Cropping Up: Fall season wrap-up & ongoing struggles for growers

By Emma Parkhurst,

Published October 21, 2022 at 12:34 PM MDT

We wrap up our fall season at Pettingill’s Fruit Farm on Utah’s famous fruit way in Willard! Join Emma Parkhurst and learn how climate and other obstacles affect local growers and the harvest plus more cooking demos from Blackstone.

Support for Cropping Up comes from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food in partnership with USU’s Hunger Solutions Institute and Create Better Health Utah.

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https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/scbgp/specialty-crop

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Nicholas Porath is a Logan native and music lover. Having graduated from USU with a degree in broadcast journalism, it was while studying journalism that he found his niche and newfound love for radio. He first started out as an intern behind the scenes and eventually made his way to the production and control rooms where he worked as a fill-in host, as well as producer for numerous UPR programs including Cropping Up, Access Utah, Behind the Headlines and more. In 2023 he took on a new hurdle as UPR’s new Radio Broadcast Engineer. He still works as a programming producer and is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers.

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Shalayne Smith Needham

Shalayne Smith Needham has worked at Utah Public Radio since 2000 as producer of Access Utah. She graduated from Utah State University in 1997 with a BA in Sociology, emphasis on Criminology. A Logan native, she grew up with an appreciation for the great outdoors and spends her free time photographing the Western landscape and its wildlife.

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