Green Valley Gardeners
Help Us Educate and Inspire Sustainable Gardening
Your donation will help us develop sustainable educational seminars, demonstrations and projects for the gardening public, including the promotion and use of arid land plants and the conservation of water.
Our Mission
To promote gardening education and related environmentally sustainable issues to our membership and the gardening public; and develop community fellowship through gardening and gardening related social issues.
Our Vision
Understanding and preservation of the Sonoran Desert ecosystem.
More About Us
Forty years ago, from the outset, the Green Valley Gardeners’ chose not to be a “tea and cookies, let’s talk about it, garden club.” The key word for the founders was “projects,” and projects meant “work” and work meant “volunteers.” That characterization still applies today. Like so many services and programs the residents of Green Valley enjoy, the garden club is dependent upon wonderful, dedicated volunteers to achieve its mission and objectives which are aimed at community service.
The club was officially founded as the Men’s Garden Club of Green Valley in 1980. The name changed to Green Valley Gardeners in 2002. In the first year, with 42 members, the first edition of the newsletter “Sand’n’Seeds” was published; it continues as an electronic, monthly publication for over 500 club members.
In that first year, 1980, an outdoor seminar program was offered. It was held in collaboration with the UofA Cooperative Extension at the Continental Shopping Plaza. Seminars are now held at the GVR Desert Hills Social Center.
In 1981 the club’s activities expanded. A Garden and Patio Tour was offered to the public. Today it continues as the popular Spring Garden Tour. In 1981 the founding members also launched a La Cañada beautification project (at the time La Cañada was a graded, not a paved road), a Youth Gardening program at Continental School, and a plant sale. These founders displayed a passion for community service that exists and continues today ~ 40 years later.
Green Valley Gardeners educate, demonstrate and practice good land stewardship for gardening in the Sonoran Desert. That means members promote the use of native plant species to preserve the flora/fauna of the desert and reduce the dependence on potable water for landscape maintenance. The community garden plot holders explore vegetable varieties that thrive in the Sonoran environment for home gardener food production.
Contact Us
Tax Id: 86-0436517
Location: Desert Meadows Park, 999 S La Huerta, Green Valley AZ. 85614
Mailing Address: PO Box 86, Green Valley AZ 85622
Phone: (520) 904-9020
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.greenvalleygardeners.org