10th Annual Urban and Small Farms Conference
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Tuesday, February 22nd
- Using Social Media Marketing to Build Your Business – Laci Tagge, Social Media Marketing Manager, Tagge's Fruit
- Tips and Tricks for Farmers' Market Vendors (SNAP)– Corrinne Hoffman and Sherlyn Hilton, USUBC Farmers' Market Managers
How to Make Decisions about Adopting New Production Systems:
- Produce Safety Rule Updates: Proposed Changes for Agricultural Water Requirements – Karin Allen, Utah State University
- How to Make Decisions About New Production Systems – Ryan Larsen, Utah State University
Wednesday, February 23rd
- New Mexico Chile Peppers - The State's Signature Heirloom Crop – Dr. Stephanie Walker, New Mexico State University
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- New Mexico Chile Peppers - The State's Signature Heirloom Crop – Dr. Stephanie Walker, New Mexico State University
- Transplant Production Approaches and Tomato Performance – Cary Martin, Utah State University
Dahlia: the (ongoing) saga to improve production in Utah – Melanie Stock, Utah State University
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- The Market for Local Cut Flowers: Florist Preferences, Needs, and Hurdles – Kynda Curtis, Utah State University
Thursday February 24th
Berries and Grapes:
Strawberry Production Approaches for the Intermountain West – Brent Black, Utah State University
Growing Day-Neutral Strawberries in Central Oregon- High Tunnel and Field – Clare Sullivan, Oregon State Extension
A High Tunnel System for Early Production of Fall Raspberries: Varieties – Alyssa Palmer, Utah State University
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Overview of Major Insect and Disease Pests of Grapes – Mair Murray, Utah State University
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- "What's Up" with Inflation and Input Prices?– Kynda Curtis, Utah State University
- Evaluating and Expanding Your Farm Business – Ruby Ward, Utah State University and Karin Allen, Utah State University
- Updates on Farmers Markets, Legislation and More
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- Farm to School Programs and Proposed Legislation - Kate Wheeler, Utah State Board of Education
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- Selling Prepared Meals from Your Kitchen or as Part of an Agritourism Event - Karin Allen, Utah State University
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- Trends with Utah Farmers Markets - Regan Emmons, Utah State University
Friday February 25th
- Considerations for a Successful Lambing and Kidding Season– Chad Page, Utah State University
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- Why Raise Alpacas? - Julee Savage
- Wool and the Soil- Albert Wilde, Wild Valley Farms
- Raising Chickens in Your Backyard - Ben Scow, Utah State University
- An Introduction to Beekeeping - Andree' Walker Bravo, Utah State University Extension
- Backyard Meat Rabbits 101 - Jessie Hadfield, Utah State University
Session Descriptions & Presenter Biographies:
Description: Water efficient irrigation practices, emphasis on drip irrigation. Choosing the proper components for a functional, practical, and efficient drip irrigation system on a smaller scale. Identify filter needs, pressure concerns, and correct emitter, drip line, etc...
Presenter: Michael Kilcrease
Description: House Bill 390 established definitions for urban farming, making greenbelt benefits applicable to smaller acreage operations across Utah. Join in to learn from Representative Mike Kohler (Wasatch County) how this bill may apply to your operation and how to help this be put into action in your county.
Presenter: Representative Mike Kohler
Description: Laci will present on tips and tricks for successful social media marketing. Frustrated with Reels? What should I post? How do I get more sales? and much more.
Presenter: Laci Tagge
Description: Utah ranks dead last in the Nation for mental health resources. These lack of resources, coupled with staggering statistics of mental health illness and suicide in Utah’s agricultural producers, has cause for a charge of change. Join USU Extension’s Josh Dallin and Jake Hadfield as they share what is being done to tackle these very important issues. After all, in any agricultural endeavor… The Greatest Asset is You!
Description: Benefits to an urban farmer selling at a farmers' market and how to be a successful vendor at a farmers' market.
Presenters: Corinne Hoffmann and Sherlyn Hilton
Description: Share your education needs with USU Extension to help facilitate planning of the micro-farm track for the Urban and Small Farms Conference in 2023. We will briefly discuss how to share this information and give participants a link to a questionnaire. This is essential to making the conference successful in future years, so please share your needs and ideas.
Presenter: Sheriden Hansen
Description: In Dec 2021, the FDA proposed changes to key requirements of the Agricultural Water Rule. This session will provide a summary of the proposed changes, where to find resources to better understand the proposed rule, and instructions on how interested parties can provide comments to the FDA.
Presenter: Karin Allen
Description: Water is a limited resource in Utah, but we can all help protect our water quality. We offer best practices to help small farmers and neighborhood gardeners keep Utah’s waters healthy and clean. If you have a backyard garden, manage multiple acres, or own a variety of livestock, you can benefit your neighbors and Utah’s waters by following best practices to help prevent sharing pollutants, weeds, and disease. Grant opportunities are also available for projects that will improve the water quality on your property.
Presenter: Hope Braithwaite
Description: The Local Food Microgrant Program offers awards of $500 - $5000 to produce growers in the state of Utah. The program is open to growers of all sizes, and is meant to help increase the availability of fruits and vegetables for SNAP customers.
Presenter: Carly Gillespie
Description: The decision to adopt a new production system is not easy. In this session, Ryan will outline an economic framework to assist producers with making these decisions. Topics in the session will include what questions should be asked, what are the costs involved, and what are the potential benefits.
Presenter: Ryan Larsen
Description: NRCS technical and financial assistance is available for farming operations of any size. In the last couple of years NRCS has improved technical and financial tools to better serve small and urban farming operations.
Description: This presentation will discuss what options FSA has to obtain a farm loan, such as Microloans, Operating Loans, and Farm Ownership loans.
Presenter: Jamie Rex
Description: Brussels sprouts (BS) are easier to grow than most realize. Success depends on variety selection, good plant production approaches, optimal nutrition and water management, and planting topping. During this talk, details will be provided to help growers integrate BS into their farm operations and explore alternative market opportunities for this underutilized vegetable.
Presenter: Dr. Dan Drost
Description: Asparagus is a high value perennial crop that can be grown successfully in the intermountain west. Long-term commitments and high starting costs of traditional systems can be barriers to production. Annual asparagus production has the potential to mitigate these issues, bring diversity to production, and help producers reach more markets.
Presenter: Josh Martin
Description: New Mexico is famous for the chile peppers that have been grown in the region for more than 400 years. Chile peppers are grown for large-scale processing but are also an important cash crop for small farms. This talk will provide an overview of chile pepper production, and how they became the state’s signature crop.
Presenter: Dr. Stephanie Walker
Description: Unique vegetable offerings may provide a marketing edge for small farms. This talk will discuss several novel vegetable varieties that are not well-known but maybe something for adventurous growers to trial.
Presenter: Dr. Stephanie Walker
Description: Recent advances in indoor gardening technology have made it easier for the small-scale grower to start their own transplant plugs. This presentation compares the results of tomato transplant plugs grown in a greenhouse versus an indoor space with LED light technology. Both types of plugs were followed through an entire season and harvest results were compared. Starting one's own seed allows for increased flexibility on what, how and when plants are grown.
