yoga is often likened to that famous TV “hangout” where everybody knows your name, sans Norm (and the beer, of course). We offer more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hourteacher trainings, and monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM Shiva Centre. 2065 E. 21st So. 801.485.5933.

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Inspired fun and opening in one of the most amazing studios in the country. Classes, Privates, and Therapeutics with certified and inspired Anusara instructors. Drop-ins welcome. 1167 Woodside Ave., P.O Box 681237, Park City, UT 84068. WWW.PARKCITYYOGA.COM Zen Living Yoga. 2021 Windsor St. Ste. A, 801.467.6909, ZENLIVINGYOGA.COM

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Steven J. Chen, Ph.D., Lic. Psychologist 801-718-1609. 136 s. Main, Ste. 409 (Kearns Bldg). Healing techniques for depression, anxiety and relationship issues. Treatment of trau-

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Sanctuary for Healing & Integration (SHIN) 801-268-0333. 860 E. 4500 So., Ste. 302, SLC. Mainstream psychiatry and psychotherapy with complementary and alternative healing (Buddhist psychology, Naikan, Morita, mindfulness training, energy healing, bodywork, shamanic and karmic healing, herbal and nutritional supplementation). Children, adolescents, adults, couples and families are welcome. Training workshops for professionals available. WWW.SHININTEGRATION.COM 12/11

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Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 8/12 801-631-8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy, meditation and soul work with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of bipolar disorders. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK.COM

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Jan Magdalen, LCSW 1/12 801-582-2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness.

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YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH

April 2012

Breathe like a starfish

extend your arms out behind you with your palms facing your back.

Another option for opening your chest and shoulders is to place your palms together behind your back (as in the photo).

by Charlotte Bell Now rock your weight back into your heels so that your sit bones your bones from your hips to your are further back than your heels. outer feet to help you root the feet With your hands on blocks or on more evenly. the floor, slide your hands (and Raise your arms up to a “Y” posiblocks) forward so that your arms tion (think “YMCA”—the song). are outstretched and your torso Relax your abdomen and breathe and arms feel long and extended. deeply into it. Imagine sending Most of the weight should be on your inhalation from your center your feet, especially your heels, so up and down the spine to the head that if you lift your hands off the and tailbone. floor, you don’t feel as if you’re When you going to fall on your face. Plant feel the your feet deeply into your mat and conevery few breaths, if your body is necwilling, creep your hands forward, millimeter by millimeter, simultaneously stretching your sit bones back. Stay five or 10 deep breaths, sending the breath out into all your limbs. Walk your hands back toward you and allow your spine to hang freely, feet firmly photo by Phillip Bimstein rooted and breathing into your belly.

Prasarita Padottanasana ur limbs include not only our arms and legs, but also the tailbone and the head. Way back at a time few of us remember, all our nutrients came to us through our navels and then radiated out to all our limbs.

Through the umbilical cord, we took in nourishment and oxygen that was then distributed to the outlying areas of our bodies. For our first six months or so outside the womb, our bodies imitated this starfish-like breathing pattern, termed navel radiation. Navel radiation helped us unfurl our limbs so that we could begin to move about the world.

Navel radiation is a pattern that can help us open freely into yoga poses even as adults. By freeing the belly for abdominalbased breathing, we can then intentionally extend the breath energy out into all our limbs.

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Freeing the belly is key. Your torso—chest and abdomen—is the intersection between the arms, legs, head and tailbone. When we chronically suck in our bellies, that intersection becomes blocked, inhibiting the flow of energy among the limbs. This month’s pose, like all standing poses, expresses navel radiation simply through its shape, making it easy to explore this vital breathing pattern.

Begin by standing on a nonskid mat with your feet hip width apart.

Jump or step your feet out to a wide stance, about a leg-length apart. If you extend your arms straight out from your shoulders, your feet should be directly below your hands. Plant your feet into the ground, feeling the footprint you are making on your mat. Are the inner and outer heels and balls of your feet planted evenly? If not, chances are you may feel the weight sagging into your inner feet.

Allow the muscles and skin of your outer legs to stream down along

tion between head and tailbone, begin to explore sending the inhalation out into your limbs, all the way to the fingers and toes. Allow your body to settle on each exhalation. Take five to 10 breaths.

