(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mike Wood leads a group plant walk through Memory Grove park, Oct. 21,2022. Wood, who began a journey as a self-taught forager in 2010, is now an expert on edible plants in Utah, including the ones that pop up between cracks in parking lots.
Stefene is the Utah Eats reporter at the Tribune. For 13 years, she was the culture editor at St. Louis Magazine and is the former managing editor for stltoday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's website. She is glad to be back in her hometown.