CSA Utah Open House

Tuesday, March 2nd from 7 to 9pm.

Appetizers and cash bar will be available. Come visit you with local CSA farmers to learn about how and where they farm and how you can participate in Community Supported Agriculture in Utah. CSA farmers are invited to RSVP by Feb 23rd to Jeff to get on the agenda.
There will be presentations and plenty of time afterward to meet your local farmer. Come prepared to take advantage of early season deals, make sure to bring your checkbook and get signed up in favorite CSA.

The first 25 customers to become shareholders will receive two Chico reusable CSA Utah bags. 

http://www.csautah.org/

Beginning Organic Gardening class

Sat, Feb 20, 10a-12p.

$10, scholarships available

Learn the basics of organic gardening from Wasatch Community Gardens. We will be covering basic soil health and amending, compost, natural pest control, crop diversity, what to plant when and more. Look for Intermediate and Advanced topics in March and April. Registration required. Register online at:

http://wasatchgardens.org/event/beginning-organic-gardening-basics/2/20/10 or call 801-359-2658 x10.

Location : Main Library, 210 E 400 S
Contact : Carly Gillespie                        

Star Coulbrooke at City Art TONIGHT!

Star Coulbrooke will read from her work at the Salt Lake Public
Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Teresa Jordan was forced to cancel her reading that was scheduled for tonight due to family circumstances.

Star Coulbrooke teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing workshops, hosts literary events, serves on arts
and literary panels, helps judge writing contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is published in Ellipsis,
The Teacher's Voice, City Art Journal, Sugar House Review, Tertula Magazine, Sunstone, Poetry International, Hunger Magazine, and others She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press), with the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah. Her work has appeared in the anthologiesA Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Hooves and Standing: Poetry by Idaho Women. In 2008, her manuscript, River Once Removed, won finalist designations in the May Swenson Contest (Utah State University Press) and the Philip Levine Contest (UC Irvine), and second place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest. Star directs the USU Writing Center and teaches writing workshops. She lives in Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish dogs.

http://www.slcityart.org

TOMORROW: Science Movie Night

The Utah Museum of Natural History presents "Supervolcano – It's Under Yellowstone. And it's Overdue" at Science Movie Night. It portrays the potential environmental, political, economic and social effects an eruption of the volcanic caldera under Yellowstone National Park. Join Jamie Farrell of the Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics for a discussion of his research on the seismicity Yellowstone. 

Location: Salt Lake City Library

Contact: 801-581-6927

http://bit.ly/5M50rv

Interactive in-season food map

Use this tool on GOOD's website to see what is in season where—get an idea of how far your food travels. http://bit.ly/6qIpsS

Have a beer, hear a bird talk

This month's "Science Night Live!" (presented by U of U's College of Science) is Wed, Dec. 9, 5:30-7 p.m. at Keys on Main, 242 South Main St. (next to Sam Weller's bookstore). Invite a friend, make a date, and stop by after work! Come early, stay for dinner if you like. Learn about"Nature's Musicians: How and Why Birds Sing" from biology professor Franz Goller.

Did you know certain songbirds can turn elements of their song on or off up to 250 times per second!? Songbirds learn their songs in a process similar to how human infants learn to speak. We can learn much from songbird vocal behavior about our own acoustic communication system.

Ride the UTA TRAX to the Gallivan Plaza stop. Or, there is limited street parking available on 200 South and 300 South that is free after 6:00 pm. Perhaps the easiest parking is in the Wells Fargo building lot, accessible from 300 South. See www.keysonmain.com for more info, or call (801) 581-6958.

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Urban goats?

We'd like to learn more about keeping goats in the city. If you keep goats, email pax@catalystmagazine.net! We'd love to come by and ask you all about the pros and cons, and see your setup!