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Gardening

Gardening can be a great way to be active, add more fruits and vegetables to your plate, and make a little more room in your food budget. Check out our resources for growing a garden and using garden-fresh produce. 

Gardening & Growing Food

Find resources from UW Extension on starting a garden and growing food in Wyoming. These resources can help you get started, from knowing when to plant to what varieties of plants do well in Wyoming.

Turnips, carrots, and radishes with dirt on them and their tops still on, on top of a wooden table.

Gardening Newsletters

Created in partnership with University of Wyoming Extension gardening experts, this newsletter provides gardening tips for new gardeners and covers topics from starting seeds to dealing with pests to harvesting.

Featured recipe with brocolli, carrots, and sugar peas

Cook garden-fresh produce

Learn how to cook garden-fresh produce through CNP classes! Classes are free to anyone who-income qualifies and participants receive free kitchen tools and the CNP cookbook (with 200+ healthy, low-cost recipes).

Hose with sprinkler head water tomato plant

Growing Vegetables

The University of Wyoming Extension provides a detailed publication of growing vegetables in Wyoming and handling some of the unique challenges of our climate.

Cabbages in a raised bed

Garden-Fresh Produce

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* The Cent$ible Nutrition Program is funded by USDA SNAP-Ed and EFNEP. SNAP-Ed assists individuals and families who receive, or are eligible to receive, benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). EFNEP assists families and youth with limited resources  in acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behaviors necessary for nutritionally sound diets and contributes to their personal development and the improvement of total family diet and nutritional welfare. Visit our Qualify page to learn more. 

This material was funded by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP. This institution is an equal opportunity provider. This material was funded by USDA’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program-EFNEP. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. The full nondiscrimination statement can be found here. 

Issued in furtherance of extension work, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kelly Crane, Director, University of Wyoming Extension, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming Extension, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071.

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