Keep It Real Vegetables is an urban farming project located along the Wasatch front, Utah, USA.
For many years we have grown high quality food for humans in a collection of small scale urban gardens in Salt Lake City and Murray. We are currently transitioning to a single 2+ acre plot in Layton, Utah.
Our growing practices are primarily by hand, organic, minimal tillage agriculture. We are specialty growers of the most delicious vegetable varieties available.
Tyler Montague, founder and farmer at Keep It Real Vegetables. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Studied gardening, sustainable agriculture, and food systems at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Studied tropical agriculture and food systems in Costa Rica and Nicaragua with the community food systems program.
His farming credentials include his work as Assistant Farm Manager at Sandhill Farms in Eden, Utah; University of Utah Lifelong Learning Program Adjunct Professor; Wasatch Community Gardens Tomato Garden Steward 2011; Slow Food Utah Microgrant Recipient 2011; Sugarhouse Farmer's Market Board Member 2014-2016; Small Farm and Urban Garden Consultant 2011-present; and of course his independent work as a small-scale urban farmer, a project that became Keep It Real Vegetables. All the while Tyler's research into permaculture and urban farming continues . . .
Tyler has also worked in the specialty foods industry as the grocery department buyer at Good Earth Natural Foods in Fairfax, California, and then as specialty grocery manager at Liberty Heights Fresh, and produce manager at Cali’s Natural Foods in Salt Lake City.
For many years we have grown high quality food for humans in a collection of small scale urban gardens in Salt Lake City and Murray. We are currently transitioning to a single 2+ acre plot in Layton, Utah.
Our growing practices are primarily by hand, organic, minimal tillage agriculture. We are specialty growers of the most delicious vegetable varieties available.
Tyler Montague, founder and farmer at Keep It Real Vegetables. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Studied gardening, sustainable agriculture, and food systems at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Studied tropical agriculture and food systems in Costa Rica and Nicaragua with the community food systems program.
His farming credentials include his work as Assistant Farm Manager at Sandhill Farms in Eden, Utah; University of Utah Lifelong Learning Program Adjunct Professor; Wasatch Community Gardens Tomato Garden Steward 2011; Slow Food Utah Microgrant Recipient 2011; Sugarhouse Farmer's Market Board Member 2014-2016; Small Farm and Urban Garden Consultant 2011-present; and of course his independent work as a small-scale urban farmer, a project that became Keep It Real Vegetables. All the while Tyler's research into permaculture and urban farming continues . . .
Tyler has also worked in the specialty foods industry as the grocery department buyer at Good Earth Natural Foods in Fairfax, California, and then as specialty grocery manager at Liberty Heights Fresh, and produce manager at Cali’s Natural Foods in Salt Lake City.