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hen folk-music legend Peter Yarrow gave a benefit concert for Peaceful Uprising at the State Room in Salt Lake City in May he said that Utahns are on the cutting edge of environmental activism. He praised Tim DeChristopher’s act of civil disobedience as the inspiration for massive protests against the Keystone XL Pipeline which was supposed to carry oil from Canadian tar sands. Utah activists need to be on the cutting edge, because we, too, live at ground zero of the tar sands problem. Right now the State of Utah is actively promoting plans to stripmine over a million acres of Utah public lands for so-called “unconventional fuels.” Innovative new energy sources? Nope, we’re talking hydrocarbon oil sources such as oil shale and tar sands that have just been too expensive to extract in the past. The place to find out what oilshale boosters are up to was the “2012 University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference” sponsored by the U’s Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE) in May in the Varsity Room of Rice-Eccles Stadium. Clean and secure energy sounds like a good thing, but the actual mission of the Institute is to promote alarmingly dirty unconventional fuels such as “clean coal,” oil

shale and tar sands. After the Bush era Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandated fast-tracking oil shale/tar sands development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, ICSE received millions of dollars in earmarks for technology and policy research— the first such funding since the last oil-shale boom went bust in the 1980s. When one conference participant asked about the Orwellian name of

precipitated an economic collapse that lasted for decades on the Western Slope of Colorado. Public concerns and skepticism from other states have prompted the Obama Administration to pull back from the Bush era plan in order to reevaluate potentially catastrophic environmental and social impacts. But while Wyoming and Colorado are shying away from unconventional fuels, Utah is jumping in with

The State of Utah is actively promoting plans to stripmine over a million acres of Utah public lands for so-called “unconventional fuels.” Innovative new energy sources? Nope, we’re talking hydrocarbon oil sources—oil shale and tar sands—that have just been too expensive to extract in the past. the institute, ICSE Director Phillip J. Smith gave the disingenuous answer that other research institutes are studying other kinds of energy. All right then, but why not be upfront and just call it the Institute for Coal, Oil Shale and Tar Sands Development? Utah is at the epicenter of unconventional fuels development primarily because Utah politicians are the only ones naive enough to ignore history. On “Black Sunday” May 2, 1982, an overnight oil-shale bust

both feet. And while the federal decision is pending, Utah has pushed forward with unconventional fuel development on private property and state lands. The guy with the self-proclaimed “most unconventional job in the U.S.” is John Nowoslawski, the Unconventional Energy development manager for the State of Utah. There aren’t many similar positions, probably because nobody but Utah is wildly enthusiastic about the prospect of starting up massive new

strip mining operations using unproven technologies. At the Unconventional Fuels Conference Nowoslawski gushed about how much fun it is to work boosting an emerging oil shale industry in such a supportive political environment and assured conference participants that his job is to assist industry: “If your job is responsible development of unconventional fuels, it is the job of our office to help you,” he promised, “The idea is to be one voice for the energy industry.” He claimed “obfuscation and misinformation characterize the dialog about unconventional fuels” (though he didn’t say whether boosters or opponents are more responsible for the lack of clarity). Ominously, he said that his office is busy writing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bureau of Land Management that he “can’t talk about without getting in trouble,” and boasted of his “crazy idea” to set up rent-free, pre-permitted “oil sands technology zones” on state lands (never mind that revenue from these lands is supposed to raise money for schools). The Salt Lake Tribune has reported that energy companies have already given more than $235,000 to Governor Gary Herbert’s re-election campaign so the overt boosterism of conference speakers is no real surprise. Some of the rhetoric, though, was extreme. Like L. Doug Smoot, a

BY AMY BRUNVAND member of the Utah Energy Task Force who helped write the “Governor’s 10-Year Strategic Energy Plan.” Smoot had the rather bizarre notion that in order to promote “self-determination” Utah should become energy independent and start exporting oil (as if Utah might someday become the newest member of OPEC). Smoot insisted that Utah supports free-market energy development despite “incentives” for oil shale and tar sands which consist of suspiciously subsidy-like programs such as tax refunds to energy developers and rent-free access to State land. He groused about new federal air quality regulations saying that at least one Utah coal power plant could be closed if it isn’t allowed to keep on spewing poisonous mercury. He complained that federal regulations mean “Utah is not allowed to access energy sources without government approval” (never mind that the resources are under federal public land), and griped that “Kapairowitz coal can’t be used” (without mentioning that you would have to stripmine Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to get it). Smoot refused to comment when asked whether it’s a problem that Utah’s severance taxes are so much lower than Wyoming and Colorado that Utah citizens receive significantly less public benefit from energy production. Ex-Senator Bob Bennett (who for many years was personally responsible for big ICSE earmarks) said that after the European economy tanked, Europeans stopped talking about climate change and started talking about how great fracking is. He gloated that Western oil shale and tar sands could potentially prop up the fossilfueled economy for another 30 years or so, and hoped that we could stop all the silly talk about solar and wind power. He didn’t say how struggling economies are going to afford to cope with climate change impacts. It’s frankly disturbing to sit through talk after talk that panders to the fossil fuel industry and denies it’s impacts when in fact, citizens of Utah are being asked to take some very big risks and sacrifices in exchange for corporate profits and a few jobs. We are being asked to destroy large swaths of Utah’s glorious wild landscape; We are being asked to sacrifice clean air, clean water, and wildlife habitat; We are being asked to absorb even greater population growth. If more people move to Utah for jobs we will need to expand infrastructure like roads, housing, and schools. “Unconventional fuels” are still hydrocarbons with all the same problems as other fossil fuels including greenhouse gas emissions, but with a bigger price tag. In pursuit of oil shale, we are being asked to postpone efforts to move toward sustainable energy and live in a much hotter, drier Utah. All in all, it doesn’t sound to me like a very good deal. Amy Brunvand is a librarian at the University of Utah and a longtime CATALYST contributor.

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Republican Governor Jan Brewer is best known for defending of Arizona’s harsh anti-immigrant laws, so it took everyone by surprise when she vetoed an Arizona federal land-grab bill similar to the one Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed last March. In her veto letter Governor Brewer wrote, “The legislation does not identify an enforceable cause of action to force federal lands to be transferred to the state,” and pointed out that it is apparently unconstitutional as well. Brewer worried that such a bill would create a lack of certainty for individuals holding current leases on federal lands and estimated that the Arizona State Land Department would need “approximately $23 million in additional dollars and an untold increase in staff and resources” to manage millions of acres of federal land. Brewer’s veto leaves Utah on its own trying to jump-start a new Sagebrush Rebellion to grab state control of federal public lands. A legislative analysis found that the Utah bill is also likely unconstitutional, but Utah Senator and self-proclaimed “constitutional scholar” Mike Lee thinks there’s a way around that (as the Constitutional Accountability Center says, “With friends like Senator Mike Lee, the Constitution needs no enemies.”) The last Sagebrush Rebellion fizzled in the 1980s after the general public realized they had a lot to lose and very little to gain by privatizing federal lands and shutting themselves out of recreational use. So why the new enthusiasm to pour Utah tax dollars into anti-federal lawsuits? It seems that State Representative Ken Ivory and State Senator Wayne Niederhauser who sponsored Utah’s Public Land Transfer Act didn’t think up the idea themselves. They just adapted a model bill written by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a right-wing group supported by big corporations like Koch Industries and ExxonMobil that operates as a shadow government by feeding pre-written bills to state and local legislators. ALECEXPOSED.ORG lists 33 Utah legislators with close ties to ALEC. As it happens, ALEC is holding its annual meeting in Salt Lake City from July 23-28, 2012 and Occupy Salt Lake is forming an “ALEC Welcoming Committee” for all citizens who object to having their government taken over by large corporations (Bring a tent. Pitchforks optional.)

Utah state and county governments are rushing to file lawsuits claiming ownership of 12,000 roads crossing Utah public lands in order to beat a June 14 deadline. About 2,000 of the claimed roads really are roads which nobody, including the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, is trying to close. The other 10,000 are really not roads.

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These non-roads are known as “RS2477 claims” after a statute in the 1866 Mining Act. About 100 of the claims are in national parks, some of them cross private property and most of them are hiking trails, seismic lines, cow trails, streambeds and tire scars left by driving off existing trails. Why spend millions of tax dollars with little to gain but the bureaucratic hassle of controlling 10,000 dirt tracks with no particular destination or purpose? Because the legal definition of “Wilderness” is mainly a roadless area so the existence of roads would block wilderness protection. The good news is, the state originally planned to litigate over 25,000 RS2477 claims, but seems to have already admitted that about 13,000 of them couldn’t plausibly be called roads under any circumstances. SUWA.ORG

Tim DeChristopher appeals On May 10 climate activist Tim DeChristopher appealed his felony conviction at the 10th District Federal Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado on the basis that he took action to stop an illegal BLM oil & gas lease auction. There isn’t a set time frame for the ruling so DeChristopher could serve the majority of his two-year sentence before a decision is reached. In the meantime DeChristopher has been transferred to a federal prison in Littleton, Colorado. If you would like send him a letter his new address is on the Peaceful Uprising web site. PEACEFULUPRISING.ORG/TIM-DECHRISTOPHER

Green among most endangered rivers in America Utah’s Green River is among the most endangered rivers in America according to a new report from American Rivers. The biggest threat is a proposal to build a massive pipeline to suck water out of Flaming Gorge reservoir and send it 500 miles away

to Colorado’s Front Range. “The impacts of this grave threat would be aggravated by other projects in the Green River Basin, including the proposed diversion of 53,000 acre-feet of water for a proposed nuclear power plant, and oil shale, tar sands, and natural gas development, all of which threaten the fragile desert ecosystem this river supports,” states the report. Wyoming Governor Matt Mead has already voiced strong opposition to dewatering the Green River. Utah Governor Gary Herbert has yet to take a strong stand. The report recommends putting public pressure on the governors of Utah, Colorado and Wyoming to stand in opposition to the Flaming Gorge pipeline and stand up for more efficient, cost-effective water supply solutions. AMERICANRIVERS.ORG

New website for SLC bikes Have you noticed new spray painted messages in Salt Lake City’s bike lanes referring you to BIKESLC.COM? The new bike-dedicated website from the Salt Lake City Transportation Division was unveiled May 14 after the annual Mayor’s Bike to Work Ride. It offers information to all types of cyclists from bicycle commuters to recreational riders to hard-core mountain bikers. The site features maps, trail information, safety tips, new bicycle projects (such as Utah’s first bicycle traffic signal at the south entrance to Liberty Park) and everything else you need to know to bike in Salt Lake City. BIKESLC.COM

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PEOPLE AND NATURE we moderns have named many varieties of light pollution:

The brightness blight City lights or shining stars? Time to choose BY KATHERINE PIOLI

• Light trespass—light illuminating beyond the property boundary on which it is located • Over-illumination, the excessive use of light from improper design; • Light clutter, excessive and distracting light grouping, such as too many lit signs along roadways; • Skyglow, the effect of an illuminated dome at night over populated areas, Across the country and around the world, astronomers, politicians, scientists, health care workers and everyday people are recognizing the effect of light pollution on our skies and our bodies and making some changes to counteract the results. From Haifa, Israel to Sun Valley, Idaho, light-at-night is a serious topic. Utah contains some of both the cleanest and the most polluted night skies. But so far, at least, the topic has not been taken very seriously here.

the night sky, Bortle created a chart that allows astronomers to gauge the darkness and clarity of a sky on a set of concrete objective conditions. Deep within the southern desert, national parks and forests, Utah’s Bortle-rated sky map shows some of the darkest night skies in the entire nation. In fact, in 2007, Natural Bridges National Monument, in the southeast corner of the state near Blanding, earned a Bortle class 2 and the title of the world’s first International Dark Sky Park from the International Dark-Sky Association. At a class 2, Natural Bridges’ night sky reveals a highly structured Milky Way, visible to the unaided eye. Bortle’s description say that in this sky the brightest parts appear similar to veined marble when viewed through binoculars. Clouds appear only as dark holes in the starry background. The San Rafael Swell, Escalante National Monument and Zion National Park join Natural Bridges in this class group. However, the midnight skies around

Utah’s Bortle-rated sky map shows some of the darkest night skies in the entire nation. Salt Lake City, on the other hand ranked on a par with Los Angeles and New York City.

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or an entire month around Christmas a string of bright lights dangling from the eaves of my neighbor’s house illuminated my bedroom each night from dusk till dawn. I was already having trouble sleeping at night. Recently moved back from Wyoming where a bright night is a full moon reflecting off snow, the city kept me awake with its constant baritone rumble and source-less light pollution that wiped out stars,

turned midnight clouds white, and made after-dark strolls around the block shockingly hazard-free. I never complained about the light trespass from next door. It seemed unneighborly. I realized later, when the lights came down, that it wouldn’t have made much difference anyway. I still went to bed practically able to read the book titles on the shelf across the room. Like eskimoes with snowflakes,

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has some of the darkest skies in America. Check out the Bryce Canyon Astronomy Program every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at the Visitor Center, beginning at 9 p.m. from June until the second Saturday in August (except Saturday, July 28, which is the Geology Festival). All astronomy programs are followed by stargazing with telescopes, weather permitting. The best nights to attend are those around the new moon: Tuesday, June 19, and Tuesday, July 17 or Thursday, July 19. The program continues into late summer with an earlier start time. See www.nps.gov/brca/planyourvisit/astronomyprograms.htm for more details.

