Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

We move our lives indoors as frost and snow shuts down another outdoor growing season in Cheyenne. Yesterday, I plucked all of my tomatoes a...

I returned to volunteer duties at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens this week. In March of 2020, volunteers were put on hiatus during the pandemi...

Gardening vs. Farming. Hobby vs. Growing Crops to Feed the Family and the Nation I'm a hobbyist gardener. I am not growing a garden beca...

I wrote this on Wednesday morning but didn't get around to posting until today: Watch a hail barrage shred months of work. It’s mer...

This time last week, the snow fell and the wind blew. By the end of Sunday, my yard looked more like January than April. The day before, I...

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That expression shows more wishful thinking than reality. In Wyoming, March comes in li...

From Wyoming Public Media: In collaboration with the University of Wyoming, a local food advocacy group conducted a study to find out just...

Only two things that money can't buy That's true love & homegrown tomatoes So sings Guy Clark in "Homegrown Tomatoes....

Night Heron Books in downtown Laramie is now publicly growing some of its own food in a mini-greenhouse on the sidewalk in front of the s...

There are only two more Winter Farmers Markets "inside the sunny and cozy lobby of the Historic Train Depot Museum in downtown Cheyen...

Joyce Kilmer at the High Plains Arboretum: I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree. Cheyenne owes its existence to gov...

Hummingbirdminds supports Rep. Sue Wallis's Food Freedom Act (from Wyoming Business Report ): This week, the Wyoming House of Repres...

The Cheyenne Winter Farmers Market is located inside the historic train depot the first Saturday of each month from November through April ...

It was quite educational listening to the debate on HB168 today in the Wyoming House. HB168 is the Domestic Partners Rights and Responsibili...

Ogallala strawberries. Winter won't last forever. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 8:30-8:30 p.m., in the Laramie County Public Library's Cot...

Saw this on Nancy Sindelar's excellent e-mail newsletter:  "Gardening: Cool Season Crops."  Grow crops for harvest in the h...

Architect's rendering of the proposed Cheyenne Botanic Gardens building The Cheyenne Botanic Gardens has a new web site. I don'...

Here's a sign that farmers' markets are really taking off in Wyoming (thanks to Nancy Sindelar's newsletter for the listing): F...

Cheyenne Winter Farmers' Market this Saturday, March 31, 10 am-2 pm, Inside the Historic Train Depot Museum, 121 W. 15th Street. The nor...

An urban planner wants us to think like farmers. Crop yields, stuff like that. A rural conservation institute with desert roots works to r...