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News for the Season!

• New!! Plants with Altitude: Regionally Native Plants for Wyoming Gardens
• Additional historical materials for Winter 2014 article "Wyoming tough: Fruits, vegetables that survived former Cheyenne field station tests bested Mother Nature’s worst"
  • More info on the history of the Cheyenne Horticultural Field Station (Cheyenne Botanic Garden website)
  • Recommended horticultural plants generally hardy and adaptable in the Central Great Plains region University of Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin.  (February 1982)  Gene S Howard
  • Twenty-eight years of testing tree-fruit varieties at the cheyenne horticultural field station, Cheyenne, Wyoming. USDA ARS Crops Research Bulletin, series 34, no. 39 (October 1962) Gene Howard and G.B. Brown (Big pdf file 3.7 MB)
  • Vegetable culture and varieties for Wyoming. University of Wyoming, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 1942. Myron Francis Babb, W. L. Quayle (Big pdf file 2.5 MB)
  • Cheyenne Pie Pumpkin (Internet Archive website)
• Trees damaged in the blizzard? Check out the 'Trees & Shrubs - Care" section to find some help with determining what to do.
• Wildfire - Resources to help you be prepared
• Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming Rural Living Resources – A Practical Guide