Residents of Salt Lake Valley live in extreme light pollution conditions. The valley rates a Class 8 on the Bortle Light Pollution Scale, measured from one to nine—on par with Los Angeles and New York City. Under these conditions, our midnight hours don’t seem very nightlike. The sky glows whitish-orange, and stars and familiar constellations are difficult or impossible to see. Used around the world, the Bortle Scale was developed in 2001 by retired county fire chief and avid amateur astronomer, John E. Bortle. “Most of today’s stargazers have never observed under a truly dark sky,” said Bortle speaking to Sky and Telescope magazine when the publication debuted his light pollution scale. “[People] lack a frame of reference for gauging local conditions…[they] describe observations made at ‘very dark’ sites, but from the descriptions it’s clear that the sky must have been only moderately dark.” In order to preserve a standard for

Moab and the Uintas already show a changing story (to see Utah’s sky chart yourself go to www.cleardarksky.com). Yellow marks the sky map around Moab and Heber, the color code for class 4. The suburban transition, yellow also marks more obviously developed areas such as Stansbury Park and Tooele. All are considered places moderately to seriously impacted by light-at-night, characterized by domes of light visible on the horizon from population centers in several directions. Here the Milky Way begins to lose its structure. Ron Allen, a current resident of Stansbury Park and former minority whip in the Utah State Senate, watched with concern, 10 years ago, as billboards and neon signs began cropping up in the once rural suburb. Also an amateur astronomer, he witnessed with concern the dimming of the night stars around Tooele, and decided in 2003 to propose a piece of legislation to the

State Senate urging light pollution prevention. Whereas, light pollution is sky glow, glare and light trespass, the resolution read, whereas light pollution includes the unnecessary expense of $2 billion annually, nationwide…to protect Utah’s night sky, as it would all natural resources, for the benefit of its citizens…be it resolved that the Legislature of the state of Utah…urges state agencies to take steps to prevent light pollution. The same year, Arizona was passing House Bill 49, which included a chapter on light pollution requiring fully or partially shielded fixtures throughout the state. The bill set lighting standards for municipal buildings, the state capital, state universities and colleges, administrative buildings, and outdoor light fixtures owned and operated by the state or cities and towns within the state, based on recommendations by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Lighting Handbook. At the same time, Wyoming was passing an outdoor lighting act, “to minimize light illuminating unintended areas and maintain dark skies.” New Mexico and Colorado were ahead of the game, each having passed light pollution bills two years earlier in 2001. Back in Utah, heeding advice from his peers who did not expect an Arizona-style bill to have any chance, Allen downgraded his bill to a mere resolution, but even that was too much for Utah lawmakers to handle. When Allen brought his proposal to committee, he recalls, laughter broke out in the meeting.

“People in the majority party ranked light pollution up there with climate change. I think my colleagues gave me an award that year,” he continues with surprisingly good humor, “for being the only person with a resolution to fail in committee.” In the years since leaving the State Senate, Allen says he has noticed some changes. Billboards increasingly have down-facing instead of skyward illumination. New lights along I-15, added during the latest round of construction, use more efficient, downwardfacing fixtures. But, he says, it’s just a matter of business. “Industrial engineers are more aware of energy and cost savings from efficient lighting,” Allen says. “It’s not light pollution prevention, it’s more bang for the buck.” In 2006, then-mayor Rocky Anderson and the City Council took another stab at light pollution, together with neighborhood representatives and others creating a 30page street lighting master plan and policy document. I called Jill Remington Love, current city council member who also served in 2006, to see what had happened with the master plan. A copy of the plan still floating around on the internet showed research and planning for lighting levels and designs. It mainly targeted streetlights in residential areas—subdivisions, new and existing developments, neighborhoods and alleyways—but touched on some major streets (Redwood Road) and commercial districts (Sugar House, Trolley Square). Like the Utah Senate light pollution resolution before it, Remington Love informed me, the

city’s lighting master plan had failed. “The issue was too complicated,” explained Love. “On one side, you have neighbors who want fewer lights on the street because of concerns about light pollution. On the other, you have people who want more lights for safety.” Safety, as always, proved a difficult argument to overstep, though a section in the plan on crime prevention clearly stated, “Poor street lighting is not the main contributing factor in nighttime crime in public spaces.” To make matters even stickier, certain neighborhoods had, at the time, started paying for special decorative lighting on their streets. They balked at spending even more to relight other neighborhoods in the city. So the city council let the initiative slip quietly away. Since the death of Salt Lake’s wellmeaning attempt at restricting light pollution, the city has seen small changes, slowly. Burned-out cobrahead streetlights along major thoroughfares such as 7th East have been, one by one, replaced with newer, state-of-the-art, recessedbulb luminaries. Lantern-style, partially shaded, or cut-off, luminaries now grace the hip districts like 9th and 9th and around downtown. This summer, and into the next year, Salt Lake’s city council will revisit the issue of a city lighting master plan. Once again, they hope to enact a plan, and create a way to pay for it, that will retire old, inefficient, unhealthy lighting for good. u Katherine Pioli fights fires in the summer, raises heritage fowl and writes for CATALYST.

We think deeper thoughts in the dark It’s notable that two of our most famous astronomers, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan, were both born and raised in New York City. Though the Big Apple is known for a lot of things, something that its residents communally miss out on is a decent view of the stars. City dwellers spending time out in the dark desert of southern Utah for the very first time are usually floored by the incredible splendor of our skies. The Milky Way stretches from one horizon to the other, a brilliant band of multicolored stars wreathed with tendrils of dark interstellar dust. The light from the stars is bright enough to find your way around by, if you let your eyes adjust to it. The planet Venus can be bright enough to cast a shadow. The night sky is a gift to us. Its darkness, far from being threatening, speaks to our evolutionary proclivity to require deep absence of light in order to properly relax during night-time sleep. Research has suggested multiple connections between being exposed to bright lights at night and various health problems, including cancer. Along with other animals with which we share the Earth, we have evolved for

millions of years to integrate the regular cycle of daily light and dark into our circadian rhythms. Too much light messes with both our heads and our bodies. We can’t quit working or thinking about our day-time concerns. No wonder there’s such a strong market for pharmaceutical sleep aids. Besides relaxing us, the deep desert sky’s star-shattered glory also lifts our eyes out of the two-dimensional ground-parallel plane where we customarily dwell during the day, and invites us into thinking deeper thoughts about the Universe that surrounds our little planet. Who are we? How did we get here? What is life all about, anyway? Are there alien life forms on alien worlds circling alien stars, looking up at their own night skies and wondering the same exact things? There are few sights more inspiring than a moonless starry night, and Utahns are privileged to live within a few hours’ drive of this amazing panorama. Do yourself a favor this summer and go camping in the desert. Take your binoculars and remember to count shooting stars. —Alice Bain

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ven though residential lighting isn’t the biggest source of light pollution, there’s a lot you can do at home to help bring back the starry skies. First, take a look at your property and decide where you really need light, how much light you need there, and where you can do without it. Many places, such as walkways and driveways, can benefit from just accent lighting, rather than complete illumination. Next, choose appropriate fixtures. Fixtures that allow light to escape upward not only contribute to light pollution, they’re wasteful: Upward-directed light doesn’t do you any good. By picking a downward-directed fixture, a much less intense bulb can be used for the same effective lighting, saving you money. Choose fixtures that allow for the lowest necessary wattage, and pick bulbs that are toward the red end of the spectrum—white and blue lights don’t dissapate as quickly, contributing to night sky glow. When placing fixtures, pick spots that already have recesses and overhangs, such as under eaves and balconies. This keeps light from escaping upward. Remember—lack of lighting is incorrectly associated with safety. Brightly lit areas, especially with lots of glare (which causes pupils to dilate, making it almost impossible to see into shadows), create a false sense of security. People can see better in soft lighting than in spotlights because it’s possible to see beyond the point of illumination. In fact, excess lighting can draw attention to a property or help a criminal see what he’s doing. Illuminating an entire yard doesn’t make your property safer—but keeping the lights to doorways does. Motion sensor operated lights are also a good idea, since they’re only on when actively needed. Do your best to keep light from your property from leaking into your neighbors’ property—especially keep it away from their windows. Few things are more obnoxious than a super-bright motion-activated floodlight directed at your bedroom window popping on and off all night. For lots of great ideas, including illumination and wattage charts, as well as elegantly written sample letters to ask your neighbors to change their lighting, check out darksky.org/outdoor-lighting. —Pax Rasmussen

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Supporting small endeavors Slow Food Utah’s microgrant program funds small miracles BY ADELE FLAIL

Ben Bombard and Katherine Pioli

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f you’ve checked out CATALYST’s website in the last month, you may already be engrossed in Fowl Play (CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET/FOWLPLAY.HT ML), the blog chronicling the ongoing endeavors of CATALYST’s own intrepid urban homesteaders, Katherine Pioli and Ben Bombard, as they attempt to establish a flock of ducks and geese right in their own 9th-and-9th backyard. Starting with paired hatchlings, Ben and Katherine are raising the birds for eggs—and eventually, for meat— and to be the parents of the next generation of their growing flock. Attentive readers may have noticed Katherine’s note that their (ad)ven-

new project can be a gamble. The layout for equipment or supplies happens at least a whole season before those costs can be recouped with a harvest, and even hobbyist farmers and urban homesteaders aren’t insulated from the setbacks that will most certainly occur when your business is the blossoming, bleating, and honking living world —a sudden cold snap, a ravenous raccoon, or even the error part of the trial-and-error of developing a new knowledge set. This uncertainty goes a long way towards explaining the exodus of small family farmers and the rise of big agribusiness, whose regimented tactics maximize yield and profits, if community’s knowledge base are springing up on farms and community gardens (and backyards) all across Utah. Slow Food Utah is a chapter of the national Slow Food USA organization, itself part of a global grassroots movement that caught on in Italy in 1986 with the efforts of activist Carlo Petrini. Now an international movement with 100,000 members from 150 countries, the original organization, as you might guess from the name, was intended to counterbalance the rise of fast food and industrial agriculture. Slow Food aims at providing food that is, in all ways, better—for the people eating it, for the people growing it, and for the land-base it comes from. Indeed, for a worldwide movement and organization, the focus is always close to home, with each convivia or chapter

Thanks to Slow Food Utah’s micro-grant program, locally focused projects that increase biodiversity, provide access to more healthful food, or contribute to our community’s knowledge base are springing up on farms and community gardens (and backyards) all across Utah. ture has been funded by a grant from Slow Food Utah, allowing the couple to purchase, feed and house the fowl whose descendents will someday fill the incubator the couple provided. As any farmer knows, starting a

not necessarily human health, environmental stability, or even flavor. But thanks to Slow Food Utah’s micro-grant program, locally focused projects that increase biodiversity, provide access to more healthful food, or contribute to our

focusing on the needs of its own community and environment. “In Salt Lake, we want to support local farmers, to keep people on the land, and create a food system that we can all live with,” says Slow Food Utah Chair Gwen Crist. SFU also wants to educate the community, and get people back in touch with the source of their food, supporting their mission to “link the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.” Founded in 2001, the all-volunteer organization is doing what it can to make that vision a reality, including offering financial support. The micro-grant program started in 2009 as a way to boost small, local food-related projects that might not be profitable in the traditional sense, and wouldn’t qualify for a traditional bank loan. Many of those first projects were focused on the school garden concept, providing an educational resource to children from local communities, but the chapter quickly realized they wanted to show more support for the community at large. Recipients over the past four years range from traditional small farmers, to urban homesteaders, to individuals with other initiatives and organizations that are also working to improve the quality, sustainability and security of local food. One major focus of Slow Food chapters across the world is in preserving the biodiversity of our food “ecosystem,” ensuring that our food sources are less vulnerable to new pathogens or the assorted global warming weather-weirdness that can disrupt the growing season. Slow Food USA Ark of Taste is a catalog of over 200 foods in danger of extinction in today’s heavily homogenized landscape of agriculture. (For those of you playing along at home, the Cayuga ducks and American Buff geese selected by

Ben and Katherine are also on this list.) As you browse the list, WWW.SLOWFOODUSA.ORG/INDEX.PHP/PRO GRAMS/DETAILS/ARK_OF_TASTE/ ) you’ll notice that these aren’t your typical grocery store fare—check out any of the peaches on the list, or the Sudduth Strain Brandywine tomato—these types will bruise, crackle, and burst, making them unsuitable for long-distance transportation (and lacking in the factory-uniform presentation that consumers have

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come to expect). But while factory-farm breeds must focus on transportability and appearance, sometimes at the cost of taste and nutrition, the first and foremost quality that endangered foods must embody to make the list is outstanding taste. So whether you find these breeds at the local farmer’s market, or in your own backyard, this is one instance where doing the right thing by sustainability unequivocally requires accepting gains rather than making sacrifices. And the focus on biodiversity when translated to the local level also reinforces many of Slow Food’s other focus areas, such as preserving the traditional food knowledge of regions or ethnicities (including growing techniques, to the preparation of dishes, to saving the seeds of unique foodstuffs) or supporting smalls-scale local farming (the broadened catalogue of edible plant and animal varieties means that food crops and herds can be tailored to suite each region’s unique climate rather than forcing the climate to conform to the crop, decreasing the environmental load of agricultural production). Thanks to Slow Food Utah’s micro-grant program, the landscape for slow food-focused agriculture is looking greener than ever. This last year Slow Food Utah awarded $11,000 in grants—up from $4,000

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Delectation of Tomatoes Meet Dale Thurber, a Slow Food Utah 2012 micro-grant recipient

