As hosts of
KRCL “RadioACTive’s” “Punk Rock Farmer Friday,” “Resistance is fertile” is a phrase we picked up over the last five years exploring the agrihood—that is, agriculture plus neighborhood—of the Wasatch Front and Back. There have been politics to fight over and a pandemic to subdue, but for one hour a week, we’ve been able to talk about something everybody needs, food, and growing it in our own backyards. Depending on how you look at it, a garden is either an act of faith or a gamble—that the rains come, the bugs don’t, the harvest is plentiful and the squirrels aren’t.