Solstice Spices

07/11/2024

Hello friends. We hope you are doing well and staying strong. We wanted you to know that we have been working hard on a website redesign and have finally made it live. This was a long process that was possible because of amazing support from our community. We owe our gratitude to and their e-commerce accelerator program for helping us with the layout. And we also send gratitude to and for many of the photos. Small Business is dependent upon strong community support. We have always felt that from you! We hope that you continue to support small businesses throughout this holiday season and into 2025.

29/10/2024

Solstice Spices believes in a healthy democracy and strongly encourages everyone to vote!

05/10/2024

German Pink. My fave. She’s a beaut! Reminds me of my grandma and it’s always the first variety to sell out at market. The European ladies come to our table and take them all. At first they thought they were too expensive, but now they don’t care how much…just give me all the gorgeous pink tomatoes! 🍅

26/09/2024

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been awarded the Snail of Approval by Slow Food Utah! We’ve been recognized for our commitment to make good, clean and fair food for all alongside farms, restaurants and other food businesses around the world. We were chosen for the Snail of Approval award because of our dedication to making farm-to-jar spice blends.

Thank you to Slow Food USA for recognizing our commitment to better food systems and a world where we all can access food that is good, clean and fair. Click below to learn more about the Snail of Approval program and find other businesses that have received this award.

Slow Food’s international Snail of Approval program is expanding to the entire US! Now, local businesses that are working to make good, clean and fair food for all can receive the Snail of Approval. This powerful award helps bring attention to amazing food businesses that are excelling in two or m...

23/09/2024

Solstice Spices is Tony is Solstice Spices. This is all him, his talents and his ideas. I, Heather, am here just to help implement things and tell the community how great he is. And part of the reason we are still here after all these years is because half of us don’t know how to cook without our spices.

We love you Tone! Thanks for having us at Snail Fest last night. It was fun! Tony served gorgeous heirloom tomato bites with Garlic Herb seasoning. They were a hit.

15/09/2024

We are happy to be included in this stellar lineup of local producers. Come check it out!

14/09/2024

We are honored to be recognized by and come learn all about the Snail of Approval next Sunday 9.22 at there will be delicious eats and drinks!

31/08/2024

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17/08/2024

Every year has its theme. So far, 2024 is the Basil year. We can hook you up at on Saturday mornings.

12/08/2024

Vote for Solstice Spices in the City Weekly Best of Utah before August 31!

Vote in any or all categories August 1st through August 31st MDT! Choose wisely! Votes are locked-in and can not be changed after 15 minutes. For your votes to be counted, make sure to vote in at least 5 categories. Not seeing your favorite in a category? You can still cast write-in votes through Au...

09/08/2024

The world lost one of the best humans last weekend. He gave his heart through continuous acts of service. We were lucky to be the recipients of his many gifts, maybe the biggest gift being his help in building our high tunnels several years ago. He was at the farm for days and days helping Tony. When we were awarded the grant to purchase the high tunnels, we had no idea how difficult it was going to be to build them. I think it took at least two months.

Papa John’s life inspires me to be more generous, to express love with kind acts, and to slow down and enjoy the small moments.

Many beautiful heirloom tomatoes have been grown in these high tunnels that were built with love from Papa John. I honor you Papa, and promise to stay close by Mama’s side. It’s the least I could do for you.

27/07/2024

Opening day catch us here for every Saturday until October 26.

19/07/2024

Tomatoes are coming just in time for see you there on July 27.

10/07/2024

The plants are doing their best to survive this heat! Peppers and Eggplant like it most. The tomatoes aren’t sure. Either way, starts in two weeks. We will be ready! Hoping for relief from the heat and wildfire smoke 😷 for the humans, the animals, and the vegetables. ❄️ 🧊 🔥 🥵

23/06/2024

I have been doing my best to help keep up with the strawberry harvest 🍓 but they are producing every day. I love strawberries so I am not complaining.
A lesson you learn over and over again when you are a market gardener is how undervalued food is in our society. It takes me an hour to pick 1/4 of our strawberry beds which yields about 4 pounds of strawberries. I could buy 4 pounds of strawberries at the grocery chain for $20. And the immigrant who picked those strawberries probably got paid $2 or less.
After an hour of digging thru the plants in the heat, I feel like these strawberries should be worth $100. They certainly taste good enough!

14/06/2024

Big thanks to and for allowing us to leave home and the gardens for a few days. We had some much needed quality time with family and got to explore a beautiful area of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa that we hadn’t seen before. We saw dozens of bald eagles, and watched an egret and blue heron fish for breakfast. We bathed in the energy of the forest with a bonus concert from the cicadas. We were in awe with the abundance of water in the upper Mississippi and we were humbled by the lessons of the Native Americans. We saw lots of farms and found some delicious eats. We are grateful for the time away and happy to be home. Time to get ready for market season.

29/05/2024

I got to make my small contribution to planting season at the farm last weekend. Since I became a full time office worker 5 years ago, I have spent less time at the farm. For a few years was mostly working by himself. But last year, we grabbed the hands of some fellow urban farmer enthusiasts and decided to figure out how we could share the work and the harvest. It has been an experiment in cooperation and we don’t know what will come - no farmer ever does. But, I will say that this seems like the least stressful planting season in years and I am grateful for that.