Great Salt Lake Aqua + Agriculture

  • January 24, 2025
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The Punk Rock Farmer checks in from EcoFarm, while we share Lakefacing Stories with farmers and brine shrimpers on GSL. Plus, Skywatcher Leo T and homegrown music from Gavanni.

Tonight's Punk Rock Farmer Friday edition of RadioACTive features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community:

Aldine, KRCL's Punk Rock Farmer, checks in from Eco-Farm, a 44-year-old nonprofit that advances ecological and just farming and food systems through learning, convening, celebrating, and advocating. Joining him will be Rebecca North, executive director of the Ecological Farming Association, which produces the annual conference.

Homegrown music from Gavanni, whose new album, Fever Dream, drops Feb. 6th.

#ManyCulturesOneSky with SkyWatcher Leo T, a RadioACTive volunteer and veteran broadcaster-turned-podcaster who shares his love of the night sky, cultural tales of the constellations, and more on #PunkRockFarmerFridays. Tonight, Mars and other celestial bodies now visible in the night sky, T Coronae Borealis once-in-a-lifetime nova, and more.

Urban Farm Report with Olivia Juarez of Stay Salty, Lakefacing Stories, a Utah-based podcast and multimedia project about overlooked stories from people connected to and impacted by the receding Great Salt Lake. Juarez joins us to share clips from 2 episodes:

  • Working Waterscape: Brine Shrimping: This is part one of a two-part exploration into Great Salt Lake as a working waterscape. In this episode, we learn about brine shrimping! We dive into the ways the lake and brine shrimp contribute to our global food system. Great Salt Lake contributes over 40% of the global supply of brine shrimp, which are fed to larger shrimp, like prawns, and other fish cultivated through aquaculture. We hear about what it's like to work as a brine shrimper, the history of the Brine Shrimp Cooperative and the ways the industry is adaptively managed to ensure a sustainable harvest and healthy ecosystem. We learn how the health of the brine shrimp industry is inextricably tied to the health of the lake and explore what we can learn from brine shrimping as we find pathways to stay as the lake recedes.

  • Working Waterscape: Agriculture: This is part two of our exploration of the working waterscape and landscapes of Great Salt Lake. In this episode, we turn to farming. Farms across the watershed grow alfalfa, fruits, vegetables and raise livestock for meat and dairy that eventually end up on grocery store shelves. These farms use about 80% of the water that is diverted from the Bear, Weber and Jordan Rivers, Great Salt Lake's tributaries. We talk with farmers in Cache Valley about the challenges they face and pathways forward to stay in the Great Salt Lake Basin that work for both farmers and the lake. One major theme: let's localize and reconnect with our food.

How'd you like the show? Share your thoughts, suggestions and observations by calling the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889‬. Or, send a voicememo to radioactive@krcl.org. Tell us your name and neighborhood, the subject or guest you want to talk about and leave a short message. 

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

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