Big Horn Basin – Wyo Food

Sugar Beets, Water, and Hard Work: The History Behind the Big Horn Basin’s Sweetest Crop

Potato harvesters and tractors working in a field beneath mountains

The story of sugar beets in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin: Worland’s Holly Sugar factory, the irrigation that made it possible, and the workers who built it.

Wyoming’s German-Russian Food Legacy: Sausages, Kuchen & the Settlers Who Shaped Our Table

German-Russian settlers brought kuchen, sausage & knephla to Wyoming. Explore the Volga German food legacy of the Big Horn Basin — plus an easy kuchen recipe.