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or Dale Thurber, a recipient of a 2012 Slow Food Utah microgrant, the added funds gave him the opportunity to expand his operation. He calls his business Delectation of Tomatoes—a micro-farming endeavor located in West Valley City. On his colorful website he states some noble objectives: “To enhance physical and psychological health; facilitate appreciation for and enjoyment of the best (healthiest, tastiest) food the earth has to offer with an emphasis on the amazing, versatile, nutritious, domesticated Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum (or Lycopersicon esculentum, depending upon which authority one chooses to follow); promote ecologically responsible and sustainable food growing practices; and encourage self-reliance and independence from the ‘System’ for nutritional needs.” He offers seeds, starts and produce as well as garden planting and tending, consulting and training. An avid gardener and research scientist for over 20 years, Thurber became interested in tomatoes—

especially big, beefy tomatoes— after taking over his parents’ garden: “All of these volunteer tomatoes came up, but they were cherry tomatoes—I got sick of picking them!” In fact Dale’s search for large, tasty tomatoes has been quite successful—he currently has the seeds for 280 varieties of tomato (200 of which are heirloom varieties). In 2011, he was able to grow 2,000 seedlings of nearly 300 varieties. Many of the varieties that Thurber grows, such as the colorfully named Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter tomato, are on Slow Food USA’s Ark of Taste, although this is happenstance from Thurber’s own dedication to finding the biggest, juiciest varieties. With the help of the micro-grant,

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Thurber put in a 42-ft. x 14 ft.-high tunnel to get 8,000 melon and pepper—and of course tomato— seedlings off to an early start. Some of these plants will supply other urban farm operations around the city, some will go directly to the gardens of hobbyist gardeners, and some will be grown by Thurber himself to sell as produce, and to provide next year’s seeds. While he has been able to increase the quantity of tomatoes, his focus is still on quality. With only .15 of an acre to work with, Thurber plants intensively, but he is careful to add nutrients back to his soil. Thurber says most big farmers just add nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, while some of the more enlightened producers will add up to eight minerals, but there are scores of trace minerals needed

to keep the human body healthy, and with applications of fish emulsion, sea salt, and mycorrhizal fungi (to name a few), Thurber aims to ensure that his plants pass on their good health to the consumers: “When people ask what I do, I tell them I’m in medicine—preventive medicine.” Thurber isn’t getting much sleep these days, he admits. On top of caring for thousands of young plants, he plans to provide more information about gardening on his website. In the meantime, he often pauses to chat with his customers, giving advice and sharing his knowledge about the varieties he offers, as well as general info about growing in Utah’s climate. While it means a longer day for Thurber, it will be these small interactions between consumer and grower, where knowledge is passed on and taste-horizons expanded, that could change the way we eat in Utah for the better. u —Adele Flail Visit Dale Thurber at his website: DELECTATIONOFTOMATOES.COM

Continued from page 15 the first year. But the increase in funding is only keeping pace with the growing demand. This year saw over 40 applications, which Gwen Crist estimates is quadruple the number received the first year. Relationships with Cisco and Harmons have helped to support the fledging micro-grant program, ensuring that Slow Food Utah will be able to help small projects that will enrich the foodscape here in Salt Lake and beyond. Each month, CATALYST will profile a different grant recipient, to highlight some of the projects happening on our local food front. For those readers who might be considering a project of their own, guidelines and the form can be found on Slow Food Utah’s site: TINYURL.COM/ SLOWFOODGRANTRECIPIENTS. The grant is open to individual applicants, small business, or non-profits whose projects will increase the local knowledge base as well as the availability of locally grown foods, preserve regional and cultural food traditions, or contribute to taste education among children or adults. “One thing we give preference to is the concept of biodiversity,� says Crist. It is also important to have a pay-it-forward mentality,

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Chard, the “new� spinach This hardy cousin is our go-to green for all seasons BY LETTY FLATT France loved spinach so much she insisted it be served at every meal. My sisters and I preferred frozen peas and iceberg lettuce salads, although our mother would on occasion serve spinach from a frozen box. Our grandmother served mustard greens, no doubt boiled and without seasoning, and I was well into adulthood before I lost the negative connotations of that strongly pungent leafy cruciferous cousin to

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hey’re cousins, spinach and chard, both leafy and green and practically interchangeable in recipes. They are early crops, showing up in your garden and at the Farmer’s Market in June. The pair can endure light frost, spinach even more so. But spinach can’t handle intense heat—it will go to seed and become bitter, while the sweeter and sturdier chard just keeps on providing greens into summer. Nutritionists say spinach and chard, chock full of vitamins, are nutrient dense, meaning you get lots of nutrients without a lot of

calories. The word “Florentine� in a recipe or restaurant menu indicates spinach as an ingredient, and is a reference to Catherine de’ Medici’s birthplace, Florence, Italy. Culinary history says that the Queen of

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Chard is often called Swiss chard, although no one can figure out exactly why Swiss, since it originated in Greece and Italy. Although spinach has been on the American home cook’s radar for much longer, nowadays chard can be found in upscale markets and on menus of locavore-style restaurants. The most common is ruby chard, with bright green leaves and red ribs/stems. Green chard has white ribs; and rainbow chard, sold as “bright lights� in seed packets, has midribs of yellow/gold, pink, violet, orange, red and white. Last summer, Ranui Gardens CSA grew a Blonde de Lyon chard with lighter green, more tender leaves and less rib and vein. Spinach also has different cultivated varietals, savoy and smoothleaf. The smooth-leafed variety is popular because it saves cooks from the chore of washing the dirt and gritty sand that easily collects in spinach’s leaves and stems. Savoy spinach has very crinkled leaves and is usually more frost tolerant and bolt resistant. Know that spinach makes the dirty dozen list (#5) of foods high in pesticide residues, so organic is a good choice. (By the way, even though it is called spinach, New Zealand spinach is not botanically related to true spinach.) When I buy leafy green produce, including chard, kale and collards, or when I cut the leaves from beets, I trim the bottom half inch from the rib/stem, like one might with fresh flowers. I place the stems in a jar of water, cover the leaves with a plastic

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GUIDE TO HEALTHY LOCAL EATING: FIRST IN A SERIES

The Season of Eating Well

BY GUTHRIE GOEGLEIN

Ready to get slow? Slow Food people are connoisseurs of taste, protectors of food heritage, and champions of local producers. CATALYST and Slow Food Utah are working together this summer to present a guide to healthy local eating, focusing on the greater Salt Lake City area. In this issue we start out by enumerating the various area farmers markets and by listing details of community-supported agriculture

Farmers Markets F

armers markets nationwide have seen a resurgence as communities increasingly want locally grown and produced (as well as organic) food. Farmers markets typically consist of individual vendors—mostly farmers—setting up booths, tables and stands to sell produce, meats and sometimes prepared foods directly to consumers. Crafts, flowers and other local products are often featured, too. Most markets are seasonal and usually take place during summer and fall months at set times, dates and locations (indoors and outdoors). Sizes can range from several stands in a parking lot to a festival-like atmosphere occupying full city blocks. Buying from a farmers market provides a range of benefits for communities, farmers and consumers alike. Selling locally allows farmers to pick produce at the peak of flavor, giving consumers fresher, higher-quality seasonal foods than they would likely be able to find at a supermarket. Those selling meats, eggs and other ani-

cooperatives (CSAs) in the area. This information, compiled by Slow Food Utah and CATALYST, can also be found on the CATALYST and Slow Food Utah websites. We will add to it over the next few months, and it will be available for reference throughout the rest of the year. Additions or changes to this list? Email PAX@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

mal products often have organic options (many markets encourage this). Farmers can set fair prices, remove middlemen and cut down on the cost of fuel by not having to transport their food great distances. Farmers markets create closer social and economic ties between urban and rural farming populations that are often cut by predominant methods of centralized food distribution. Shopping at markets (and shopping locally in general) keeps more money circulating through a community’s economy. Local vendors and farmers spend significantly more money making purchases from other local businesses, farms and service providers, resulting in higher incomes, additional jobs and a strengthened local economic base. But aside from economic benefits, farmers markets can simply be a great place to spend part of a day out with family and friends enjoying the atmosphere—and returning home with some quality local food.

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hile not as well-known as farmers markets, community-supported agriculture (CSA or CSAs) is becoming another popular alternative for communities wanting to gain access to locally grown organic food. Essentially CSAs are a membership system where a grower sells a set number of shares at the beginning of the growing season and once harvesting begins, members receive a weekly share of the proceeds. These consist mainly of vegetables and fruits, though many CSAs also offer eggs, meats, flowers and honey. CSAs vary widely in size; some are small backyard farms in urban areas, supporting 30-40 members, while others are large family farms in rural locations. This is how it works: CSAs typically have websites that tell you the terms and walk you through the process for joining. There are a variety of ways that CSAs get your shares to you. Be

sure it’s what works for you before signing up. Most often, members go to designated pick-up locations on specific days. Some CSAs deliver. Others you pick up straight from the farm—a great way to see where your food comes from but entails a drive. What’s great about CSAs is that it gives members the advantage of knowing exactly where and how their food is grown. Most use organic practices and avoid pesticides. And on the other end, growers benefit by receiving payment early in the season which helps the farm’s cash flow. It’s inspiring to see a growing popularity with CSAs across the country in both rural and urban communities. Better eating for everyone! Not all CSAs may currently have shares available, but many of them turn over by the season. It’s always a good time to get in line for your grower of choice.

Farmers Markets MARKETS

ADDRESS

CITY

Bountiful Farmers Market

100 S 100 E, 84087

Bountiful

Clearfield Downtown Farmers Market

WEBSITE

HOURS

Lunch: Mon-Fri: 11am-5pm Dinner: Mon-Sat: 5pm-10pm Brunch: Sat: 11am-3pm, Sun: 10am-3pm Late night - Tapas & Cocktails: Fri & Sat: 10pm-12pm

Clearfield

Herriman Farmers Market

Herriman

Holladay Farmers Market

4677 S Holladay Blvd

Holladay

Sat (8a-1p); Jul 3 - Oct 31

Murray Park Farmers Market

200 E 5200 S

Murray

Fri-Sat (9a-Late); Aug - Oct

Murray Market Gardens

296 E Murray Park Ave

Murray

murraymarketgardens.blogspot.com

Wasatch Front Farmers Market (Wheeler Farm)

6351 S 900 E

Murray

wasatchfrontfarmersmarket.org

Sun (9a-2p); Jun 3 - Oct

Park City Farmers Market

4000 Canyons Resort Dr

Park City

parkcityfarmersmarket.com

Wed (12p-6p); Jun 6 - Oct

parksillysundaymarket.com

Sun (10a-5p); Jun 10 - Sept 23

Park Silly Sunday Market

Park City’s Historic Main St

Park City

Campus Edible Gardens Market (U of U)

300 S 1400 E

Salt Lake City

Caputo’s Locavore Market (Downtown)

314 W 300 S

Salt Lake City

caputosdeli.com

Sat (10a-3p); During Winter months

Chad’s Produce

151 S 500 E

Salt Lake City

chadsproduce.com

Sat (10a-3p); Only 3 Sat per month

Market On State

1050 S State St

Salt Lake City

marketonstate.com

Tue (3p-7p); Sat (10a-4p)

Millcreek Community Market

3474 S 2300 E

Salt Lake City

millcreekcommunitymarket.com

Thu (4p-Dusk); Jul 26 - Oct 4

People’s Market

1000 S 900 W

Salt Lake City

slcpeoplesmarket.org

Sun (10a-3p); Jun 10 - Oct 21

Salt Lake City Downtown Farmers Market Sat (8a-1p) Jun 9 - Oct 27

Pioneer Park

Salt Lake City

slcfarmersmarket.org

Tue (4p-Dusk) Aug 7 - Oct 23;

Sugar House Farmers Market

Sugar House Park

Salt Lake City

sugarhousefarmersmarket.com

Fri (4p-8p); Jul 13 - Oct 19

Sandy City Farmers Market

10200 S State St

Sandy southjordanfarmersmarket.com

Sat (8a-2p); Aug 4 - Oct 27

Sat (9a-2p); Jun 2 - Oct

1600 W Towne Center Dr

South Jordan

Syracuse Farmers Market

1891 W 1700 S

Syracuse

Wasatch Front Farmers Market (Gardner Village)

1100 W 7800 S

West Jordan

wasatchfrontfarmersmarket.org

West Jordan Farmers Market

7975 S Redwood Rd

West Jordan

wjordan.com/visitor.aspx?pgid=6.1 Tue (3p-7p); Aug 7 - Oct 30

Community Supported Agriculture CSA FARMS

CITY

Ranui Gardens

Coalville

Bell Organic

Draper

801-571-7288

bellorganic.com

Sandhill Farms

Eden

801-866-3620

sandhillfarms.org

Live & Thrive

Holladay

801-278-5313

liveandthrive.com

Little Weber Farms

Hooper

801-686-4729

littleweberfarms.com

Borski Farms Organic Produce

Kaysville

801-941-9620

borskifarms.org

Zoe’s Garden

Layton

801-721-8238

zoegarden.com

Adams Heirlooms

Midvale

801-209-6739

adamsheirlooms.seedleaf.com

Jacob’s Cove Heritage Farm

Orem

1-888-880-8039 jacobscove.net

Artemisia Farms

Park City

435-640-5228

Copper Moose Farm

Park City

435-604-0497

coppermoosefarm.com

Tagge’s Famous Fruit

Perry

801-755-8031

taggesfamousfruit.com

La Nay Ferme

Provo

Petersen Family Farm

Riverton

801-440-4004

3 Squares Produce

Salt Lake City

801-243-2801† 3squaresproduce.com

Backyard Urban Garden (BUG) Farms

Salt Lake City

801-718-7478

backyardurbangardens.com

Liberty Heights Fresh (Sustainably Farmed Food Program)

Salt Lake City

801-583-7374

libertyheightsfresh.com/sff-program

Roberts Ranch & Gardens

Spanish Fork

801-997-0708

robertsranch.org

Harward Farms

Springville

801-420-2574

harwardfarms.com

Black Island Farms

Syracuse

801-774-6293

blackislandfarms.com

Christiansen’s Family Farm

Vernon

435-839-3482

christiansenfarm.com

Late Bloomin’ Heirlooms

West Jordan

801-664-9352

latebloominheirlooms.com

Now Open!

