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ENVIRONEWS
April 2019
BY AMY BRUNVAND
What’s cool about snow? Cooler than lemons? One flake at a time builds a whole watershed. Is it foolish to imagine that little changes can have a big impact? —Nicole Walker (Sustainability: A Love Story)
Utah’s snowpack is great! It’s a good year for water in Utah. Snowpack is 124% of normal compared to a mere 58% last year. Spring runoff is expected to fill most small- to medium-sized reservoirs. Last year all of Utah’s 29 counties experienced some level of drought, prompting Governor Gary Herbert to declare a drought emergency. NCRS Snow Survey: NRCS.USDA.GOV/WPS/ PORTAL/NRCS/MAIN/UT/SNOW
Gov. Herbert attacks roadless rule Utah Governor Gary Herbert has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a “Utah-specific Roadless Rule” to replace the 2001 Roadless Rule that prevents building new roads in wild areas of national forests. The petition claims that new roads are necessary to reduce wildfire risk but it seems related to a conservative agenda pushing so-called “salvage logging” in order to avoid environmental reviews. The Sierra Club calls Utah’s request “a thinly veiled effort to increase development of these areas, under the guise of wildfire mitigation, with wholly unfounded scientific claims and virtually no public transparency.” Save Our Canyons says in the past 15 years fewer than 10% of Utah wildfires were in roadless areas. Utah Specific Roadless Rule: OURFORESTS.UTAH.GOV/ Save Our Canyons: Utah’s Roadless Rule 101: HTTPS://BIT.LY/2HYVWDD
Mayor Biskupski sues over Inland Port Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the 2018 law that created an Inland Port Authority to develop Salt Lake City’s Northwest Quadrant. The lawsuit says that the un-elected Port Authority usurps city taxing and land use powers. The Port Authority is not accountable to voters, yet it can override city decisions regardless of negative health or environmental impacts.
Kids Climate March in Utah
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On March 15, hundreds of teenagers skipped school to rally at Utah’s state capitol as part of a global Youth Climate Strike. On the capitol steps, protestors took turns riding stationary bicycles to power a microphone for speakers. The global skolstrejk för klimatet was organized by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg who began a weekly solo vigil at the Swedish parliament on August 20, 2018. School-strike organizers estimate that 1.4 million young people around the world joined the protest.
Congressional hearing on Monument downsizing On March 13 the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Forgotten Voices: The Inadequate Review and Improper Alteration of Our National Monuments. Representatives from the Ute Indian Tribe, Zuni Pueblo and Hopi Tribe spoke in support of Bears Ears. Dana Waggoner from Escalante Outfitters testified that local voices were excluded from the review of Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument. She said that Interior Secretary Zinke “came and went without meeting with our Chamber of Commerce or any
pro-monument businesses.” At a public meeting in Garfield County Waggoner said, “There was not enough room to seat all the citizens and we were asked to sit on one side of the room if you supported the monument and the other side if you opposed the monument. Friends and neighbors divided.” Waggoner says that due to the downsizing visitors are arriving in Escalante saying, “We decided to visit before the monument is destroyed.” Forgotten Voices Hearing:
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Conservation groups oppose Utah oil shale development A coalition of eight conservation groups has issued a notice of intent for a lawsuit to block oil shale development in Utah’s Uinta Basin. The Trump Administration recently granted approval for Enefit American Oil (an Estonian company) to build a utility corridor across federal public lands in order to access oil shale property leased by the State of Utah. The development would suck 10,867 acre-feet/year out of the Green River and destroy habitat for endangered Grahams beardtongue and White River beardtongue. Conservation groups say that climate change and environmental damage from strip mining should also be considered part of the environmental impact. Groups on the lawsuit include Grand Canyon Trust, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Living Rivers, Waterkeeper Alliance and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.
Climate deniers in Congress Recently members of Utah’s congressional delegation have engaged in particularly embarrassing climate change denial. At a Western Caucus news conference in February, Rob Bishop (R-UT-1) claimed that a proposed Green New Deal would outlaw hamburgers. He repeated the absurd idea in an angry letter to Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ-3), the new chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, when he wrote, “The important question facing the Committee is not whether we are all going to die in 12 years if we continue to eat hamburgers.” Grijalva scolded Bishop in his reply: “It is not simply industry attempts to deny science you do not wish the public to hear about; you and other Republicans on the Committee have repeatedly stated that the House Natural Resources Committee should have no interest in the Earth’s changing climate at all. That was clearly your belief as Chairman. It is not mine.” Meanwhile Chris Stewart (R-UT-2) declared himself opposed to Trump’s declaration of a border-wall emergency saying, “My fear is, what is the next democrat going to do when he or she thinks that climate change is a national emergency?” Stewart and Bishop both voted against a resolution to terminate Trump’s fake emergency.
Rebeca Solnit honored with Utah Award Environmental writer and historian Rebecca Solnit has received the second annual Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities, a $10,000 prize given by the University of Utah Environmental Humanities Graduate Program. Solnit, who is the author of 20 books, has said that anti-nuclear activism at the Nevada Test Site taught her how to combine personal essays, journalism and art criticism into complex essays. After the 2016 presidential election, she became the voice of the resistance when she offered a free download of her book Hope in the Dark. Her most recent book, Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado explores the wreckage of Lake Powell in the age of climate change. The inaugural Utah Award was given to Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh in 2018. ◆
BOOK REVIEW Sustainability: A Love Story, by Nicole Walker (Ohio State University Press, 2018, 284 pp. )
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ho could resist a love story about sustainability? Walker’s previous book of personal essays, Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013) is about watersheds and growing up in Salt Lake City with an alcoholic father. Her new book is about family and living with the existential threat of climate change. It opens with the author sipping wine on her porch in Flagstaff, Arizona fretting about drought and the probability that wildfire might consume her house. “We have to move,” she tells her husband in a panic and he responds, “What are we going to do? Spend our lives chasing water? What will we do for jobs?” “I know. I know,” Walker writes, “But isn’t staying some kind of suicide?” It smacks of privilege to imagine being able to outrun climate change, but nonetheless it’s something many of us have lurking in the back of our minds. How bad is it really going to get? Will I be able to keep my family safe? Can I sell before climate change undermines real estate values? And if I’m really so worried, why am too paralyzed to do anything about it? In any case, Walker knows how shallow she sounds. “It’s hard to make an impact,” she writes. “No one wants to listen to a short blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway, who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels tsk tsking them.” Nonetheless, as far as sustainability goes, she’s trying as hard as any of us. She has a rain barrel and an extra bin to recycle glass. She plants milkweed for monarch butterflies, worries about the welfare of farm animals
and nags her co-workers to turn off the lights. She calls herself “Judgy McJudgerson” for giving the stink-eye to a man idling his Cadillac Escalade in the school parking lot. At Sam’s Club she quarrels with her husband for buying paper towels, shouting, “The planet’s going to hell and you don’t care if it’s scorched and burned for your kids. Sorry, kids, get another planet.” Walker says her book is about “how one person’s sustainability is another person’s suicide…. our comfort trumps our knowledge.” She writes, “Sustainability has a ring of lifestyle to which we’ve become accustomed about it. Let’s sustain what we have now. No one wants to make that many changes.” By “no one,” of course, she means no one who is comfortably middle class. “In America, white people usually get what they want,” she acknowledges. “You want paper towels to wipe down the counters? Here’s a tree.” When she gripes to her husband about the wastefulness of bottled water, he points out, “People on the rez don’t have taps.” Though she visits some dark emotional places, Walker’s voice is human and funny. She imagines a fantasy Portland, Oregon as an unattainable utopia of watery, sustainable perfection. Of Utah she writes, “It’s harder in the desert. The lovables are farther and fewer between. Scarcity makes every living thing, even living dirt, lovable. Living dirt, the kind where the cryptobiotics knit the soil into the earth, does not turn to a sandstorm. It does a lovable and good job of staying on the ground.” This kind of wry insight makes me want to read more. For one thing, Walker’s interior dialog sounds a lot like what goes on in my own head. For another, as a fellow Utahn I do in fact find cryptobiotic soil lovable. —Amy Brunvand
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ot to sound too utopian, but borders only exist on maps. They are conceptual art at its best. You can’t fly over the land and see outlines of the countries and states we were required to memorize in grade school, much less the counties and county seats. Ideally, all states would just be perfect rectangles or we could divide the country into a pie chart, allowing you to stand in all of the lower 48 states at once somewhere around Lawrence, Kansas. We could do this if not for a small thing called politics. I’m only going to mention in passing that border which has been so frequently in the news. If that wall is completed, though, it could sadly qualify as a border you could see from a flyover. This reminds me: I don’t know about Mexicans stealing our jobs,
BY DENNIS HINKAMP dog was snorting and yapping in the back seat. We were never asked to produce documentation for the dog even though she was born in Russia. I repeat: Borders are insane. Somehow, they let us into Alberta. Speaking of country borders, h a v e you ever gone to Franklin County, Idaho for the scenery? You probably have not. Idaho offers liquor and lottery ticket sales 24/7 and many a Utahn has driven across this imaginary line to risk the wages of sin. We just experienced the weirdest county border law in the history of history on our hot springs tour last week. In Inyo County, California you are not allowed to wear bathing suits in public or private hot springs pools. Though this sounds titillating, it is mainly vexing. It means if you are a heterosexual couple and you want to go into a big pool, you have to go on his/her sides of the hot
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springs wall. If you want to go together you have to go into one of these little hot pool rooms with locking doors. I spent my formative hippie liberal years in Columbia, Missouri (Go Tigers!) in the late 1970s. Though you may think of the mid-Missouri as a backwater humid hole, we did some pretty progressive things before the Internet. We got the construction of a nuclear power plant shut down and we got a countywide five-cent deposit on cans and bottles. The trouble was this only applied to our little slice of Boone County idealism. Adding 30 cents to the price of a six-pack in those days was enough to get you to drive over the border. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp still supports the border that keeps people “off my lawn!”
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK
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t the Intermountain Sustainability Summit, a third grade school teacher asked Paul Hawken, editor of Drawdown, how she should teach her young students about climate science. “I would teach third graders how to fall in love and be in awe,” he answered.” Then when they grow up, they are motivated to engage with life and nature. “Carbon is incredible,” he said. In fact, he is working on a book about carbon. “It’s a love story about life, about living systems.” The first line of the book, reported elsewhere, is “Carbon is the element that holds hands and collaborates.” It’s gregarious, and a shape shifter— from diamonds to French fries to grasshoppers. Carbon is our ally, not our enemy. “It’s about rewilding, resonance and earthlings.”
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ast month the CATALYST staff and interns attended the Intermountain Sustainability Summit at Weber State University in Ogden. A highlight for everyone was the keynote by Paul Hawken, who conceived of and edited Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (DRAWDOWN.ORG). Many stories in the March CATALYST focused on what’s already happening along these lines in Utah. Notice it says “reverse”—not fight, or combat. The book is free from war and sports lingo, and also from warning, guilt, demonization and shaming. “The human brain doesn’t respond to future existential threat,” Hawken said. “Ninety-nine percent of the human population is disengaged regarding the biggest challenge the human race has ever experienced. We need to change how we talk about it. What are the possibilities inherent? Every prob-
lem is a solution in disguise.” Even without climate change, the ideas in this book are so desirable. Take Solution #11, Regenerative Agriculture: “Farmers have turned the soil to dirt and they’re going broke. Now many are turning to regenerative agriculture. They’re sequestering carbon like crazy. There’s more life in the soil. The soil has better water retention, which prevents erosion.” Wind turbines are now the most economical form of energy in the world. “Savings have doubled since this book was written,” he says. People are concerned about habitat, warmth, food and security. Eight of the top 20 solutions are food-related. Read about one of them in this issue, in the Zero Waste column. Enjoy this issue. And let me know what you think. ◆ —Greta deJong Greta Belanger deJong is the editor and founder of CATALYST.
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GARDEN PLANS ation (and sometimes misinterpretation) of the term “xeriscape.”