Presenter: Cary Martin
Description: Pumpkin patches provide many opportunities for late-season income but "stickers" from puncturevine (goat heads) and other weeds can easily ruin a family outing to the patch. Good weed management is an important consideration for creating a quality product and an idyllic backdrop that keeps patrons returning each year. Diverse weed management strategies for season-long weed control in pumpkins will be discussed as well as the pros and cons of each strategy.
Presenter: Cody Zesiger
Description: Lisianthus is a heat loving, mid-summer blooming cut flower that has a significant potential for Utah cut flower farms. The rose like blooms have a long vase-life and come in a wide range of colors making them highly desir d by florists. USU trials in Logan, UT evaluated the production of ‘Roseanne’, ‘Doublini’, ‘Correli’, ‘Mariachi’, ‘Bolero’, ‘Rosita 2’, and ‘Rosita 3’ cultivars in high tunnel and field systems. Stem quality, harvest timing, and yields were recorded to establish production guidelines for Utah growers and will be shared in this presentation.
Presenter: Maegen Lewis
Description: Dahlia is in high demand and commands premium pricing on local markets, but underperform as a crop in Utah. The USU Small Farms Lab has trialed various aspects of production since 2019. This presentation highlights early findings on nutrient management and protected cultivation topics to increase yield and extend harvest.
Presenter: Melanie Stock
Description: Cut flowers are a new and growing crop in Utah, as well as across the US, but disease challenges and management have been less documented than in other horticultural crops. The USU Plant Pathology and USU Small Farms Labs have paired up to survey diseases of cut flowers across Utah. This presentation highlights emerging findings and management recommendations.
Presenter: Claudia Nischwitz
Description: This presentation will discuss the results of a recent survey of florists in Utah and surrounding communities. Florists’ preferences and attitudes toward purchasing locally grown flowers will be discussed as well as the hurdles they see in doing so. Additionally, florist specific needs related to flower varieties and colors will be presented.
Presenter: Kynda Curtis
Description: Cut flowers are a young but growing industry in Utah. As part of a class at USU, students working with the Utah Cut Flower Farmers Association examined the economic impacts of the cut flower industry. This presentation will go over the findings. This includes both the current estimates as well as how different assumptions affect the overall results.
Presenter: Ruby Ward
Description: This presenter will be talking on growing the kinds of flowers that people want, maximizing profits from unsold flowers and minimizing waste, and how to provide the best customer service ever.
Presenter: Ali Harrison
Description: Strawberry can be a profitable crop for local sales. There are several production systems, some of which might be more appropriate to the Intermountain West than others. This talk will overview strawberry management systems and provide research results from trials in Cache Valley.
Presenter: Brent Black
Description: This presentation will include results from a two-year research trial on strawberry production in the high desert region of Central Oregon (Bend area). In collaboration with local growers, we trialed four day-neutral strawberry cultivars (Albion, Evie 2, Mara des Bois and Seascape) in the field and in high tunnels over two growing seasons. I will share yield results from the growing systems and cultivars, and preferences and recommendations based on our experience.
Presenter: Clare Sullivan
Description: This presentation will explain basic management practices for red raspberries and addresses the challenges Utah growers experience. Additionally, research results from a variety trial that took place at USU's Greenville Farm will be discussed.
Presenter: Alyssa Palmer
Description: Some of the major pests that affect grapes include leafhopper, powdery mildew, paper wasps, spider mites, and thrips. Learn about these and more pests and how to manage them both organically and conventionally.
Presenter: Mair Murray
Description: This presenter will be sharing recent research on the biological control of BMSB through parasitoid wasps. Specifically talking about detection and habitat of the parasitoids and the use of stink bug chemical lures to increase parasitism.
Presenter: Kate Richardson
Description: This presentation will primarily cover the results and observations of the USU Extension grape cultivar evaluation and general grape growing requirements.
Presenter: Mike Caron
Description: This presentation will be providing some quick updates on what is happening with farm to school in Utah, including current legislation, and will share how interested producers can get connected with schools and childcare centers.
Presenter: Kate Wheeler
Description: This presentation will discuss current inflation rates and trends in food pricing for consumers. Increasing trends in farm gate pricing and associated impacts to direct-to-consumer markets will be also discussed. Finally, the rational for current farm input price increases and shortages will be given along with strategies for dampening and mitigating the impacts.
Presenter: Kynda Curtis
Description: This session will provide easy to use resources that allow farmers and others to evaluate their own operation. Simple Excel tools will be used to show how to examine the effects of inflation and prices and then develop their own strategies and plans. This will be followed by an overview of resources available through the Fundamental Resources to Assist Micro Entrepreneurs (FRAME) program, including guidebooks for starting a new value-added operation. The session will provide the motivation for the program, what is currently available and how to use it.
Description: Not enough land to raise cattle or horses on your farm? The Animal Science Session of the Urban Small Farms Conference will cover a variety of topics that may be applicable to your farm. Topics from proper lamb management, backyard chickens, and an introduction to beekeeping will all be covered as we explore and learn about different animal options for your operation.
Description: Lambing and kidding can be the most stressful and exciting part of the year for any sheep and goat producer. This talk will aim to cover some of the important management steps to take in order to have a great lambing and kidding.
Presenter: Chad Page
Description: Background of Alpacas, where they come from, etc. Handling and care requirements, i.e. what and how much feed, shearing, health care. Fiber uses, agritourism, store.
Presenter: Julee Savage
Description: NutriWool Pellets show quicker growth with plants while also maintaining moisture control and better soil structure.
Presenter: Albert Wilde
Description: This presentation will cover how to raise chickens for residential and small farm uses from hatch into egg production
Presenter: Benjamin Scow
Description: Are you interested in becoming a beekeeper? This presentation will provide a high level overview of beekeeping, including considerations for those wanting to get bees as well as general management best practices.
Presenter: Andree' Walker Bravo
Description: Keeping your rabbits healthy is one of the most important aspects of raising backyard meat rabbits for consumption. This presentation will go over some of the basics of raising meat rabbits and go into a more in-depth presentation of basic handling processes of live rabbits including a basic health exam.
Presenter: Jessie Hadfield
Karin Allen, Associate Professor, Utah State University: Karin Allen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences at Utah State University and serves as the Food Quality and Entrepreneurship Specialist for Cooperative Extension. Dr. Allen works with small food producers (both on and off the farm) to address food processing issues including labeling, safety, and regulatory compliance, as well as issues specific to agritourism and community supported agriculture operations.
Brent Black, Professor and Extension Fruit Specialist, Utah State University: Dr. Brent Black is Professor and Extension Fruit Specialist at Utah State University. He holds a B.S. degree in Plant and Soil Science from Utah State University, an M.S. degree in Horticulture from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Oregon State University. Prior to joining USU in 2005, Dr. Black was a research scientist with the USDA Agriculture Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland for 6 years, where he studied production systems for strawberry and blueberry. His current research interests are in precision orchard management, and strategies for extending the production season of berry crops.
Hope Braithwaite, Utah State University: Hope Braithwaite is an Assistant Professor for Watershed Quality in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University. She works with landowners, teachers, students, citizen scientists, the Utah Division of Water Quality, The Nature Conservancy, and others to provide water quality monitoring and educational opportunities state-wide. Her goal is to increase awareness and promote stewardship of our aquatic resources. Hope earned a earned a B.S. in Wildlife Science and minors in Fisheries Science and Environmental Studies from Utah State University and a M.S. in Environmental Education from Southern Oregon University.