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WEBSITE ranui.com

artemisiafarms.com

lanayferme.com petersenfamilyfarm.com

Delectation of Tomatoes

West Valley City

801-651-5953

gianttomatoseeds.com

Sadee’s Pride Natural Produce

West Valley City

801-544-0553

facebook.com/pages/Sadees-Pride-Natural-Produce/145925915425335

Utah Farms CSA

1291 South 1100 East 801-487-0699 fincaslc.com

Thu (9a-2p); Mid-Aug to early Oct

South Jordan Towne Center Farmers Market

PHONE

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utahfarmscsa.com

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DMT, creativity and a philosophy of psychedelics Consciousness encounters the quantum world

BY TERRA CRONSHEY

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imethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a chemical compound that occupies a peculiar position in our cultural consciousness. A powerful psychedelic (some would argue the most powerful of any yet discovered), and a Schedule I prohibited drug allegedly with a “high potential for abuse” and “no currently accepted medical use” in the United States, yet it is also found widely in nature and is produced during normal metabolism in the human brain, where it may function as a neurotransmitter. It’s hypothesized that the release of naturally-produced endogenous DMT in our brains may play a role in REM-sleep dreaming and may inform near-death experiences and religious visions. DMT visions are remarkable. There is really no way to approach conveying the experience without resorting to art or poetry, but certain commonalities have been noted: DMT psychonauts will first fall through a chrysanthemumlike mandala of color, and sometimes then find themselves in a completely different reality where they will often encounter beings that have variously been described as aliens,

The psychedelic mindspace is fully integrated with a multidimensional matrix of “life” that can be mapped, navigated and shaped in unimaginable ways—reality hacking.

machine elves, or just “entities.” What goes on in DMT space is unique to each person who enters it, but those returning report often terrifying experiences of death and rebirth, the approach of the divine, and the experience of being guided and healed of psychic wounds. Film director Mitch Schultz’s life was changed by DMT. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Schultz earned a Bachelor of Science in media production, communication theory, and information mapping at the University of Texas at Austin, and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. After his first DMT experience, he found himself inspired to create a series of four documentaries about the substance. Though much of this work is still in production, the first film, DMT: The Spirit Molecule was completed in 2010 and introduces Rick Strassman’s research work and the concept of DMT as a conduit to our understanding of psychic dimensions beyond those familiar to us. The film is a veritable who’s who of those on the frontiers of consciousness exploration, with interviews from writers Erik Davis, Graham Hancock and Daniel Pinchbeck, painter Alex Grey, ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, psychologist Ralph Metzner, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison, Strassman himself (a psychiatrist) and many more. Schultz has made the film widely available via download and streaming on the Internet, and also at theater and film festival screenings

A scene from “The Spirit Molecule”

across the globe. Crossing over into interactive media, Schultz’s DMTremix Project is a webbased experience that allows visitors to edit and create their own DMT-on-film experience utilizing interviews, b-roll, visual effects, music, and sound files, all available as resources under a Collective Commons license. Schultz talked with CATALYST about his experience with DMT, his philosophy of psychedelics, and his creative work. CATALYST: You directed The Spirit Molecule, which follows Dr. Rick Strassman’s FDA-sanctioned study of dimethyltryptamine. Why did you decide to make a film about DMT? The simple answer, a personal DMT experience in 2002. I had never heard about Dr. Strassman’s research; it was that experience that brought me to his work. A close friend was moving out of the country, and several of us gathered to see him off. One brought a small amount of DMT, and as it turned out, he was the only one there that had ever even heard of DMT. I considered myself an experienced psychonaut and explained to him that I knew what to expect based on past psychedelic explorations. He laughed. I was the third one to take the DMT, and by the second inhalation things began to shift very quickly. He encouraged me to take two more inhalations (I’m still not sure how I pulled that off), and immediately went into what I can only

explain as dying experience. I had never been so afraid, and did my best to hold on. After approximately one minute the fear passed, and it turned out to be one of the most beautiful experiences in my life. Almost immediately upon my return to consensus reality, I knew I would make this film. The 10-minute experience changed the core of my being, provided a drastically new outlook on life, and ultimately became the impetus for my psychedelic research and life direction.

Manifeso that aims to redefine our connection to Spirit, however understood or represented by any individual or larger culture. Many have seen your documentary The Spirit Molecule, the first part of this Manifesto. Please share with us how you see the whole manifesto taking shape. It begins with DMT: The Spirit Molecule exploring a new paradigm for consciousness, quantum consciousness. At the center of awareness lies

What is the focus of your current psychedelic research? Healing, personal growth and spirituality. Now, of course, each of these can intersect with the next, but without two of the three present it’s not worth going there. Ultimately, I believe the core of what we search for as humans lies at the intersection of all three, so I put my focus on uncovering ways to make them overlap. I’ve always had a sense that psychedelic mindspace is fully integrated with a multi-dimensional matrix of “life” that can be mapped, navigated and shaped in unimaginable ways. It’s reality hacking. In your experience, do psychedelics act only on the mind? Yes, but there is so much more to it. The general question everyone asks is, is it just your brain on drugs or are you having close encounters of the third kind? I’ve come to think it’s a combination of both. The cathartic emotions, shifts in time and space, entity communication, physical/psychological healing, and the variety of other experiences that we just can’t wrap a vocabulary around seem to be more than just an internal occurrence. Science continues to discover ways that our entire being is networked on multiple levels of reality, and this becomes very apparent with altered states of consciousness connected to an interactive biological matrix. My sense is that the brain opens up its range of sensory awareness, bringing insight into our minds, but at the same time we experience a variety of other energetic forces that remain hidden in consensus reality and play a role in our everyday life. Psychedelic experiences can reveal human potential to be infinite. Can you describe life in a psychedelic world? Is this a good idea? The dream, the reality, the imagined; all are contributing to the conditions of daily life—each of these arenas influence our thoughts, habits and decision-making. Examined close up, even the most still parts of life are full of movement and dynamic change. Rocks erode. Everything is in a constant state of decay or rejuvenation. In considering a state of psychedelic cohesion, is a psychedelic state a more immediate and direct awareness of this actual and constant reality? Through personal trials and tribulations, I’ve come to understand my journey as a way to offer help to humanity with the concepts that have been revealed to me. And although the last decade has allowed me to solidify my musings, it has been a lifelong process. The culmination of my 38 years on this planet has resulted in a tetralogy of projects that make up the four-part

connection to everything around us, we can create a successful realignment with nature that begins with the individual, grows into local community, and blossoms into a well integrated whole; mimicking the life force that we exist in. How about the following film? The third film, Global Beat (based on Derek Beres’ book of the same title) examines the interpretation, and celebration, of spirit through music. Music has always been a ritual and social activity, a personal connection and a communal art shared by many. Music is the soul of a culture. Global Beat Fusion uncovers the computer as the first global folk instrument that international musicians share their respective cultural soul via the electronic space and, in turn, cross-germinating their mythologies to the world creating a meta-mythology. And the conclusion? This work concludes with the communication component, which now carries the working title of Open Source Reality. It asks for the evolution of consciousness, physicality and interpretation of spirit. For this to take place we need to develop a new language of maps, models and metaphors to re-interpret the misguided mythologies that have directed humanity for millennium, and which now plague the social fabric.

Science continues to discover ways that our entire being is networked on multiple levels of reality, and this becomes very apparent with altered states of consciousness connected to an interactive biological matrix. this simple, natural molecule that may exist in all living organisms. This is a molecule that consistently produces a mystical experience, and it may be the seed to the ultimate connection to that experience. Viewed through the lens of entheogens, consciousness encounters the quantum world, generating and fostering gnosis, but this state of consciousness can also be explored via a variety of ancient and esoteric knowledge around the world. Your next film, Ground of Being, documents a thriving eco-village built as an effort of restoration, rehabilitating an exhausted bluestone quarry in Australia. The community maintains an urban farm and an environment and education centre. Can you tell us a little bit more about the movie? Ground of Being, which is now in editing, builds from the knowledge attained from quantum awareness, and addresses humanity’s role and symbiotic relationship to the life force of Earth. Through food and general sustainability practices, our physicality, thought, emotions and behaviors directly relate to how we recognize and care for natural world. By acknowledging our

What are your thoughts on intellectual property vs idea sharing? Rather than ’property,’ think abundance—an intellectual smorgasbord. All ideas are open source, if we believe the source of inspiration is infinite. Through this open sourcing and idea sharing, we redefine our mythologies, incorporating the quantum physical realm. We are constantly connected and related to a heavenly presence and source. Additionally, data is prolific throughout the world, and the Internet makes all this information broadly accessible, allowing for the discovery and rediscovery of lost traditions. This process is illuminating a clearer understanding of new and emerging tribal beats, new stories, new technologies and innovations, and new mythologies created and shared. Terra Cronshey has been director of a loud-sound art theme camp/village from Utah at Burning Man for the past three years. She is the festival accounting coordinator for Sundance Film Festival. TERRA@NEOGEOLOTUS.COM.

Mitch Schultz in Utah June 7-10: See Mitch Schultz at Green River’s Desert Rocks festival for a screening of The Spirit Molecule and footage from his current project Ground of Being. WWW.DESERTROCKS.ORG. June 15: Mitch Schultz will be in Salt Lake City for a three-hour workshop and screening of The Spirit Molecule. 7-10pm at Crone's Hollow. $50. 2470 So. Main St.

Evolver intensive Starting June 24: Join Mitch Schultz on a co-creative journey into transformational film-making and learn how you can help mix the open-source code for a new planetary culture. Three sessions, starting June 24, 1pm Mountain daylight time. Info: WWW.EVOLVER.NET

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SHALL WE DANCE?

Bringing cutting-edge dance to SLC BY AMY BRUNVAND

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n April 2011, a dance review in the New Yorker magazine by Joan Acocella began like this: When you go to Eiko and Koma’s “Naked”—it is playing at the Baryshnikov Arts Center through Saturday night—what you see is two bodies lying side by side on a mound of soil and feathers. So this is a scene from nature, but it is no pastoral idyll. The bodies are white,

SaltDanceFest is primarily a workshop for serious dance students who will get a chance to work with great teachers. gaunt, and utterly naked. They move little, and slowly, and mostly just in relation to each other… The review made me want to see Eiko and Koma perform, but alas they were in New York City and I was in Utah. Just a few weeks later I noticed a poster for SaltDanceFest, 2011, a Modern Dance festival in

Salt Lake City that I had never heard of before. The poster said that Eiko and Koma were going to be performing at the University of Utah

Marriott Center for Dance where all the seats are good, and the tickets are so cheap they are practically free. I was so thrilled I dragged my Mom and daughter along to see the weirdly slow, ghostly, butohinspired performance. It turns out that I’d never heard of SaltDanceFest was because last year was the first one. What seemed like serendipity, getting a chance to see some MacArthur-genius dancers I thought I would never see outside of YouTube, turned out to be the

result of deliberate strategizing and vision on the part of Stephen Koester, chair of the University of Utah Department of Modern Dance who started a new dance workshop in order to give students a chance to work with cutting edge modern dancers, and to explore the legacy of great choreographers. SaltDanceFest is primarily a workshop for serious dance stu-

dents who will get a chance to work with great teachers in order to develop new ideas and techniques. The festival is deliberately scheduled right before the annual Repertory Dance Theatre Summerdance Workshop (this year

with master teacher and choreographer, Susan Hadley) so students can take both and experience a month of dance in the Rocky Mountains. There are also public events including lectures and discussions with guest artists. As Koester points out, “These are hugely important people in the field. They represent the cutting edge of what’s happening in dance right now but also represent important legacies in dance.” You may not recognize the names

of the SaltDanceFest 2012 guest artists: Marina Mascarell and Paul Selwyn Norton and Vicky Cortés, but you might have heard of the companies and choreographers they worked with: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet and Pina Bausch. Many people were introduced to the work of Pina Baush (1940-2009) recently when a film of her dances was nominated for a documentary feature Oscar (and judging from comments I heard in the audience a lot of people who didn’t know they liked that kind of dance were blown away by what they saw on screen). Koester says SaltDanceFest is one of the few modern dance festivals that focuses on the creative process, and the act of making dances. The festival concludes with a showcase of dances created during the workshop. “People will be seeing things that have been made in the moment,” say Koester. “It will have been made in the last two weeks. The guest artists will also be creating works on the participants so you will be seeing new works galore.” He hopes that SaltDanceFest will become a destination summer workshop that people look forward to each year. “I don’t want this to be huge festival. I like the intimacy,” he says. “But I think it has room to grow. This year we should have 40 dancers registered, and we are almost at capacity.” u At the University of Utah, June 4-15. www.DANCE.UTAH.EDU/SALTDANCEFEST/

THE WELL-TEMPERED BICYCLE COMMUTER

Gear is good Use it!