The way you water matters
Waterwise gardening Tips on plant selection and irrigation from the lead horticulturalist of the Water Conservation Garden at Red Butte Garden BY FRITZ KOLLMAN
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here has never been a better time to start using less water in your landscape! As the population of the valley grows, water use rates and prices are sure to increase. If you install a lowwater garden or landscape you’ll improve the appearance of your property and save money in the long term by simply growing plants appropriate for the local climate. You can rest easily knowing that you’re not using your great grandchildren’s resources just to be in keeping with the neighbors and their chemically saturated, over- watered, ecologically dead but very green lawn. There are many wonderful water-wise plants you can choose that provide nectar for pollinators, look fantastic in the landscape and require less fertilizer and labor. Approximately 50% of household water use in Utah goes towards lawns and landscapes. Sadly, much of this goes towards water-hog-
The easiest and least expensive way to save water in your landscape is to make sure your irrigation system does not leak, overspray or produce a fine mist when running.
ging plants that refuse to look good no matter how much you water them. Consider the halfburnt Norway maples, whose branches soar above the scorched earth that Salt Lake City residents call lawns. Now imagine a landscape that uses fewer resources, looks beautiful and provides numerous ecological benefits…this could be your new water-wise landscape! Even if you love your current garden and lawn, there are small steps you can take to conserve water. You don’t need to change out your entire landscape to reap the benefits of waterwise gardening practices.
Terms There can be confusion surrounding the terms used to describe both plants and design styles in low water gardening. Water-wise: A waterwise plant is one that requires less water than traditional garden plants throughout the growing season. The terms ‘lowwater’ or ‘xeric’ can be used to describe these plants as well. Drought tolerant: A drought tolerant plant is able to survive a period of drought. A drought tolerant plant does not necessarily require less water throughout the growing season in order to thrive. Xeriscape: A landscape that requires minimal or no irrigation after it is established. Zeroscape: A misspelling and mispronunci-
A common limiting factor in convincing people to convert their existing landscape to lowwater landscapes is the notion that you’ll have to entirely replace your irrigation system. That can be costly and complicated. Fortunately, you don’t have to completely switch out your irrigation system to accommodate the change in plants and reduce water use. Significant amounts of water are wasted by improperly managed irrigation systems. The easiest and least expensive way to save water in your landscape is to make sure your irrigation system does not leak, overspray, or that your sprinkler heads produce a fine mist when running. The fine droplets of water often do not reach the ground and simply evaporate before they can be used by the plants. Use a programmable timer with a rain sensor and a soil moisture sensor to avoid watering while it is raining or when the soil is already wet. Provide a consistent watering schedule that is seasonally adjusted. Water at night or in the very early morning (between 10pm and 8am) to reduce water loss through evaporation. You can also reduce water consumption through the use of large droplet spray heads. Your existing sprinkler heads can be traded out for heads called rotary nozzles which deliver larger sized water droplets. These large droplets reduce the amount water lost through evaporation by up to 60%. The timing of the spinning nozzles on a rotary nozzle head allows for droplets to infiltrate into the soil before
more droplets fall in the same spot, this feature can reduce waste from runoff by up to 40%. Drip irrigation systems provide the largest water savings over time. There are several styles that work well for the home landscape. Porous pipe or soaker hoses are best for areas where annuals, like vegetable and bedding flowers, are grown. Soaker hoses are placed on the surface and moisten the surface of the soil. This even moisture over the surface
aids in germination of seeds as well. Soaker hoses are easily moved aside when required. Drip irrigation lines with pre-installed emitters (holes) are used at Red Butte Garden, in commercial applications and home landscapes, to great effect. These lines, placed on the surface of the soil, would ideally be covered with mulch. Drip irrigation lines with root intrusion protection and pre-installed emitters can also be buried beneath the soil (up to one inch). Burying the lines keeps the garden looking tidy and increases the longevity of the lines by protecting the plastic from sun damage. Drip irrigation lines with punch-in emitters are best for shrubby landscapes where a broad application of water across the entire surface of the soil is not desired. Punch-in emitter drip lines are effective when used in landscapes that will ultimately be truly xeric, as they are easily removed after plants are established. Keep in mind that gardens look best when drip lines are either slightly below the surface of the soil or at least covered with mulch so as to not detract from the glorious plants. One of the few problems with so many kinds drip irrigation is that they don’t not mimic rainfall in its distribution of water over the entire soil surface. Plants from the lowest rainfall regions are adapted to spread their roots shallowly over a very wide area in order to maximize absorption of rainfall. Some Utah native plants do this as well. Keep an eye on your drip irrigation system, regardless of type, to ensure that the entire surface of the soil is wetted each watering and that water is actually getting to where you want it. Managing runoff from your irrigation system will provide savings as well. Ensure that water is not flowing down the gutter while your sprinklers are running. You may need to adjust the spray pattern on your irrigation heads or add small berms to the landscape to keep water from flowing off into the street. On steep sites, larger berms can be created to keep water in and around the root zones of plants. There are good online resources that can guide you in constructing passive water harvesting elements. The work of Brad Lancaster is particularly inspiring. Adding plants like grasses and sedges as a filtering and soilcatching piece helps control erosion that comes with slopes and runoff issues. Many low-water plants that thrive in the Salt Lake Valley are adapted to dry summers, so ad-
just your watering practices accordingly. Regionally native plants get the bulk of their moisture in the winter and spring as well. Replicating, as best you can, the moisture patterns that exist where your plants are from is essential to their survival. However, plants from dry summer climates will still benefit from a few deep soakings, about once every three weeks, over the course of the hot season. This helps keep them looking good and keeps plants from losing their leaves during extremely dry summers. Proper establishment of new plants in your low-water garden will determine how well they survive the high temperatures and dry conditions of our summers. Deep, regular watering (two or three times per week) is necessary during the establishment phase (approximately two years). Ideally the soil should be moistened to a depth of eight inches with each watering. After plants are established, watering frequency can be reduced. Improper planting depth and constantly wet conditions around the crown of low-water plants often kills them. Be sure to plant your plants so that the top of the root ball is level with the surrounding soil and that water drains into the soil quickly. Keep mulch away from the stems of plants as well, as this can cause plants to rot and die.
Renovation and design Low-water gardening can be practiced in any location; however, some sites are better than others. Ideally, your garden site will receive a full day of unobstructed sunlight and be free of large trees which can make estab-
lishing a new garden somewhat more difficult. Sunny garden sites allow for more creative and diverse garden designs as there is a richer palette of plants that prefer full sun. Shady, treed sites can be planted with lowwater use plants as well. With shady sites, keep in mind that the existing watering regimen will need to be maintained or even increased to ensure the health of the existing trees. Large trees can be difficult to underplant due to intense competition from tree roots which are often just under the surface of the soil. Disturbing the roots of some trees can cause them to push out a tremendous amount of new root growth which can choke out your new plants. Sloped areas are wonderful sites for low-water gardens, as they provide the well-drained position that many low-water plants desire. Careful observation of your garden site will help you determine the best locations for your plants. Map your garden for duration and intensity of sunlight, water accumulation, frost pockets and areas warm up first. Use this information to guide your plant choices. Do you use your lawn? If you don’t spend time on your lawn, consider removing your turf and replacing it with a low water groundcover, drought tolerant sod or garden. A soil test is recommended as you begin the planning process. Home soil test kits may be purchased at garden centers and, for a fee, samples can be mailed to Utah State University for testing. Simple home soil tests are helpful as well and cost nothing. A soil test will tell you what type of soil you have and what nutrients you might add in order correct any deficiencies and make your soil more amenable to lowwater plants. Incorporating a 1” thick layer of
So many incredible plants are appropriate for use in lowwater landscapes—flowering perennials that bloom all summer, stunningly bold succulents, shapely shrubs and incredibly tough trees patiently awaiting you at nurseries and local plant sales.
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Improper planting depth and constantly wet conditions around the crown of low-water plants often kills them. Utelite, pea gravel-sized volcanic cinder or other drainage-improving amendment into your soil is beneficial for clay and poorly drained soils. Generally, soils in the Salt Lake valley are high in clay and can benefit from the addition of materials that improve drainage. In Sandy and Cottonwood Heights soils tend to drain well and few, if any amendments are needed for them to sustain low-water plants. Take a long, hard look at your landscape and determine what parts of it you like the most and which provide the most benefit. Examine each plant element of your landscape and decide if it’s worth the water you use to keep it alive. It is likely that there is a plant with similar attributes, but lower watering requirements that you can substitute. Often low-water alternatives provide other ecological benefits as well. Sometimes removing a large tree that struggles through summer is a great way to freshen up the look of your home and land-
scape and provide an opportunity to replace it with something more appropriate. When designing your low-water garden, use plants that have the same water and light requirements. Grouping plants that have the same requirements reduces labor by allowing the entire garden to be watered at the same rate. This is called hydro-zoning. The design process can be intimidating and quite involved. If you are overwhelmed by all the options, start small. Choose an area of your garden that is on its own irrigation zone and begin by renovating it as a test plot. Using an area with its own irrigations allows you to reduce the amount water for that area while keeping your thirstier plantings happy as well. Select plants that are considered water-wise for your region. Keep in mind that the term “water-wise” is often used to describe plants that are well suited to a particular climate, rainfall amount and geographical area.
Native plants, provided they are appropriate for your conditions, are often a good choice. However, not all native Utah plants are low water use plants. Utah natives from riparian zones and high elevations require regular watering and often struggle when grown outside of the conditions they are adapted to. So many incredible plants are appropriate for use in low-water landscapes! There are flowering perennials that bloom all summer, stunningly bold succulents, shapely shrubs and incredibly tough trees patiently awaiting you at nurseries and local plant sales. Many garden styles can be achieved with low-water plants— you don’t have to limit your design to cactus and gravel. If designing a new garden is a daunting task, consider hiring a garden designer and also perhaps a landscape company to design, install and maintain your garden. While this may be expensive, doing it right saves you money. Let your chosen designer/landscaper know that you want a low-water landscape! Check your designer’s plant choices to ensure that they are truly low-water plants before approving a design. Despite some negative preconceptions about water-wise landscapes, they can be lush and diverse places that anyone would love to spend time in. Don’t allow your prejudices to keep you from improving ecological and stylistic aspects of your garden. Visit Red Butte Garden or your local nursery and ask a horticulturist for recommendations. ◆ Fritz Kollmann is the lead horticulturist for the Water Conservation Garden at Red Butte Garden. He designs gardens, works in his own garden and enjoys skateboarding in his spare time.
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nother legislative session has come and gone, and like most years before this one, there was a range of positive and negative legislation passed (or not) that affects our environment.
The good: HB 139: Motor Vehicle Emission Amendments, Rep. Angela Romero— aka the “Coal roller bill” After an unsuccessful go in 2018, Rep. Angela Romero was successful in passing this bill that increases the fines for truck owners who illegally tamper with their diesel vehicles to spew black smoke in the air, or “roll coal.” It is also now a citable offense when this action harms bicyclists, pedestrians or other road users. HB 353: Reduction of Single Occupancy Vehicle Trips Pilot Program, Rep. Joel Briscoe – aka the “Free Fare Days bill” The Free Fare Days bill creates a pilot program to expand the ability of the Utah Transit Authority to provide public transportation for no cost on days when poor air quality is building throughout the valley. The legislature funded $500,000 for the program, which covers about seven days—a good start, and one we hope will garner broader business and community support.
HB 411: Community Renewable Energy Act, Rep. Steve Handy In a first-of-its-kind effort, Rep. Handy worked with Salt Lake City, Park City, Moab, Summit County and Rocky Mountain Power to pass legislation to allow these municipalities to transition to providing 100% net renewable energy by 2030. It was a nail-biter at the end, but ultimately made it through at the last minute! SB 144: Environmental Quality Monitoring Amendments, Sen. Luz Escamilla With all the economic development to occur in the northwest quadrant of SLC, where the inland port is slated to be built, Sen. Escamilla’s bill requires monitoring of air and water quality in the area that will be critical for informing any mitigation of environmental impacts. Sound and light monitoring, which could affect bird migration, were removed from the legislation. Still, this is overall a positive step for environmental health in the region. Air quality appropriations: $29 million in one-time funding for air quality projects While nowhere near the full $100 million Gov. Herbert proposed, the legislature did appropriate the largest amount of funding ever towards programs to improve air quality—a big win. These programs range from wood stove conversions, developing electric vehicle infrastructure, and air quality messaging to funding a study on the links between air quality and our changing climate.
The bad: HB 220: Radioactive Waste Amendments, Rep. Carl Albrecht Much to our chagrin, this terrible bill quickly passed through the legislature despite pushback from the public and concerns by the Governor. HB 220 fundamentally changes the state’s nuclear waste policy by allowing class B & C waste into Utah under certain conditions, and could make it easier for EnergySolutions to bring in 800,000 tons of depleted uranium, which grows in radioactivity over time for millenia. Local environmental groups called for a veto by the Governor, but with the inclusion of a few stopgaps, he recently allowed the bill to pass into law.
