a community garden HOw to Guide
What you need to know about Community Gardens in Southern Nevada
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Welcome to this Community Garden resource page,
where you will find most everything you need to know about community gardening in Southern Nevada. This project is a joint collaboration between the horticulture department at the University of Nevada Extension and the Conservation District of Southern Nevada. |
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Below you will find a list of community gardens in Southern Nevada, with contacts on how to support your local community garden before thinking of starting your own. There are also guides to starting a garden whether it be for your community or for your personal backyard.
Gardening is a rewarding activity, and if you have the dedication and due diligence to do your homework before setting up your own community garden, you may end up realizing that it is easier and more rewarding to support your existing community garden that is already in your neighborhood. If you live in a food desert, then it is time to start growing your own food, but there are definitely a few things to consider first. |
Map of Community Gardens in Southern Nevada
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List of Community Gardens
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How to Join a Community Garden:
Seems simple enough, but for you introverts, this may be a big step. Go ahead and pick up the phone or go visit one of the many existing beautiful gardens in Southern Nevada. You can grow a few things at home to unwind from the day while having fun growing with a community that encourages your personal growth in addition to your veggie and fruit growing at home. |
Garden Startup Planning
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There are three things to consider prior to starting a garden. 1) Water availability (Yes you need irrigation in Southern NV) 2) Land or Indoor vertical growing (Plants take up a fair amount of space) 3) Soil quality with nutrient availability (Indoor can be hydroponically growing with water) +++ Water availability is the number 1 reason for a dead garden. +++ If you are missing any of the above items, you should reconsider this undertaking of starting a garden, until you carefully plan to solve each of these items first. |
Why start a garden?
No community garden nearby?
Feel ambitious with wanting to grow your own food for feeding your family or food prepping?
Want to start a community garden for your neighbors?
Feeling entrepreneurial with growing and selling food?
Grocery store missing from your neighborhood?
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Starting a Community GardenReady to start that garden for your community?
Where is the garden going to be? And as stated above.... do you have access to irrigated water? Who is going to support the garden? Neighborhood or homeowners association restrictions? Be sure to have water access, and also get support from your community and local municipality government to avoid potential complications in the near future that could have been avoided if addressed in the beginning. 
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Irrigation
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Planting and maintaining a Garden
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Planting up a garden once you have the right setup is rather easy. Continuing with the ongoing maintenance and timing with harvesting of the crops take a bit more careful planning. Although there is nothing more rewarding than see the fruits of your labor for all the hard work you put into growing delicious edibles.
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Food Planting GuidesSoil, Compost and Additives
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Attracting Pollinators to the Garden
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Pollinators are responsible for creating that delicious edible that you are now eating. The process of pollination is allowing the pollen from one flower to transfer to another. Bees, butterflies, wasps, hummingbirds and bats, are the largest pollinators seen in our Southern Nevada area. And depending on the variety of food, some depend solely on one type of pollinator. The agave is an example of this, as without bats, we would have no tequila. And without moths, no figs.
Pollinators: Bees, Butterflies and birds |
planting Trees in the Garden
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Trees provide much needed shade and with the right variety, an abundance of fruit. The best fruit trees for Southern Nevada are the Fig and Pomegranate Tree.
You can refer to the Trees for Tomorrow list to see all the trees that grow amazingly well here. Bulletproof as we call it in the field. Tree Planting GuidesTrees For Tomorrow:
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