BY BY STEVE CHAMBERS

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amous Wall Street bicyclist Gordon Gekko once said, “Gear is good.� If you don’t believe Gordon, just look at any magazine rack. The shelves are crammed with magazines telling us which of the new toys are absolutely must-have for summer 2012. Owning a shiny new kryptonite bicycle in deep ruby with flecks of gold that makes looking at it something akin to peering into the depths of the cosmos is a transcendent joy. Man’s fascination with the latest gear goes back a million years or more. Sometime after the last Ice Age ended a Neanderthal named Ralph was idly tapping at the end of a stick with a piece of flint while keeping a

From cave man days to the present, we’ve been fascinated by innovation. wary eye out for saber-tooth cave weasels. Ralph noticed that he could shape the stick into a point. Interesting, but not too useful until that night when he tried to pluck his piece of warthog out of the fire and burned his fingers. Ralph poked at the warthog with his sharpened stick and to his surprise the stick pierced the crispy meat and he pulled it easily from the fire. After a few nights of experimentation, Ralph concluded that a longer stick meant he could sit farther from the fire and still enjoy his warthog. But his stick’s true usefulness came a week later when a saber-tooth cave weasel, drawn by the pungent smell of roasting warthog, skulked into the cave. As the clan hooted and threw rocks, the cave weasel advanced. In desperation Ralph threw his eating stick. The stick punctured the cave weasel’s heart and it dropped dead. Ralph was the toast of the clan for several weeks until one night another Neanderthal named Ed showed up with a spear on which he had rubbed charcoal, making it black and therefore, Ed claimed, better than Ralph’s design. All the other clan members were impressed,

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even though no one understood how this made the spear better. This is the first recorded instance of carbon-improved technology. Now, of course, there are carbon-fiber frames, poly-carbonate tubes and all sorts of stuff based on carbon. Meanwhile, Ralph’s wife Alice was busy developing gear for the modern Neanderthal cave-wife. Alice found a hollowed-out log about a foot long. After shaking out the ants, she discovered she could put the cooked warthog in the log and keep it warm until Ralph got home at night. Alice’s friend and Ed’s wife Trixie made improvements by stuffing dried moss in the ends of the log. Soon Alice and Trixie were showing their new line of cave-ware to all the clan members and started a phenomenon that became known as the Tupperware party. Man’s (and woman’s) quest for the latest gear was born. The thing that makes new gear so appealing is the status it bestows on the owner. Sure, Ralph’s spear was useful but as soon as Ed came up with a better idea, Ed got the limelight and Ralph faded into obscurity. So it is with the latest in bicycle gear. There’s nothing like cruising up to the weekly club ride on your new Tritonium bike to the ohhs and ahhs of the other riders but after a couple of weeks the envy subsides and, like a druggie looking for his next hit, a cyclist is soon prowling the bike stores and websites. Seldom does one ask, “Do I really need a frame that is 32% more responsive?� What does that even mean? Never mind; the answer is, of course you do! How else are you going to smoke grandma on her 1979 Raleigh pulling a bike trailer loaded with 25 lbs. of produce from the farmer’s market? But if, perchance, you wonder if it’s really, in the eternal scheme of things, necessary, take this test: Hold your bike (hint: if you don’t have a bike, then yes, you need new gear) by its seat and lift the rear wheel off the ground. Does the wheel fall off? If the answer is no, continue. Turn the pedals. Does the rear wheel also turn? If yes, continue. Squeeze the right brake lever. Does the rear wheel stop turning? If yes, continue. Now lift the bike’s front wheel. Does it fall off? If not, continue. Spin the front wheel. Now squeeze the left brake lever. Does the wheel stop? If yes, you have a perfectly serviceable bike and don’t need new gear. All you need to do is get on it and ride. And watch out for saber-tooth cave weasels. u Steve Chambers is a Salt Lake City lawyer and freelance writer. He has been commuting by bicycle part time for over 10 years.

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Magic in the grit

Music, film, visionary art, healthy food and green skill-building at this year’s Desert Rocks Festival BY ALICE BAIN “There’s a lot more going on in the desert than people think.” —Ron Johnson

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hen John Ripley Corkery, aka JR, was a sophomore in college, he got an idea for a little festival in the desert. Eight years later, Desert Rocks has blossomed from 150 original attendees to over 1700 last year, has outgrown its original venue, and has evolved from a simple weekender music fest into a four-day multidisciplinary inspirational extravaganza. This year sees its migration from Moab to the town of Green River, Utah, and its development, with new partners Ron Johnson and Brandie Hardman, as a focus of new cultural dynamism in the region. JR put the first Desert Rocks Festival together in 2005. “I was managing a small band called Wise Birds,” he says, JR “and we got booked at Uncle Uncanny’s Music and Art Festival in Heber City in 2004. We had so much fun, and I realized that we could do this same type of small festival for Wise Birds and help us have a following in the region. I knew some people in Moab from living there for four or five years when I was younger, and they’d just bought a piece of property that they planned to use for jeep rallies. I asked them, and we put it together, and Desert Rocks was born.” That first year the single stage used by the 12 booked bands was a flatbed trailer with popup tents erected on it for shelter; tickets to the event cost $20. Even though JR was only 22 at the time, he was a natural organizer, and knew he had the moxie to pull off Desert Rocks. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, he was an ice hockey player as a kid and eventually won a half scholar-

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ship from the University of Connecticut to play hockey there. “I started to organize hockey camps,” he says. From managing hockey players and negotiating gigs for Wise Birds, making the leap to festival organizer was only a little audacious. Desert Rocks pushed him to develop himself further as an event and campaign organizer in other areas even while he was still in col-

lege. “I was taking a degree in biophysics with a minor in human rights at the time, and the Human Rights program was struggling. I asked my professor if I could do a human rights festival to raise awareness, and because I’d already organized Desert Rocks I was sure I could pull it off. The college gave me money to put on this event, and it eventually turned into the Human

Rights Tour, which visited 20 different universities over thee years and went to the United Nations for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. JR continued to produce Desert Rocks in the years after graduation, and the event grew in reach and attendance until, last year, it finally became too large for its venue in the red rock country south of Moab. Clearly if the festival was going to continue, it needed a new home…but where? Serendipity came calling. JR attended a retreat at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch in Boulder, Utah, hosted by ranch owners Ron Johnson and Brandie Hardman, and he was so inspired by the event that he stuck around for 10 days afterward, helping with various projects on the property. JR, Ron, Brandie, and Scotty Whitaker of Solar Saucer and Building Man fame all sat down to talk, and the future of Desert Rocks became clear. It would move to Whitaker’s land in Green River, and Ron and Brandie would join JR as co-producers of the event under their Conscientia production company. Working with Whitaker and Conscientia meant that Desert Rocks was going to change more than just its venue. Brandie Hardman has a 20-year history of event production and had been organizing progressive and visionary events under the Conscientia banner for several years, and she and Ron wanted to see that same sensibility incorporated into Desert Rocks. Scotty Whitaker, aka Scotty Soltronic, has been running the eco-conscious Building Man Festival on his land for two years now and also had a vested interest in seeing Desert Rocks evolve to a higher level if he was going to play host. This was all music to JR’s ears. “Desert Rocks has always been a Leave No Trace event, but I was never before able to incorporate my inspiration for what it could be into the grander scheme of it. Ron and Brandie are doing some really

and we’ve signed on independent companies that carry a good message to their patrons. We really want to encourage a healthy lifestyle and healthy living, not booze and fast food! I’ve been to several festivals, and to Burning Man, and there’s this sense of community that people can experience with even thousands of people around, and that’s what we’re trying to achieve from beginning to end. Right at the gate, we’re asking each person to participate in three random acts of kindness. We want to set the tone so that it will be a really amazing experience for everybody. There will be a gifting tent and a hospitality tent, and plenty of shade and a chill lounge as well.” “Scotty Ron with artist Android Jones, who did the poster for Desert Rocks (and who did had been this rock painting at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch). coming out and the Evolver Spore will amazing things with Conscientia, to Desert be showing movies such as and it’s a great partnership because Rocks and Daniel Pinchbeck’s Time For it’s allowed me to work on that bringing Change and the recent remix vision I had. Ron knows so many more and of DMT: The Spirit Molecule. great presenters and artists, and he more proBrandie Hardman That visual remix was done has provided us with the contacts duction every with state-of-the-art graphand the financial backing to make year,” JR notes, “and so now he’s not ics by a group out of Germany and this a reality.” going to have to tear down his it’s phenomenal. We will be showing Ron is equally enthusiastic. “Anyequipment after Building Man to it on a projectable art dome—the thing that Brandie and I are move it and he and the Cosmonauts dome will house an art gallery involved with really has to hold can use all of that extra energy to inside it, but the movie projected on space for content that creates just build and build. I was really the skin of the dome will be visible change individually; within groups excited about this, because he and from miles away.” that are there, and within the reach his crew are such an amazing source when it comes to building metal artworks and big sculptures and structures that are really cool and unique. All that energy is being put toward just developing the venue.” The festival is also providing a platform for the producers to bring in presenters to address the future of the Green River itself. “I feel like there was some higher purpose for

Born on the back of a flatbed truck, Desert Rocks grew in reach and attendance until it finally became too large for its venue in the red rock country south of Moab. This year, Desert Rocks will bloom near Green River, Utah.

that that group has.” Conscientia has arranged retreats featuring visionary artists like Alex Grey and Android Jones, and writers like Graham Hancock and Daniel Pinchbeck. The company is also affiliated with Pinchbeck’s Reality Sandwich network and the Salt Lake City Evolver Spore, which brings progressive films and presenters to Salt Lake in an effort to inspire cultural transformation. “We said we’d like to see not just the music—rock, live bands, bluegrass, electronica, indigenous music, spiritual music, sound healing and so on—but let’s bring in other content as well. So we have a movie festival actually going on within the Desert Rocks festival,

For her part, Brandie is also happy to be helping Desert Rocks in its becoming. “There’s a shift that’s been happening with these festivals, where people are beginning to want to see a more conscious approach to how they’re produced,” she says. “Ron and I wanted to get involved because we’re interested in helping create a sense of community, not just creating a party where people come to listen to music. This is creating in a really fun way. We were selective about who we signed up for music, and we carried that attention to detail right down to the food that’s being served to attendees. Our vendors are using sustainable practices and serving healthy food,

If you go (what you should know): Desert Rocks will feature three stages—two at either end of a horseshoe-shaped “esplanade,” and one in the center. The Planet Stage where acts like Beats Antique will be performing will be rigged for silk and aerial performances, and will face the Cosmic Stage at the other end of the horseshoe. Gates open at the Jenk Star Ranch at noon on Thursday, June 7, and the music starts at 3pm that day. The event runs through dawn on Monday, and the camping area closes and everyone must be moved out by 2pm. The festival runs rain or shine. Tickets are $140 online as CATALYST goes to press, and price tiers will

us to move to Green River,” JR continues. “It’s the third most important tributary river on the planet, and as a major part of the Colorado River it did most of the carving out of the Grand Canyon, yet it’s under threat by various interests including a tar sands project and a nuclear power plant.” JR and his co-producers are hoping that when attendees get to experience the beauty of the area and understand the issues at stake, they will also understand what Utah and the whole region will stand to lose. The Water Keepers Alliance will be in attendance, and Rocky Anderson will also be speaking. Desert Rocks is on target to fulfill its producers’ aspirations of putting on a lush, conscious, and fully catered event in a dry desert. Food vendors include Simply Kurry, McDevitt Taco Supply, Zach’s Poppin Johnny Ice Cream, Java Go Go, Ice-Aholics organic shaved ice, The Pita Break, Sweetwater Grill, Omar’s Raw Foods, Pat’s BBQ, the Sustainable Living Roadshow's Tea Hut, and Sushi Groove. Attendees will have access to potable water for their camps, can purchase hot showers for $5, and are being actively encouraged to take care of their bodies in the harsh desert environment. As part of the vanguard of new conscious events, Desert Rocks plans to establish itself and its unique Green River venue as an unmissable part of the festival season. There's a lot more going on in the desert than people think, and music lovers, visionary art aficionados, and people interested in positive social change alike will enjoy the journey to go find out what's out there. Visit the website for detailed information regarding performers, presenters, participation opporunities and more. u Alice Bain is an editor at CATALYST and a Salt Lake-based artist. Look for her blog updates at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

increase as the event approaches. Camping passes range from $15 for a tent through $55 for a large RV, and there are several VIP packages available. Dogs are welcome for a $40 fee online or $50 at the gate, and shuttle buses will be available between the Jenk Star and Green River for those staying at hotels in town. People camping at the event should be prepared to follow sensible desert camping guidelines, and everyone should be prepared to follow the rules of the festival. Treat people and your environment with respect. Look out for your fellow music-loving campers. No mean people. Further information including performance lineup and movie festival details available at WWW.DESERTROCKS.ORG.

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9-11a; and finishing off Chicken Week, The 7th Annual Downtown Tour de Coops (sponsored by CATALYST) is June 30 from 10a-2p. Both coop tours are $10 and require registration. Chicken Week, June 23-30. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

Father’s Day outdoors Kids, bring your dads to the Swaner EcoCenter to learn about our local environment, explore a wetland, hike and take part in a stewardship project, and more. See website for full list of activities. Father and child outdoor adventure, June 16, 10a-1p. Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City. $5/group, members free. SWANERECOCENTER.ORG

Star Party Join park staff and members of the Ogden Astronomical Society for an evening of upward-gazing wonder. Meet at White Rock Bay Day Use Area just before sunset to look at the sun through a Solar Scope, followed by a 20-minute talk about space. Star Party, June 23, 8:30p. Antelope Island State Park, 4528 W 1700 S, Syracuse. $9 vehicles, $3 cyclists/walk-ins. STATEPARKS.UTAH.GOV/PARKS/ANTELOPE-ISLAND

Bats—Nature’s Do-Gooders

Burner Day Don’t miss this wild get-together of SLC area Burners! Hamburgers, veggie burgers, bake sale, cupcake walk, face painting, hula hoop workshop, volleyball, soccor, softball, fire performance, raffle and general shenaniganery. Public park—no open containers, leave-no-trace event. Burner Day, June 17, 2:30-10p (community meeting 2:30-4p). Murray Park Pavillion #2, 495 E 5300 S. FACEBOOK.COM/EVENTS/352300501501409

Outdoors Get Out and Garden There’s lots of great garden-oriented workshops and classes around town this month: Sustainable Landscape Design (June 8, 10-11a) is at the Conservation Garden Park (8215 S 1300 W, CONSERVATIONGARDENPARK.ORG). They’ve also got The Best New Perennials coming up (June 9, 11a12p), as well as the Waterwise Perennials Tour of the Garden (June 16, 10:30a-12p). Classes are free, but seating is limited. Wasatch Community Gardens (WASATCHGARDENS.ORG) is offering Storing and Using What You Grow (June 9, 10a), The YearRound Garden (focusing on four-season growing methods, June 9, 10a) and Chickens, Ducks, Turkeys and Fowl (June 27, 6p.) All are at the Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E. Lifelong Learning at

the U of U (CONTINUE.UTAH.EDU/LIFELONG) this month has Growing Gourmet Mushrooms (June 9, 9a-12p, $60), Garden Mainten ance (June 12, 7-9p, $72) and Vertical Gardening (June 14, 6-9p, $42).