SB 248: Throughput Infrastructure Amendments, Sen. Ralph Okerlund This bill diverts $55 million of Community Impact Board funds from community development projects to pursue a bulk commodities ocean terminal on the West Coast—aka a coal terminal—including one potentially to be built in Mexico. Ultimately, the coal market is on the decline and Utah should focus these resources on the transition away from fossil fuels, not subsidizing development. Or use them for how they are intended—for community improvement. HB 288: Critical Infrastructure Materials, Rep. Logan Wilde This bill allows sand, rock and gravel pits to be classified as “critical infrastructure,” and ultimately reduces the ability of local communities to regulate the expansion of or changes to operations of these facilities. This is troubling for the communities that are or will be impacted by gravel pit development, though some changes throughout the process improved the bill from its original state.
The controversial: HB 433: Inland Port Amendments, Rep. Francis Gibson The development of an inland port in the northwest quadrant of SLC has been controversial since last year when the state took away the jurisdiction of the land from the city. Primary environmental concerns include impacts on air quality, water quality, bird and wetland habitat and overall health of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem. While the heart of this bill shifted the port to a hub-and-spoke model that would more directly support rural Utah and addressed issues related to taxing and administration, some nods to the environment were inserted, including recommendations for higher-tiered diesel trucks to operate within port boundaries and renewable energy requirements. Some good bills also didn’t pass—we hope to see these come back: HB 295 Vehicle Emissions Reduction Program HB 413 Tax Credit for Energy Efficient Vehicles HB 98 Freight Switcher Emissions Mitigation SB 111 Energy Storage Innovation, Research, and Grant Program Act SB 146 Sales Tax Exemption Modifications HB 304 Fossil Fuels Tax Amendments (aka carbon tax We’re already starting to think about what can be developed and accomplished for next year, so stayed tuned for updates! ◆ Jessica Reimer is HEAL Utah's policy associate focusing primarily on air quality and radioactive waste.
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ood insecurity, where a person is without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, affects about 800 million people globally. More than 50 million Americans, including one in five children younger than five years old, are food insecure. Contrast this with the fact that approximately 40% of the U.S. food supply is thrown away every year. The facts are hard to swallow, but true: Nearly a third of food raised or prepared never even makes it from our farms or factories to our tables. This equates to $165 billion worth of food wasted—every single year. In Utah, about 600,000 tons of food are wasted every year. And 400,000 Utahns go hungry every day. Most food waste—approximately 63 million tons of waste annually, nationally—gets landfilled. Methane, a greenhouse gas that is 23 times more harmful than carbon dioxide emissions, gets released as the food waste decomposes in the landfills. If global food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter after the United States and China. Food waste is responsible for roughly eight percent of global emissions. It’s the number one item filling our landfill. Reducing food waste is the third best solution to reverse climate change. The good news is government agencies, NGOs and nonprofits are addressing our food waste crisis at all levels. Organizations like Wasteless Solutions are working hard to tackle these problems of food insecurity and food waste here in Utah. Dana Williamson, Executive Director, launched Wasteless Solutions, a 501c3 nonprofit, in February 2018 to rescue healthy, edible food before it gets thrown away, and then deliver it to those in need. “My passions are food, education and the environment and as I started to learn more, I wanted to be part of the solution,” says Williamson. As she describes it, she’s put together an “Uber for food waste.” What might sound like a complicated effort at coordinating donors
ZERO WASTE
We have a food waste crisis Wasteless Solutions rescues healthy edible food BY MARY MCINTYRE and receivers is done easily through the Food Rescue US app. Food Rescue US is a national organization addressing food insecurity across our nation. As a partner and affiliate organization, Wasteless Solutions can easily facilitate connections throughout the state. Organizations and volunteers use the app to register their availability or need. A food donor donates unused food at pre-determined times and it is distributed to nonprofits registered on the app as food receivers. Key to this partnership is the volunteer piece—the food rescuer—who picks up food from various donors and transports the food to the receiving agency. After registering, these volunteers are able to use the app to choose a time—for example, on their lunch hour, after work, on a weekend—to arrange a pickup and delivery time. Donor organizations include Bon Appetit Management Company (and their food service clients Westminster College, Overstock.Com, Mountain American Credit Union, and
others), the Utah Co Op, Joe Granato’s Fruit & Produce, Quality Produce, Jewish Family Service, the University of Utah cafeteria, the American Preparatory Academy, Muir Copper Canyon Farms, Lux Catering and others. The types of food being donated include fresh meats, chicken, seafood, dairy, fresh produce, and a lot of pre-packaged snacks like yogurts, fruit and pre-cut veggies— food items that cannot typically be donated through large food pantries because they are perishable. Receiving nonprofit organizations include: the Boys and Girls Club, Jewish Family Service food pantry, the YWCA, The Other Side Academy, the food pantries at East High School and Highland High School, Recovery Home, Life Start Village, Salt Lake City Rescue Mission and two senior centers in SLC. Since February 2018, Wasteless Solutions has rescued 66,000 pounds of food, from 26 donors, equating to 55,000 meals. These numbers are just a drop
If global food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter after the United States and China.
in the bucket of potential change, since the numbers equate to about one city block filled with restaurants. Imagine the impact if this model were the norm instead of the exception. There are simple steps we can all take to reduce our food waste. In honor of Earth Day on April 22, commit to making a difference by doing any/all of the following: 1. Check what’s in your fridge before you shop so you don’t duplicate items. 2. Make a list before going to the store and stick to the list. 3. Reorganize your refrigerator and make a shelf for “eat me first” items. 4. Understand what food dates mean. A helpful article clarifying food labeling: WB.MD/2MOXCKE 5. Eat ugly vegetables, too. 6. Freeze food if you’re not going to eat it right away. 7. Eat leftovers. 8. Store your food properly so that it doesn’t spoil prematurely. 9. Carry a reusable to-go container for leftovers when dining out or ask for smaller portions. 10. Be a Food Rescuer! Download the Food Waste US app and sign-up. 11. Keep a food waste diary to log what you’re eating and throwing out. 12. Take the Drawdown EcoChallenge, running April 3-24. DRAWDOWN.ECOCHALLENGE.ORG/ We can take many small steps that will make a difference. Learn more about other organizations in Utah addressing food insecurity and food waste: Backyard GardenShare Food Recovery Network—USU and University of Utah Green Urban Lunchbox Jewish Family Service SLC Green Fruit Share Slow Food Utah Utah Food Bank Wasatch Community Gardens Wasatch Resource Recovery ◆ Mary McIntyre is the former executive director of the Utah Recycling Alliance, a local nonprofit focused on programs that encourage reuse, recycling and resource conservation. MARYMC@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET
POLLINATION
Bring the natives home
Raising backyard native bee species is a plus—they sting less and pollinate more
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BY SUSIE GOODSPEED
reating habitat for native bees is one of the most fun and magical things I have done with my kids. These critters can be kept right by your door. Their close proximity makes it easy for kids to keep a curious eye on the bee habitat. And inviting them close to home isn’t a concern like it is with wasps, or even bumblebees and honey bees. Native bees tend to only fly about 300 feet from their nest so they stay mostly in your yard and don’t bother the neighbors. They are also considered “stingless.” The males of many native species are incapable of stinging and the females do so only very rarely. Native bees do not produce honey but they are master pollinators. Honeybees are not na-
tive to North America and it’s okay that they are here – they don’t compete with native bees – but they are not as effective pollinators as our native ones. And because of large declines due to habitat loss and persistent use of chemicals, when we say “Save the bees” it’s really our native bees we should be thinking of. Two main types of native bees are very easy to have in your backyard that benefit our gardens. The blue orchard mason bee is a stunning blue-black shiny bee. They are very fuzzy and hairy. They build their homes with mud, using it to make cell divisions in hollow reeds or blocks. In an orchard setting they have a 95% success rate of pollination whereas honey bees have success only 5% of the time. They come out only once a year, when apricot trees start to bloom, and live for six to eight weeks as they pollinate fruit trees and other spring plants. Giving them a good habitat is easy. They like to nest in reeds or tubes about six inches deep. Houses should be designed so that they can be opened and inspected for parasitic bugs. Parasitic bugs eat and take over the mason bee cocoons as they go into dormancy from about June, through the next spring until they hatch again. These beautiful bees are very gentle and easily held by a child. The males have a white furry mustache that is sure to elicit giggles. In a happy nest they easily quadruple their numbers every year. They are perfect for a home gardener to help produce more orchard fruit. The summer leafcutter bee doesn’t emerge until June. They are a much smaller bee and are used to pollinate alfalfa crops. For a home gardener, they help greatly with vegetable and berry yields. They cut small pieces of leaves from your roses, lilacs, peas, beans or other soft-leaved plants to line their cells. You can buy commercially made habitats and bee hotels for these insects but be sure you are choosing a safe home for your new hive. Many bee houses are not actually the right type of habitat and they may allow parasitic bugs to enter. It takes about 15 minutes of maintenance, once a year in early spring, to inspect and clean your habitat. ◆ Susie Goodspeed (shown here with her pal Mason) is a honey beekeeper and native bee activist. She has a small bee sanctuary and hobby farm in Payson, Utah. She offers bees and supplies on her Etsy page and teaches native bee classes along the Wasatch Front. @SUSIEBEEGOODHONEY
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SPEAK UP
Passing of the old guard
Remembering two SLC activists and old friends who died three weeks apart BY LARA JONES
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n Utah’s world of grassroots activists and community builders we recently lost two great men— Robert “Archie” Archuleta on January 25 and W. Paul Wharton on February 14. At a celebration of Paul’s life, last month, his step-son Steve Bogden held up an obituary page clipped from the one of the daily newspapers. The obits for Paul and Archie rested side by side. An apt representation, Bodgen said, of their work together to challenge racism, poverty and other social issues over the years. Their work affected many in our community. Later, at a memorial for Archie, his daughter Leticia also took a moment to honor Paul. “Someone very special to Archie, and to many of us here today, is missing from this celebration of life. I want to remember Paul Wharton as a friend and fellow peacemaker. We send our love and condolences to his family.” So many good stories and memories were shared at these gatherings, and during on-air tributes to each man on KRCL. We wanted to share a few of them here.
W. Paul Wharton
June 9, 1936-February 14, 2019 Stephen Holbrook, Founder of Listeners’ Community Radio of Utah
Ethel [Paul’s late wife] and I were active in the NAACP in the middle-1960s, and she used to hold court around her kitchen table, a tradition which she carried on after she and Paul got together. We called it ‘The Paul and Ethel Show’ because it was like a production. There were certain players, certain roles, and there was a conversation—mostly between the two of them. Sometimes if there was a dispute about the meaning of a word, Paul would get up and pull out a grand, large dictionary. And they would find the right word for the conversation. Paul and Ethel began to do research on mergers in local media and they ended up challenging KSL’s license. At the same time, I had been active in the civil rights and anti-war movements and learned a lot about media. So we came together around this issue and concluded that we needed a progressive media voice in Salt Lake and Utah. Paul and Ethel researched what the Federal Communications Commission would require to actually create a radio station. They sent me out to get the engineering study done, raise the money, build a board of directors and design the programming. Then Paul and Ethel put all of that information into the license request of the FCC. If Paul had not done this work himself it would have cost us tens of thousands of dollars to pay a Washington, D.C., communications law firm to do it. Erin Norris, grand step-niece of Paul Wharton Ethel and Paul taught me the meaning of community and caring about the people you live around. I learned from them to take pride in my community and to be active where you live. Ben Raskin, Erin’s husband Paul had gone to Harvard for two years. After he passed, I was talking with his brothers, Ralph and Lenny, about how Paul was so consumed with WHRB, the Harvard community radio station, that he forgot to go to class his third year and wasn’t able to continue working on the radio station. He ended up joining the military and he found himself at the American Force Network in Europe, out of Frankfurt, where for
three years he hosted a classical music show. Years later he said he was probably the last person to attend law school at the University of Utah who did not have an undergraduate degree. He had gone to the Dean and made an agreement that if he was able to have passing marks for his first year, they would allow him into the program for his second. Three years later he passed the bar and was able to get a job at Utah Legal Services. Paul always took his coffee with coffee, no cream or sugar. Paul’s kitchen was in the back of the house and you could see through to the front door. One day while I’m sitting there, oh my god, in walks [former mayor of Salt Lake City] Rocky Anderson. I know this guy, but the other question is how do Paul and Ethel know Rocky Anderson? Before he was able to attend law school, Paul was a taxi cab driver in Salt Lake City, and eventually was promoted, or demoted depending on how he would tell the story, to dispatcher. During that time, there was a guy named Ross “Rocky” Anderson who was another taxi driver. Paul would be dispatching Rocky up into the Avenues, but instead of saying, like, 62 K Street, he would go, “62 Kafka” or “137 Balzac” or “1638 Hemingway.” And Rocky was wondering, “Who the heck is on the end of the line?” Eventually they ended up connecting, and what you got there was two fiercely intelligent, politically active and motivated guys who had a love of literature and just knowing stuff.
