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Show Volume XX Issue XI The Ogden Valley news Page 5 July 1, 2012 OVFAM Invites the Community to the Farmers and Artist Market in Eden Visit the Ogden Valley’s Farmer and Artist Market June 30 and enjoy the sound of Jonali (www. facebook.com/GETONMYJAC) from 10:00 a.m. to noon. The market is open each Saturday through the season from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Jonali Sorensen is not your typical singer songwriter. Her songs are influenced by aliens, lucid dreaming, and the ancient wisdom of the Tarot. She has performed and written over 50 original songs with various bands around Northern Utah (including the release of “Phenominality in the Jungle Basement” by reggae band, The Love Astronauts. The music she calls JACOUSTiC is her own unique and refreshing take on the acoustic/singer songwriter sound with a raw alternative flair. The EP “Jacoustic,” which features 13 all-acoustic, idiosyncratic songs will be released at the end of June of this year, just in time to celebrate her 20th birthday. Special Sponsors of the week include Elkridge Copy Center (www.elk-eng.com) and Kelley Creek Farm (www.kelleycreekfarm.com). On Saturday, July 7, come and enjoy Patrick Woods. Patrick is a Singer/Songwriter. He learned to sing before he learned to speak full sentences (True Story!). His songwriting has been compared to Bob Dylan by Victoria Rameriz, Head of Weber State English Dept., and other songwriting peers. He creates songs in many genres including folk, country, roots, classical, folk rock, and Americana. Special Sponsors for the week of July 7 include Grizzly Graphics (www.grizzlyutah.com) and Valley Market (www.valleymarketeden.com). Saturday, July 14, enjoy the music of Kimber Burks (www.soapboxstringband. com). Kimber Burks was one of the two female singers for Cheatwood, the alt-country band which enjoyed regional touring success. Now part of the Soapbox String Band, she is an active gigging musician that plays a mix of jazz, country, and rock music. On the side, she often gigs with her husband songwriter and guitarist Chas Burks. Special Sponsors of the week include River Printing Company (www.riverprintingcompany.com) and the Shooting Star Saloon located at 7350 E. 200 S. in Huntsville. OVFAM venders are locals who need the support of locals. The success of the market depends on the community—the village raising it together, making it a success. The Ogden Valley Farmers and Artists Market is located at 2405 N. Highway 158 in Eden. For more information, contact Linda at 801-745-6663, info@ovfam.org or <www.ovfam.org> Ogden Valley Garden Tour On Saturday, July 14 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., the gates will be open to eight magnificent residential gardens located in Ogden Valley. The annual garden tour is a benefit event for the Ogden Nature Center. This is an amazing opportunity to discover ideas for your own garden and revel in the colors, textures, and thoughtful designs of these unique spaces. Tickets - Tickets for the tour are $15 for Ogden Nature Center members and $20 for nonmembers. All proceeds will benefit the Ogden Nature Center. Tickets may be purchased online at www.ogdennaturecenter.org or in person at the Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th St., or at any of the gardens the day of the tour. Details - The garden tour will be held rain or shine -- no refunds. Tour maps and tickets will be available at all of the gardens, so tour goers may begin at any garden. There will be art and treats in the gardens -- some free samples and some available for purchase! Garden descriptions and addresses may also be found online at www.ogdennaturecenter.org. The Gardens - Garden 1 – Droubay Garden – 980 S. 8800 E., Huntsville It is very apparent that a garden lover lives here. Rosie Droubay is a Master Gardener, and her charming garden reflects her amazing plant knowledge, sense of whimsy, and love of plants. Bits of pottery, a blank wall full of faces, a beautiful bower leading to the fire pit area, and loads of lovely flowers fill out this garden. A winding lawn path leads to the orchard area, where a sense of the wild and unexplored awaits. Rosie has many plants that aren’t consid- ered hardy in Ogden Valley, including a gorgeous tricolor beech. Please note that parts of this garden are very old and some of the concrete is uneven; please walk carefully. Garden 2 – The White Garden –6993 E. 200 S., Huntsville Peninsula Built right on the shores of Pineview Reservoir, and offering stunning views of the lake and Snowbasin, this beautiful home is built on a premier lot in Ogden Valley. Designed as a traditional farmhouse with modern conveniences and touches, its garden features traditional plants in a more contemporary setting. A huge, sunken natural stone fire pit is the centerpiece of the back garden, which also features a beautiful swimming pool and spa, raised vegetable garden, and mini orchard. The covered patio has a built-in barbeque as well as a cozy fireplace. Oldfashioned plants such as lilacs, roses, daylily, maples, edelweiss, iris, dogwoods and coneflower complete the traditional look of this new home. Vintage Cupcake will be offering free treats, and Joy Bossi will be signing her new book, The Incredible Edible Landscape, by Joy Bossi and Karen Bastow. Garden 3 – The Holt Garden – 350 N. 6900 E., Huntsville Peninsula This fantasy garden was featured on the original garden tour in 2009, and many expressed their desire to see it when several new additions had grown in. Well, they have. The circular perennial garden is full of texture and color; the pool/ fire pit patio has been completely reworked, and a new