Andree' Walker Bravo, Professional Practice Assistant Professor, Utah State University Extension: Andree’ Walker Bravo is a Professional Practice Assistant Professor with USU Extension in Salt Lake County. Andree’ has a statewide administrative assignment but also provides Extension education programs pertaining to sustainability and urban homesteading topics. Andree’ manages 10+ beehives between her personal hives and the teaching and demonstration apiaries at Wheeler Historic Farm. Andree’ graduated from Utah State University with a BS in Environmental Studies and a MS in Watershed Science.
Mike Caron, Associate Professor, Utah State University Extension: Michael Caron is an Associate Professor of Horticulture with Utah State University Extension, located in Utah County. As well as having a background in retail horticulture and commercial greenhouse growing, Michael has taught a myriad of classes and workshops for degree-seeking students, Master Gardener classes, and many other community classes and workshops on a variety of horticulture subjects. He also conducts a table and wine grape cultivar evaluation study with over 20 cultivars of hardy hybrid grapes and also works with commercial wine grape producers. He enjoys gardening, greenhouse growing, photography, hiking, and building things.
Kynda Curtis, Professor and Extension Economist, Utah State University: Kynda Curtis is a Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Applied Economics at Utah State University (USU). She received her PhD in Economics from Washington State University in 2003. Her research interests include agriculture/food marketing, direct-to-consumer marketing, as well as consumer demand for value-added, specialty, and differentiated foods. As an Extension Specialist, Dr. Curtis assists small-scale growers in developing new markets for their products and assessing the feasibility of new food products and value-added processes.
Josh Dallin, Utah State University Extension: Josh Dallin is a Director and Extension Assistant Professor for Utah State University’s Bastian Agricultural Center. Over the years Josh has lead livestock, range, and agricultural 4-H applied research and education programs. Josh continues to pave the way for innovation and research working in a wide array of areas such as mental health awareness and suicide prevention, farm and ranch succession planning, livestock production, poultry education, animal genetics, range insect control, and range plant/water management.
Dan Drost, Vegetable Specialist, Utah State University: Dan Drost grew up on a small diversified farm in western Michigan and has degrees from Michigan State and Cornell Universities. He came to Utah State University in 1992 to work as the Extension Vegetable Specialist. Dan is interested in small farm production systems, organic agriculture, alternative farming approaches, and intensive land-use management.
Regan Emmons, Coordinator of the Utah Farmers Market Network, Utah State University: Regan serves as the coordinator of the Utah Farmers Market Network at Utah State University, where she has been working on establishing the Utah Farmers Market Network since 2019. Originally from Tennessee, she has lived in Hawaii, Arizona and Oregon before moving to Vernal, Utah. She has worked in agriculture and community food system development for the last 12 years. This work included being a K-12 food system and environmental educator, a Community Supported Agriculture program operator, a farmers market vendor, a researcher at Northern Arizona University, and the coordinator for a regional food network in southern Oregon. She earned a Masters of Art in Sustainable Communities from Northern Arizona University.
Carly Gillespie, Urban Food Connections of Utah: Carly Gillespie is the Program and Development Manager for Urban Food Connections of Utah. She has been involved in the local food community in Salt Lake and Utah for the past 12 years; working as the Community Education Program Director for Wasatch Community Gardens, former owner of B.U.G. Farms and Vice Chair of Slow Food Utah's Board of Directors.
Jacob Hadfield, Agriculture Extension Faculty, Utah State University: Jake Hadfield grew up on a small beef operation in Lehi, Utah. He graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree with an emphasis in animal science and ruminant nutrition. Jake has worked with USU Extension for the last three years in Cache County. His research and educational work focuses on pasture, cover crops, alfalfa, and livestock and agriculture mental health.
Jessie Hadfield, State Agriculture and Animal Science Specialist, Utah 4-H: Jessie currently serves as the State Agriculture and Animal Science Specialist for Utah 4-H. Her role takes her all over the state supporting county programs including small livestock. One of the fastest growing program areas is rabbits. Jessie grew up raising and showing rabbits in the Salt Lake valley and currently raises rabbits for meat and show in Cache County with her husband.
Sheriden Hansen, Assistant Professor of Horticulture, Utah State University: Sheriden Hansen is an Assistant Professor of Horticulture with USU Extension in Davis County, Utah. Sheriden started as a nurse, receiving a BS in nursing from the University of Utah in 2002. After many years working as an operating room RN, she decided to pursue her passion in horticulture. Sheriden graduated from Utah State University with a BS in Plant Science (Summa Cum Laude) in 2015 and a MS in Plant Science with an emphasis in fruit production in 2017.
Ali Harrison, Owner, Florage Farms: Ali Harrison along with her husband Lorin, own and operate Florage, a 12 acre cut flower farm in amongst the potato fields of Blackfoot Idaho. After growing fruits and vegetables for over 20 years, they made the switch to cut flowers several years ago after realizing the insane demand for local flowers. In the rich volcanic soils of Southern Idaho, they grow over 90 varieties of cut flowers, fillers, and foliage and deliver to event florists in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. As a farmer-florist, Ali does a small number of local weddings and events, and also works as a traveling freelance florist.
Sherlyn Hilton, Assistant Manager, Utah State University Botanical Center Farmers Market: Sherlyn grew up in Logan, attended USU, and graduated in Electrical Engineering. After roaming the West for 20 years, she recently returned to Utah, became a Davis County Master Gardener, and then the Assistant Manager at the USU Botanical Center Farmers Market.
Representative Mike Kohler, Utah State Legislature: Representative Mike Kohler was born and raised in Midway, Utah. Born into a family dairy business, he still farms 150 acres and enjoys time on the tractor. Kohler continues his work in the industry as a governmental advocate for dairy and agricultural in Utah. He was elected to the Utah House of Representatives in 2020, where he now serves as Vice Chair of the ‘House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee’. Kohler previously served as a long-time Commissioner and Councilman for Wasatch County where he has been a pillar of that community: coaching multiple sports at Wasatch High in Heber City and serving as both an emergency medical technician and member of the Wasatch County Search and Rescue. He currently works as the manager for Midway Irrigation Company, and when he’s not working or serving, you will find him on a boat or four-wheeler, enjoying time with his wife Laurie and their six children, and 25 grandchildren.
Dr. Ryan Larsen, Associate Professor and Extension Economist, Utah State University: Dr. Ryan Larsen is an Associate Professor and Extension Economist in the Department of Applied Economics at Utah State University. He specializes in farm and risk management. He teaches courses in agricultural finance, risk management, and decision analysis.
Maegen Lewis, Assistant Extension Professor of Horticulture, Wasatch County, Utah State University: Maegen Lewis has a passion for the cut flower industry and received her master's degree in plant science from USU with an emphasis on cut flower production in Utah. After graduating, she accepted a position as a USU Extension faculty in Wasatch and Summit counties. She now advises home gardeners and farmers on how to be successful despite a short growing season along the Wasatch Back.
