Farm to Fork Wyoming

Wyoming is fortunate to have some wonderful civic minded gardeners - Explore with us Sheridan’s Food Forest. We’ll also visit Tara Farm and Nursery, a permaculture landscape project near Casper, Wyoming- where we’ll learn about permaculture, an ecosystems approach for creating enduring plant communities.

We’ll visit Pumpkin Patches where we’ll learn how these plants are about so much more than fall festivities. They also provide local seasonal jobs, nourishment, and extend the growing season. But, even more importantly, we’ll learn more about the deep cultural ties Native Americans today have to some of their most impressive ancestral gifts to the world: corn and squash.

Sheep are an ancient companion that once were the most abundant livestock upon the Wyoming landscape… In recent years the sheep market has floundered but as local foods broaden America’s palate again, the market for sheep is making a comeback. We’ll visit a mother/daughter operation in Lovell raising crossed Dorper/ Katahdin hair sheep, both relatively new breeds, but gaining in popularity in Wyoming.

Forging year round local food access where none has existed since the rise of the supermarket... Rebuilding the local food supply in sparsely populated Wyoming is a heavy lift, but we Wyomingites are not easily daunted. Nearly every corner of the State has a network striving to make local food a year round reality. We’ll visit stand-out projects in Gillette, Worland, Cody, Wheatland and Laramie.

Across the country and now in Wyoming the demand for local meat processing facilities is on the rise as the last of our master butchers and artisan sausage makers are disappearing…. We’ll explore Wyoming’s role in the modern day beef industry and who the world is changing around us. What opportunities does new technologies like Beef Chain and the push for more in-State processing facilities?