Release your arms and place your hands on your hips. Bending from the pelvis, let your torso come forward as far as it will go without losing contact with deep breathing. Place your hands on the floor if they will reach, on yoga blocks, or on the seat of a chair.

Again, explore navel radiation first from head to tailbone, then moving the breath out into all the limbs. Stay for five or 10 deep breaths. If you can’t feel the breath radiating outward, you are probably pushing too far.

If you want to stretch your shoulders and chest, you can clasp your fingers behind your back and

Place your hands on your hips and lift back up to an upright position. Place your palms together in front of your heart, bend your knees slightly and allow the weight of your pelvis to release into your legs. Relax your abdomen and breathe deeply, resting.

Prasarita Padottanasana is one of yoga’s most balanced standing poses. Its symmetrical shape keeps your pelvis, sacroiliac joint and spine neutral and quiet, while the active rooting of your feet and legs allows your upper body to be soft and receptive. I like to settle into Prasarita in between standing poses to allow my body to ground and integrate. Use it with navel radiation to help you unfurl your own limbs after a good night’s sleep or a long day at the computer. u Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher, author and musician who lives in Salt Lake City. Visit her at WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM.

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The antidote is to allow allow allow.

(Even if you have to begin by allowing yourself to judge!)

2. We worry. We humans are gifted storytellers, and when we imagine a negative future, that vibration keeps us from manifesting what we want most. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a habit of telling the negative story, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to turn over a new leaf.

Hang out with Pollyanna. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best in the business for seeing things in a positive light, and she will rub off on you.

3. We care too much what others think. If our own inner guidance isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t running the show, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bound to run into a kink or two. Working to gain the approval of others is a surefire way to sabotage your own desires and passions.

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When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling less than fab, entertain more general thoughts like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been through worse than this;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last forever;â&#x20AC;? etc. Get out the magnifying glass when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a good mood only.

5. We take it too seriously. Bronnie Ware, a nurse who worked in palliative care, recorded dying peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ephiphanies. She found these common themes: 1. I wish Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2. I wish I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worked so hard.

3. I wish Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Antidote: Live your life with a strong, buoyant heart! u Jeannette Maw is a Law of Attraction coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching in Salt Lake City.

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Rarely is an explosive emotional reaction about the person to whom it seems directed. our perception to focus on other things.

It takes lots of energy to hold down past emotional traumas, and this month we need all our energy for conscious, constructive forward movement.

Sometimes releasing emotion looks like a volcano erupting. When energy has been held back and denied expression, it can build up to explosive strength. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to be responsible for what you express and to whom.

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APRIL 1 The Sun rises at 6:12 a.m. today and sets at 6:53 p.m. This month’s average maximum temp along the Wasatch Front is 61°; the average minimum 37°. It typically snows 4.9 in. and rains 2.1 in.

APRIL 2 Look for Venus in the Pleiades tonight and tomorrow. The Pleiades, located in the constellation Taurus, is one of the nearest star clusters to Earth. Visible to the naked eye, it’s been known to humans since at least 1600 BC, when it was depicted on the Nebra sky disc.

APRIL 3 Time to start uncovering strawberry beds. Don’t fertilize, though; wait until blossoms appear, otherwise you’ll get many leaves and few berries.

APRIL 4 Solar activity runs in 11-year cycles and this is a peak year. An especially strong solar flare could briefly distort Earth’s magnetic field, creating spectacular auroras, damaging orbiting spacecraft and possibly even burning out portions of the electrical grid.

APRIL 5 Time to plant blackberries, raspberries, strawberries and fruit trees.

Planting holes should be twice the width of the root mass, and no deeper.

APRIL 6 FULL PINK MOON. This month’s full moon name comes from the lovely wild ground phlox that blooms in early spring.

Phlox is tough to grow from seed, but easy from cuttings and seedlings, and spring is the time to plant it.

APRIL 7 This would be a great day to go to Golden Spike National Historic Site to look for male sage grouse gathering on their leks, or strutting grounds, to perform their funky, loud mating dances.

