Welcome

Growing Resilience is a community-based research project designed to bring home gardens to households on the Wind River Reservation in Fremont County, Wyoming and to measure the impact of those gardens on participants’ health. The Growing Resilience project leverages tribal assets of land, family, culture and community health organizations to develop and evaluate home food gardens as a family-based health promotion intervention to reduce disparities suffered by Native Americans in nearly every measure of health.

Growing Resilience is a partnership between Blue Mountain Associates, Eastern Shoshone Tribal Health, the Wind River Development Fund, and the University of Wyoming. Read more about the Growing Resilience team on our Project Partners page.

Please click HERE to view the Digital Story Compilation from Growing Resilient participants.

News and Events

January 22, 2021: Data And Storytelling Inform Food Insecurity Research On The Wind River Indian Reservation
February 10, 2021: Growing Resilience Compilation Video, including stories from Rubena, Vernetta, and Shiloh. Watch Here.
2017: Myers, M. “Snapshot: Christine Porter, Growing Food Security.” UWyo Magazine (8:2). 2017. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
Sept. 19, 2017: Representatives from the Growing Resilience research and gardening team and Community Advisory Board presented at the Seeds of Native Health Native Nutrition Conference in Mystic Lake, MN. You can watch both the research and gardening team's presentation and the Community Advisory Board's presentation online.
February 2017: Read about the history of Growing Resilience in the Rocky Mountain Gardening magazine.

Views from Growing Resilience

Dr. Virginia Sutter and Jim Sutter of Blue Mountain Associates
Meeting of project partners and community members in October, 2015
Produce from a Wind River Garden.
Meeks family and their garden.
Weed/Hurley family and their garden.
Dodge family garden.
Garden manager Etheleen Potter and Pat White build raised beds.

Welcome

Research and Gardening Team Presentation

Community Advisory Board Presentation

News and Events

Garden Manager Etheleen Potter’s story of gardening in Wind River

Views from Growing Resilience