Garden Farms Annual Garlic Festival at Pumpkin Park
Read MoreHot Plants! Record temps push landscapes to their limits this summer: KTNV feature
Read MoreA new park is coming to Henderson with what city officials dubbed as the municipality’s first-ever community garden.
Read MoreVegas Inc’s 2020 Women Inspiring Nevada honorees represent the most influential and inspirational women in business and philanthropy in Southern Nevada.
Read MoreWhen the Coronavirus abruptly shut down our schools, there was a possibility the produce in the school gardens would simply go to waste.
Read MoreNevada State College provides a look at their sustainable community garden
Read MoreGREENFEST celebrated it’s 10th anniversary. Check out the video here:
Read MoreOver 200 people crowded the Summerlin Library on March 2 as students from schools across the Las Vegas Valley gathered for a farmers market where they sold harvested fruits and vegetables from their school gardens.
Read MoreBy night, Eclipse Theaters, located in the Arts District in downtown Las Vegas, is an upscale, concierge-style 4K cinema showing first-run movies, independent films, and live music. But by day, these same theaters offer educational field trips to area students as part of the Cinema Learning Challenge (CLC) program.
Read MoreGarden Farms Foundation hosted its second volunteer day Saturday in the Las Vegas Valley at San Miguel Community Garden.
Read MoreAccording to Norm Schilling, President of Las Vegas-based Schilling Horticulture Group, developing a love and appreciation for farming and gardening is ideally cultivated with the young, so schools are the ideal place to introduce kids to the idea of growing their own food.
Read MoreTune in bi-monthly to discover how Garden Farms is positively making an impact on our Vegas Community.
Read MoreEnrique Garcia has kids at Woolley Elementary screaming for broccoli.
The farmer with Garden Farms of Nevada visits the Las Vegas school once a week, tending to its five garden beds and offering students lessons on healthy food choices.
Read MoreSouthern Nevada comprises the cities of Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas as well as Clark County. While the area is well known for its gaming, there are substantial efforts underway to make Southern Nevada a national leader in sustainability.
Read MoreWith approximately 2,113 square feet of vegetable, fruit and herb growing space, and an estimated yearly harvest of over 10,000 pounds of produce, the Richard & Malena Ruffin Organic Garden is the largest school garden in the Las Vegas valley.
Read MoreFood grows in unlikely places — sometimes in the middle of a desert.
Nevada had 4,137 farms and ranches in 2012, 1,000 more than in 2007. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture counted 4,200. Most are in the north, but 792 were in Southern Nevada.
Read MoreSummer is coming to a close and for many around the globe it is time to start thinking about our fall harvest. While Southern Nevada may seem like an unlikely agricultural region, you may be surprised and hopefully inspired by the urban agricultural community growing up around us.
Read MoreAs they sprout across the valley, school gardens are growing more than vegetables and herbs. They’re cultivating a broad new approach to elementary science education — and stronger community roots
Read More