ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF SPRING, members of the Salt Lake Valley’s queer community gathered at the Moonstead, the Mobile Moon Co-op’s half-acre urban farm, to celebrate the changing seasons and the Persian New Year, Nowruz. Strong winds caught at the plastic covering the greenhouse and toppled pistachios on the haft seen —a ceremonial table holding seven items that start with the Persian letter sin. Despite the wind, Camlyn Giddins and Yasi Shaker, Mobile Moon’s event coordinators, opened with a calm garden meditation. “Invite what the mycelium might be gifting you this spring,” Giddins said.
Guests circled around the chakra garden, and Giddins and Shaker pointed out the herbs that were planted for each of the body’s energy centers, such as the abundant sage green leaves of lavender at the crown chakra bed. When Rikki Longino, Mobile Moon’s farm coordinator, dreamed up the Moonstead, they took inspiration from their ancestors from India