Robert “Archie” Archuleta
July 22, 1930-January 25, 2019
Rocky Anderson, former Salt Lake City Mayor I met Archie when we both served on the Guadalupe School’s board in the late-1970s and the ‘80s. We worked closely together doing what we could to make sure that economically disadvantaged kids would have extraordinary early-educational opportunities. We knew the difference an early education could make for
students and then for families many generations into the future. So after knowing Archie all those years and working with him on these issues, when I was running for Congress in 1996 I called Archie to see if I could add him to my list of endorsements. He readily agreed. Then a few minutes after we hung up the phone and I wrote his name down on my pad, he called back. Hesitatingly, Archie said, “You know, Rocky, maybe you hadn’t better put my name on that endorsement list.” I was surprised; my feelings were a little bit hurt. I said, “Why, Archie?” He replied, “Well, I just want to protect you. You see, I’ve never officially taken my name off the roles of the Communist Party.” I laughed and said, “Our campaign is all about diversity and I’d been wondering where we were going to find a communist.” Maria Garciaz, executive director of NeighborWorks Salt Lake I was 16, sitting in the principal’s office at a local high school that will go unnamed because I was getting kicked out. At the time, Archie was working for the Salt Lake City School District and before kids of color were kicked out of school—I was one of five kids of color at this school—he had to do an exit interview. So I’m sitting in the principal’s office. I’m angry. I’m hostile. I’m going to beat up the next person who walks in the room. And who walks in but this little short guy with gray hair, with the kindest eyes that you could see, and I decided that it wasn’t a fair fight. So I sat back down in my chair and he pulled up a chair right in front of me. He said, “Look, I know it’s hard to be at this school because of the names that you get called. I know that you’re not allowed to compete in gymnastics because you’re a Mexican.” And he went through this whole list of things that I had experienced. I didn’t know this
man, but he said to me, with this look in his eyes, “Do you want to be the loser they think you are, or do we want to prove them wrong, God damn it!” And so, that was my first experience with Archie. I went on to graduate and go to college, and then he offered me a job working as a high school counselor. Later Archie invited me to help him create the youth program with NeighborWorks Salt Lake, which was a prevention program for young kids involved in high risk activities in Salt Lake City’s west side. He said, “Maria, we need to engage these young people who are starting to get involved in gangs and teach them about community building.” Thirty-six years later, this program has served over 4,000 kids. His impact has been incredibly tremendous. Rep. Angela Romero The beauty of Archie is that he mentored so many of us. To live a quality life, Archie believed you had to remember three things: peace, justice and equality. He always told me that sometimes you’re going to stand alone, but if you know that you’re doing the right thing, then you’re truly a leader. Sometimes when we think about leadership and mentorship, we think of people whose faces or names are in the paper, but that’s not how Archie led. It’s not how he mentored many of us to lead. He told us that sometimes a true leader leads from behind, leads from the side, and leads from the front. The way to honor Archie is to continue that philosophy of peace, justice and equality. That doesn’t always mean you’re leading from the front. Sometimes it means you’re leading from behind or from the sides, sometimes you’re supporting others to accomplish their goals and their dreams.
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As Archie’s nephew Marcus said at his uncle’s memorial, “Vaya con Dios, Uncle Bob, and to hell with that wall.” Now go out and make Archie and Paul proud by speaking up for peace, justice and equality in your own way. ◆ Listen to Lara Jones and Billy Palmer on RadioACTive, a show for grassroots activists and community builders, weeknights at 6 on 90.9fm KRCL. The on-air tributes to Paul and Archie can be found online at WWW.KRCL.ORG in the RadioACTive archives for February 22 and 26, 2019, respectively.
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GARDEN LIKE A BOSS
Grow a living mulch!
Kickstart your soil mojo with mycorhizal fungi and under cropping BY JAMES LOOMIS
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ature abhors bare soil. Bare soil is constantly losing soil carbon and the fertility associated with it. A garden bed with a full canopy of plant growth is actively increasing the fertility and life of the soil that comprises it. A cover crop, or “green manure,” is a fastgrowing plant that benefits the soil and the general garden ecosystem (for example, by fixing nitrogen or out-competing weeds) rather than serving primarily as a food source. Cover crops for gardeners typically include: clover, buckwheat, peas, annual ryegrass, alfalfa, winter wheat and oats. Plants dedicate a large portion of the carbon they obtain from the atmosphere into producing exudates—starches and sugars they use to nurse and nurture the communities of microbial allies necessary for good plant health.
These masses of microorganisms multiply and flourish, adding to the enduring fertility of the soil. In Utah, there often simply isn’t enough time to get our cover crop planted (one to two weeks for germination), give it ample time to grow (six to eight weeks), then enough time to reincorporate into the soil after turning it in (two to four weeks). We’d need to plant a cover crop in February in order to be ready to transplant warm weather veggies into the garden by Mother’s Day. I’ve done this many years and found regardless of when I plant, nothing germinates or starts performing well until late March. Enter some boss level solutionism. I’d like to introduce you to my friend, under cropping: the planting of our cover crop as a living mulch. Under cropping is the strategy of growing cover crops as a supportive understory to the
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all white clovers are not created equal—some grow quite tall. For under cropping, he suggests Microclover, Aberlasting White and White Dutch. A little bit of clover seed goes a long way. A mere five ounces (about a third of a pound) will cover 1,000 sq. ft. (that’s a 35 x 40-ft. garden bed). Why not get a whole pound of seed and share with a few garden friends?
main crop, rather than as an exclusive separate process in sequence. This is a style of interplanting or polyculture, the growing of plants in communities. This is a more accurate representation of how nature do. The easiest way to adopt this strategy is in the fall. When tall crops such as tomatoes, peppers, and trellised cucumbers are at their peak in late August, I prune away the lower unproductive parts of the plants, lightly rake the exposed soil, broadcast the seeds of a soil-building cover crop mix and cover with a thin layer of compost. The microclimate under the mature plants is perfect for establishing these new seeds and by the time the first frost comes, there will be a glorious carpet of clover (or any other cover crop). Many species in the cover crop mix overwinter and begin growing again in February. With this massive head start, we are able to turn the
While Utah Seed sells by the 50-lb. bag, you can find gardensize quantities of some under cropping clovers at garden centers and True Leaf Market, the retail limb of Mountain Valley Seeds in Salt Lake City (175 W. 2700 South). Several varieties are also available online at Etsy and elsewhere. Sprinkle it on and rake in lightly. It will germinate in 1015 days when the soil temperature is 50-60 degrees. You can find your soil’s temperature with an instant-read thermometer made for cooking.
cover under in early March and plant spring crops a few weeks later. Or, we can enjoy a massive infusion of organic matter into our garden beds by letting it continue to grow, and still have enough time to turn it under before planting our summer crops. Another strategy, more appropriate to our current timeline, is to get our cover crop started now and eventually plant our primary summer crop into it. This early planting will get the microbial mojo of your soil kickstarted. We can take this strategy to the next level and inoculate the cover crop seed with rhizobium bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi spores (available at garden centers and online). The rhizobium will form a symbiotic relationship with the clover, a legume, to “fix” nitrogen from the air to be utilized by following crops. The
Take this strategy to the next level and inoculate the cover crop seed with rhizobium bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi spores. mycorhizzae will form a symbiotic relationship with the clover to create a complex most easily imagined as super mega roots, which will also be used by the subsequent summer planting. This boss level strategy has been adopted by large-scale corn growers with an astute ecological savvy, resulting in a dramatically lowered dependence on fertilizer and a near complete suppression of weeds. Next level farming maneuver. But you, in your garden, can do this, too! While there are a number of significant benefits with this strategy, competition for water and nutrients between our ground cover and our primary crop is a concern. The first strategy is to plant the entire bed with our cover crop selection, then pull or hoe under 12-to-18-inch circles or long strips where our target crop is to be grown. This void can now receive transplants, which will have time to get established without competition, and well ahead by the time the cover fills back in. The cover can then be cut or pulled later in the season and left in place as mulch. You may choose to simply plant the edges of your beds so that you don’t have to manage for competition later. Because, why work more when you can work less? ◆ James Loomis is a fulltime urban farmer, educator and permaculture hooligan.
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GOOD, CLEAN, FAIR FOOD
Ham it up A local guide to your favorite Easter meat
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am is high on the list of favorites at our house. It is versatile. Leftovers are gifts. We use it for breakfast or as a sandwich for lunch. Eggs Benedict is nothing without ham. And you can cube leftover ham and add it to stir-fried rice for a rich and filling dinner. For Easter brunch, we serve sliced ham warm or cold – along with a huge spread of sliced smoked salmon, capers, mustard, rolls and bread, fresh fruit, cheeses, green salad, tabbouleh or other grain and bubbly beverages. But, back to the ham. On a whole pig, the ham is the top part of the rear leg (the front
Organic meats are getting easier to find. Go one step further and support a Utah organic farmer. legs are called hocks). It can be cut from the bone or processed bone-in. If you are preparing it yourself, you should know that ham has a big “fat cap.” Peel back the skin and trim the fat to your taste. Maybe leave at least a halfinch for moisture and flavor. Cured pork meats contain more fat and less moisture than uncured meat. If you have an uncured ham, it is recommended to brine for one day. Salt is the main ingredient when curing. Salt has been used to inhibit microbial growth for thousands of years. It was especially important in the days before refrigeration. It works by creating such a concentration of dissolved ions outside of the bacteria and mold cells that
BY JUDE RUBADUE water inside is drawn out across their membranes. The microbes dry up and either die or slow down drastically. Originally, meat was soaked in a strong brine solution or covered in salt. Today, salting is done for taste and less for preservation. You don’t necessarily have to brine your ham. I got an “uncured” smoked Mangalica ham and instead of brining, I browned it in a big Dutch oven, then slow roasted it on a rack over wine all afternoon at 275 degrees. At the end I glazed it with quince jelly. It was amazing. Whether salted, cured, fresh, smoked, braised, dried or pickled in brine—good, clean and fair pork is delicious! Always slice ham as thinly as possible. Ham sliced thin has a much different, better taste than if sliced thick.
Most of the following can be found each Saturday, 10am-2pm, at the Winter Market in downtown Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande Station.
Local family farms There are 6,939 farmers listed with the State of Utah Agricultural Department (including alfalfa farmers). Interesting to me, 2,470 are women and 4,469 are men. Of these farms, 84% of farms are family owned.
