A new park is coming to Henderson with what city officials dubbed as the municipality’s first-ever community garden.
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Vegas Inc’s 2020 Women Inspiring Nevada honorees represent the most influential and inspirational women in business and philanthropy in Southern Nevada.
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When the Coronavirus abruptly shut down our schools, there was a possibility the produce in the school gardens would simply go to waste.
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Nevada State College provides a look at their sustainable community garden
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GREENFEST celebrated it’s 10th anniversary. Check out the video here:
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Over 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.
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By 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.
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Garden Farms Foundation hosted its second volunteer day Saturday in the Las Vegas Valley at San Miguel Community Garden.
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According 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.
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Tune in bi-monthly to discover how Garden Farms is positively making an impact on our Vegas Community.
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Enrique 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.
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Southern 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.
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With 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.
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Food 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.
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Summer 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.
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As 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
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At Walter Bracken STEAM Academy, they still teach the three Rs: radishes, rhubarb and rutabagas.
The school’s garden has yielded such a bumper crop that it began selling herbs and vegetables to boutique restaurants.
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A recipient of the 2014 Southern Nevada Landscape Award, the Jacob Sportsman Memorial Garden at John S. Park Elementary School is maintained by the school's Organic Gardening Club.
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At Walter Bracken STEAM Academy, they still teach the three Rs: radishes, rhubarb and rutabagas.
The school’s garden has yielded such a bumper crop that it began selling herbs and vegetables to boutique restaurants.
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