This week, we are excited to be selling the following fruits and vegetables at our Farm Stand: Cinnamon Basil, Spearmint, Oregano, Snow Peas, Snap Peas, Carrots, Broccoli, White/Purple Cauliflower, Spring Mix, Beets and Radishes
We are so grateful for all of the volunteers that show up on a weekly basis to help at DFI! These volunteers helped plant cherry tomatoes at our Main Station field. The cherry tomatoes will be harvested at the end of the summer as part of the Fresh Fruit and …
Every Thursday starting April 21st through the end of September, DFI will host a Farm Stand at the UNR Main Station property. Farm Stand: 5895 Clean Water Way, Reno Thursdays: 3:30pm-6:00pm There are also DFI fresh vegetables available every day on campus at the Wolf Shop through the online farm …
The Desert Farming Initiative has had a great winter season – we couldn’t grow enough greens for Nevada! It is wonderful to see everyone supporting local food. Thank you to our customers! It is spring now and we need to get our hoop houses planted with summer crops. Sarah Krum, …
The weather has been wacky this year, but we are ready for spring planting! At DFI, one of our greenhouses is dedicated to growing seedlings, not only for our farm, but for other farmers in Northern Nevada as well. As you can tell from the picture, some of our tomato plants …
With an average day temperature in the mid-50’s and night temperature close to freezing, our tomatoes are nice and cozy in the greenhouse. We are trying out a determinate variety of tomatoes called BHN-589 for future hoop house planting. So far, the tomatoes are growing to a good size and the few we …
With snow falling and temperatures forecasted to be in the teens, we are protecting our plants to get them through the winter season. In Hoop House #3, we are protecting our arugula not only with the closed hoop house, but also using low tunnels – hoops placed in the ground and covered …
As part of a Specialty Crop Block Grant, the DFI is growing 4 varieties of raspberries in a hoop house. They were planted this past spring and we saw a few 1st year berries this week. We anticipate selling raspberries to our customers next year and learning a lot about …
Two University of Nevada, Reno students are using our farm as the place for their graduate research. Sonia Heckler and Bonnie Wood are installing weather stations both inside and outside the hoop houses in order to study microclimates and water usage. The projects will start at the DFI and expand …
We received our GAP Food Safety Audit this week. Ashley Jeppson from the Nevada Department of Agriculture came by to review our materials and inspect our site. For questions on GAP documents and audits, visit our GAP page to view our SOP and video.