Old Home Place Heritage Farm in Vernal, Utah has been in the family for four generations. They raise Berkshire pigs. Also known as Kurobuta, these are a rare breed of pig that come from the English county of Berkshire. At the Old Home Place these guys are free range and are treated to certified nonGMO feed. Place orders through their website. They still have some three- to four-pound hams, as well as turkeys and lamb legs. WWW.OLDHOMEPLACEUTAH.COM Clifford Family Farm, Provo, Utah, offers Mangalica (also called Mangalitsa), an oldworld, Hungarian breed. It is known as the hairy pig with very tasty fat. It likes to forage and dig for grubs. They also raise Berkshire. Clifford Farm is sustained by many restaurants and
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PROSE GARDEN
Ode to the hen’s egg Spring recipes and
memories of cooking with mom BY NATASHA SAJÉ
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magine some curious ancient human 70,000 years ago picking up the egg of a wild junglefowl, breaking it open, then poking a finger into the alluring golden yolk. The rich taste spurs her into eating it, and the way she feels afterward (satisfied!) makes her look for more of these treats. In Smithsonian Magazine’s “How the Chicken Conquered the World,” Jerry Adler and Andrew Lawler surmise that red and gray Southeast Asian junglefowl were domesticated 10,000 years ago, and then carried west from a trade center in the Indus Valley. The now ubiquitous chicken and its nutritious eggs rapidly transversed the globe. Our habit of breaking wishbones came from the ancient Roman belief that chickens could predict the future. Ancient Egyptians realized the value of chicken eggs, developing and guarding incubation centers. Certain breeds of birds can lay eggs all year round with supplemental light in winter, although sadly, that has been exploited by factory farming, which also employs cruelly crowded conditions for the birds—and less tasty eggs. I eat hen’s eggs almost every day, cooked plain and in sweet and savory foods. For friends on a keto diet, I developed an egg dish with cheese, zucchini and scallions that I have made
several times, because its eggy-cheesy richness is utterly delicious. It would be lovely to have the freshest eggs from your (or your neighbor’s) chickens, or at least organic free range, because factory farmed eggs sometimes taste fishy. This is because the rapeseed or soymeal fed to the chick-
vitamins—their lutein is especially good for the eyes) and flavor as well as protein. The fat in each yolk contains about 200 mg of cholesterol, a substance proven to contribute to heart disease, most recently in a study in the UK medical journal The Lancet. But cholesterol consumption is only one of many factors in disease and
Chickens, like humans, are omnivores. Free range chickens that eat a more varied diet of bugs, grubs, worms and seeds produce eggs that are, to my taste, more delicious. ens transforms into the compound triethylamine in the chicken’s gut. Chickens, like humans, are omnivores. Free range chickens that eat a more varied diet of bugs, grubs, worms and seeds produce eggs that are, to my taste, more delicious. If there’s no rooster around, the hen’s eggs are unfertilized, and she will lay them according to the light and warmth of her surroundings. In the winter, hens naturally lay fewer eggs. Eggs are also the basis of my favorite pastries. I was already in my thirties, with a serious baking habit, when I realized that the two parts of an egg should be treated separately. This knowledge changed the way I cook and bake. Yolks contain fat (and essential fatty acids and
longevity, so we might best navigate the sea of information by recalling the ancient adage, moderation in all things. After I switched to using only yolks in challah and brioche, the breads were moister and more delicious—not to mention naturally more yellow. Try adding an extra yolk to a brownie or cookie recipe, and reduce the fat by a teaspoon (or not). Freezing extra yolks is a good way to store them: Mix each yolk with ¼ tsp. sugar (a trick I learned from baker Rose Levy Beranbaum) and accumulate them in an airtight container. When needed, defrost at room temperature. Yolks make custards and puddings unctuous (think crème brulee). In the early 1980s I worked at a chic restau-
rant in Washington, D.C., where we served a lemon mousse made with uncooked eggs. Since then, the U.S. has become more cautious about the possibility of salmonella illness associated with raw eggs, so chicken breeders test for the bacteria, and consumers are instructed to cook eggs to 160 degrees to kill any potential bacteria. Egg whites are mostly protein and water. I remember reading that Martha Stewart dieted on eight egg whites a day. While the yolks emulsify, the whites are a binding and drying agent. Egg whites freeze and defrost perfectly, without adding any sugar. With leftover egg whites, I make crisp crackers and delicate pizzelle. Or savory quinoa or millet cakes— made with egg whites and cooked grain, baked (350 degrees, 15-20 min.) until crisp on the outside and creamy inside. The basis of angel and chiffon cakes, and meringues, which bake and stay splendidly crisp in dry Utah air, is, of course, egg whites. Cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate, a byproduct of winemaking) is an essential stabilizing ingredient for the alkaline egg whites; use a pinch per egg white when whipping into a meringue. A liquid acid like lemon juice would water them out. Try making meringues with maple sugar and pecans or dry lime powder (sold as TruLime) or chipped, unsweetened chocolate. Beaten egg whites—imagine a cloud dissolving in your mouth—are the epitome of delicacy. One favorite recipe of mine uses both the yolk and white but treats them separately. When I was a child my father traveled a lot, so my German mother and I would eat foods that he disliked but we loved: chocolate pudding, puffy pancake (aka an omelet soufflé). While we ate, we’d watch movies from the ’40s and ’50s, like Mildred Pierce. I didn’t learn how to cook from my mother—that I owe to Julia Child and the Galloping Gourmet alongside the habits of reading cookbooks and fooling around in the kitchen—but I did learn to appreciate simplicity and good ingredients. My mother’s omelet soufflé is a terrific break-
fast (or dinner) for two, or a dessert for four. To serve two people generously, separate five eggs. This is easiest while they are cold: Hit them lightly on the counter until cracked and use your fingers to pry open, creating two even half shells. Tipping the egg back and forth between the half shells, let the white slowly drop out into a bowl while leaving the isolated yolk in the shell. Place the yolks in a small bowl, and the whites in a larger bowl or electric mixer bowl. If you get a trace of yolk in the white, lift it out with a piece of shell because any fat will prevent the whites from whipping. Note that they whip better at room temperature. Whisk the yolks with two tablespoons of milk (nondairy is OK), then whisk in two tablespoons of flour. I use chestnut flour for added flavor, but any fine-grained flour—all-purpose, corn but not cornmeal, or teff flour, an ancient grain originating in Ethiopia and Eritrea—will work.
One builds nerve by realizing that the consequences for failure are smaller than the rewards for risk. When using chestnut flour, I add a dash of vanilla extract and a pinch of stevia powder (corn flour tastes better with orange essential oil and a pinch of stevia). You can also use sugar, but the omelet is more likely to burn. Grain stabilizes the soufflé as well as gives it more substance. Beat the whites with threefourths teaspoon of cream of tartar and a half teaspoon salt (both stabilizers) until stiff. You should be able to turn the bowl upside down without the egg whites sliding out. Fold the yolk mixture together with about one third of the whites until evenly blended, then gently fold in the rest of the whites. Heat two teaspoons of clarified butter or ghee in a nine- or 10-inch nonstick pan and pour in the omelet batter, spreading evenly. Cook over low heat for about seven minutes, or
until the sides of the omelet seem firm, and when you slide a spatula under it, the bottom is golden brown. If you are using a cast iron pan, at this point you can put the omelet into a hot oven to cook the top. If you are using two pans, flip the omelet into the second pan. You can also flip the omelet in the same pan, which takes moxie. Flip gently—you don’t want to deflate the omelet. Airiness of part of its charm. Moxie, originally a native American word, was the name for a late 19th century medicine supposed to build nerve, then the trademarked name of a bitter beverage. One builds nerve by realizing that the consequences for failure are smaller than the rewards for risk. In cooking, this is easy because while it’s not pleasant to throw away food or eat one’s failures, no life or limb is at risk. Once the omelet soufflé is turned, cook the other side on low heat for about five minutes, or until lifting one side with a spatula reveals that it too is golden brown. With a serrated knife, cut it in half and serve immediately just as it is with fruit preserves or powdered sugar. The omelet should be about two inches high, golden brown all over and firm but moist on the inside. Eat it quickly before it deflates. It’s often said that baking is a science while cooking is an art. The omelet soufflé is an amalgam of baking and cooking, and a paean to the wonder of the hen’s egg. I can’t think of another sweet good that offers so much nutrition, pleasing texture and flavor for so few calories (200-300, depending on the fruit preserves). Today, chickens have the reputation of being stupid, or worse, mere commodities that produce meat and eggs. Yet some folk tales honor the hen—and the henwife—for mystical powers and hidden knowledge. The hen’s egg should also not be underestimated. It contains within it a world of nutrition and myriad possibilities for better cooking and baking. ◆ Natasha Saje is a professor of English Literature at Westminster College and the author of two books of poetry. Her essay “Learning to Love Real Food” appeared in the April 2018 CATALYST.
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Secret Samurai of Salt Lake City Your past, spoken or unspoken, is carried in your blood
BY BRENDA WONG AOKI
Four of the Aoki children, Salt Lake City, ca. 1910
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was kidnapped when I was three months old. My 24-yearold mother left me lying on the front lawn of our Salt Lake City apartment at 1157 East 3rd Avenue and went inside to fetch something. When she returned, I was gone. Frantic, she searched everywhere. Beautiful Mama in her silk cheongsam in 1953, fresh out of Oakland Chinatown asking for
help in perfect English. She must have been quite the sight. Hours went by. Daddy was called home from work. The neighbors joined the search. Dusk was falling. Other mothers, worried a kidnapper was loose in the neighborhood, bolted home to check on their own kids. The lady next door came back in a panic— her kids were gone, too! Now everyone was searching not just for me but three other little girls as well.
I was born at St. Mark’s Hospital, delivered by a tiny four-foot-tall chain-smoking female doctor. Dr. Toshiko Toyota must have brought the entire Japanese community of Salt Lake into the world.
Finally they found us in a neighboring garden shed, playing on a blanket. There I was, cooing happily away, surrounded by toys and three little girls. They’d never seen a baby like me before and thought I was a doll. I played with those little girls every day for the first three years of my life. The eldest girl was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to go to Heaven with them. The way she talked about it, it sounded like an amusement park so I really wanted to go. She said it was a shame but I was too dark. Not knowing what she meant, she put her forearm next to mine and that was the first time I noticed the color of my skin. There we were, two little girls who loved each other: her worried that we would be separated in the
hereafter and me wondering what was wrong with the color of my skin and if I could fix it somehow so we could play together in Heaven. I am the first nationally recognized Asian Pacific Storyteller in the United States. I’ve been all over the world and told a lot of stories but I never thought the most amazing story I’d ever tell would be my own. My name is Brenda Jean and I was born at St. Mark’s Hospital, delivered by a tiny four-foot-tall chain-smoking female doctor. Dr. Toshiko Toyota must have brought the entire Japanese community of Salt Lake into the world. My father came from a family of 11 orphans, ages infant to 18, all raised by the eldest, my Aunt Sets. My father was the star quarter back for West High. My cousins were the youngest ski patrols. My Uncle Sam became a decorated war hero. Aunt Sets was a pillar of the Japanese Christian Church. When I was three, my father joined the Navy and we moved to California. But we still came to Salt Lake for holidays. Aunt Sets was the Oneesan and I was the Oneesan so I had a particular affinity for her. Oneesan means big sister and in a Japanese family it means you are responsible for everyone and everything and if anything goes wrong, it’s your fault because you didn’t prevent it. The Oneesan is supposed to take care of the family until everyone dies and only then can you have a life of your own. At least that is the way it was in our family. Aunt Sets worked in the candy packaging department of Associated Foods. I went with her one time and played under the table where I could listen to all the ladies in hairnets gossiping and
eat the candy that fell off the trays. At home, she was in constant motion, cooking, embroidering, crocheting afghans & making christening clothes for everyone’s babies. She sang Shigin, a form of chanting to ancient poetry. Why none of us ever thought it was strange that Aunt Sets sang Shigin, I’ll never know. All we knew was that Aunt Sets would sing that weird Japanese stuff at family gatherings and hush! Don’t make fun! Aunt Sets married late in life, waiting to make sure her younger siblings were old enough to take care of themselves. But she felt so guilty about moving to California she said it was no surprise to her that the bombs dropped when she got married. Literally. She married on Dec. 7, 1941—Pearl Harbor Day. She spent her honeymoon sleeping on hay and whitewashed manure in a horse stable at the Tanforan Race Track near San Francisco, then was eventually shipped out to the Topaz Prison Camp in Delta, Utah. When her brothers and sisters came to visit her they said, “Gee Neesan, if you’d stayed here with us, you’d be on this side of the fence.” Prejudice against Japanese after the war was at an all time high in California. Aunt Sets and Uncle Dave’s Oakland grocery store had been confiscated during the war, so they returned to Utah where Uncle Dave worked for Morton Salt and stamped the Morton Salt logo on all the big bags of salt 40 hours a week. He tithed to the LDS until the day he died because he said the only whitemen who would give a Jap a break were the Mormons. Most of my aunts and uncles stayed in Salt Lake, so I had plenty of cousins. They can all hunt, fish, ski and ride, even the girls. I was scared of them. Still, they were patient with me and I learned to ride horses. Summers in Salt Lake were the best! Racing my horse in the canyon with my cousins early in the morning before it got hot and coming
The Aokis come to Utah
My father is fifth from the left (back). Aunt Sets is third from the left (front).
back to Aunt Sets’ house at 175 North Redwood Road for country breakfast spread outside on a picnic table on a blue and white checker table cloth was heaven! Homemade biscuits with butter and preserves she’d put up herself, eggs and bacon. Her big blue kitchen
In an emergency session, the California State Assembly passed a bill preventing Japanese from marrying Caucasians in the state. always had enough food to feed an army. All Aoki family gatherings took place there. In 1989, I received a grant from U.S. Congress to document the impact of the Japanese Incarceration on my family.* Strangely enough, I discovered that except for Aunt Sets, none of my aunts and uncles had been incarcerated. As my father said, “Why would we need to go to camp? We were already in Utah!”
