2nd Annual Volunteer Day
Volunteers dig into Las Vegas Valley
community garden
Volunteers Essence Hornick, 7, and her mother, Portia, stir up soil in a garden bed in preparation for early spring planting during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 12, 2019 - 11:16 pm
The San Miguel Community Garden hosted its second volunteer day Saturday in the Las Vegas Valley.
The event kicked off with classes and activities, which were followed by a potluck and sauerkraut-making.
Classes covered a range of topics. All the crops from the garden bed will be donated to the Las Vegas Catholic Worker mission after harvest.
Leonora “Pickle Lady” Ching offered pickling demonstrations at the garden, located at 3939 Bradley Road, and there was a sauerkraut demonstration by Morris Bedard.
Garden Farms Foundation executive director Vanessa Portillo navigates a wheelbarrow with manure to a garden bed in preparation for early spring planting during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Leonora Ching, author of the "Pickle-Passion Cookbook," a book on Hawaiian and international recipes, demonstrates her spicy kimchi recipe during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Garden Farms Foundation operations manager Bryan Cabble trims tree branches during a pruning demonstration at a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Garden Farms Foundation operations manager Bryan Cabble trims tree branches during a pruning demonstration at a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
One-and-a-half-year-old Wyatt Floyd holds up a carrot dug up in a garden bed during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Five-year-old Jacob Anderson munches on a carrot dug up from a garden bed during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
A group of volunteers helps to clean the soil in a garden bed in preparation for early spring planting during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Rebecca Anderson, 9, holds a handful of vermicompost being broken down by red worms during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Red worms break down compost in a vermicompost bed at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Farmer Joe Lecek, from left, Presleigh Bedard, 10, Rebecca Anderson, 9, and Vanessa Portillo, executive director of the Garden Farms Foundation, load up a wheelbarrow with vermicompost during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Leonora Ching, left, author of the "Pickle-Passion Cookbook," a book on Hawaiian and international recipes, demonstrates her daikon kimchi recipe during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Berlynn Bedard, 8, holds up a Polish chicken, a European breed of chickens known for its crest of feathers, during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Jacob Anderson, 5, from left, Rebecca Anderson, 9, and Summer Hunsaker, 6, visit with Polish chickens, a European breed of chickens known for its crest of feathers, in a coop during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Berlynn Bedard, 8, holds up a Polish chicken, a European breed of chickens known for its crest of feathers, during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
Volunteer manager Moe Bedard demonstrates how to make homemade sauerkraut in a mason jar during a volunteering event at the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph
The entrance to the San Miguel Community Garden located at 3939 Bradley Road in Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph