Community Outreach

Thank you all for making our fall 2022 event, A Day in the Garden, a success. 

This free event offered educational classes, and introduced the public to the community of environmental organizations across Arizona.

(check back with us later for the next event)

Do you work with a school or youth program? Verde River Growers does field trips, call or email to schedule.

Setting up a school garden? Ask how we can help.

Schedule a day trip to Verde River Growers. Get a personal guided tour for your garden club. Learn about how we make new plants.

We participate in the Native Plant Workshop (Postponed until further notice) hosted by Keep Sedona Beautiful.

Each spring we partner with the Highlands Center for Natural History for their native plant sale. Providing native plants best suited for the Prescott area.

Every year we work with The Arboretum at Flagstaff, supplying locally grown native plants. Preserving our natural environments is an ongoing and valuable endeavor.

We are able to cut our water usage in half by using a 50% shade cloth over our growing areas.

Aquamats are a method of delivering water to the roots at the bottom of the pot. This is a lower water use method than traditional watering practices.

Drip line irrigation can be fine-tuned to deliver specific amounts of water to different plants. This is an efficient way to reduce water usage.

You may notice old price tags and labels on some of our pots, this is because we always reuse plastic pots, and if they can no longer be reused then we send them to recycling.

In the retail store section we try to clean up our reused pots, but when you wander out into our growing facilities you may encounter containers like the one pictured.

Bring your old pots to us to recycle or reuse!

 One of our most helpful beneficial insects is the parasitic wasp, Aphidius colemani. As the name suggests, this predator attacks aphids. These little wasps fly around and lay their eggs inside of aphids. The eggs then hatch and the larvae consume the aphid from the inside out, “mummifying” it. The mummified aphid then swells and becomes a translucent-cream color until the wasp emerges from the dead aphid as an adult.