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The Aoki clan was one of the earliest Japanese families in Salt Lake, arriving in 1909. Orphaned within a few years, the children sensed there was something different about them, and that feeling was passed down to their children as well. What was it? I experienced this firsthand upon meeting my husband’s uncle. He said, “You’re not an Aoki from Salt Lake are you? That bunch of wild things?! Everybody knows them. But hell, they couldn’t help it, they raised themselves.” And why were we in Salt Lake City in the first place? I asked Aunt Sets since she was the eldest but all she said was to go talk to her elder cousin Sadae, whom she called her Oneesan. At this point, I’d been living in San Francisco for about 10 years. I visited Sadae in Sacramento. She was 103 years old. She told me, “Our family has lost face and our loss of face affects our children and our children’s children.” She said she was not going to die until our story was told—a story I had no inkling of: My grandfather, Chojiro Aoki, was the first to come to this country in 1897, sent by the Meiji Emperor to start the first Japanese settlement in America—Japantown San Francisco. He was selected because we were a high-ranking Samurai family descended from Emperor Tenchi (626-772 AD) and had lived by Aoki Lake in the Shinano Mountains for centuries. Mentored by the Archdeacon of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Grandpa became one of the first full ordained Japanese Christian priests. Around the time of the 1906 Great Earthquake, Grandpa’s little brother Gunjiro met and fell in love with the Archdeacon’s daughter, Helen. Their announced engagement ignited a scandal in the press and caused the California State Assembly to hold an emergency session to block their marriage by passing a bill prevent-
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at Grandpa for not stopping the marriage, he sent him to Utah to convert the Mormons. And that’s how the Aokis got to Salt Lake. Grandma was a registered midwife. She and grandpa traveled to mining camps delivering babies and preaching the word. But she soon died of pneumonia; she was still nursing the baby. Grandpa died a few years after—of humiliation, maybe. The 11 children were left alone to be raised by their 18-year-old Oneesan, my Aunt Sets. At the outbreak of World War II, most West Coast Japanese got rid of their family scrolls because they were afraid of being associated with Japan. Because my family was under less scrutiny in Utah, we kept ours. Armed with the family scroll and a photograph of our family crest from the kimono Sadae wore on the boat coming over here in 1903, I went to Japan and with the help of a graduate student from the University of Nagoya, I found the Aoki ancestral home and visited the Aoki graves. Sadae passed when she was 110. I like to think because our story had been told that we’d regained our face. By then I had performed Uncle Gunjiro’s Girlfriend, with my husband and son, all over the world. Aunt Sets sure could keep a se-
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cret! She knew this story all along but her father had charged her, as the Oneesan, to never tell her younger siblings who they were because, “Shikata ga nai�—nothing can be done about it. He had been sent by Emperor Meiji to start the first Japanese settlement in America! He was vested with a very important quest and failed. How shameful! But what I learned is that your past, spoken or unspoken, is carried along in your blood. The Aoki Clan in Salt Lake has always been known to be a little cocky, outside the box, willing to take risks. All Grandpa did was stand up for his brother’s right to marry whomever he loved, even a white girl! Aunt Sets could sing Shigin! Centuries of samurai blood runs in our veins! I’ve been a storyteller for over 42 years now and what I know is that when we die, all we leave is a story. The story of the Aoki Clan in Salt Lake all began with a love story. The rest is history. Now I can pass on to my son what Aunt Sets told me: No need to lower your head, the Aokis are an honorable family. ◆ Brenda Wong Aoki is a San Franciscobased performance artist and story teller. She will keynote the May 2 Mountain West Arts Conference, Utah Cultural Celebration Center. 8:30a-4:30p. Conference is $55-$110. ArtsAndMuseums.Utah.gov/ . * After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing the removal of 120,000 people of Japanese descent, two thirds of whom were American citizens, into prison camps. Stripped of their Constitutional rights, these people lost everything—their homes, businesses, assets confiscated and incarcerated for up to five years without due process. At the end of the war, when the camps closed, the internees were given a train ticket and $50 to begin a new life in a hostile world. My husband’s mother was in Poston, my Aunt Sets and Sadae were in Topaz.
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Don’t forget...ducks! BY KATHERINE PIOLI
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n egg lover shouldn’t go through life only eating chicken eggs. Duck eggs are a real delight. Larger than chicken eggs, these oval packages contain a higher concentration of fat and cholesterol than their smaller companions but also more omega-3 fatty acids and protein. Their taste is richer and their consistency naturally creamier. There are a few places to buy duck eggs locally. First, try the farmer’s markets. Clifford Farm and Old Home Place sell some duck eggs at the Downtown markets (Winter Market at the Rio Grande concludes April 20; the Summer Market at Pioneer Park begins June 8.) A few Asian grocery stores about town also carry them, though they are pricey. Another option is raising your own backyard ducks. It’s about as easy as keeping chickens. They don’t need any special food, just your regular chicken mash (they also love snails). But ducks absolutely need
constant access to clean water. They have a tiresome habit of dirtying their water in a matter of hours, so the most time-consuming part of caring for ducks is changing out their water bucket/bath bin twice daily. Check the local IFA for ducklings in the spring, they usually sell a few duck breeds along with chicks and rabbits. Duck owners can mark the beginning of spring when their quacker starts to hide her brood somewhere behind a bush. The egg hunt is on! Speaking of egg hunts: The shells of duck eggs are thick, strong and kind of rubbery. This makes them great Easter eggs. As Easter approaches save your whole duck eggs by pricking the top and bottom of the shell and blowing out the insides. Save these hollow shells for decorating — they will be much easier to handle than chicken eggs and less likely to break. ◆ Katherine Pioli raises ducks in her 9th & 9th neighborhood
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Apr. 12-13: Glow Yoga to the Beatles @ Rose Wagner, Studio Theatre. 8p. An evening of yoga filled w/ black lights, body paint & music from The Beatles. $20. ARTSALTLAKE.ORG
Apr. 13: Growing Great Tomatoes @ Artspace Greenery. 2-4p. Learn the best organic practices for growing great tomatoes. $15. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Apr. 13: BERLIN with Lusine @ Urban Lounge. 9p. Urban Lounge turns into a Berlin dance club for a night. 21+. $5. SARTAINANDSAUNDERS.COM Apr. 13-14: Spring Bonsai Show @ Red Butte Garden. 9a-3:30p. Bonsai Club of Utah demonstrate bonsai training and shaping techniques. $14. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Apr. 13-14: The Sound Bath Experience w/ Chad Davis @ Dancing Cranes. 1p & 5p, Sat. 1p, Sun. Numerous world instruments bring peace to mind, body and soul. $5-20. DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM Apr. 13-14: A Collection of Beauties @ Ember. 4p, 7p. An original production by Municipal Ballet Co. Accompanied by the music of Matteo. $12. MUNICIPALBALLET.COM Apr. 13-14: Goddess Sessions @ Turiya’s. Reclaim your inner Goddess and ignite your divine spark with Kristen Dalzen in this five-part series. $2,375. TURIYAS.COM Apr. 14: Steel Pulse @ The Depot. 7:30p. Legendary roots reggae band. 21+. $25. DEPOTSLC.COM Apr. 15: Let Me Down Easy @ Salt Lake Acting Company. 7p. Play by Anna Deavere Smith to benefit the INN Between. Donations accepted at the door. Free. TIBHOSPICE.ORG Apr. 16: Journey to the Wasatch @ Falls Event Center. 6:30-9:30p. The International Rescue Committee’s annual fundraising party to celebrate Utah refugees. $80. RESCUE.ORG Apr. 17: The Power of Doing Good @ Westminster College. 6-9p. Part of the Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Lectures in Entrepreneurship series. Heidi & Chris Nielsen to speak. Free. WESTMINISTER.EDU
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Apr. 26: Voices from Bears Ears: Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Ground @ The King’s English Bookshop. 7-9p. Authors Rebecca M. Robinson and Stephen E. Strom discuss and sign their new book. Free. KINGSENGLISH.COM
Apr. 18: Portland Cello Project @ The State Room. 7p. West Coast alt-classical group performs adaptations to classic and modern rock. 21+. $22. THESTATEROOMPRESENTS.COM
Apr. 27: Independent Bookstore Day @ All local bookstores. Apr. 27: 14th Annual Empower You Expo @ Mountain America Expo Center. 10a-6p. Empower your spirit, health, mind, emotions and finances. $5. EMPOWERYOUEXPO.COM
Apr. 19: Pale Blue Dot Gallery Stroll Reception @ Urban Arts Gallery. 6-9p. Reception for “Pale Blue Dot,” an exhibit of local art to celebrate Earth Day. Free. URBANARTSGALLERY.ORG
Apr. 27: Storytelling for Grownups @ The Bee. 12-5p. Join Guiliana Serena and Nan Seymour at this workshop for experienced and aspiring storytellers. $90. THEBEESLC.ORG
Apr. 19: Pixie & the Partygrass Boys @ The Depot. 8p. Local bluegrass. $10. DEPOTSLC.COM Apr. 19, 20: Cirque Dances w/ Troupe Vertigo & the Utah Symphony @ Abravanel Hall. 7:30p. A fusion of cirque acrobatics and classical music. $15-$73. UTAHSYMPHONY.ORG Apr. 20: All About Kitchen Herbs @ TURN Community Services. 2-4p. Learn about growing, harvesting, drying, storing and using herbs. $20. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG Apr. 20: Octopalooza - An Intergalactic 2nd Birthday Party for The Clever Octopus @ The Gateway. 7p-1a. Games, drinks, appetizers, costume upgrades, drag show & DJ’s: Jesse Walker, Brass Tax, Choice. $20 ($10 under 21). CLEVEROCTOPUS.ORG
Apr. 22: Earth Day Spring Garden Tour @ Red Butte Garden. 9a-5p. Walk w/ a garden guide. $14. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG Apr. 21: Jesse Walker’s 9th Annual ‘Bunny Hop’ @ Garage on Beck. 11a-8p. Easter brunch and dance party to benefit SLC’s International Rescue Committee. 21+. $15. SLUGMAG.COM Apr. 23: Proper Care & Feeding Your Crystals @ The Divine Intervention Collective. 7p. Learn how to choose, clear, charge and use crystals. Free. TDICOLLECTIVE.COM Apr. 24: Herbs for Adrenals @ Greenthread Herbs. 7-8:30p. A stress & rest
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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle. — Thich Nhat Hanh
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he first few days of my first-ever silent mindfulness meditation retreat were absolute torture. My body ached, my thoughts were out of control, and on top of it all, my mind’s commentary was non-stop complaining. The complaining often turned into self-flagellation. How could I be so lame that I couldn’t manage to do something so simple as to pay attention? I kept trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to harness my mind and pay attention to my breath and to the sensations in my body. After one particularly frustrating evening, I returned to my room to prepare for bed. As I reached for the doorknob to the bathroom, I sank into mindfulness of the entire process—the sensations of my arm reaching out, the smooth, cool surface of the doorknob, the process of turning my forearm. After thousands of times reaching for and turning doorknobs, it felt like the first time I’d ever performed this simple act. The experience was exquisite. In the world of popular yoga, the practice of poses—especially fancy, gymnastic-type ones—has eclipsed the larger system of practice. Fancy poses—the crazy-looking asanas that only a small fraction of the population will ever be able to distort their bodies into—seem to be the point. They are considered to be something to aspire to, if only we’re willing to work hard. In meditation practice, peak experiences, much like fancy poses, are often considered to be the bellwether of “good” meditation practice. It’s true that peak experiences—joy, happiness, equanimity and feelings of vastness —in meditation are, indeed, pleasurable. They make the practice easier in those moments
when they are present. It is also true that it’s very easy to become attached to peak experiences. When peak experiences are not present, we often feel that our meditation has hit a plateau, that somehow we’re not doing it right. Much of the third pada (chapter) of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali describes special powers that yogis develop from certain types of concentration practice, powers such as making oneself invisible, developing the strength of an elephant or shrinking oneself to the size of an atom. After more than 20 of these verses comes the buzz kill sutra, 3.37: “They seem to be enhanced faculties and abilities to an outwardly directed mind, but they are obstacles to the achievement of an inner, enlightened state.” (Translated by Kofi Busia in The Gift, The Prayer, The Offering.) In other words, peak experiences can actually be a trap. Instead of being mindful of what is present in this moment, here and now, we get caught up in desire for something more, that state we enjoyed in the past or some imagined future opening. If we are not mindful of these states and our responses to them as they arise, we can become attached and identified with them. It is the ability to let them arise and pass, as they always will, that leads to freedom.
