Events

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!

Thank you to all who came out to the Mad Hatter Tea Party!

This was all made possible thanks to the help of many volunteers who were very generous with their time, before, during and after the event! Thank you!!

The Winnemucca Community Garden was abuzz on Wednesday April 22^nd, otherwise known as Earth Day. Several primary classes from Winnemucca Grammar School, Sonoma Heights Elementary School, and a cadre of home schooled students visited Winnemucca Community Garden to learn about many aspects of our environment. Fifty-four volunteers from around the community taught kids about the water cycle, art in the garden, the food web, and made pine cone bird feeders. Kids raced to pick up trash and put the litter in the proper recycling bins. They also learned about Sun safety by making sun bonnets and weed warrior helmets. Children learned about the importance of nutrition by making “munching bunny” salads, and even Smokey the Bear showed up to hug the kids and teach them about fire prevention.

The first annual "Clean house at the greenhouse" work party took place Sunday, Feb. 8, and it was a big success! About a dozen folks turned out for an afternoon of scrubbing, building, planning, and socializing, and we got a great start on getting the greenhouse together for the seed starting season ahead. Click to read more....

The Cultural Fair on Saturday January 24, 2007 was put on behalf of the Americorps State and National stationed here in Winnemucca. There were booths representing the interesting mixture of cultures present here. Games were hosted and prizes were raffled off on behalf of organizations like the local chapter of the Wild Bunch, Newmont Mining, and the Leave No Trace program as well as the Nevada Outdoor School. Afterwards those who were interested had the chance to volunteer at the American Red Cross, the First Way Pregnancy Center, and our very own Community Garden.

Much love and thanks goes out to all those who made it to the cultural fair and helped out around the community especially those who came to the community garden to help clean out plots.

I’ve been saving up a lot of wonderful links to share with you, my avid readers! But first, a little news.

The garden beds are looking a bit bare, all our wonderful summer veggies were hit hard by that killing frost last weekend. Thankfully we checked the weather just in time and were able to harvest a great bunch of tomatoes to finish out our donations to the Food Bank. Despite its late start, the Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign was an overwhelming success. Between the community garden and local Winnemuccan gardeners, 347 pounds of fresh produce were donated to the Food Bank–and we are not just talking giant squash. From the children’s garden we donated 9 pounds of snap peas and 8 pounds of lettuce. Now that is a lot of food! Thank you to all who donated; the food you gave was truly appreciated. If you’re planting garlic and onions right now, throw a few extra bulbs in the ground for those who need it most!