Chicken Week In recognition of another form of food sustainability and urban farming, Wasatch Community Gardens is again celebrating our feathered friends with a full week of poultryrelated activities—a local egg brunch, educational workshop and two self-guided tours of chicken coops in the valley! The South Valley Tour de Coops is June 23 from 10a2p and features coops south of 2700 South; Chickens, Ducks, Turkey and Fowl workshop (how to keep and care for all varieties of backyard fowl, $10) is June 27, 6-8p at the Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E; egg-based brunch with all local ingredients at Squatters, 147 W Broadway on June 30,

Despite many myths and superstitions there are about bats, they are one of the most important do-gooders of the natural world. Discover the wonders of bats!

can fly—or do anything else you want to. Neuroscientists tag lucid dreaming a “hybrid state of consciousness,” since the dreaming brain and portions of the waking/conscious brain show simultaneous activation. Some, such as presenter Robert Waggoner, argue that it allows a person to interact directly with one’s inner self. Waggoner is one of the world’s most respected authorities on lucid dreaming, and the author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. Lucid Dreaming talk, June 8, 6-10p (lecture from 7-9p, social hour before and after). Main Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. JUNGUTAH.COM

Kirtan & Yoga Fest Don’t miss this evening of yoga, chanting, workshops, music, food and fun. The festival kicks off with a yoga class, followed by music and kirtan (call-and-response chanting) by Mantra Magic and Ananda Groove. Hot yoga meals and fresh juices served throughout. Kirtan & Yoga Fest, June 16, 5-9p. 965 E 3370 S. $10/$16 couple. UTAHKRISHNAS.ORG

Performance Of Meat and Marrow A mixed-medium ballet about “parts” by SB Dance, which bills itself as one of Utah’s most controversial arts group. Morbidly

Bats! June 30, 6p. Antelope Island State Park, 4528 W 1700 S, Syracuse. $9 vehicles, $3 cyclists/walk-ins. STATEPARKS.UTAH.GOV/PARKS/ANTELOPE-ISLAND

Festivals & Fundraisers Jammin’ for Justice This fundraiser for the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center features a concert by five musicians who were wrongly convicted and later exonerated of crimes they did not commit. The RMIC works to correct and prevent wrongful convictions in Utah, Nevada and Wyoming. There will be a pre-concert reception at Squatters. Jammin’ for Justice, June 10, 7p. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. $40/$30 students. Pre-concert reception, 5:30p. Squatters, 147 W 300 S. $75 (includes concert). RMINNOCENCE.ORG

Spirit Jung Society: Lucid Dreaming You know those moments when you’re dreaming, and you know you are dreaming? It’s called lucid dreaming. In that state, you

humorous and physical, the performance is for mature minds only (some nudity). Of Meat and Marrow, June 8-17. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W 300 S. $12-$17.50. SBDANCE.ORG

Film Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance This documentary tells the story of a groundbreaking cultural treasure. Narrated by Tony and Emmy Award-winner Mandy Patinkin, the film documents how the Joffrey revolutionized American ballet by daringly combining modern dance with traditional ballet technique, combining art with social statement and setting ballets to pop and rock music scores. Presented by the Utah Film Center. Joffrey, June 19, 7p. Main Library, 210 E 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

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Art Festival Frenzy June is art festival month in Utah, and we’re here to whip you up into an arts feeding frenzy with this month’s guide, whether you’re considering popping down to your local arts fest, or plan to go on a statewide arts-related bender.

Creative Arts Program Summer Camp If you’re looking to start your child (ages 3-6) on art, you both may find this summer camp appealing, with its focus on providing a blend of creative movement, drama, music and visual art that helps participating youngsters learn through visual, auditory and tactile/kinesthetic means while exploring a unique topic of the week (June boasts bugs, the Pacific Ocean and dinosaurs.) Minimum of 8 classes required; tuition starts at $230. CAP Summer Camp, June 12-Aug 16, 8:45a-12p. Sugar Space, 616 E Wilmington Ave. THECAPKIDS.COM/C-SUMMER-CAMP/

Children’s Art Festival and Summer Art Classes Please, won’t someone think of the children? The Springville Museum of Art is: They’ll be turning their front lawn into a playground for young artists with more than 20 booths featuring sand-painting, printmaking and the requisite face painting, so your budding Pollock or Kahlo can have fun and explore their own creativity in a familyfriendly environment.This event is free and open to the public. If you’d like to get your child more seriously involved in art, the SMA will also be offering two classes, “Adventures in Art,� for 7-10-year-olds, and “Focusing on Faces,� for 11-14-year-olds, that focuses on learning to accurately depict the individuality of the human face. Children’s Art Festival, June 8, 10a-2p. The Springville Museum of Art, 126 E 400 S Springville, Utah. SMOFA.ORG/MUSEUM.HTML?CONTENT_ID=230, SMOFA.ORG/MUSEUM.HTML?CONTENT_ID=211

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Ogden Arts Festival With over 60 booths on display and a solid lineup of live music, Ogden’s festival lineup makes it worth the trek. In the finest frontier tradition, artists will create a painting in a few hours (and these works will be available for bidding immediately after) at the miniplein air Quick Draw event, or create visuals on the fly in response to poetry read aloud by youth members of the Nurture the Creative Mind Foundation. Admission is free. Ogden Arts Festival June 8, 3-9p & June 9, 10a-8p. Ogden Union Station, 2501 Wall Avenue, Ogden, Utah. OGDENARTSFESTIVAL.COM/

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Prayers for Compassion th th July 5 through July 8 In celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday and dedicated to his continual compassionate activities. From the time of the Buddha to this present day, communities have made oerings to support prayers for compassion.

Summer Solstice Show The Utah Arts Festival’s pre-Festival show and fundraiser serves as the warm-up for the Arts Festival the following week. This year, Neko Case will headline the show, sending off Salt Lake’s summer concert season with a bang.

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Summer Solstice Show, June 16, 7:30p. Library Square Amphitheater, 400 S 300 E. UAF.ORG/PROGRAMS/2012-FESTIVAL/2012-SUMMER-SOLSTICE-SHOW

we invite you to come— day or night—through Sunday 2pm, to contribute in the recitation of the mantra of compassion for the beneďŹ t of others and self.

Utah Arts Festival The main festivation for most Salt Lake citizens, this year’s Arts Festival on Library Square brings not only 155 juried local and national artists’ work to the downtown marketplace, but will feature hands-on workshops with local (and internationally renowned) artist Pilar Pobil Friday and Saturday from 1-3p (as a follow up to her opening reception and gallery talk on Friday at 6:30p) as well as workshops in 19th century comic art style at SLCC Community Writing Center with artists and co-authors of the alternate-history-adventures Boilerplate and Frank Reade, Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. If you are more interested in the orative arts, you’ll find National Public Radio contributors and award-winning performers from around the world presented by Timpanogos Storytelling at the SLCC Community Writing Center, or Team Poetry Slam (for those who like to see competitive sports merged with the more delicate literary arts) on Saturday. Or forgo your vacation to the beach this year and

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ate Wheadon’s love affair with flea markets began with a pair of old leather English riding boots from a market where she lived in southern California. The relationship developed over the next 10 years with the help of Mexican feather craft art and cowboy shirts. It ripened when she stumbled across an old gun belt, vintage towels and hand-crocheted doilies. Returning home to Salt Lake, Wheadon wondered if a flea market of the type she’d grown accustomed to could work in the crossroads of the West. She found a business partner in Michael Sanders, a former New York City club and restaurant promoter turned downtown Salt Lake shop owner. The city and Downtown Alliance, eager to revitalize downtown, threw their support behind the idea. Last summer, the first Salt Lake Urban Flea Market opened. Word spread quickly, among vendors and shoppers. By the end of the year, Wheadon and Sanders planned to not only continue the market in 2012, but expand. The people of Paris, France may have inspired the modern American flea market. Around the 1860s, Parisians shopped at the “marche aux puces,” literally translated as “flea market.” The name, concludes author Albert LaFarge, paid homage to the parasites that infested the upholstery of old furniture at the second-hand sales. These days, Americans keep the tradition of second-hand outdoor markets alive and strong. Last year, Salt Lake’s Urban Flea Market joined over 1,100 other such markets, according to the National Flea Market Association, operating in the United States. Counting all of the swap meets, open-air, antique and farmers markets, there may be as many as 5,000 such venues. Millions of people sell their merchandise at flea markets. And each year over $30 billion changes hands across the temporary counters and booth tables. There is no end to the variety of these markets and their wares. Wheadon and Sanders wanted to avoid the hodgepodge of merchandise that can accumulate at such events, so they designed the Urban Market as a curated event, leaning towards a distinctly retro feeling. “There are parameters,” says Sanders. “We sell items that are antique, vin-

tage or retro.” They also welcome items that are handmade and local. Committed to helping strengthen the local economy, they love providing a home for the city’s small-time, independent artists, jewelers and clothing designers. For Sanders and Wheadon the aesthetic of the Urban Market is also a philosophy. Trash becomes treasure, and oddities like vinyl, vintage lamps and old Utah postcards swap hands instead of ending in a landfill. For those who went to the market last year, expect some changes. The market has moved to the parking lot on the corner of State Street and 4th South (just north of the City and County Building). There will be more vendors and larger,

Millions of people sell their merchandise at flea markets. Each year over $30 billion changes hands across the temporary counters and booth tables. more organized vending spaces. There will still be a handful of unreserved, first-come-first-serve spaces for vendors, but no space for food booths. Brad Wheeler of KRCL will be on hand spinning the market’s soundtrack. Wheadon and Sanders hope that the market puts some spice into downtown Salt Lake’s normally sleepy Sundays. Around these parts, the last day of the week is for rest and worship, whether in a church or in the mountains. But Sanders thinks that is changing. “The city is maturing,” he says, “ but businesses still don’t operate seven days a week. We need a reason for people to come here on Sunday, encourage restaurants and other places to stay open.” Wheadon agrees that having a quirky little market to shop at on Sundays will be a good thing for the city. But, she insists, it won’t be too different from what locals are already used to. “It’s a very Utah thing,” says Wheadon, who, like many of us, grew up combing through the racks of secondhand treasures at the local Deseret Industries. Now, people can satisfy their treasure-hunting lust even when DI is closed, downtown at a flea market. FLEAMARKETSLC.COM u Katherine Pioli fights fires, raises ducks, travels the world and writes for CATALYST.

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BY CAROL KOLEMAN a dog exercises a lot one day, it will likely eat more the next day and visa versa. It is the body’s normal reaction to try to maintain a healthy weight. What are the best commercial dog foods on the market? That depends on your dog’s reaction to the food. How are his bowel movements? How is his coat? Not all dogs will do well on every food. Speak with your vet about what’s best for your dog. ~~~ Be informed and work with your vet for what’s best for your dog, though be wary if what’s suggested is a product that has some “bad” ingredients listed (see sidebar on this page). Science Diet, a popular brand often heavily pushed by vets, has some of the worst ingredients. One petfood rep told me off the record that, like pharmaceutical companies, some major pet food companies give bonuses and trips to those vets who encourage clients to buy their dog food.

Product recommendation Stewart Raw Naturals (MiracleCorp) This raw dog food was tested by our expert tasters—Stella, Joe and Grace (Joe being the toughest critic)—and passed with flying colors. All three dogs loved the flavor, and I liked how easy it was to handle (or more precisely, not handle). Proponents of a raw diet for dogs say heat reduces the nutritional value of food; raw food provides more enzymes and amino acids than cooked, canned or kibble. Important ingredients for a healthy diet are essential fatty acids, live enzymes and antioxidants. Raw Naturals has all these. I was impressed to find that human-grade meat is used, with no additives, hormones or fillers. I mention in “Read” below about weighing the higher cost of quality food with its benefits. This company gives a good argument when it says that “lower quality food may need to be increased in order to provide the same nutrition as a smaller quantity of higher quality food, thereby increasing, sometimes even doubling its cost.” I did notice that when I fed the recommended amount to each of my dogs, the volume in the bowl was about half of what I use in dry food. The Stewart website includes helpful diet information and where to buy Raw Naturals. STEWARTPET.COM

Read: Feed Your Best Friend Better by Rick Woodford. Inspired to create nutritious meals for his sick dog, the author went on to open a homemade dog food company in the Pacific Northwest, and then wrote this informative cookbook for dogs. The chapter “Choosing a Commercial Dry Dog Food” fits well with Dr. Pam’s advice above. Re. higher food costs with quality food: Mr. Woodford says that though one pays more initially, there is a savings on veterinary costs later that are caused by substandard ingredients. DOGFOODDUDE.BLOGSPOT.COM Website: This is easily navigable website is dedicated to hiking with dogs, including a state-by-state search of where you may legally hike. This site is particularly useful with Utah being tricky with so many watersheds that don’t allow dogs. HIKEWITHYOURDOG.COM Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. —Pierre De Beaumarchais

What to look for on a dog food label Protein: YES for eggs, named meats such as chicken, beef, lamb. NO on meat by-products (slaughterhouse waste, rejected for human consumption), bonemeal or animal digest (which may legally include 4-D animals—dead, diseased, disabled, or dying prior to slaughter—as well as rats, roadkill, animals euthanized as shelters, and restaurant and supermarket refuse). Veggies/fruit: YES for yams, leafy greens (remember, dogs are omnivorous), carrots, broccoli, apples, blueberries, bananas. NO on pulps, powdered cellulose. Fats: YES for fish oils, chicken fat, olive oil, flax oil. NO on animal fat, mineral oil, soybean oil, beef tallow. Grains: YES for oats, quinoa, brown rice, millet, tapioca. NO on flours, soy, cornstarch. Preservatives: YES for vitamin E, rosemary and lecithin (natural preservatives). NO for BHA (butylated hydroxysanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).

