Harvesting Locally

The Greenhouse Project is in Carson City, Nevada

Growing, Giving & Teaching for a Healthier, Greener, Sustainable Community.

The Greenhouse Project (TGP) is a nonprofit with a mission of providing healthy produce for the food insecure residents in our community. Since our first harvest in 2012 - a beautiful crop of lettuce - TGP has grown. Green Central, which is our main site, is located at Carson High School and offers work-based learning for the students. Here, we have added an outdoor classroom, and a Native Plant Nursery & Composting Program. The goal of this program is to expand TGP’s teaching diversity and to provide funding streams to ensure TGP’s work continues long into the future. TGP also includes Foothill Garden, which is a collaborative project with, and located at, Carson Tahoe Medical campus. We also continue to offer our gleaning program, and provide flower baskets each summer to Downtown Carson City. Our gratitude to the community for its continued support through the years.

Growing

TGP has been growing fresh produce and providing it to our community's food insecure via our community partners since 2012. TGP's collaboration with Carson Tahoe Hospital beginning in 2017, has extended our reach and the ability to provide more produce! Not only have our gardens grown, but also our educational opportunities, the Gleaning and Flower Basket programs, and the amount of donors and supporters we have. TGP continues to grow with the help and support of our community.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Teaching

TGP offers an agricultural education program at Carson High School. This program offers Plant Science, Greenhouse Management, and students with disabilities an opportunity at work-based learning. The learning and teaching opportunities continue to grow as we begin our Native Plant Nursery & Composting Program. At Foothill Garden, we host free education workshops focused on gardening in Northern Nevada. We also provide volunteer trainings so that people can become successful desert.

TWO LOCATIONS IN CARSON CITY

Green Central

Green Central is our home base at Carson High School. The greenhouse, hoop houses, raised beds, orchards, Native Plant Nursery and Composting Program, are located here. This is where the agriculture students at Carson High get hands-on opportunities to advance their knowledge and skills. The flowers for the downtown beauty baskets are started and grown here as well. This site also grows the majority of the food which is donated to the various food banks in Carson City.

Foothill Garden

In 2017, TGP began collaborating with Carson Tahoe Health in expanding its Foothill Garden site, located behind the hospital’s Cancer Center. Foothill Garden has grown to include a hoop house, garden beds, an orchard and an expanded Serenity Trail, which provides solace and peace to patients, their families and staff who visit. This site provides vegetables year around to senior citizens in our community through Meals on Wheels and to Eagle Valley Children's Home.

To find out more or become an active volunteer for this amazing program, click here.