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Show Employ Harvest Time at Sundance Farms in the background. The vision for the Farms originated in 1988. by Leslie Miller And, the hard work of staying the course has undance Farms is in all of it's glory. It's harvest time in the high mountain meadows spread out beneath the snowcapped Timpanogas. Picking the last of summers bounty, the farm's workers are buzzing around the barns like diligent bees. They are busy tying, sealing, and packaging organic products destined for market. Products which have been designed and produced at in Charleston, Utah. their new home Twenty-five acres of patureland and barns were purchased by Robert Redford last year for the purpose of nurturing further a con- resulted in what is there today. The winding little road, to the Farms, off highway isn't marked with a street sign. That's because, according to Public Works, it's not true 2900 South. The road wiggles slightly at the intersection with the highway. So, you can't have a sign that reads 2875 South and becomes 2900 South, right? Anyway, this is one of the little quirks of locality that lends charm to the operation down the road. Sundance Farms employs about 20 people. The manager, Liz Sprackland, is respon- sible for the original concept and the ongoing operation. She also designs many of the products and gardens that fill the orders. Everything from herb scented bath oils and sachets to garlands and wreaths and teas come from the items grown organically in the gardens. What makes Sundance Farms so interesting is it's environmental sensitivity, and social conscience and it's success. A tricky combination in today's highly competitive market of mass production and commercialization. as well as a garden or two. The Sundance label of ingenuity and quality, earned through the implementation of ideas like the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance catalog and the resort at Sundance, will now be stamped on Sundance Farms. Not that this idea of growing organic produce and flowers and herbs began yesterday. No, this is an idea who's time has come by cultivating it with affection and purpose. | Metro and surrounding areas broad-based population of skilled professionals. Local residents in the surrounding farm community are supplying the farms with homemade products including goats milk soaps, mountain clover honey, preserves and sauces. These Utah products show up in retail shops and catalogs around the country. "From earth to table” is the Farms philosophy that aptly describes this endeavor. In honor of their first growing season in their new home, Liz, Heather, David and the rest are preparing for the first Susdance Farms Harvest Festival at the end of October. It's a celebration of goods and produce that are hand grown and hand made. Products that reflect the creativity and skill of the individuals who made or grew them. And perhaps this is another feather in the Sundance cap of accomplishments, whose legacy, it's turning out, is artfully and organically expressed now at Sundance Farms. @ NiickellodeaN A PRIVATE CLUB FOR MEMBERS Come to the Nickelodeon for Spreading the word are visitors who are welcomed to tour the gardens and drying sheds during scheduled hours and young students 523 Main Street surroundings, anxious to learn about natural farming and it's importance in their community. But, it is the mission promising. Who hasn't of the heard Farms about that the is so likes of entrepreneurs providing alternative opportunities for South American Amazonians? Rather than cut down the rain forests, how about creating products, to be marketed universally from the rain forest? It's a win win situation. 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We have a * One-hour Photo * Passport Photos * Two-hour Slide Processing (E-6) * KODAK Create-A-Print™ ¢ Black & White Processing * Custom Enlarging, Negatives or Slides * Portrait & Commercial Studio * Unique Photo Frames & Accessories 649-6465 Monday— Friday ee Pata “AUNIVERSITY HOTEL & SUITES s AKamen Hore 480 Waxarna Way" pert 000 East oF Foorait Dr IVE At Appronmatesy 61a Soure S IDVd ¢ SIWIL NIVLINNOW Harvesting produce at Sundance Farms with Timpanogos Our is protected while locals develop new skills and are gainfully employed. The rain forest products in turn promote the importance of environmental conservation and a regional, sustainable economy. Similarly the idea has been transplanted, or perhaps home grown, here in the agriculture belt of the Heber Valley by Liz and Sundance. Agricultural open space is quickly disappearing to make way for population expansion in Utah. Much of Utah's most productive and valuable farm land has become urbanized by the fast pace of development. But at Sundance Farms the land will continue to be used as it has been, to grow things. The herbs, edible flowers, and vegetables grown organically on a drip system are used in dozens of ways. The restaurants at Sundance Resort buys them for their menu items. Liz's "worker bees" cut, dry, trim, and arrange them for wreaths, dressings, sachets and teas. They are then sent to market. But, that's not all Sundance Farms is doing. |