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ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Clark’s Green Auto Garage 1/13 801.485-2858. 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 7/12 801.484.9400. 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 RHOdesigns,llc 4/13 801-971-2136, RHODESIGNSLLC@GMAIL.COM. Interior Design Services including space planning, color (interior & exterior), finish and materials selections; kitchen & bath design. Introductory 2 hour consultation available. Residential and commercial design experience. Rosine H. Oliver, IIDA WWW.RHODESIGNSLLC.COM.

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, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing hardwood. Free in home estimates. Please

Abode ~ Health & Bodywork ~ Misc. Movement & Sport ~ Pets ~ Psychic Arts & Intuitive Sciences Psychotherapy & Personal Growth Retail ~ Spiritual Practice visit our showroom. WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET, UNDERFOOTFLOORS@AOL.COM. GREEN SERVICES Concrete Raising Co. 801-487-2473. Is your concrete sinking or settling? We raise settled concrete to its original level—driveways, patios, basement stairs and porch steps, sidewalks, curbs, garage & warehouse floors, even stamped and colored concrete—all for a fraction of replacement costs. Call for a free estimate!

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 PETCARE/VETERINARIANS Dancing Cats Feline Center. 801-467-0799. 1760 S 1100 E, DANCINGCATSVET.COM. F

DINING Blue Star Juice and Coffee 2795 S. Canyon Rim (2300 E.) and 435 S. 400 W. SLC. 466-4280. Blue Star serves a wide variety of fresh vegetable and fruit juices. Create your own combination or choose from house favorites! Full espresso bar and large selection of breakfast sandwiches are also available. Drive-thru available at both locations. Wifi. 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. Coffee Garden 254 S. Main, inside the former 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 6a12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. 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. Wifi. Kathmandu 212 S. 700 E. 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; 5p10, Sun Noon-9 p. INFO@THEKATHMANDU.NET. 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 wifi. WWW.NOSTALGIACOFFEE.COM. 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

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an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-Th 12-8p, F-Sat. 12-9p. Pago 878 S. 900 E. 532-0777. Featuring seasonal cuisine from local producers & 20 artisan wines by the glass, complemented by an intimate ecochic setting. Best Lunch—SL Mag, Best Brunch—City Weekly, Best Wine List—City Weekly & SL Mag, Best New American—Best of State. PAGOSLC.COM. Tue-Sun 11a-3p, 5p-close. Ruth’s Diner 4160 Emigration Canyon Rd. 582-5807. 2010 marks Ruth’s Diner’s 80th anniversary. Join us in our newly redecorated, cool canyon setting. WWW.RUTHSDINER.COM M-Sun 8a-10p. The Star of India 55 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, 801-363-7555. An award-winning Salt Lake institution since 1990. Featuring a full bar, $10 lunch buffet with 20-25 delicious choices, salad, naan, and rice pudding. Tandoori style cooking. Specializing in chicken curry, lamb, seafood, halal & goat meat and vegetable entrées. All food prepared fresh and on premises. Parking validation provided. Lunch M-Sat 11:30a-2:30p, Dinner M-Th 2:30p-10p, Fri-Sat 2:30-10:30p, Sun 3-9:30p. WWW.STAROFINDIAONLINE.COM. Takashi 18 West Market St. 519-9595. Award-winning chef Takashi Gibo invites you to savor an incredible Japanese dining experience with Salt Lake’s best sushi, sashimi, small plates (Japanese tapas), and hot dishes from his tantalizing menu. Enjoy a beautiful presentation of classic sashimi or experiment with delicious creations from the sushi bar. Featuring an extensive selction of premium sakes, wines, Japanese and domestic beers, and signature cocktails. Mon-Fri from 11:30a.; Sat. from 5:30p.

HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 6/12 R. Dean Woolstenhulme, L.Ac 177 E 900 S.

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34 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. WWW.ALEXANDERTECHNIQUEUTAH.COM AYURVEDA

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sions 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, allergies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wellness. www.WebOfLifeWC.com NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 9/12 801-486-4226. Dr Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #202. Remember when doctors cared? Once, a doctor cared. He had that little black bag, a big heart, an encouraging smile. Once, a doctor actually taught about prevention. Remember “an apple a day”? 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! WWW.FULLCIRCLECARE.COM 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. WASATCHVISION.COM

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. FB 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 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 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

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

MOVEMENT & SPORT DANCE 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 FB 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, noncompetitive environment since 1986. www.charlottebellyoga.com 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. 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 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

Events Peru-Sacred Spaces With Shaman Juan de Dios Kuchos & Nick Stark Lima/Cuzco/Machu Picchu Oct 2012 • Only 5 spaces left Call 801-394-6287 or 801-721-2779 NicholasStark@comcast.net Kucho will be here June 7-24. Call Nick for more info

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SUZANNE WAGNER One of Utah & California’s Top Psychics SALT LAKE CITY SCHEDULE 6/29/12 through 7/5/12 8/31/12 through 9/5/12 10/20/12 through 11/1/12 11/30/12 through 12/9/12 RELATIONSHIPS WORKSHOP June 30 through July 1, 2012 10 am-7 pm each day. Cost: $200 includes snacks and manual for the course.

PALMISTRY CLASS Sept 1-2, 2012 10 am-6 pm each day. Cost $200 includes snacks and workbook. TAROT CLASS Oct 20-21, 2012 10 am-6 pm each day. Cost: $200 includes snacks, book, and cards.

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MEDIUMS Kathryn Miles 3/13 Psychic Reader, Medium, Channeler 801-633-4754. Internationally renowned psychic healer for more than 20 years. Experience a reading, receiving messages from guides and loved ones, peering into your Akashic records, past and future experiences and soul path. Classes available at my mystery school, The Lifting of the Veils, at my sanctuary in Sugarhouse. WWW.KATHRYNMILES.COM

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THE SHOP Yoga Studio 10/12 435-649-9339. Featuring Anusara Yoga. 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.COMB

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FB Ralfee Finn. 800-915-5584. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

Vedic Harmony—Jyotish Astrology FB 942-5876. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET ENERGY HEALING Evolutionary Spirit Shamanic Energy Healing Dee Ann Nichols, 801-638-0940. A graduate of the Healing the Light Body School of The Four Winds Society, certified in Advanced Client Skills and Mastery of Medicine Teachings, Dee Ann provides healing sessions, teachings and ceremonies in the Peruvian tradition of the ancient Inka. WWW.EVOLUTIONARYSPIRIT.INFO 10/12 Mary Nickle, LMT, CCP 7/12 801.530.0633. Aura readings, energy healing, class instruction in the intuitive healing arts, and Soul/Spirit Journeys; Colorpuncture, and the fabulous Bellanina Face-lift massage. The Energy-Medicine Training for self-care begins soon! Located in the Center for Enhanced Wellness, 2627 E Parleys Way. WWW.TIMEOUTASSOCIATES.NET

Inner Light Center

A Spiritual, Metaphysical, Mystical Community

Sunday Celebration - 10 am Empower your week! Experience your own Inner Light!

Inner Light Institute: “Heart-to-Heart: A Pathway to Transformation� - Explore heart-to-heart patterns for empowered living. 6 week course begins Jun 7, 7 pm June Events at the Inner Light Center Venus Transit Sacred Celebration: Jun 6, 7 pm; love offerings Summer Solstice Celebration: Jun 20, 6:30 pm; pot luck picnic All Welcome 4408 S 5th East; SLC; 801.268.1137; www.innerlightcenter.net

PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Crone’s Hollow 8/12 2470 S. Main St. Have life questions? Get the clarity you need & reclaim your future with an intuitive and personal psychic consultation. $20 for 20 min. We also have metaphysical supplies! Cash/credit cards accepted. Thurs-Sun. Walk-ins welcome. 801.906.0470, WWW.CRONESHOLLOW.COM

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BY RALFEE FINN making it possible to begin to identify its effect. Uranus is infamous for unpredictable plot twists, and as this square pulls apart, we’re sure to see surprising developments, personal as well as political. Astrology views all interactions among the outer planets—Jupiter to Pluto—as repetitive cycles that make it possible to recognize specific col-

All the movements for social justice—civil rights, gender rights, workers’ rights—have their roots planted in times of Uranus/Pluto interactions. change, and their combined light illuminates a profound cycle of individual and collective transformation. As you attempt to adjust to this concentrated energy, you’re likely to alternate between contradictory emotional responses, so don’t be surprised if you or those near to you are raw one moment and defended the next. You may also suddenly want to withdraw from situations you would normally embrace or embrace experiences you might otherwise shun. There are no shortcuts through this portal of change, and many of us are likely to feel anxious—even if what’s happening is positive and expansive. One of the best ways to avoid anxiety is to stay in present time. Remember, the past creates the present as the present creates the future, which is what makes now the most powerful position to occupy. The first of the seven exact squares between Uranus and Pluto occurs on June 24, which means all month long, as we approach this point, life could feel as if it is growing increasingly out of control. Some of us could be drawn toward challenging situations. Others might feel caught in an ever-tightening grip of responsibility. And still more could experience the elation of creative inspiration. As this square starts to separate at the end of the month, any tension generated by this contact will start to release,

lective cultural trends. From that perspective, all Uranus/Pluto contacts represent the intense process of revolution and transformation. Uranus catalyzes whatever is stagnant, and Pluto facilitates the process of death and eventual rebirth. Their combined force manifests as dramatic chain reactions that always engender shifts in attitudes and action. All the movements for social justice—civil rights, gender rights, workers’ rights—have their roots planted in times of Uranus/Pluto interactions. This current series of seven squares began with a Uranus/Pluto conjunction that took place from 1965 through 1966. Again, from an astrological point of view, the beginning of a cycle starts with a conjunction and sets the tone for what will follow. The ’60s were a time of disruptive upheaval, as a deep desire for personal freedom moved many to search for new, creative answers to the same disturbing patterns that always tend to mire us in the worst of what it means to be human: the exploitation of our fellow travelers on the basis of race, gender, religion, species, and economics. Now as we move into the first series of squares in this cycle, we will have an opportunity to assess just how much has really changed. From a surface glance, many cultural paradigms shifted during the ’60s, and certainly many of us enjoy

the benefits gained from those fierce movements for social justice. That being said, the causal level of those contractive patterns seems to have remained the same; some seem even more resistant to change. Fundamentalist movements around the globe appear to be systematically trying to roll back the rights of women. In the U.S., the specter of racism looms behind a concerted effort to discredit President Obama and oppose much of what he tries to accomplish. And certainly the economic disparity between the rich and the poor exacerbates racism and gender bias everywhere. Uranus and Pluto are both in cardinal signs, which are signs of action, and as these squares unfold, protests and demonstrations will increase. Last summer, when Uranus and Pluto were with one degree of each other, the Occupy Movement took hold. From a personal perspective, notice where you are facing old systems that continue to resist transformation and then be willing to dig as deep as possible to uncover the causal level of those patterns. The collective mood is a reflection of individual moods; each one of us contributes and participates through our personal choices in creating collective stagnation or collective freedom. The individual always has the power, which is part of the message of these Uranus/Pluto squares. Uranus signifies unique individual expression, and its position in Aries, the sign of individualism, highlights the need for personal expression. Pluto represents the power of death and rebirth, but those are just words that hint at its deeper meaning. Through Pluto we become aware of the greater, mysterious forces of life that are out of our control, and one of the results of that awareness is understanding just how little we actually do control. Pluto is the planetary lens through which we meet our what psychology would call our “control issues.” Part of the subtext of these squares is finding a new balance between personal authority and government and corporate authority. This

month, as Uranus and Pluto meet at a right angle, many of us will feel as if we are colliding with areas of life where we feel a loss of individual power. The combination of Uranus and Pluto signifies the potential to overturn the existing paradigm of inequality. Venus also contributes to the intensity of the month. She is still retrograde, in Gemini; her review lasts until June 27, and as Venus continues to revisit her recent past, the emphasis continues to be on reviewing relationships of every conceivable denomination—lovers, friends, cousins, neighbors, pets and pen pals. Venus also takes center stage on June 6, when a rare astronomical event occurs, the transit of Venus, during which an actual Venus/Sun conjunction can be seen. It won’t happen again for another 105 years. The transit of Venus on June 6 occurs in Gemini, nearly one degree opposite the position of the lunar eclipse on June 4. Lunar eclipses are about practical matters. Because Gemini is about the dissemination of information, we can expect a lot of data to be shared. Interestingly, during this eclipse, Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, occupies the degree at which Venus began her retrograde journey, so a lot of that information will be relationship related. Be clear and direct, and listen to others as carefully as you would want them to listen to you. As you move through June, try to remember that these are the times that grow the soul. Part of that growth process often involves facing the harsh reality of your own limitations as well as the inevitable disruption caused by the limitations of others. There is no “right” way through this planetary initiation, other than to have an authentic willingness to expand your consciousness as you simultaneously commit to doing whatever it takes to refine your ability to integrate and apply that expanded awareness. u Visit Ralfee’s website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or email her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

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the western sky at nightfall through June 20. Because Mercury is so close to the Sun, it’s hard to directly observe from Earth except during twilight. JUNE 15 Thin melon plants to one or two plants per hill, and bury each runner at two or three nodes to create additional roots. Water weekly with diluted fish emulsion until flowers develop. JUNE 16 The Mormon cricket is actually a type of katydid, not a cricket. According to recent research, Mormon crickets swarm and become migratory not just to find new sources of food, but to avoid being eaten by each by their hungry buddies approaching from behind. Seriously, they keep moving to avoid being cannibalized, and for insects, they move at a pretty fast clip (over a mile per day). Though other Mormon crickets aren’t the only thing that eats them: They’re preyed upon by rodents, crow, coyotes and, famously, California gulls (which are said to vomit after eating them). They were also an important food for local early Native Americans, who sometimes preserved them with salt from the Great Salt Lake. During swarms, some communities use loud rock music to divert them, though it’s unknown whether they dislike the genre or the vibrations caused by it. JUNE17 Jerusalem crickets aren’t true crickets either, but are in a

