About - Land Stewardship | RenoFoodSystems

Land Stewardship Program

Our flagship project is our 5 acre urban, non profit regenerative farm on Mayberry Drive just east of McCarran within the city limits of the Biggest Little City.

We nurture over a 100 different edible plants including 30+ annual veggies each year, a growing food forest with fruit bearing bushes and trees and an abundance of native plants, perennials and pollinators plus two goats and a flock of chickens and a gander of geese not to mention the millions of bugs in and around our soil!

Come check our weekly Farm Stand every Sunday during the growing season!!

Food Production & Annual Crops

'Park Farm'

We formally call our 5 acre flagship program, 'Park Farm,' because we envision it being the first of many ‘Park Farms’ in our community. Literally a farm in the Betsy Caughlin Donnelly park, Park Farm is home to a heritage orchard, farm animals, food forest, and dynamic production farm. It serves as a magnet for community members interested in local food and sustainable agriculture and is a demonstration of what can be done with a piece of underutilized public parkland, a model of public and community partnership that can be replicated throughout our region.

Living Library

Park Farm is part vegetable market garden, part parkland, part thriving historic ranchland and part food forest. It’s a place where plants, people and animals enjoy sun, water and air together. Full of diverse plantings blooming and fruiting throughout the seasons, it is a living library of plants and animals that produce food and resources useful to humans and native wildlife.

Nursery

We sell a variety of cool and warm season fruits, vegetables, herbs and perennial plants and trees all adapted to our high desert region. We provide these beautiful food, herb, and medicine plants from our nursery to contribute to your edible wildlife habitat landscape and to help empower you to Grow Your Own Food!

Seedling sales usually start in mid April and a wide variety of locally grown & adapted plants are available depending on when in the season.

Resources for Growing One's Food

Growing Practices

Our intention is to both protect public health and promote wildlife habitat

through our farm operations at Park Farm.

Ecosystem stewardship and sustainability play a fundamental role in our operations. Not only are we a bio-cide free operation, but also integrated into our production systems are soil conservation strategies, extensive pollinator habitat plantings and hedgerows, and areas devoted to native plants.

Regenerative Agriculture

At its core regenerative agriculture is farming and ranching in harmony with nature. The practices, such as cover cropping, composting and not tilling the soil; increase soil health and fertility as evidenced by healthier crops, increased yields, improved soil test results, and vibrant microbial communities.

Animals

Maintaining livestock is a fundamental aspect of regenerative agriculture, and RFS believes it is a priority to demonstrate raising them in a peri-urban setting. We incorporate livestock into our farm operations, who help us with our soil cultivation, weed and pest management plus help take ourselves less seriously!! We currently have two, goats (June & Oliver); 19 chickens; & 4 rodent loving barn cats.

Food Forest, Orchard & Perennials

We are honored to steward a county park where the public can stroll through diverse plantings of annuals and perennials, blooming and fruiting throughout the seasons. By integrating windbreaks of heirloom and locally adapted fruit trees, hedgerows of tender berries and grapes, and understory plantings of flowering herbs and spices; we are creating a future Food Forest that both supports our vegetable growing operations with pollinators and integrative pest management as well as creating habitat for farm animals and local wildlife, particularly birds, bees, and butterflies.