KZMU Moab Community Radio

Ongoing drought conditions mean farmers in our region may need innovative ways to grow crops using less water. In Blanding, the family running Cinco Cedros Farms is trying to do just that with aquaponics. But, this unique type of farming doesn’t always go swimmingly. Plus, a Utah artist has created a sound collage representing the timeline of the Great Salt Lake, including its potential collapse. And later, as climate change pushes animals to compete for resources, one study asks who wins when mountain goats and bighorn sheep butt heads.

KZMU News · Friday October 28, 2022

Plus, the Weekly News Reel! Sophia Fisher of The Times-Independent discusses the high school’s championship mountain biking team, the county’s response to an OHV-related lawsuit, understaffing at Moab’s post office and the BLM reopening the Mill Canyon tracksite. Alison Harford of the Moab Sun News discusses continued election coverage, outdoor education programs expanding in our area and free public transportation beginning next year. And, the Sun reports ‘what happened at the meeting.’

Show Notes

Photo: Jessica Stevens runs Cinco Cedro Farms where she grows vegetables in an aquaponic system. That method uses a fraction of the water needed in terrestrial farming. KZMU/Justin Higginbottom

Cinco Cedro Farms:

https://www.instagram.com/cincocedrosfarms/?hl=af

and

https://www.facebook.com/cincocedros.farms.9

Utah DWR: Raising your own fish for food

https://wildlife.utah.gov/aquaponics.html

KUER: A Utah artist imagines the life of the Great Salt Lake from birth to the brink

https://www.kuer.org/health-science-environment/2022-10-18/a-utah-artist-imagines-the-life-of-the-great-salt-lake-from-birth-to-the-brink

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