Farm to Fork Wyoming

“School Lunch” - Sheridan Cty Sch. Dist. 1 has taken a bold step in getting local foods into the 2014-15 school lunch program. After years of deliberation over budgets, federal nutrition guidelines and a jigsaw puzzle of ill-fitted standards, School District 1 ultimately abandoned the entire federal lunch program on the belief that they could feed their students better meals.

Organic farmer Scott Richard calls his farm “bio-friendly”, for now, as he restores a former dairy site from a depleted state to a deeply rich, organic haven of vegetable productivity. Four years into the process, the evidence of his ingenuity is breathtaking.

With ‘The Wyoming Food Freedom Act’, Wyoming’s local food economy has gone from one of the most regulated, to the leader in deregulation of direct-to-consumer farm and cottage foods. We explore the larger implications of ‘Food Freedom’ for Wyoming. Part 1: the controversy surrounding some of foods we eat and the contentions behind the conflicts and what it means for the small scale farmer.

With ‘The Wyoming Food Freedom Act’, Wyoming’s local food economy has gone from one of the most regulated, to the leader in deregulation of direct-to-consumer farm and cottage foods. We explore the larger implications of ‘Food Freedom’ for Wyoming. Part 2: meet some producers and cottage food artisans to explore the re-emergence of traditional farm foods that have evolved over 100’s of years.

An innovative food rescue program in Jackson Hole.