APRIL 8 The Easter bunny is a remnant of the pagan festival of Eostre, the celebration of a Germanic goddess whose totem was a hare. The first mention of an Easter-like holiday was in 2400 BCE, when Zoroastrians in the Babylonian city of Ur held a festival on the first full moon following the spring equinox—which is still how the date of Easter is determined.

APRIL 9 Earth rotates on its axis at nearly 1,000 mph (faster near the equator than the poles), and rotates around the Sun at around 660 mph. We can’t feel either

webworms, it emits a chemical that tells nearby willows to pump extra tannin into their leaves, making them difficult for pests to digest.

APRIL 23 House flies are uncommonly fond of cooked cabbage.

APRIL 14 If you haven’t already: Plant arugula, asparagus, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cilantro, dill, kohlrabi, lettuce, parsnips, potatoes, peas, radishes, spinach, Swiss chard and turnips.

APRIL 25 Starlings are pros at food gathering, because, unlike most birds, they use varied methods include:

APRIL 15 If it’s clear tonight, grab a telescope or binoculars.

Saturn is at its closest approach to Earth, and its rings are the most visible they’ve been since 2008.

APRIL 16 The easiest way to simplify a labor-intensive yard is to replace annual beds and/or lawns with native plants and shrubs.

APRIL 17 Golden currant, Utah serviceberry, littleleaf mockorange and creeping Oregon grape are all native plants that require little water or maintenance.

APRIL 18 Today is the average last snow day.

APRIL 19 Flying insects may someday be used to locate survivors of earthquakes and other disasters. Scientists are experimenting with releasing flying beetles—

Knocking on wood for good luck originated with the Druids, who rapped on trees to summon the protective spirits within. because we have no organ to sense absolute speed; we can only tell how fast we’re going relative to something else.

equipped with tiny cameras and microphones powered by wing movement—into areas deemed too dangerous for human rescue teams.

APRIL 20 Amazing macro photos of bugs: thomasshahan.com

APRIL 10 Cool gardening trend: APRIL 21 NEW MOON. Organic compost is Vertical gardens. You can grow the only soil amendment that you can’t vegetables or ornamentals overdo, and really the only one you indoors or out in modular wallneed. hugging planters like those serviceberry from APRIL 22 EARTH DAY This WWW.WOOLLYPOCKET.COM. year’s Earth Day theme is APRIL 11 Time to finish trimming summer-blooming vines, shrubs and trees.

APRIL 12 If you live in Salt Lake City, you now have a tool to measure the amount of food you can grow in your yard. Log on to SLCCLASSIC.COM/SLCGREEN/FOODMAP/CCMAP.HTM APRIL 13 LAST QUARTER MOON. When a willow tree is attacked by caterpillars or

“Mobilize the Earth.” After witnessing the ugly aftermath of an oil spill off the California coast, Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson organized the first Earth Day in 1970. He was stunned when 20 million people participated. See what one person can do? Take action today, whether it’s cleaning up an urban or wild place, or adopting a new means of reducing your carbon footprint.

APRIL 24 Look for sparkly Venus near the waxing Moon tonight.

Probing—repetitively plunging their beak into the ground until they find a bug. Probing is often accompanied by bill gaping, or “zirkelning” (cool word, huh?), which is probing with an open beak to enlarge the hole.

Sallying—grabbing a flying insect out of the air, which starlings are particularly good at.

Lunging—pitching forward to snatch a running bug.

Gleaning—plucking food from foliage, the ground, or a crevice.

APRIL 26 Remember, don’t add soil amendments to planting holes: Use the native soil, and then add organic compost as a top dressing.

APRIL 27 Arbor Day. Knocking Scientific on wood for good luck American originated with the Druids, who rapped on trees to summon the protective spirits within.

APRIL 28 Start prepping beds for warmweather plants. Amend healthy soil with two or three inches of organic compost, depleted soil with four to six inches.

APRIL 29 FIRST QUARTER MOON. After amending your veggie beds, you can cover them with plastic to warm up the soil more quickly.

APRIL 30 BELTANE/ SPRING CROSS-QUARTER DAY. Look for orange Mercury and the blue star Regulus just above the Moon as you’re out celebrating the Pagan summer kickoff tonight.

“Every spring is the only spring— a perpetual astonishment.”

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