Cary recently retired from a career in Healthcare data analytics to pursue his passion of producing food in a sustainable way. He is currently working towards a second bachelor's degree in Sustainable Food Production at Utah State University. Cary is interested in small scale urban farming and producing food that is highly nutritious grown in a diversified and sustainable environment. He is interested in the entire food production chain from seed to harvest.
Josh Martin, MS Student, Utah State University: Josh Martin is currently a master’s student at Utah State University working with Dr. Dan Drost. He grew up in southwest Utah working on farms and growing vegetables on family property. At USU he has managed the university’s Student Organic Farm. He graduated with dual majors in Plant Science and Land, Plant, and Climate Systems with a focus on sustainable food production. His passion is growing, studying, and sharing what he knows about vegetable crops.
Travis Mote is a Utah native. He grew up in Northern Utah working on his parent’s orchard operation and helping family on a local cattle ranch. Today he lives in Willard, Utah. He and his family continue to raise fruit, horses, cows, and any other animal his wife and kids can sneak on to the farm.
Travis earned bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Rangeland resources from Utah State University. He started to work for NRCS in 2006. Since that time, he has served as a Range Conservationist, Resources Conservationist, and Area Programs Specialist. Travis currently serves as the Assistant State Conservationist for Programs where he enjoys helping the Utah Ag community prioritize resources issues and focus federal programs toward solving those concerns.
In his spare time Travis loves spending time with his wife and kids riding, roping and helping friends on their ranching operations.
Mair Murray, Professional Practice Extension Assistant Professor, Integrated Pest Management for Specialty Crops, Utah State University: Since 2006, Marion has managed the Utah Extension Integrated Pest Management Program. Her primary mission is to deliver high quality and relevant outreach and research in sustainable plant pest management for growing fruits, vegetables, and landscape ornamentals. She oversees the Utah IPM Pest Advisory Service, which includes distribution of seasonal newsletters to over 13,000 subscribers, and develops online pest management tools through a collaboration with the Utah Climate Center. Marion also manages the Utah IPM website, authors fact sheets and specialty crop production guides, and is passionate about helping producers profitably raise healthy crops.
Chad Page, Utah State University: Chad works for Utah State University as the Sheep and Goat Extension Specialist. He also teaches a variety of classes at the university, including sheep and wool management. Originally, he and his wife are from Chandler, AZ, but now reside in Logan, UT with their four children. Chad has worked across the intermountain west conducting applied sheep research while he obtained his Bachelor, Masters, and PhD degrees.
Alyssa Palmer, Utah State University: Alyssa Palmer was born and raised in Cache Valley. She is currently finishing her master’s degree in Plant Science and teaching floral design at Utah State University.
Jamie Rex, Farm Service Agency: Jamie Rex has worked at Farm Service Agency since 2009. She started out as a Program Technician assisting farmers with the safety net disaster programs. In 2016, she was hired as a Farm Loan Officer that covers Summit and Rich County.
Paula Salazar is the Urban Conservationist in the Ogden Field office, Utah. She has been with the Agency for 6 years and has cultivated a broad range of knowledge, not only technical from 3 different states but also in leadership.
Paula started her career as a Pathway’s Student in NW Ohio. After graduating in Environmental Studies, with an Agroecology Minor from Florida International University, she started as Soil Conservationist full time in Massillon, North East Ohio. Chasing the small, diversified farms, she moved to Augusta, Maine, where the organic agriculture is big and known for. After 3 years in Maine, she had the opportunity to move to Utah, where she can expand her knowledge and start a new position. Paula is motivated that her experience and efforts will help and strength Utah entities, landowners, and conservation partners to protect natural resources, even in the cities.
During her spare time, Paula is a snowboarder in winter, gardener in summer, and loves to hike with her two dogs.
Julee Savage: Julee has lived on a farm most of her life and has raised quite a few different animals and birds. She saw and fell in love with alpacas about 7 years ago, bought her first 5 and have just grown and improved from there. She now has 33 animals and have shown breeding quality, fiber quality, and pet quality alpacas. Her goal is to be one of the top breeders of alpacas.
Benjamin Scow, Agriculture Extension Agent, Utah State University: Benjamin Scow is the Utah State University Agriculture Extension Agent in Washington County, and has been serving that community for nearly 5 years. Ben has a large focus on backyard farms and has worked with USU’s Poultry Specialist and Urban Small Farms Specialist on various chicken related projects, including online classes aimed at raising chickens from start to finish. Ben raised his own chickens solely for egg production, which he sells at the local farmer’s market, to neighbors, and of course for his own family. Ben and his wife Emily have 3 daughters who love spending time on their farm, growing peaches and tending to a large garden. Small and large livestock have often been a valuable part of the farm and they love having the whole family involved in running it.
Melanie Stock, Urban and Small Farms Specialist, Utah State University: Melanie is an Assistant Professor / Extension Urban & Small Farms Specialist in the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department at USU. As a soil scientist, her research targets improving cut flower production in the Intermountain West, small farm resource use efficiency – particularly soil fertility and water management, and urban soil contamination. She is also an avid urban homesteader.
Clare Sullivan, Small Farms and Specialty Crops Extension Agronomist, Oregon State University: Clare Sullivan serves as the Small Farms and Specialty Crops Extension Agronomist for Central Oregon. She has developed a research and Extension program for commercial small-scale horticulture and specialty seed crops that focuses on 1) soil and nutrient management, 2) cover crops, and 3) innovative practices for the high desert. Beyond local needs, Clare is actively involved with the Western Sustainable Agriculture and Extension Program, and is a founding member of the Western Cover Crops Council. Originally from Canada, Clare earned her MSc in Soil Science from the University of Saskatchewan.
Laci Tagge, Tagge's Famous Fruit and Veggie Farms: Laci Tagge is the Farmer's daughter for Tagge's Famous Fruit and Veggie Farms. We are located in Brigham City Utah. She has many roles on the farm. She is selling at our fruit stands and farmers markets, hires and trains all of our workers, manages our CSA Farm box, and is over Social Media.
Stephanie Walker is the Extension Vegetable Specialist and an Associate Professor in the Extension Plant Sciences Department at New Mexico State University. She serves as the Co-director of the Chile Pepper Institute and Chair of the annual NM Chile Conference. Her research has focused on trialing and identifying vegetable cultivars and production practices optimum for New Mexico producers and improving chile pepper cultivars through traditional breeding.
Ruby Ward, Professor, Utah State University: Dr. Ruby Ward was raised on a farm and ranch in South-eastern Idaho. From Texas A&M University she received an MBA and a PhD in Agricultural Economics. Dr. Ward is a professor in the Department of Applied Economics at Utah State University. She teaches agricultural finance and community planning. Dr. Ward has delivered educational programs in Utah and the surrounding region for the last 18 years. Ward currently co-chairs the Urban and Small Farms Conference in Utah. Ward is the project leader for the Rural Tax Education website (RuralTax.org) and Co-chair of the National Farm Income Tax Extension Committee.
Albert Wilde, Wild Valley Farm: Albert is a 6th generation sheep and cattle rancher, who has a love for all aspects of farming. Albert was the 2017 Green Business Award innovation recipient for his creation of an organic water saving fertilizer "NutriWool pellets". Albert has made presentations and been involved with numerous studies with Universities from all over the world showing the amazing benefits of using NutriWool pellets in gardens, urban farms, and greenhouses.