Embracing the ordinary By its nature, mindfulness is not a practice of reaching for peak experiences. Mindfulness is a practice of being present with those aspects of our daily reality that are most pedestrian— breathing, sitting, standing, walking, lying down, mental states, emotions and our responses to all these sensations. In fact, in a meditation retreat I attended in 2018, Joseph Goldstein reiterated more than once that it really doesn’t matter what’s going on in our experience. What matters, above all, is our relationship to it. ◆ Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982. She is the author of several yoga-related books and founder of Mindful Yoga Collective in Salt Lake City. CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM
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Psychotherapy and Personal Growth Abode • Bodywork Movement • Sport Intuitive Sciences • Health Spiritual Practice • Psychic Arts ABODE AUTOMOTIVE Schneider Auto Karosserie 8/19
801.484.9400, f 801.484.6623, 1180 S. 400 W., SLC. Utah’s first green body shop. Making customers happy since 1984! We are a friendly, full-service collision repair shop in SLC. Your satisfaction is our goal. We’ll act as your advocate with your insurance company to ensure proper repairs and give you a lifetime warranty. WWW.SCHNEIDER AUTO.NET
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, ORGANIZATION Ann Larsen Residential Design DA 10/19
801.604.3721. Specializing in historically sensitive design solutions and adding charm to the ordinary. Consultation and design of new homes, additions, remodeling, decks and outdoor structures. Experienced, reasonable, references. HOUSEWORKS4@YAHOO.COM
FreeSpace: Compassionate Clutter Solutions 08/19
801.815.1852. Overwhelmed with home, garage or office clutter? Life change left you with more stuff than you can handle? Support to deal with it can make all the difference. Let's work together to make space for what you really want. Call text, or email Christy. References available. FREESPACECCS@YMAIL.COM
GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors DA 11/19
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 visit our showroom. KE@UNDERFOOTFLOORS.COM WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET
HOUSING Urban Utah Homes & Estates DA 9/19
801.595.8824, 380 West 200 South, #101, SLC. Founded in 2001 by Babs De Lay, Urban Utah Homes & Estates is an independent real estate brokerage. Our experienced realtors have skill sets to help first-time to last-time buyers and sellers with residential sales, estate liquidations of homes & property, land sales, new construction and small business sales. WWW.URBANUTAH.COM
DINING Café Solstice DA 3/19
801.487.0980, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. (inside Dancing Cranes). Loose teas, specialty coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. WWW.CAFESOLSTICESLC.COM SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM
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801.355.3425, 900 E. 900 S. and 254 S. Main, SLC. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a-12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.
Oasis Cafe DA 11/19
801.322.0404,151 S. 500 E., SLC. A refreshing retreat in the heart of the city, Oasis Cafe provides a true
sanctuary of spectacular spaces: the beautiful flower-laden patio, the private covered breezeway or the casual style dining room. Authentic American cafe-style cuisine plus full bar, craft beers, wine list and more. WWW.OASISC AFESLC.COM
HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Alethea Healing Acupuncture5/19
801.988.5898, 2180 E 4500 S, Ste 210L, Holladay. Acupuncture, Cupping, Moxibustion, Nutrition, and Lifestyle guidance. Discover your AHA moment. Find balance from acute/chronic pains; respiratory, digestion, metabolism, and hormonal imbalances; stress, anxiety, insomnia, and more. Private setting. Sliding scale rates. Bulk Packages. $25 ACUPUNCTURE HAPPY HOUR M-F 25PM. www.ALETHEAHEALINGACUPUNCTURE.COM
Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/20 801.255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr.
Keith Stevens, OMD, now located at 870 E. 9400 South, Ste. 110 (South Park Medical Complex). Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of ad-
diction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM
SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/19
801.521.3337, 242 S. 400 E. Suite B, SLC. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($20-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism & more. WWW.SLCQ I .COM
Wasatch Community Acupuncture12/19
801.364.9272, 470 E. 3900 S., Ste 103, SLC. Effective, low-cost relief for pain, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, and many other ailments. $15-$40 sliding scale (you decide), plus $15 intake fee for first visit. We're a nonprofit acupuncture clinic located in the heart of the Salt Lake valley. Open seven days a week. INFO@WASATCHACUPUNTURE.ORG WWW.WASATCH ACUPUNCTURE . ORG
APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 12/19
801.613.2128. 619 S. 600 W. Salt Lake's premier herbal medicine shop featuring 100+ organic/wild-harvested herbs available in any amount. Specializing in custom, small batch tinctures, salves, green drink and teas. Also features a knowledge center with books, classes & consultation on herbs, bees, massage/bodywork wellness and more! www.NATURALLAWAPOTHECARY.COM
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AYURVEDA Maria Radloff, AWC, E-RYT5006/19
480.600.3765. SLC. Ayurveda is the art of longevity and health. Maria specializes in ayurvedic healing using food choices, lifestyle & routines, herbs and yoga practices. She offers personal ayurvedic consults for preventive health and healing, corporate wellness packages, public workshops and educational events. WWW.MARIYURVEDA.COM
ENERGY HEALING Reconnective Healing6/19
801.386.6420. 1399 S. 700 E., SLC. I immerse you into a comprehensive spectrum of energy, light and information; which allows us to entirely transcend complex energy-healing "techniques" and brings about dramatic, often instantaneous, lifelong healings and life transformations. RH heals on the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental bodies. B ESSIE.MCI NTOSH@GMAIL .COM WWW.B ESSIE M C I NTOSH . COM
Kristen Dalzen, LMT 12/19
801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life. WWW.T URIYAS . COM
SoulPathmaking w/ Lucia BC, PC, LMT, Spiritual Counselor, Healer, Oracle 9/19
801.631.8915. 40+ years experience tending the Soul. Individual sessions; counseling, bodywork, soul art-making. SoulCollage® Circle Mondays; Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Dec. 3. SoulCollage® gatherings with friends–birthdays, baby-welcoming, weddings, funerals. LUCIAWGARDNER @HOTMAIL .COM. WWW.S OUL PATHMAKER . COM
INSTRUCTION “Energy Codes” Certified Master Trainer, Kathleen A. Bratcher, LMT6/19
801.879.6924. 1174 E Graystone Way, St. 13, SLC. Embodiment exercises, meditation and principles from Dr. Sue Morter’s book “The Energy Codes.” Transform your life with this revolutionary and accessible sevenstep guide—grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics—to awaken health potential through EC teachings & exercises. Classes & private sessions available. AFKB @MSN.COM
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Agua Alma Aquatic Bodywork 5/19 801.891.5695. Mary Cain, LMT, YA
500, MS Psychology. Relax in a warm
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Healing Mountain Massage School 12/19 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. (enter off 500 E.).A www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM
MEDICAL COACHING Rise + Refuge Wellbeing, Michelle Marthia, End of Life Doula
801.819.2380. Discovering your path to wellbeing during illness and end of life transitions. Michelle is passionate about supporting those navigating these complex territories, creating a path to achieving an embodied life following illness, or embracing the experience of dying peacefully. WWW.RISEANDREFUGE.COM, MICHELLE@RISEANDREFUGE.COM 4/19
M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 34 S. 500 E., #103,
SLC. Integrative Family Practitioner utilizing functional medicine for treatment of conditions such as: fatigue, fibro-myalgia, digestion, adrenals, hormones, and more. Dr. Mangum recommends diet, supplementation, HRT and other natural remedies in promoting a health-conscious lifestyle. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, THEPEOPLE@WEBOFLIFEWC.COM 2/19
NUTRITION Terri Underwood RD, MS, CD, IFMCP 8/19
801-831-6967. Registered Dietitian/Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. Food-based, individualized diet plans, high-quality nutrition supplements, and counseling. Digestion, Diabetes, Vegans, Cardio-Metabolic, Autoimmune, Cancer, Cognitive Decline, Food Intolerance, Fatigue, Weight Loss, Thyroid, Chronic Health Problems, Preventive Health. TERI@SUSTAINABLEDIETS.COM
STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Leighann Shelton, GCFP, CR, CPT, LMT
303.726.6667, 466 S. 500 E., SLC. Helping athletes, dancers, musicians, children and people of all types with chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, arthritis, injuries & stress. Leighann's 7 years of education make her the only practitioner in Utah certified in Feldenkrais®, Rolfing® Structural Integration and Pilates. Providing comprehensive care for lasting results. WWW.LEIGHANNSHELTON.COM 8/19
Open Hand Bodywork DA
801.694.4086, Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S., SLC. WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Cafe Solstice is for sale. Serious and
intentional inquiries only. SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM 3/19
ENTERTAINMENT Utah Film Center 801.746.7000, 122
Main Street, SLC. A non-profit continually striving to bring community together through film. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG 11/19
LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law, Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M 3/19 DA 801.631.7811. Whether you are planning for your own future protection and management, or you are planning for your family, friends, or charitable causes, Penniann Schumann can assist you with creating and implementating a plan to meet those goals. WWW.ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM
MEDIA KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC.
Northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a well-curated contemporary eclectic mix of music and community information 24 hours a day. WWW.KRCL.ORG
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Guild for Structural Integration 8/19
801.696.1169 The Guild exists to train and educate students of all diversities with respect and inclusivity. We uphold our values above all through integrity and tradition in alignment with the teachings of Dr. Ida P. Rolf. Hosting local workshops and trainings in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration. 150 S. 600 E. Ste 1A. SLC. ROLFGUILD.ORG DA
SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy 3/19
801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray. Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM
TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/19
801.721.2779. Group or individual spiritual journeys or tours with
Shaman KUCHO. Accomodations available. Contact: Nick Stark, NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET, WWW.MACHUPICCHUTRAVELCENTER.COM
VOICE COACH Stacey Cole 12/19
801.808.9249. Voice training for singing, speaking, and accent modification. Individual and group sessions with Stacey Cole, licensed speechlanguage pathologist and Fitzmaurice Voicework® teacher. Holistic approach. Free the breath, body and voice. Check out singing workhops and drop-in choirs in the “events” section of WWW.VOICECOACHSLC.COM
WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 2/19
801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM, WWW. H ARRINGTON W EALTH S ERVICES . COM
MOVEMENT & MEDITATION, DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School
801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+). WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG 6/19
MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/19
801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditionalstyle training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET
Taijiquan Instruction w/ Kayo Robertson08/19
435.563.8272. Skillful response to pressure, tension and stress is a perennial human need. Tai Chi practice offers solution to this need. Principled in nonresistance, nature and unity, Tai Chi cultivates body, heart, mind and spirit. Senior student of Benjamin Lo, 40 years experience, seeks a few sincere students. BEARRIVERTAICHI@HOTMAIL.COM
MEDITATION PRACTICES Rumi Teachings 5/19
Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club
(founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7p) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM
YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 1/19
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 students to discover their own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, non-competitive environment since 1986. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM
YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 12/19
801.521.9642. 926 S. 900 E., SLC. Yoga is for Every Body. 80 public classes are available weekly, in addition to many special workshops and trainings. Experience relaxing yin, restorative yoga and meditation, or energizing power and Ashtanga yoga, and everything in-between. Yoga Soul teacher trainings and immersions are available as well. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM
Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/19
801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering a variety of Hot and Not hot yoga classes for the past 13 years. The Mountain Yoga System is comprised of 5 Elemental Classes EARTH-FIRE-WIND-FLOW-WATER varying in heat, duration, intensity and sequence. The 5 classes work
together, offering a balanced and sustainable yoga practice. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM
PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG
212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 20 years! Visit her website, WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM, RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM
INSTRUCTION 1/19 Living Light Institute of Energy Healing Arts Safety Consortium 400 W.
Lawndale, SLC. Offers classes on many topics related to crystals, crystal energy, personal energy management, self-awareness, metaphysics, intuitive development, Crystal Healer Certification, meditation and more. WWW.LIVINGLIGHTSCHOOL.COM
SPIRITUAL COUNSELING Reverend Connie Hillenbrand, B.Msc.
801.883.9508. Ordained Metaphysical Minister/Metaphysical Practitioner. Affiliated with International Metaphysical Ministries/ Member of Professional Worldwide Metaphysical Association. Services I offer are Spiritual Counseling/ Spiritual Healing, Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals and other ceremonies. 5/19
PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Nick Stark 6/19
801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings/ clearings/ readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience. NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET
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Suzanne Wagner DA 1/19
pacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope. Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural. Individuals, couples, families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM
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Mountain Lotus Counseling 7/19DA
707.354.1019. An inspirational speaker and healer, she also teaches Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot and Channeling. WWW.S UZ WAGNER . COM
THERAPY/COUNSELING Big Heart Healing, Dr. Paul Thielking
801.413.8978. SLC. Helping people on the path of personal growth, healing, and self-discovery. Through workshops and retreats, Dr. Thielking utilizes what he has learned as a psychiatrist, Zen student, and Big Mind facilitator to help others to experience a deeper sense of meaning, fulfillment, and joy in life. PAUL@BIGHEARTHEALING.COM BIGHEARTHEALING.COM 3/19
Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/19
801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Over 20 years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.