circular raised planter full of showy annuals and perennials graces the main driveway. Brand new this year, a bermed, wooded GARDEN TOUR cont. on page 12 Come see the views! Historic Ben Lomond Hotel ~ 11th Floor Come Experience Top Of The Town MON-thur: 11- 9 FrI-sat: 11-10 CLOsED suNDaY Lunch Deliveries 11:30 - 1:30 M-F • Beer • Wine • Liquor 2510 Washington Blvd • Ogden American Cuisine at reasonable prices • Steak (Local Beef) • Chicken • Seafood • Pasta 801-621-1107 A Lesson in the Corn Patch Note: The following story by Sandra Stallings would be well developed and there would be a Jenkins of Eden was printed in the book “Life balance between the roots and the stalk. I looked at my own life and thought how Lessons from Fathers of Faith: Inspiring true stories about latter-day dads from Covenant much I was like the corn—crying for water before I’d developed my roots. I remembered books, and is being reprinted by permission. When I encountered frustration while grow- a talk Elder Neal A. Maxwell gave at Ricks ing up, my dad, Lowell Stallings, always said, College. He talked about being “grounded, “Well, just remember the Book of Mormon says rooted, and established.” Maybe the Lord was that ‘it came to pass,’ not that it came to stay.” allowing me to go a little while without water so I would become grounded I found myself in the and well-rooted in the gosmidst of one of those times pel. Perhaps there were recently, wishing that some roots of patience that I had of my problems would pass not established. and some of my dreams I could work on tolerwould come true. But neiance and love. I thought of ther seemed to be happenmany areas of my life where ing. I began to wonder if my roots were shallow. sometimes things did come I have learned not to to stay. I wondered why mind so much the dry spells some prayers seemed to go unanswered and why some Painting of Lowell Stallings’ farm in in my life, because I know the Master Gardener will blessings were withheld. Painting by Natalie Shupe of send water in His own due While visiting my par- Eden. Painting currently hangs in the time. And when it comes it ents, I found some answers Eden. Mad Moose Café, also in Eden. will be, as Elder in the corn patch. Maxwell calls it, the It was Saturday, and the vegetable garden needed to be irrigated. Since Malachi measure: “there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Mal. 3:10). I was home, ************** I volunteered for the assignment. Sandra Stallings Jenkins still works on the “Water everything but the corn,” Dad said as farm in Eden, Utah, where she grew up, but I headed for the ditch with my shovel. I always wondered what Dad had against instead of raising Holstein cows and acres of hay as her father did, she keeps bees and grows corn. “Are you sure it doesn’t need any water?” raspberries and strawberries. She served an I asked. He decided to come and check. We LDS mission in Bolivia, earned a degree in print walked out to the garden together and looked journalism from BYU, and has done freelance at the corn, which was about two feet high by and technical writing. She loves teaching fourthen. The leaves were wilting and had begun to year-olds music and art, composing songs to fit her curriculum, and watching her students’ droop from the heat. The last family home evening in May, we delight in mixing paint. Her father, Lowell G. Stallings, grew up in usually planted our garden. A frost always came a few days before the end of the month, Eden, Utah, working on the family farm with but then the summer weather began. That was his father; he was known for his amazing energy and stamina. He served an LDS mission to the the time for planting. Grandpa’s rusty old potato planter looked Japanese people in Hawaii from 1939 to 1942 like something out of the forties—probably and said he would have stayed as long as his because it was. But it still did a good job of put- dad kept sending the checks. He graduated ting the seed potatoes in the ground. Someone from Utah Agricultural College (now Utah State had stolen the seat off of it, and Dad sat on a University) with a degree in agricultural scipillow draped over the protruding rod while one ence and ran a registered Holstein dairy farm. He served as director of Weber Central Dairy of my sisters or I drove the tractor. We usually planted peas, beans, corn, and and Eden Irrigation Company, as president of potatoes, and sometimes squash. Our garden the Weber County Dairy Herd Improvement was growing according to the usual schedule Association, and was active in the Weber Soil this year. Everything had been watered two or Conservation District. After retiring from dairy three times since it had been planted except for farming, he raised alfalfa and barley. He was an the corn. It was getting close to July, and still artist on his tractor. Driving past his fields as the barley came up each spring, one marveled Dad hadn’t watered it even once. “I guess now it’s time to water it,” Dad said at how straight the rows of tender green were. as he inspected the droopy leaves, and then he He finished the annual plowing several weeks before he died at the age of eighty-five. He was explained to me why he had waited so long. “If you water corn when it first starts to a dedicated member of the Church, serving as grow, it’ll shoot right up. But it won’t develop a bishop, high counselor, and counselor in the a root system to support its height, so it won’t Huntsville Utah Stake presidency. He especially enjoyed working in the Ogden Temple. be good for much of anything.” Lowell was also a patriarch for the Huntsville As he left me, I began thinking about what he had said. He was disciplining the corn so it Utah LDS Stake. |
