Papa Joe's Produce

03/27/2026

Fresh, local lettuce and other produce - right on your regular grocery run 🥬

You don’t have to visit the farm to enjoy crisp, just-harvested greens. You can find Papa Joe’s Produce lettuce at select retail locations in Sheridan and Buffalo, making it easy to bring home truly fresh, locally grown produce any day of the week.

In Sheridan, find our products us at Cross E Dairy & Freedom Foods, 106 S Main St, Good Health Market, and Sackett's Market. Or in Buffalo at DJ's Grocery and Lynn's Superfoods.

We’re incredibly grateful for our retail partners who help connect our greenhouses to your table. Their support makes it possible for us to keep growing year-round and serving our community with the quality you expect.

Next time you’re shopping, keep an eye out for Papa Joe’s Produce - freshness is closer than you think.

03/24/2026

With spring rolling in our greenhouses have been bursting with beautiful, fresh lettuce! We made a number of improvements over the winter that increased production significantly - and better production means lower costs. So we're sharing that with you.

Times can be tough, and we believe everyone should be able to enjoy fresh, locally grown food. Thank you for supporting local agriculture and supporting Papa Joe’s Produce. We truly appreciate our amazing customers! Order online and grab some fresh spring lettuce while the harvest is strong! Or, visit one of our fantastic retail partners - we've lowered pricing with them as well so you can take advantage of it.

🔗Order now: https://papajoesproduce.square.site/

02/24/2026

Wyoming’s food scape faces unique challenges due to being one of the most rural states, which often puts many of our communities at the end of the supply chain. BJ has been doing incredible work as the Executive Director of The Wyoming Food Coalition, helping change food policy to strengthen our communities. She also juggles that with being a very savvy business owner and producer herself.

If you’re interested in food policy - whether it’s how to grow more food, connect local food with local markets, or improving food security, this is a great opportunity to learn more!

Did you know Wyoming was the last state to form a food policy council?? BJ Edwards, our Executive Director and Owner and Operator, will be speaking about Wyoming’s food systems and food policies at this Friday, February 27 at 10 am.

If you’re in Laramie, you can catch the presentation in person an AG 3028 or dial in on Zoom with the Meeting ID: 967 3846 3628

02/03/2026

Radish Madness!

Did you know we customize our own hydroponic radish recipe? Because we control nutrients, water chemistry, and environmental conditions directly at the root zone, we can intentionally steer how the plant allocates its energy. Those variables are harder to isolate and fine-tune with soil, just another reason we love hydroponic growing. We think the results speak for themselves 🌱

Comment some of your favorite ways to use radishes--we like daikons like these in a slaw, pickled, or roasted in a root veggie medley!

01/30/2026

Check out our first ginger harvest!

We're always playing around with new crops in in the greenhouse, and we're replanting the majority of this ginger to increase the crop in the fall. Ginger is perennial, but in colder climates is typically treated as an annual crop. Our climate controls allow us to experiment with growing these warmer weather crops year round in Wyoming, which we think is pretty neat 😊

01/28/2026

Papa Joe's is committed to growing community passionately as we grow our produce!

Here’s what community engagement looked like for us in 2025:

🥬 $4,500+ in-kind produce donated🥬

Through partnerships with local food assistance organizations, we dedicated a portion of our production to feeding local families. These organizations buy our produce at agreed-upon fair market rates, and we donate a portion of the produce as part of our commitment to the community.

👩‍🌾 Over 50 tours and 200+ visitors🌻

From large school groups to one-on-one drop-ins, we welcomed people into our greenhouses to see how their food is grown.

Some of the groups we hosted included:
• Sheridan College
• Big Horn Elementary
• Schiffer Collaborative School
• Sheridan County School District #2
• The Hughes Charitable Foundation

🎓 Education & research partnerships🎓

We continued close collaboration with the University of Wyoming’s Controlled Environment Agriculture program—sharing data, hosting interns and researchers, and presenting to a UW CEA class on real-world lessons from our operation.

🌾 Advocacy & food systems strengthening🌾

We served in leadership roles with the Wyoming Food Coalition and the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, working alongside producers across the region to strengthen local food systems and advocate for policies that support our communities.

Thank you to our team, our community, and everyone who visited, partnered, collaborated, and supported us last year. We’re excited to keep building in 2026!

01/26/2026

Order some of our hydroponically grown lettuce this week online or on the phone for pick up in person

We love growing the freshest produce year round and lately we've made some upgrades to our greenhouse grow lights that have really boosted production. Of course, you can find our products for purchase at our retail partners, but we always enjoy when our customers visit us at the farm to pick up their produce and say hello!

Click here to order online🔗 https://papajoesproduce.square.site/🔗
or call 📱(307) 763-8248📱

📍90 Metz Road
Sheridan, WY 82801

01/22/2026

We’re thrilled to share that our very own Adam and Amanda Bunker have been named finalists for the National Outstanding Young Farmer awards. This program recognizes farmers and ranchers who are leaders in their fields as well as the community.

