community gardens

A new coloring book written by farmers and Indigenous artists in Flagstaff spotlights forgotten food plants that can survive hot, dry weather. And it includes packets of drought-tolerant seeds. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, the project’s creators think it’s an imaginative, inclusive way to confront the Southwest’s long running drought.

The city of Flagstaff is offering community garden plot rentals at three locations this season.

Not many vegetables have a Facebook page at all, let alone with nearly 19,000 followers, but “Glass Gem” corn is special. Its translucent, rainbow-colored…

Gardening is part of the curriculum at The STAR School on the western edge of the Navajo Nation. The pre- K through-8th grade school is an off-grid,…

Studies show that kids who garden perform better in science, eat healthier and develop a strong sense of social and emotional well-being. But the harvests…

The gardening season in Flagstaff is short, so most people are getting their plots ready for a long winter’s sleep. But one very special garden is just…

A program at Northern Arizona University encourages students to use their own life experiences to develop community projects. Students with NAU’s Campus…

How do you start a garden? That’s a lesson students at the West Sedona Elementary School have recently learned. And they learned it so well that they…