The Food Bank of Northern Nevada, the Family Stability Council's Transitional Housing Program, and the Winnemucca Community Garden collaborated with Health and Fitness Sleuth, Patricia Setzer, to offer classes on healthy nutrition for the clients of the transitional housing program.

 Grocery carts are notoriously hard to steer, especially in January. That’s when they must deviate from their usual rounds—the chip aisle, the bakery, and that portion of the frozen food section where the ice cream is—and seek out healthier, or at least lower calorie, choices.

As the year winds down, thoughtful people examine the previous twelve months.  They draw conclusions from their actions, and resolve to do better in the upcoming annum.  It’s a good plan, and I have no problem with good plans.  It’s the implementation that always gets me. 

Youth Reaching Higher and the Winnemucca Community Garden collaborated to collect over 900 coats to be donated in our community.

As part of their reading of Around the Pond: Who's Been Here by Lindsay Barrett George, second graders at Sonoma Heights Elementary went on a field trip to the Community Garden's pond.

My dad used to talk about some elderly neighbors of ours, Roy and Flossie Webb, who were “so tight they even fried squash blossoms.” Any deviation from meat, potatoes and a vegetable, preferably soggy, was viewed with suspicion in our neck of the woods. I do not come from one of the great culinary traditions—all of our “old family recipes” are from the label of a cream of mushroom soup can. The Webbs were from the South, and perhaps had higher culinary expectations than the rest of the neighborhood did.

Help us put the close up the Garden for the Winter Season!

We will be putting the Garden to Bed this coming Saturday November 21st from 9:00am until Noon (or later if you feel so inspired!). 

This year's Harvest Festival, which took place on October 31st, was a huge success! With the help of 65 volunteers, we hosted over 400 community members and raised over $1000 to benefit the Garden's programs!