Agriculture

The nonprofit Riverton Garden Club is hosting their annual plant sale this Saturday. They sell extra plants from their own gardens, which can take the guesswork out of knowing what will grow in this area.

Vendors are hoping it also helps out local residents who won’t have to travel over 20 miles to the nearest grocery store.

Wyoming Game and Fish have made it clear there is an aquatic invasive species threat in Wyoming. They have created 23 response plans in the event that mussels do make their way into our bodies of water.

It’s all part of the food sovereignty movement that Wind River Grow Our Own 307 has initiated on the Wind River Reservation. The trees were distributed today by Wind River Grow Our Own, and planted by community members.

80 percent of Wyoming is in at least a moderate to an extreme drought. The La Nina weather pattern may be partly to blame, which occurs about every five years.

“Industry standards are going more to knowing where their stuff was growing and being able to track it from the field to wherever they’re packaging it and selling it,” noted Sorensen.

Wyoming Game and Fish have opened up registration for their summer camp at Whiskey Mountain near Dubois, WY for youth or families.

Regional Commissioner Ralph Brokaw gave Albany County 4H a Commissioner Tag to auction off in order to raise money for educational opportunities in shooting sports.

Game and Fish continue their Bighorn Sheep study in Southeast Wyoming.

With Wyoming’s climate, the outdoor growing season has always been quite short, but this farm is developing solutions on how to grow all winter long.

Wind River Grow Our Own 307 is a brand new nonprofit program that started at the beginning of the pandemic. The executive director was inspired by the need for food sovereignty not only on the reservation, but in all of Fremont County.

The Wind River Farmer’s Market has seen an increase in vendors and customers since reopening according to the market manager, Rhonda Bowers.

The outdoor summer farmer’s markets came to a close last night, but this weekend, you will find the Little Wind Center building at the Fremont County Fairgrounds full of locally grown goods.

For the first time ever, Central Wyoming College in Riverton is having a Rustler Rodeo in their hometown with no cost to attend. And with all fall sports canceled except for cross country and rodeo, the CWC Rodeo Team is more excited than ever to get back up on that horse.

The pumpkin patch in Riverton is now open to the public, and even earlier than in previous years. Now there’s more time and opportunity for wide open spaces and fresh air to pick your perfect pumpkin.

And the winner of the Rendezvous Beef Roundup, and in turn, the best tasting beef in Wyoming was determined to be Wyoming Legacy Meats from Cody.

The Riverton Garden Club has brought color to the city of Riverton for 62 years through many projects and grants. But planting trees and flowers are only a part of what they do. Much of their work has to do with awareness for important causes.

This event is seeking to secure connections between producers and consumers of local meat in our area. It happens this weekend and at the end, we'll get to know who has the best tasting steak.

As meat on the grocery store shelves has risen in price, so has the demand for meat processors. When this couple moved from Casper, their goal was to create a small retirement business. Recently, the increase in need for locally processed meat has expanded their business significantly.

Yee-haw! It’s fair time in Central Wyoming! Although it looks a little different this year, many are proud that it was held for everyone to enjoy, even in the midst of restrictions.

A local rodeo used its platform not only to gather a crowd to enjoy their freedoms, but also to promote suicide awareness.

At the base of Sinks Canyon in Lander, Wyoming is the Alpine Science Institute, owned by Central Wyoming College. Our own first lady was there today taking a tour of the mobile meat processing and teaching unit. She also toured around a few other places in Fremont County to witness their robust local food supply, and learn about the future of local food in the area.

History Channel's "Mountain Men" star Josh Kirk, of Lander, shared more about living primitively at the base of the Wind River Mountain Range.

Crews work tirelessly on reconstruction of irrigation canal tunnel. District General Manager hopes to know by the end of the week when water could flow into the canal again

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says the Department is working 'feverishly' on a multi-billion dollar aid package for farmers hit hard by the tariffs, looming trade war with China.

As part of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) effort to find good homes for wild horses and burros removed from public lands, the agency today began offering new financial incentives to encourage qualified people to adopt one or more of the animals.

Wildlife managers are concerned about resource damage at Diamond Lake Public Access Area.

Possible near-record cold temperatures are expected to move through the Northern Plains and Midwest March 6-10 posing a potential impact to agricultural producers, according to the USDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Laramie County Fair began Monday the 30th at the Archer complex and will move to Frontier Park on Saturday August, 4th.

Visitors to Cheyenne Frontier Days this year can build a ranch, change a stream flow, meet Wyoming’s most (un)wanted outlaw weeds, eat a beef stick from UW Cowboy Branded Meats and test their wool-grading skills.