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they are Woh-tzi-Neh, variously translated as “old bald-headed man,” “skull insect” or “bone-neck beetle.” In Spanish they’re nina de la tierra, or “child of the earth.” Whatever you call them, they’re creepy looking, emit a foul stench and can deliver a sharp bite. They’re rarely encountered, though, as they live underground and usually only visit the surface at night. Though you may find a mangled one in your pond; the Jerusalem cricket is parasitized by the horsehair worm, which drives the Jerusalem cricket to drown itself, at which point the worm bursts, alien-like, out of its body. Ick. JUNE 18 Speaking of aliens: Some popular bedding plants, like double marigolds and overly-ruffled petunias, have been so altered by plant breeders that they no longer produce nectar or pollen. JUNE 19 NEW MOON. Astronomers recently discovered four nearby white dwarf stars surrounded by disks of material that could be the remains of planets much like Earth. One star, in particular, appears to be swallowing what’s left of an Earth-like planet’s core. White dwarfs are the leftover cores of stars that have burned through their fuel. As they near the ends of their lives, they may expand and engulf nearby planets and disrupt the orbits of others, causing collisions and creating orbiting clouds of debris. JUNE 20 SUMMER SOLSTICE. Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere at 4:09 p.m., as the Sun reaches its farthest point north of the celestial equator—the Tropic of Cancer—and begins heading south. The year’s earliest sunrise and latest sunset actually don’t coincide with the Summer Solstice; the earliest sunrise occurs on June 14, while the latest sunset won’t happen until June 27. JUNE 21 The Tropic of Cancer is the circle marking the latitude 23.5 degrees north, where the Sun is directly overhead at the moment of the Summer Solstice; the Tropic of Capricorn marks the latitude 23.5 degrees south, where it’s directly overhead at the Winter Solstice. When those latitudes were named 2,000 years ago, the Sun was in the constellation of Cancer during the summer solstice and Capricorn during the winter solstice —hence the names. But over time, as Earth’s axis of rotation has shifted (an effect called the precession of the equinoxes), the sun is now in Taurus during the Summer Solstice and Sagittarius at the Winter one. JUNE 22 The precession of the Earth’s axis

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is also affecting the positions of the north and south celestial poles. Currently, the star Polaris, known as the North or Pole Star, lies approximately at the north celestial pole; eventually that will change, and another star will become the North Star. JUNE 23 Utah has three species of carnivorous plants, all of which are water plants called bladderworts. Bladderworts are pretty and showy, with bright yellow, orchid-like flowers that float on the surface of the water to attract pollinators. Beneath the water, they have hollow bladders filled with tiny hair-like cells that respond to motion. When stimulated by water fleas, nematodes, mosquito larvae or event tiny tadpoles, the hairs cause the bladder to inflate and suck in water— and their prey. JUNE 24 Raccoons apparently like cities more than the country, and the challenges and opportunities of urban living are causing them to evolve rapidly, both physically and intellectually. In some areas, there are 50 times more raccoons inside city limits than in the surrounding countryside, thanks to the plethora of available food. JUNE 25 Mars, crossing into Virgo, is visible near the waxing Moon tonight. JUNE 26 FIRST QUARTER MOON. “Gnat” is a general term, and can refer to all kinds of tiny flying insects. In Utah, “gnats” are most often midges. Midges look like mosquitoes. They occur in huge swarms, usually in the early morning or evening, in columns rising up from the ground. Most midge species don’t bite, but the ones that do, often called “no see ums,” take a serious chunk for their size. Like in mosquitoes, only female no see ums bite, because they need a blood meal to produce eggs. Unlike mosquitoes, though, they don’t puncture the skin, but rather cut it open with scissor-like mandibles. JUNE 27 I may have to buy an iPad just for this app: Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe. It’s…wow. I mean seriously wow! The Wonders of the Universe series is also on Netflix. Look for Saturn to the left of the Moon, high to the south at nightfall. JUNE 28 While few grazing animals can tolerate it, stinging nettle is the favorite food of many butterfly larvae. Stinging nettle stems and leaves contain hollow hairs shaped like hypodermic needles that break off when disturbed and inject irritating toxins. Some stinging cells contain prostaglandins, hormones that amplify pain receptors in vertebrates and increase the sensation of pain. Conversely, nettle leaves contain compounds that reduce inflammation, and have been

used as an arthritis treatment for centuries. JUNE 29 The short-horned lizard, often mistakenly called horned toad or horny toad, can withstand much colder temperatures than most reptiles, and so is found at surprisingly high elevations throughout the state. Despite their spikiness and excellent camouflage, short-horned lizards are preyed upon by raptors, coyotes and foxes, and so have evolved

some additional tricks, such as digging their spines into the predator’s mouth (or in the case of humans, hands) and inflating their bodies up to twice their size, so they resemble a spiny balloon. If that doesn’t work, some species can, most impressively, shoot blood from their eyes. The blood can travel up to three feet, and contains a chemical that is particularly noxious to coyotes, dogs and wolves. Short-horned lizards mate in late spring and summer, and are viviparous, meaning they give birth to live young. They prey primarily on ants, but also dine on crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, worms and flies. JUNE 30 The Sun rises at 5:58 a.m. today and sets at 9:03 p.m.

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from a busy Sandy thoroughfare, my yard and neighborhood host an incredible richness of life. I encounter raccoons, squirrels, snakes, lizards, foxes, rats, mice, gophers, voles, innumerable birds and a whole universe of cool and creepy bugs. Not to mention a mind-blowing richness of plant life. And that, my friends, is why I’m taking a break. For the past several years, between working on the column and the book that sprang from it, I’ve spent more time writing about nature than experiencing it. It’s time to get back out there. I know I’ll miss writing “Urban Almanac.� It’s been a major part of my life for a very long time. And I adore my collaboration with the inimitable Polly Plummer Mottonen, who has made it a thing of beauty from the very start. I was also fortunate to have the so-very-talented Adele Flail as an illustrator for a year. During that time, we attracted the notice of Gibbs Smith, who invited Adele and me to turn the column into a book. The result, A Nature Lover’s Almanac: Kinky Bugs, Stealthy Critters, Prosperous Plants and Celestial Wonders is truly a dream come true. I started fantasizing about writing a book sometime around fifth grade, though at the time, I didn’t imagine it would include bug sex and vomiting amphibians. Anyway, I’m looking forward to spending some time outside and away from my computer, and to exploring ideas for a future iteration of “Urban Almanac�— or something entirely new. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know. I’ll undoubtedly be back soon, because writing for CATALYST is as essential to me as rich soil and sunshine. Until then, I’ll be in the garden. Thanks for reading. u

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hen I began writing this column 17 years ago, I wasn’t really sure what to do with it; I just knew I wanted to write about things that would keep me grounded in the here and now. I was a new and enthusiastic gardener, winter was approaching and I didn’t want to lose that deep sense of grounding that comes with tuning in to natural cycles. Then, as now, the column was all over the place—well, actually even more so. It touched on gardening, astronomy and biology, as well as the origins of Western holidays (which are all rooted in natural cycles), famous people’s birthdays, and even a bit of dime-store astrology. It was random, but fun to research and write. Then, about a year in, I stumbled across a fact that finally gave me a vision for the column, and inspired me to dig ever deeper into my research. The information was this: When a frog eats something disagreeable, it disgorges its entire stomach, brushes out the offending item, and stuffs its stomach back down its throat with its right front leg, which slightly longer than its left for that sole purpose. I was gobsmacked. I mean, how fabulous is that? How amazing is it that frogs have evolved such an intricate mechanism for puking? And so it became my mission to assemble facts so weird and wonderful (and, ideally, kinda gross) that my readers would be compelled to look at the natural world with fresh eyes. In the process, I got serious about organic gardening, as it was my entry into the ecosystem of the Wasatch Front. And the more engaged I became with all of crazy-fascinating organisms that share our space, the more I wanted to nurture and protect them—and inspire you to do the same. I’ve now been gardening in the same yard for 18 years, and I’m still amazed and enthralled every time I step outside the door. Though I live a mere half-block

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far away that it doesn’t block the Sun—even though it’s actually four times bigger than the Moon. Transits of Venus occur in pairs at eight-year intervals separated by over a century. The last one was June 8, 2004; the next pair will be in 2117 and 2125. To view it, you’ll need special eclipse-viewing glasses, #14 welder’s glasses or a pinpoint projector. JUNE 6 There’s still time to plant basil, beans, beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, melons, peppers, pump-

Colorado, though many scientists believe they are somehow related to climate change. JUNE 9 Downtown Farmers Market begins. Some hospitals chains are now hosting Farmers Markets onsite, to encourage healthier eating habits. JUNE 10 Of the 31 species of snakes found in Utah, seven are types of rattlesnakes. Thanks to their distinctive warning, rattlesnakes used to be easy to identify—at least the adults were. Now, due to selective

IN THE HOME,GARDEN & SKY JUNE 1 The Sun rises at 5:58 a.m. today and sets at 8:52 p.m. The average maximum temperature is 82º; average minimum is 56 º. It rains an average of .08 inches. JUNE 2 Hugelkulture is the practice of burying huge amounts of organic matter (logs, branches and other yard refuse) in the subsoil underneath to create massive raised beds. While it takes a lot of effort up front, it’s said to create self-fertilizing, low-wateruse permanent beds. I’m a little skeptical about the sharp pitch on the beds (why wouldn’t the topsoil run off?) and the heavy nitrogen consumption that would occur the first couple years (you’d want to use alreadyrotting wood, and pack a lot of green materials into the top layers), but it’s definitely interesting. RICHSOIL.COM/HUGELKULTUr JUNE 3 Stromatolites (also called biostromes) are mats of blue-green cyanbacteria that grow in shallow, highly saline bodies of water. Over time, the calcium and other minerals precipitated by the colony harden, forming ever-growing dome-shaped structures. Among the oldest organisms on Earth, stromatolites were a dominant life form for over two billion years, creating extensive, corallike reefs and flooding our young planet’s toxic, carbon dioxide-based atmosphere with oxygen. They helped form the ozone layer, which enabled the evolutionary development of complex organisms—such as humans. Today, living stromatolites are somewhat rare. One of the largest remaining colonies is in the Great Salt Lake, where they provide habitat for brine fly larvae and pupae. And while most of us don’t much appreciate brine flies, they are a critical food source for millions of migratory birds. You can see them off Buffalo Point on

Antelope Island, and at the mouth of the Great Salt Lake Marina. JUNE 4 FULL STRAWBERRY MOON. PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE. As it sets just before dawn this morning, the Full Moon will be partially covered by the Earth’s umbral shadow. JUNE 5 TRANSIT OF VENUS. Venus passes

kins, squash, tomatoes, turnips and all hotweather flowers. Extend your harvest season by planting successions of carrots, snap beans and corn every two weeks. JUNE 7 When you’re thinning crowded seedlings, remember to clip them off at ground level, rather than pull them, so you don’t damage the roots of the ones you’re keeping. Toss the clippings nearby as a sacrifice to insect pests, which tend to zero in on wilting or damaged plants. JUNE 8 Noctilucent (Latin for “night shining”) clouds are thin, electric-blue wisps, visible only during the summer months. Formed in the mesosphere, 50 miles up, where Earth’s atmosphere meets space, they are so high that they remain lit even after the Sun sinks below the horizon.

The Mormon cricket is actually a type of katydid, not a cricket. According to recent research, Mormon crickets swarm and become migratory not just to find new sources of food, but to avoid being eaten by each by their hungry buddies approaching from behind. directly between the Sun and Earth today, becoming visible as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun. The transit begins at 4:05 p.m. and will still be in progress when the Sun sets. Best viewing time will be 7:26 p.m., as it reaches the halfway point. A transit is similar to a solar eclipse caused by the Moon, but Venus is so

Noctilucent clouds were first observed in 1885, two years after the eruption of Krakatoa, and until the past two decades, were only seen at extreme northern latitudes. It’s not clear how they’re formed (they may be seeded by micrometeors or particulates from volcanoes), or why they’re now visible as far south as Utah and

pressure by humans, rattlesnakes are learning not to rattle. That’s because non-rattling snakes are less likely to be noticed—and killed—and so go on to reproduce. And those offspring are less likely to rattle. So, with non-rattling rattlesnakes around— and harmless gopher snakes that look very similar to rattlesnakes—it’s good to know the difference between poisonous and nonpoisonous serpents. Poisonous snakes generally have elliptical pupils (cat eyes) and a single row of scales on the underside of their tail. Rattlesnakes also have a pit midway between their nostrils and their eyes. Nonpoisonous snakes have round pupils and two rows of scales on the underside of their tail. JUNE 11 LAST QUARTER MOON. It’s time to prune spring-flowering shrubs, and divide early-blooming rock garden plants, like rock cress, ajuga and snow in summer. If you’re looking to reduce the size of your lawn without the effort of digging it up, you can plant low-growing ground covers around the edges and let them slowly infiltrate. JUNE 12 Ichneumon wasps are seriously scary looking, but totally harmless—unless you’re a tremex wasp. Adult female ichneumons sport what looks like a four-inch stinger, but is actually an ovipositor, or egglaying appendage. It’s used to drill into trees and lay eggs inside the grubs of the tremex wasp, which they parasitize. JUNE 13 Prune or shear evergreens as soon as the new growth starts to turn a darker green. JUNE 14 Look for Mercury, low and bright in

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