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'Cropping Up' on Wednesday's Access Utah

The Cropping Up logo is a green circle around a generic green plant.

Utah food producers provide products that are unique to the state referred to as specialty crops. In the Cropping Up series, Utah Public Radio has been featuring some of these crops, their health benefits, and the role they play in helping us access fresh food. The series is hosted by Emma Parkhurst, USU Professional Practice Assistant Professor and health and wellness expert for USU’s Davis County extension office and produced by UPR’s Nick Porath. Today we’ll talk with Emma Parkhurst and Nick Porath, along with Chef Matt Lott from Blackstone Products.

Utah Public Radio's Cropping Up is a partnership with Utah State University's Hunger Solutions Institute and Create Better Health Utah (SNAP-Ed) program made possible through a grant from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. Our thanks to Blackstone Products.

Utah Public Radio is partnering with USU’s Create Better Health for recipes and other ways to use Utah specialty crops. Click here for details.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.