Cody Zesiger, Assistant Extension Professor of Agriculture, Utah State University: Cody Zesiger is a Utah native living in Ogden with his wife and two daughters. He joined Utah State University Extension in 2019 after leaving the K-12 classroom. Cody's interests include the sustainable management of small family farms, weed ecology and management, and production horticulture.


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Iguanas are popular pets for a good reason – they are fascinating creatures that make for great companions. However, owning an iguana comes with its responsibilities, including ensuring that they receive a healthy and balanced diet. The right diet is essential for your iguana’s growth and health, and it is up to you to provide them with the right kind of food. In this guide, we’ll explore everything you need to know about an ideal iguana diet, including their dietary needs, feeding schedule, and nutritional requirements.
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Understanding an Iguana’s Dietary Needs
Before we delve into an iguana’s ideal diet, it’s essential to understand their dietary needs. Iguanas are herbivores, which means they feed on plants and plant-based food. However, their dietary requirements differ from other herbivores, such as rabbits or guinea pigs. Iguanas need a diet that is high in calcium, low in protein and fat, and rich in fiber. The following are some of the essential nutrients that your iguana needs in their diet:
- Calcium: Iguanas require a lot of calcium for their bone health, and they need to consume it in the right balance with phosphorus. An imbalance in these minerals can lead to metabolic bone disease, which can cause severe health problems.
- Protein: While iguanas are herbivores, they still require a small amount of protein in their diet. Too much protein can lead to kidney damage, which is why it is essential to monitor their protein intake.
- Fiber: Fiber is essential for iguanas to maintain a healthy digestive system. A lack of fiber in their diet can cause digestive problems, such as constipation and impaction.
- Vitamins and Minerals: In addition to calcium, iguanas require other essential vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin D3, Vitamin A, and Phosphorus.
An Ideal Iguana Diet
Now that you understand your iguana’s dietary requirements, let’s dive into the ideal iguana diet. A well-balanced iguana diet consists of a variety of plant-based foods that provide all the necessary nutrients and vitamins. Here are some of the best food options for your iguana:
Leafy greens should make up the majority of your iguana’s diet. They are low in protein, high in calcium, and rich in vitamins and minerals. Here are some of the best leafy greens for your iguana:
- Collard Greens
- Mustard Greens
- Dandelion Greens
- Turnip Greens
- Romaine Lettuce
Vegetables are also an essential part of your iguana’s diet. They provide additional nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. However, be sure to avoid vegetables that are high in oxalates, such as spinach and beet greens, as they can interfere with calcium absorption. Here are some of the best vegetables for your iguana:
- Bell Peppers
- Green Beans
While fruits are an excellent source of vitamins and minerals, they should be given in moderation. Fruits are high in sugar and can cause health problems such as obesity and dental issues. Here are some of the best fruits for your iguana:
- Berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
It’s important to note that while a well-balanced
iguana diet should provide all the necessary nutrients, supplements can help ensure your iguana is getting everything they need. Here are some of the most important supplements for your iguana:
- Calcium Supplement: Calcium supplements are essential for iguanas, especially if they’re not getting enough calcium in their diet. Calcium supplements can come in powder or liquid form and should be added to your iguana’s food.
- Vitamin D3 Supplement: Vitamin D3 is necessary for calcium absorption, and iguanas require it for healthy bone development. Vitamin D3 supplements can come in powder or liquid form and should be added to your iguana’s food.
- Multivitamin Supplement: While a well-balanced diet should provide all the necessary vitamins and minerals, a multivitamin supplement can help ensure your iguana is getting everything they need.
An iguana’s feeding schedule can vary depending on their age and size. Generally, adult iguanas should be fed once a day, while juvenile iguanas may require two to three feedings per day. Here is a sample feeding schedule for adult iguanas:
- Breakfast: Offer a small amount of leafy greens and vegetables.
- Lunch: Offer a small amount of leafy greens and vegetables.
- Dinner: Offer a larger amount of leafy greens, vegetables, and a small amount of fruit.
It’s essential to monitor your iguana’s weight and adjust their feeding schedule accordingly. If your iguana is gaining too much weight, you may need to reduce their food intake.
Additional Tips for Feeding Your Iguana
Here are some additional tips to keep in mind when feeding your iguana:
- Offer a variety of foods: Iguanas can be picky eaters, so it’s essential to offer a variety of foods to ensure they’re getting everything they need. Rotate their food options regularly to keep things interesting.
- Avoid feeding animal-based protein: Iguanas are herbivores, and they don’t require animal-based protein. Feeding them animal-based protein can lead to health problems.
- Use a shallow dish for water: Iguanas need access to clean water at all times. Use a shallow dish for water to make it easy for your iguana to access and prevent them from accidentally falling in.
- Avoid feeding your iguana processed or packaged food: Processed or packaged foods may contain additives or preservatives that can be harmful to your iguana’s health. Stick to fresh, whole foods.
- Avoid feeding your iguana human food: While it may be tempting to share your food with your iguana, it’s essential to avoid feeding them human food. Human food can be high in fat, salt, and sugar, which can be harmful to your iguana’s health.
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Whether or not you currently take cannabis, you might be curious about the different strains out there. Which strain is the best option for you? Read this cannabis strain guide in order to learn about the different options and decide which is best for you today.
When it comes to recreational cannabis, the effects that you feel will vary by the strain that you choose. Some might offer you a soothing effect while others could give you a cerebral experience.
Many take it for pain relief and help with sleeping, but more research is necessary. Some studies have shown though that it could help with treating neuropathic pain.
Whether you’re looking for recreational or medical cannabis, it’s important to understand that most strains fall under 2 options. The 2 main types are Sativa and Indica.
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In order to have both influences of Indica and Sativa, go with a hybrid option. The effect will depend on the percentage of each that the product uses. While Indica will give you a more narcotic effect, Sativa is more energizing.
For a potential energy boost, choose Sativa. This is a great option when you’re looking to increase your creativity or hang out with friends.
In order to have a higher CBD and THC content, choose Indica. Your hearing and taste might be improved while taking it as well. People choose this when they’re looking to relax mentally and physically.
Some think that Indica and Sativa are the only strains which isn’t the case. You also have Purple Kush, Blue Dream, and others.
Purple Kush is usually chosen if people want bliss. Whether you’re looking to relax, sleep better, or feel happy it could help. Many also use it for muscle spasms or reducing pain.
Blue Dream isn’t a total sedative but it could help you relax. If you’re looking to relieve inflammation, cramps, or pain, then this could be the right strain for you.
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This form of Indica is a mixture of Big Bud and Purple Urkle. You might experience a high for the body and mind. Many choose Granddaddy Purple when they’re looking to relieve stress, pain, appetite loss, muscle spasms, and insomnia.
This heavy Indica strain comes from Afghanistan. This sweet earthy aroma could give you euphoria and relaxation.
Many claim that it helps them with stress, pain, and insomnia. Those who take it medically state that it helps them with insomnia, anxiety, stress, pain, and migraines.
This Sativa strain comes from South Africa in Durban. People claim that it helps them with energy and uplifts their mood. They also state that it helps them remain focused throughout the day and not lose concentration as easily.