While many of you have likely seen Adam in the greenhouses, you may not know that he also serves as the President of the Wyoming Food Coalition and as part of our local Rocky Mountain Farmers Union chapter (Big Horn Mountain Farmers and Ranchers). Through those organizations, he’s worked hard to foster local foods and small producers - advocating on those topics to both state and federal legislators, and building bridges throughout the community to help fellow producers.

Adam also coordinates and personally leads many of our educational tours, as well as heads up our internship program.

Amanda is also a tremendous part of our success - personally handling our seed starting, germination, and seedling care. She seeds between 1,000-1,500 plants every week, depending on the season. She also manages our accounting, and, until recently, produced the majority of our value-added products.

And while we are immensely proud of these two, we also want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our community and our supporters. Growing this business has been a tremendous journey, and we could not have done it without you.

We wish these two the best of luck when they travel to Pennsylvania in two weeks! And when they get back, there will be plenty more work to do.

As we announce the class of 2026 NOYF finalists, we’re shining a spotlight on Adam and Amanda Bunker of Sheridan, Wyoming. After a decade in marketing and strategy, Adam made a bold career shift—leaving corporate work to pursue farming full-time alongside his father-in-law. Today, Adam helps lead Papa Joe’s Produce, a hydroponic greenhouse operation rooted in science, efficiency, and water conservation. Through innovation, data-driven systems, and sustainable practices, the farm provides fresh produce to hundreds of families each month. Alongside his wife Amanda, Adam is committed to strengthening local food systems, educating future growers, and proving agriculture thrives when innovation meets purpose.

12/19/2025

🎁🎄Christmas is less than a week away and we have a perfect last minute gift or stocking stuffer--a Papa Joe's Produce gift card! This is a great way to share some local love with your friends and family this gifting season. Head over to https://squareup.com/gift/FXS05GYFJ314R/order for the digital gift card, or stop by the farm early next week for a plastic card! 🎄🎁

📱(307) 763-8248
📍90 Metz Road
Sheridan, WY 82801

11/10/2025

Community is at the heart of what we do at Papa Joe’s. We’ve worked with The Food Group for years, and what we’re hearing is that more and more families - even those with two working parents - are needing to use food banks and other services to stay fed. Leveraging our partnership with The Food Group and other organizations, we want to provide as much assistance as possible in this time of need.

So we’re excited to announce phase I of a budding donation program here at PJP for local food resource organizations.

We have a tip function available on our online store, and starting this week any and all tips given for online purchases will be donated to local food service organizations. Think of this like the “round up your total” function at a grocery store.

Of course, if you want to donate directly to an organization (or find another way to help), that’s great, too! The Food Group, Salvation Army, and People's Assistance Food Bank are all local options to donate money, food, toiletries, and time.

Here are some key considerations for deciding how to help–

Donating money: This option is extra helpful because organizations often need specific items and likely can use those dollars to stretch further (by leveraging local partnerships like ours with the Food Group or buying in bulk).

Donating food and essential items: This is always welcomed! If you have extra items in your cupboard that are ahead of their expiration date, undamaged, clean, and that you feel your household can do without--pack them up and donate! Essential items, hygiene products, and toiletries like socks, soap, toothpaste/brushes/floss, tampons and pads, and more are needed. Call your local organization and see what they need the most.

Volunteering: Many of these helping organizations have limited, volunteer-based staff and can always use an extra hand. For specific ideas on how to help, please check out the Food Group's webpage on ways to help https://foodgroupwy.org/how-can-i-help/

If you or someone you know is in a position where you need help, a great starting point for resources is https://foodgroupwy.org/our-programs/
or visit these pantries:

Salvation Army Harvest (Food Bank):
150 S. Tschirgi St. Sheridan, WY
Hours Monday 1:30pm-3pm
Wednesday 10am-12pm and 1:30pm-3pm
Friday 10am-12pm and 1:30pm-3pm

People's Assistance Food Bank:
2560 N Main St. Sheridan, WY
Hours: Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday: 11am-4pm

Finally, consider adding a tip to your next Papa Joe's order and we will donate it on your behalf. Stay tuned as we finalize some other programs to help out those in need this holiday season. Let's work together as a community to help feed our neighbors.

11/06/2025

Howdy! Here's your regular reminder that we grow some amazing lettuce you can find at many of your favorite local retailers 🛒

In Sheridan Sackett's Market, Good Health Market, and Cross E Dairy & Freedom Foods, 106 S Main St all carry our lettuce, and DJ's Grocery and Lynn's Superfoods have it over in Buffalo. Keep an eye out for our lettuce the next time you're shopping!

Bok choy is also available at Good Health Market 😉 try it out

As always you can call the farm or order on our website for pick up
🔗➡ https://papajoesproduce.square.site/

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