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Garden Help Desk: A journal is one of a gardener’s most useful tools

What can a garden journal do for you? We’ve talked about garden journals before as well as what a journal can do for a gardener. Your journal is the place where you keep a yearly record of your garden - what and when you planted, how each variety did, how the weather worked for or against ...

ATV Adventures: Reviewing the Polaris Xpedition ADV Northstar

When Nick Faulkner from Young Powersports first showed me the Polaris Xpedition, I thought, “This is crazy.” I bought my first ATV in 1993 for $4,500, and this one cost ten times that. I put it out of my mind because there was no way I could imagine presenting this to my finance committee ...

Get Out There: Traveler’s choice awards: The world’s most beloved cities

Every year, Tripadvisor quietly answers one of travel’s biggest questions: where do people actually love going — not just visit, but rave about afterward? Based on hundreds of thousands of traveler reviews from around the globe, this year’s list of the world’s most beloved cities reads ...

Garden Help Desk: Complete these tasks to prepare for the growing season

Spring will be here before we know it. Here are a few tasks to consider doing in February to prepare your garden for its busiest season. Prune dormant apples, pears and ornamental trees. Hold off on pruning peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots until March. Shrubs that flower on old wood, ...

ATV Adventures: A warm ride on a cold day in the Grassy Mountains

It was a cold day in January when Dean Eborn of Layton called me and asked me to go for a ride with him. “Have you looked at the temperature outside?” I asked. I was thinking about a ride from Moab to the Onion Creek trailhead in May a few years ago. The temperature was 40 degrees. We ...

Get Out There: America’s most wanted beaches are calling

America’s beaches are having a moment — not because they’ve suddenly changed, but because we have. According to the latest national survey on vacation interest, where you live increasingly shapes where you long to escape. And the results read like a love letter to three very different ...

Utah Valley Living: Places to go, things to do (Feb. 7-15)

Here is a look at many of the events going on in Utah Valley and beyond in the next week: CENTRAL Provo Feb. 7 Legend of Timpanogos, Covey Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. (covey.provo.gov) Valentine's Day 2026 Beehive Bazaar, The Beehive, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. (beehivebazaar.com) 2025-26 Provo ...

To celebrate love: Reasons to go out or stay home for Valentine’s Day

It's that time of year again when thoughts (and hundreds of marketing campaigns) focus on love. Valentine's Day is now just a week away, with many either having already planned and selected gifts or in the process of frantically trying to figure out how to demonstrate to their significant ...