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It's been awhile now since we first started our Green Vegas feature, as part of the LVA Visitor Guide section and the @GreenVegas Twitter, but we've been encouraged by developments ever since, with major resorts becoming far more environmentally aware and actively involved in recycling and energy conservation initiatives, while Las Vegas residents have become better served by community projects like the Tonopah Community Garden and an ever-growing number of farmers markets.
While there's been a recent loss, with the closure of acclaimed Chef Mario Batali's "Bet on the Farm" Molto Vegas Farmers Market on Dean Martin Drive, which closed in February of this year for lack of a business license, the downtown experiment has been revived at a new location, and there are now almost daily farmers markets across the Vegas Valley.
It was earlier this month that the Fremont East farmer's market debuted at 115 N. Seventh St., inside the Club Azul nightclub (across from El Cortez), while Fresh 52 is another relatively new kid on the block, operating on Saturdays at the new Tivoli Village shopping mall in Summerlin (also indoor), and on Sundays at Sansone Park Place, near Eastern Ave. and the Beltway.
Residents of Henderson have been enjoying the Country Fresh Farmer's Market at 240 Water St. for seven years now (operates on Thursdays), or check it out at 200 S. Green Valley Parkway on Fridays.
If you visit the Las Vegas Farmers Market website, you'll find details of the weekly events at Garden Park (west side) on Tuesdays, Bruce Trent Park (also on the west) on Wednesdays, and Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs (first and third Saturday of the month).
They all feature fresh and often locally produced fruit, vegetables, and herbs, plus breads, sweets, and handmade crafts. A regular local vendor is Gilcrease Orchard, where you can also pick your own fruit and veg. from 7 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays (currently in season are carrots, zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, tomaotes, and apples), and purchase onions and apple cider from the stand. Other local farms to check out include McLeod Ranch, Blue Lizard Farm, Bloomin' Desert Herbs, and the Sweet Tomato Test Garden, while Anderson Dairy has been supplying the valley with fresh produce, which now includes milk, cream, butter, ice cream, and eggs, for more than a century.