This is a mostly Sativa hybrid. It combines Super Silver Haze with Lemon Skunk. Super Lemon haze is sweet and citrusy at the same time. Those who take it state that it helps them have more energy throughout the day.
This sleep-inducing and relaxing strain is one that those who try it claim soothes their insomnia. It could have pain-reduction and anti-inflammatory properties as well. This is a popular choice for medical cannabis.
White Widow consumers state that it helps them relax, lift their mood, and give them energy. It could help with stress and reduce pain as well. White Widow might also help with feelings of depression.
Made famous by the movie, many state that it helps to lift their mood and relax them. They also state that it helps to give them energy as well. It could also help with productivity!
The Bruce Banner is supposed to offer you a quick hit of euphoria before having you become relaxed. It might be a great option for creative endeavors.
It’s popular among those who are looking for medicinal cannabis. They state that it helps with their depression, stress, anxiety, muscle spasms, and pain.
First, decide if you will be taking cannabis for recreational or medical purposes. Since there are thousands of strains to choose from, it can feel difficult at times to choose the right one.
Remember that each strain could give you a different effect. Take a look at their overall CBD and THC compound to decide what the best option for you is. Choose the strain based on the effect that you’re looking to experience as well.
After exploring this cannabis strain guide, you should have a better idea of the different strains out there. Take your time researching and deciding which strain will be best for what you’re looking for.
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This week, a CNN poll revealed anti-Semitism is alive and well in Europe. A question now is: where does honest criticism of Israeli state policy end and anti-Semitism begin?
The results are eye-opening and working. With 20 percent of young French people unaware of the Holocaust. Indeed, a similar number believe anti-Semitism is a response to Jewish people’s own behavior. Also, a third of respondents think Jews have too much influence.Read more
While we should, without any restraints, condemn and fight all forms of anti-Semitism, we should nonetheless add some other observations to the results of the poll.
First, it would be interesting to learn how the percentage of those with a negative stance towards Jews compares to the percentage of those with a negative stance towards Muslims and Blacks – just to make sure that we don’t find some racism unacceptable and another racism normal.
Second, one should raise here the paradox of Zionist anti-Semitism: quite many European (and American) anti-Semites just don’t want too many Jews in their own country but they fully support the expansion of Israel onto the West Bank. So, how do we count them?
This brings us to the key question: how do we measure anti-Semitism? Where does the legitimate criticism of Israeli politics in the West Bank end and anti-Semitism begin? Let’s explain this through some further observations.
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On the 14th August I fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an Olympian. I can say that I’m an Olympian because I both started and finished the marathon in Rio. At least that was my criteria for officially becoming an ‘Olympian’ anyway. However, it was more than just the race, the build-up to the Games, the Village Life and not forgetting my journey home on ‘VictoRIOus’ were whole new experiences for me and added to my Olympic memories.
With Christ the Redeemer watching over us and the beach life in full swing down at Copacabana it was difficult not to appreciate Rio as a spectacular stage for the world’s best sporting performances. How many chances in a lifetime do you get to run a marathon with the back drop of Sugarloaf Mountain and the Redeemer? I’ve watched every Olympics on TV since the Barcelona Games in 1992 and being part of it is so much more than the competition part we see on TV.
Village life for one is something very different to what I’ve experienced before. I felt like I was transported from my comfort bubble to another planet of high rise apartment buildings, each country proudly decorating their block in their national flag. Think of your school canteen but on a massive scale and mealtimes were something else. I didn’t realise it was possible for so many people to be eating in one place. Chicken or fish became the big decision of the day. Going out for a run around the village was an obstacle course of avoiding bikes, buses and people but a great opportunity for famous athlete spotting. This place was just bizarre to be part of but I loved it.
My race performance is only a very small part in an epic Olympic experience. I’m not over the moon with my performance but I’m a perfectionist and competitor by nature so I’m a hard woman to please. I think what I am trying to say is that I enjoyed the journey just as much as I revelled in being on the Olympic stage.
So what comes next I’ve been asking myself? Right now I’m soaking up a year that has so far been the pinnacle of my career, appreciating the support of my team, family and friends around me. One thing I do know is that I’m not done just yet, I feel I still have unfinished business and things I want to achieve. There are definitely goals beyond Rio.


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- Spoon the remaining sauce over the enchiladas in the baking dish and sprinkle the cheese over the top.
- Bake, uncovered, for 25 minutes, until the sauce is bubbling, the enchiladas are heated through, and the cheese is fully melted.
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On a sunny morning in May, we went to visit a mango farm. It was such an amazing experience, visiting the farm and learning how to grow trees from them. Read ahead to know more about this field trip.
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Corporation tax is the biggest source of revenue for the government. Public and private companies registered under the Companies Act, 1956, are liable to pay corporation tax.
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While non-tax revenue is the recurring income earned from sources other than taxes. They include interest receipts, received on loans given by the government to states, railways and others, and dividends and profits received from public sector companies.
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CANASTOTA — Kara Niles finished with 16 kills, three aces and three digs to power Canastota to a 3-1 victory over Dolgeville in a Center State Conference volleyball match Wednesday.
Canastota won by scores of 26-24, 25-18, 23-25 and 25-14.
Loryn Wilcox posted 30 assists, six kills and six digs for Canastota (7-2 overall), while Taylor Kutzuba had 21 digs. Brooke Weber finished with eight kills and five digs for Canastota and Gracie Morris added six digs and two kills.
Raquel Borst registered 17 kills, 12 digs, three aces and two blocks for Dolgeville (5-4 overall), while Rachel Gross finished with 17 digs, 11 assists and three kills. Mercedes Rumrill had 19 assists, 16 digs, four aces and three kills for the Blue Devils, Bobbie Lee Hall posted 16 digs and two kills and Kacey Daley had seven digs, two kills and two aces.
Ashley Krasko, Emily Giarusso and Kinsey Randall all had eight digs for Dolgeville, while Frankie Jenison added seven kills and two digs.


Discussion in 'The Howard Stern Show' started by JameGumb, Apr 7, 2015.
The bar is polluting the Stern forum like drug resistant tuberculosis infected illegals from South America.
This is oddly specific. Are any midgets beautiful?
The ones with the sausage fingers? No
I think any man or woman with sausage fingers is kind of scary. Good luck with your quest.
Now this is a thread!
Coincidentally, the dwarf I banged did have an ugly roast beef vagina.


ACTION ALERT!!! RIGHT WING REPUBLICANS GUT U.S. DIVERSITY IMMIGRATION PROGRAM!!!
by dantata, Tue Dec 20, 2005 at 11:24:57 AM EST
This is my first dairy post and I am pleading for your help in this situation. On December 16, 2005, the US House of Representatives voted 273-148 for an amendment to HR 4437 "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act" that effectively eliminated the US State Department Sponsored DV Lottery Program. According to the US State Department website
"The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants" (DV immigrants). The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States."
"The State Department (DOS) holds the lottery every year, and randomly selects approximately 110,000 applicants from all qualified entries. The DOS selects the approximately 110,000 applications since many will not complete the visa process. However once 55,000 are issued or the fiscal year ends, the DV program is closed "
"Applicants registered for the DV-2005 program were selected at random from over 6.3 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on November 5, 2004, until midnight, January 7, 2005. The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions with a maximum of seven percent available to persons born in any single country. During the visa interview, principal applicants must provide proof of a high school education or its equivalent, or show two years of work experience in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience within the past five years. Those selected will need to act on their immigrant visa applications quickly. Last year, Applicants registered for the DV-2005 program were selected at random from over 6.3 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on November 5, 2004, until midnight, January 7, 2005."