Healing Pathways Therapy Center 2/19
435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 4665 S. 900 E. #150. Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues. Focusing on clients’ innate ca-
801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform. Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relationships, groups and communities. WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM
Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/19
801.657.3330. 9071 S. 1300 W, Suite 100, West Jordan. 15+ years experience specializing in Jungian, Analytical, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Are you seeking to more deeply understand yourself, your relationships, and why you struggle with certain thoughts and feelings? Call today for an appointment and let's begin. NatalieHerndon@HopeCanHelp.net WWW.HOPECANHELP.NET
Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/19
801.631.8426. Ambassador Plaza, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 3B, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in treating identity crises, LGBTQ issues and bipolar disorders. SPROSKAUER@COMCAST.NET
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SPIRITUAL ALIGNMENT Kathleen J. Moroz, DSW, LCSW 3/19
801.440.0527. You may be feeling unsettled and dispirited by the winds of change that are buffeting humanity and the planet. With professional wisdom and humor, Kathleen can help you align with spirit to utilize these energies and achieve your soul’s purpose. Call/Email for a consultation. KATHLEENJMOROZ@XMISSION.COM
RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique 10/19DA
801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. Shopping Made Sexy since 1987. WWW.B LUE B OUTIQUE . COM
Dancing Cranes Imports DA8/19
801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. Jewelry, clothing, incense, ethnic art, pottery, candles, chimes and much more! Visit Café Solstice for lunch, too. WWW.D ANCING C RANES I MPORTS . COM
Golden Braid Books DA 11/19
801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.G OLDEN B RAID B OOKS . COM
Lotus DA 12/18
801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express
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iconoCLAD—We Sell Your Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 3/19
801.833.2272. 414 E. 300 S., SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) men’s and women’s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor. M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it! WWW. ICONO CLAD. COM
Turiya’s Gifts8/19 DA
801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. MF 11a-7p, Sat 11a-6p, Sun 12-5p. Turiya’s is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary. WWW.T URIYAS . COM
HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition 7/19
SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. and W. Jordan: 801.446.0499, 1817 W. 9000 S. We focus on health & holistic living through education,
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SPIRITUAL PRACTICE line goes here ORGANIZATIONS Inner Light Center Spiritual Community
801.919.4742, 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Sunday Celebration: 10am. WWW.T HE I NNER L IGHT C ENTER . ORG 3/19
Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple
801.328.4629, 40 N. 800 W., SLC. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. W W W .U RGYEN S AMTEN L ING . ORG 12/19
INSTRUCTION Lower Lights School of Wisdom 8/19
801.859.7131. Lower Lights is a community that supports human awak-
ening coupled with passionate engagement in the world. We approach the journey of becoming through ancient and modern teachings including mindfulness, Western developmental psychology and the world’s wisdom traditions. Offerings include community gatherings, workshops and retreats. LOWERLIGHTSSLC.ORG. INFO@LOWERLIGHTSSLC.ORG
Two Arrows Zen Center 3/19DA
801.532.4975, ArtSpace, 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. Two Arrows Zen is a center for Zen study and practice in Utah with two location: SLC & Torrey. The ArtSpace Zendo in SLC offers daily morning meditation and a morning service and evening sit on Thursday. TAZ also offers regular daylong intensives—Day of Zen—and telecourses. WWW.T WO A RROWS Z EN . ORG
SPIRITUAL MEDICINE Sacred Heart Kambo 8/19
801.347.4425. Bringing the Heart of the Jungle to you. Kambo is a natural medicine that helps to integrate mind, body and soul, helps with pain, detox, resets the nervous system, inflammation, and more. The call of the frog is not for everyone, call for a free consultation. www.S A CRED H EART K AMBO. COM
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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH
April 2019 Osho Zen Tarot: Ice-olation, Silence, Change Medicine Cards: Mountain Lion, Squirrel Mayan Oracle: Akbal, Cimi Ancient Egyptian Tarot: The Hierophant, Seven of Wands, The High Priestess Aleister Crowley Deck: Oppression, Love, Princess of Swords, Knight of Cups Healing Earth Tarot: Fool, The Moon, Nine of Wands Words of Truth: Overview, Intimacy, Magic, Meditation
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s isolation continues to divide the world, a stonecold silence underlies any attempts at breakthrough or change. With separation, conversations cease. There is no “coming together.” Compromise is not possible. You can feel it in the patterns all around you. Those who hold a position are unwilling to shift in any way. Labels fly around in people’s heads even if they are not saying them outwardly. It creates a stilted silence based on unbending entrenchment of being right. In the cards this month, many types of “death” are stalking us. Don’t panic. I mean this as a metaphor. The only real answers are those found deep in the womb of self. The only doorways that open are those that bring you into intimate connection with yourself. Possibilities are swirling around in the dreamtime. But you have to go into that dreamtime, grab them and bring them into the physical world. Humanity’s latent potential for goodness is hidden away in dark-
ness because of fear. That fear separates you from your highest purpose and self. Your idealized view of humanity seems to be dying in the dysfunctional chaos of this moment. If you are lost in the negative side of Akbal, you will feel depressed and anxious, and unable to see how self-judgment is amplifying your feelings of separation. Remember, belief systems are illusions to begin with. There is a treasure that awaits when you are willing to embrace the darkest part of yourself. That is the next level of growth that is needed at this time.
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der your perceptions of right and wrong. They no longer support you the way you think. You’ve outgrown such childishness. It is time to see the world with the eyes of an awakened adult. When you really surrender, you will create a vacuum for something new to come in. Until then, nothing else will come into the space because that space is filled with your ego’s projections, needs, validations and desires. You keep trying to unlock the same door with the wrong key. You need to (metaphorically) get out of this room, get out of this old house, leave this old town, and
When you really surrender, you will create a vacuum for something new to enter. Until then, nothing else will come in because that space is filled with your ego’s projections, needs, validations and desires. Death is a natural part of life. When you fear death, you have an insatiable need to control others. When you fear death, you resist what life is attempting to show you. When you struggle, you are pushing against the harshness of the reality attempting to break down the rigidity of your own beliefs. Regardless of what you want, you are beginning to see humanity’s incessant need to control the world as a reflection of human arrogance. You may believe that you know how things should be. But the reality is that they are not that way. They are not following along your projected plan at this time. So what are you going to do? You can die fighting or surren-
make your way to a new country. The “real” answer is “out there.” The more we hold on to our notions of how things “should” be, the more painful the death process. Just because you can see an external imbalance does not mean you can impose your idea of balance on others. Alliances cannot give you what you need to let go. You have to go within, alone, and discover the secret that you are supposed to uncover. The Fool lives at the edge of aliveness, unafraid of the death that awaits and fully present with what life is offering. The Fool can help you move beyond victimhood.
Fools step off the cliff into the abyss because they know there is a way beyond the known. Wise people plan for such moments unafraid. Safety is never a guarantee in life. Only when you are willing to live at the edge of life and death can you be completely honest with yourself and others. Love yourself enough and you will come from a place of aware preparedness. The fearful unprepared person is a hoarder, stockpiling things they believe will ward off death. If you hoard your thoughts, you fear being confronted with the truth. If you hoard your love, you fear rejection from others. If you hoard beliefs, you fear discovering that you have placed faith in things that are a lie. You fear making choices that will justify, validate and expose your own insecurities. It’s time to lead and not care if anyone follows. If you care if others believe you, you are still operating in ego. That is never the way to true power. Only when you know with the conviction of your own heart should you ever take action. The responsibility of leadership is to tell the truth. You become the example that you wish to manifest in the world. If you cannot do it with integrity, no one will believe you anyway. Never let yourself be tricked into believing that nothing else has validity except the ideas you have created by yourself. ◆ See more from Suzanne Wagner at WWW.SUZANNEWAGNER.COM/BLOG/
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April 2019 A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond
COMPILED BY ANNA ZUMWALT AND GRETA DE JONG April 1 Sunrise 7:11am; sunset 7:52pm. SLC temps: low 38 F; high 58 F. Probability of precipitation: 24%. "April" comes from the Latin word meaning "to open." April 2 Plant root crops under the waning moon (Aprilil 14, Aprilil 20-30): beets, carrots, kohlrabi, leeks, onion sets, parsnips, early potatoes, radishes, scallions, shallots and turnips. April 3 Start seeing rainbows. Rainbows can be seen any time of year, as long as there's sunshine and rain, but that's a rare combination in winter. April 4 Dr Thomas Levy, a U.S. cardiologist-turnedvitamin C researcher, says C can be used to combat major degenerative diseases such as arthritis, Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, coronary heart disease and cancer. Eat some C. April 5 2:52am NEW MOON. It's a good day to start something new!
April 6 Slow Art Day. Practice slow and mindful looking at artwork at the Utah Museum of Fine Art at 3pm with Charlotte Bell, yoga/meditation teacher and CATALYST columnist. UMFA.UTAH.EDU/
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April 7 Elephant garlic, large and very mild, is more closely related to leek than garlic. It stores poorly, so use it
April 8 Incorporate a walk, at least 15 minutes each way, into your journey to work. This might be a 15-minute walk to and from public transportation or parking. April 9 Sign up for Poem-a-Day: WWW.POETS.ORG/ April 10 Have you checked your compost pile lately? Ideally, you've chopped up materials to speed breakdown, positioned the pile or bin in partial sun, and made sure you had a mixture of greens (nitrogen) and browns (carbon), with a shovelful of soil for microbes. Keep moist, but not soggy. The more often you turn it, the faster it will break down. April 11 Anthrozoology: the study of interactions between
animals and humans. It includes psychology, zoology and anthropology. April 12 If you're mostly on screens, read a paper book or magazine today. Paper words vs. digital ephemera enter our brains differently. April 13 You'll see fewer bees out and about on cloudy days, as bees navigate by the sun. April 14 Bees need water but are notoriously poor swimmers. Set out a shallow container with objects for islands on which a bee can stand. April 15 Tax day: a good day to affirm the abundance of life force in your life. April 16 Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), in the mint family, is ubiquitous in Utah gardens and in full leaf now. Lemon balm tea soothes nerves. April 17 Asparagus takes about three years to go from seed to harvest. Asparagus plants can produce well for 10 to 15 years. April 18 Passover 2019 begins tomorrow night and ends the
evening of Saturday, Aprilil 27. April 19 FULL MOON 5:12am. April’s various full moon names are so evocative: Full Pink Moon, for wild ground phlox; Sprouting Grass Moon; and Egg Moon. April 20 Lilac phenology: Plant beets, carrots and lettuce when the first lilac leaf appears. When lilac is in full bloom, plant beans. Check out the USA National Phenological network, USANPN.ORG/ April 21 Easter. Omnivores: Read Jude Rubadue's story, this issue, to source today's meal. April 22 Earth—where would we be without it? Get your feet on the ground today—soil and rock, not just concrete and asphalt. April 23 Make rhubarb sauce and chutney. You know only the stalks are edible, right? However, you can make a natural insect repellent with the leaves. Chop and b o i l them for a garden spray that wards aphids off your inedible plants. April 24 How many downtown areas have a 35-acre garden? Enjoy a stroll through Salt Lake’s Temple Square. The garden is glorious all year 'round (with 600,000 plants of about 750 different varieties) but especially in late Aprilil through early May. April 25 Eating insects is common in some countries, and a food of the future for the West, as well. Remember when sushi was weird? You might start with salty snacks made of mealy bugs (Tenebrio Molitor) or crickets (Gryllidae Sp.), available from The Evolution Store (THEEVOLUTIONSTORE.COM) or
protein powder from Utah’s own Chapul (CHAPUL.COM). April 26 Join the Arbor Day Foundation ($1015) and receive 10 trees. ARBORDAY.ORG/ April 27 A dog's sense of smell is 10,000 to 100,000 times as acute as a human's. Analogous to vision, that's a comparison of a third of a mile to more than 3,000 miles. April 28 Average last freeze, on the benches. Gamblers only: Plant tomatoes and peppers. But be prepared to protect
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