Topic “Jam”

By Standard-Examiner staff (Standard-Examiner)

LOGAN — A jam-making workshop will be held Thursday, Aug. 23, at the Balance Cafe.

Attendees must bring their own fruit and jars, but all other ingredients and recipes will be provided. The session, sponsored by the Stokes Nature Center, will be taught by jam-maker Liz Butcher of Butcher’s Bunches in Logan.

The workshop is $35 for...

By Nancy Van Valkenburg (Standard-Examiner staff)

Liz Butcher's life-changing moment came one late-summer Saturday, as she peddled her homegrown specialty produce at the Cache County farmers market.

"Someone offered to pay me a quarter for a two-pound heirloom tomato," Butcher recalled, still appalled. But she did understand.

"With the economic downturn, a lot of people had...