This means that one basically has a 0.7937% chance of being selected after properly filing out and submitting an application. Nevertheless, receipt of notification of a successful selection does not guarantee that the individual will obtain an alien resident permit (or green card) as noted again by USCIS
"Only the winners will be notified by mail at the addresses listed on their applications. Winners will be sent instructions and information on fees. Being selected as a winner in the diversity visa lottery does not automatically guarantee that you will be issued a visa, even if you are qualified. The number of entries selected is greater than the number of immigrant visas available, because not everyone selected will be qualified for the visa or will choose to complete the processing. Once all 50,000 visas have been issued, the diversity visa program for the year will end."
However, US Rep Robert Goodlatte (R-VA: http://www.house.gov/goodlatte/), successfully inserted his amendment that simply states "Amendment to eliminate the visa lottery program". No IFS, ANDS or BUTS. Mr. Goodlatte then issued the following press statement
"The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck," Goodlatte said. "Usually, immigrant visas are issued to foreign nationals who have an existing connection with a family member lawfully residing in the United States or with a U.S. employer. These types of relationships help to ensure that immigrants entering the country have a stake in our nation's continued success, and have needed skills to contribute to our nation's economy. However, under the visa lottery program, visas are awarded to immigrants."
Mr. Goodlatte's statement clearly contradicts the spirit and operating mechanics of the DV Lottery program and appears geared towards feeding the hysterics of xenophobic elements in certain quarters of this country. Mr. Goodlatte along with 214 House Republicans (and 57 House Democrats and Bernie Sanders of VT (of all people!!!)), do not believe in a fair and equal shot for millions of citizens who simply want a better life for themselves and their families. THIS AMENDMENT IS ANTI-FAMILY AND IS DISRIMINATORY AND WRONGFULLY PENALIZES individuals who simply seek a better life. Allowing this to become law will shut the door to countless immigrants who like the previous immigrants who helped to establish this republic, want to live a better and safer life. Immigrants gladly contribute to the development and pump billions of dollars into its tax base. Most immigrants pay taxes and work hard and are law abiding citizens. This law will create an unequal playing field for millions of innocent individuals and wrongfully reward the efforts of corrupt dictators and wealthy foreigners who can (and in many cases with ill gotten wealth) go and live anywhere they want while middle income and regular citizens are shut out from pursuing their dream for a better life. THIS IS UNFAIR AND INHUMANE AND I ASK YOU TO PLEASE HELP DEFEAT IT IN THE US SENATE!!!
Please contact your U.S. Senators and tell them TO SUPPORT REAL FAMILY VALUES AND GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEEK A BETTER LIFE IN A FAIR AND JUST MANNER!!! RESTORE THE DV LOTTERY PROGRAM
Thank you and please spread the word
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The stars have aligned for Canberra-based astronomer Lisa Kewley. This July, she will become the first woman and the first Australian director of the Center for Astrophysics (Harvard & Smithsonian), USA.
Professor Kewley, an astrophysicist specialising in galaxy formation and evolution, is director of ASTRO 3D, an ARC Centre of Excellence at ANU’s Mt Stromlo Observatory, investigating the evolution of matter, light, and the elements since the Big Bang.
As head of the CfA, Professor Kewley will oversee 800 staff across nine major scientific facilities and institutions – including observatories in Arizona and Hawaii, and the NASA X-ray satellite Chandra. (She will build its successor, the next NASA-funded X-ray telescope.)
“Leading a large organization with expertise across a whole range of areas, and access to different telescopes means that we’ll be able to answer some really fundamental questions in astronomy,” she said.
What are the first galaxies in the universe? What did they look like? How did they evolve across time? What are the atmospheres around planets in other solar systems like? How did stars form and evolve in the early universe?
Professor Kewley said her appointment was “a tremendous honour”, and she was “very excited”.
“It’s a really amazing time to be doing astronomy,” she believes.
This decade, the next generation of telescopes – such as Australia’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope, or the Extremely Large Telescope, the world’s biggest optical/near-infrared extremely large telescope, in Chile – will lead to huge discoveries in many areas of astrophysics, she predicts.
They will “reveal a window to the universe that we haven’t been able to look at before”. Scientists could discover what happened right after the Big Bang, or identify which extrasolar planets are likely to hold life.
“We’re going to make major advances in our understanding of the universe, our place in the universe, and how special we are in the universe.”
Professor Kewley’s own contributions to the field include understanding the gas physics in star-forming galaxies, investigating supermassive black holes, and tracing how stars are formed and how the amount of oxygen in galaxies has changed over the past 12 billion years.
Dealing with such cosmic questions puts everything into perspective, she finds. “You’re dealing with large time scales. We’re looking back in time very close to the Big Bang, so beyond 13 billion years. And so our lifetime on Earth is very, very tiny, compared to the timescale and the lifetime of the universe.”
But her family keeps her grounded. “It’s nice to come home at the end of the day to my husband and kids, and so some vegetable gardening,” she said. “Both are fundamental to humans, but in a different way. Astronomy and astrophysics is about understanding our origins and why and how we got here. As humans, we need to live on this Earth, and experience living on this Earth as well.”
A stellar career
Professor Kewley became interested in astronomy in high school, thanks to her Year 11 physics teacher. He gave her articles about black holes and wormholes, and took the class on astronomy camp, where they tracked the moons of Jupiter and the constellations through a telescope.
“That was amazing,” Professor Kewley remembered; “that’s when I decided I wanted to do astronomy.”
In 1991, she attended the National Youth Science Forum in Canberra, and discovered that astronomy was a profession.
She studied science at the University of Adelaide, obtained her doctorate in astrophysics from the Australian National University, then went to the CfA for three years, working on the formation and evolution of stars.
“I had a great time; it was really a springboard for my career in the US. I made lots of connections and lots of collaborators whom I still work with today.”
She spent seven years in Hawaii: her team at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai’i discovered a galaxy 9.3 billion light years away, while she received the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (2005) and the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy (2008) for her research at the W.W. Keck Observatory on the evolution of galaxies.
She returned to Australia in 2011, as the first woman professor at the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2014) and an international member of the National Academy of Sciences (2021); and in 2020 became the first Australian to win the James Craig Watson Medal, an American award for outstanding contributions to astronomy.
Where are the women?
But although Professor Kewley’s career has been stellar, she is one of the few women in the field.
At current rates, it is estimated that it will take 60 years to achieve gender equity; women will not make up even one-third of professional astronomers until 2080. Women hold 40 per cent of astronomy PhDs, but only 20 per cent of senior astronomy positions, and leave the industry two to three times more often than men.
When Professor Kewley was a student, there was only one woman astronomy professor with a permanent job in all Australia, and none at ANU.
“When I was a postdoc there, it never occurred to me that I would be a director of anything,” she said. “I still thought that there would be a glass ceiling, and that I would have to leave astronomy at some point.”
In the US, however, Professor Kewley saw more women at senior levels, children in tow at conferences and meetings. Those role models showed her that women could have both a scientific career and a family.
“That completely changed my thinking, and allowed me to stay in astronomy,” she said.
As professor at ANU, and director of ASTRO 3D, Professor Kewley resolved to improve matters. She made the work culture more women-friendly: she set clear gender targets, offered all positions part-time, and ensured selection committees had an equal balance of sexes. Now, half the staff and more than half the students are women – well above the Australian average for astronomy. Professor Kewley will bring that approach to the US.
While this retains women astronomers, Professor Kewley believes more must be done to encourage school students’ interest in science.
In high school, she confessed, she worried that physics and chemistry would be too hard for her. She had gotten that idea from books where female characters needed men to help them with math and trigonometry, and hated physics.
“The attitudes of those characters made me feel I wouldn’t be very good at it,” she said. “Fortunately, my dad’s a scientist; he made me do it, and it turned out that I loved it.”
But not every girl is lucky enough to have a scientist father who can help her and give her confidence, Professor Kewley said. Teachers and media should show women scientists, so girls can see that women can be scientists.
Too often, the famous scientists in textbooks are all men – ignoring (limiting the list to astronomers alone) Hypatia of Alexandria, Caroline Herschel, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Vera Rubin, or Andrea Mia Ghez.
“Role models have to be there all along the way,” Professor Kewley said.
She believes there must be more collaboration between scientists and teachers to make children (of either sex) interested in science. ASTRO 3D, for instance, donates telescopes to regional schools or girls’ schools, and trains the teachers and pupils how to use it; that dramatically increases the number of children doing physics.
Her message to young women thinking of studying astronomy: “Just do it, because it’s a fabulous field. It’s tremendously exciting, and things are changing so rapidly. You’ll be able to make discoveries with the huge telescopes that are coming online. There are lots of opportunities for women (and men) in astronomy.”


Australia’s telcos and tech industry lobby groups say they are unpleasantly surprised by a new government plan to allow US authorities to access data held by Australian IT services companies.
News of the plan arrived yesterday, Monday, 7 October a day more than half of Australia took as a public holiday*. But that didn’t stop the Federal Government from using the day to issue a joint announcement revealing that Australia is in talks with the US on a bilateral agreement that “would enable Australian law enforcement to serve domestic orders for communications data needed to combat serious crime directly on US-based companies, and vice versa.”
That idea is not seen as outrageous, because the USA has already legislated to let other countries access data held by US companies. The US Department of Justice explains (pdf) that the relevant law – the “CLOUD Act” – is necessary because requests for access to data stored by US companies were growing and legal action was getting fierce.
Such requests were often to investigate crime or terrorism, but US-based companies could legitimately deny access on privacy and security grounds.
So the USA legislated to make life easier for all concerned. Investigators get access, tech giants got certainty and nobody has to go to court to establish legal principles about why cross-border data access should be allowed.
Many Australian technology businesses would have been aware of the CLOUD Act.
But it appears none were told we were in talks with the USA about bringing it here.
Which is why Australian Information Industry Association CEO Ron Gauci told CRN his organisation is “Still working with our members to ascertain what position we should have.”
“We have been consistent in supporting efforts to combat terrorism and major crimes,” Gauci said. “We have also been consistent that there should be better consultation with industry.”
Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton offered us similar sentiments.
“We have no information from the Government on this, including as to what it means for the privacy rights of Australians,” he said. “Industry supports unreservedly the objective to combat serious crime in all its forms, but Government should consult, so it can understand the implications of what it is contemplating committing to.”
CRN also sought comment from Australian telcos and cloud operators from the largest operators to niche providers. None had a position. A tier one telco told us “We’re aware of this story and the possible scenario you outline, but we do not have a public comment to make at this early stage.”
A junior telco told us it “can’t comment on this one”. Others would not comment because they were unaware of the talks (see comments about Public Holidays above).
The AIIA’s Gauci also felt the announcement was a little premature, on grounds that Australia’s Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (TOLA) bill infamously permits authorities to compel access to encrypted material, but the USA does not have comparable requirements.
“Those inconsistencies would make it hard to get agreement,” he told CRN. For that reason the AIIA felt that any CLOUD Act action was far from imminent.
And that may be the case: minister Dutton’s statement hedges on the agreement by using language like “if finalized and approved” and offers no details on a time-frame for making a deal.
But coming on top of the scanty consultation on the TOLA bill, and the rapid implementation of 2019’s Abhorrent Materials bill that can see web hosts required to take down certain material, Australia’s technology industry is again feeling unloved.
And CRN expects the channel feels threatened too: the CLOUD Act means those who host servers or storage can receive offers they dare not refuse. But those offers can be very hard to handle – how would you deliver data a client encrypts, on a server for which you don’t have the passwords?
*Labour Day in NSW (pop 8.0m), South Australia (1.7m) the ACT (425k), and Queen’s Birthday in Queensland (5.1m) and the Northern Territory (245k) for a total of 15.47 million out of a total population of 25,287.400 according to the Bureau of Statistics.


The U.S. Marine and his bride who were seen praying together in a viral photo taken just moments before they said their vows have revealed the story behind the touching image.
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Caleb Earwood, 21, said he and his wife Maggie, 22, wanted to be sure that they asked God for guidance and thanked him for his blessings before they began their life together.
“We were about to take our first steps in life together, and we didn’t want to take a step without it being in God’s will,” Earwood told Today.com. “I prayed to God for my beautiful and intelligent wife that he blessed me with and the amazing family I was marrying into.”
The picture was taken minutes before the ceremony, after Earwood asked family members to bring him together with Maggie. The two met near a staircase, he in his Marine uniform and she in her wedding gown; they kept their eyes closed so as to not see one another before their nuptials.
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Just as we start to get excited for the only holiday where it’s okay to gorge on massive amounts of turkey and pie (read: stuffing yourself without abandon), restaurants around the city are offering pre-Thanksgiving specials to ramp up the hype. At Talde, the madcap noodle house in Park Slope run by Dale Talde, there’s a Turkey Day ramen complete with stuffing roulade, creamed-spinach–filled dumplings, slices of roasted turkey, pickled cranberries and a side of mushroom-soy gravy. And yes, there are traditional ramen noodles buried in there, too. (Roll over the above photo to check out the ingredients.) The holiday bowl will set you back $15, but there are plenty more Thanksgiving-themed treats to choose from:
Momofuku Milk Bar’s Thanksgiving croissant has made a comeback this year and will be available through the end of the month. Pick up the flaky, stuffing-flavored number packed with turkey, gravy and cranberry sauce for $4.50.
DGBG has rolled out a Gobbler burger ($21) that tops a 7-ounce turkey patty with grilled radicchio slaw, toasted pumpkin seeds and cranberry ketchup. The round sits on a seeded brioche bun and can be ordered for lunch, dinner or on the big day as part of the restaurant's $60 three-course Thanksgiving day dinner.
Over at BLT Bar & Grill, Thanksgiving “leftovers” get a makeover: The open-face sandwich smothers a buttery, eggy popover with sliced turkey, arugula, cranberry-mustard chutney and crispy turkey skin.
With these options, you might not have to trek to your relatives' houses to break bread afterall—just stay in the city and forget about your crazy aunt.


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