We're excited to be kicking off the season and are in need of your generous help! Our volunteer hours EACH WEEK will be: At the FARM Monday – Thursday 9am – 3pm and Sundays from 4-7pm Wear layers, closed toe shoes and sun protection!! And bring water and a snack. There is a porta potty on the farm and the activity center near the community garden has a bathroom 🙂 We so appreciate your support; last year alone, we had over 200 hundred people contribute over 2,000 hours which equates to one full time staff member! We literally can't do what we do without you!
We’re excited to announce Rainbow Pantry Days at Our Center, thanks to our new partnership with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. We’ve stocked our pantry with over 1,400 pounds of food! To make this initiative a success, we’re looking for community volunteers to assist with food pickup, delivery, and distribution. If you’re interested in helping us feed our neighbors in need, please contact us at frontdesk@ourcenterreno.org Food Distribution Hours Mondays: 4 PM – 6 PM and Saturdays: 11 AM – 1 PM. Join us in making a difference! https://www.instagram.com/p/DHgvb7gsR1b/
Join us for our weekly Mutual Aid Mondays meeting at Our Center! Come and share your mutual aid initiatives, or learn about how you can support other local mutual aid efforts! We’re also here to support each other, so come by to share any needs and we’ll put together our skills and resources to help! Virtual meeting link: https://meet.google.com/fpf-mkkv-zkr Join us as we come together to empower, support, and grow stronger as a community.✨
Grassroots Mutual Aid on illegally occupied Paiute Shoshone land, aka Reno Nevada for over 13 years strong. Rain, Snow, Shine. Galletti Way & Glendale Ave mon 5:30 https://www.instagram.com/foodnotbombsreno
Monthly queer meet-ups on the first Saturday of every month🪩 Rotating locations and events, building community through connection🏳️🌈 https://www.instagram.com/queerfirstsaturdays
Fight the blues with the power of writing in community! Join the Heretics’ Workshop every Tuesday in May (that’s May 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th) from 1 to 3 PM right here at the shop for weekly write-ins! This is a time and space for you, whether you’re working on poetry, prose, screenplays, business, tabletop campaigns, or anything else writing related. Free and open to the public, and writers of all experience levels welcome! Find out more about the Heretics’ Workshop on Instagram @hereticsworkshop, where you can join the community Discord, and join the newsletter by emailing thehereticsworkshop@gmail.com or by directly joining the Google Group, groups.google.com/g/hereticsworkshop. https://theradicalcat.square.site/product/may-6-the-heretics-workshop-weekly-write-in/5884
🌿Since October of 2021, Family Soup has been meeting every Tuesday evening at The Believe Plaza Reno, (5pm FALL/ WINTER & 6pm SPRING/ SUMMER) despite the weather to bring together donations collected from working class families, individuals, and small businesses to our community. https://www.instagram.com/p/DCNWEVyOqfh/
We run a weekly mutual aid cooking crew where anyone is welcome to join: just come on down and join the fun of cooking, chopping, packaging and dropping off nutritious, delicious food! https://www.renofoodsystems.org/food-equity-1
Local, feminist led, peace organization with a focus on ending the genocide in Gaza! Join us every Thursday for our chapter meeting! RSVP at the link to join by zoom! See you there! https://www.codepink.org/rnmay22
Laundry service for our unhoused neighbors. Every Friday noon at the Champion Laundry Center on Wells Ave. https://www.instagram.com/laundrytothepeople/
Every Saturday we'll be helping out at Willow Ranch (2001 Willow Tree Lane) to get this luscious plot of land up and running for producing food. Please join us again this Saturday, May 10th at 10 am (and every Saturday going forward) to work in solidarity towards food justice and access. <a href=https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/p/DJXsB2-yS_h/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3IzWtslEu0I_9rVXr7XS_0 target=_blank>https://www.instagram.com/p/DJXsB2-yS_h/</a>
Look forward to a fun array of cool season seedlings (ones that can our cold nights and handle a frost if we get one before the summer arrives). We'll have the following available for purchase on April 13th: Lettuce Kale Pak Choi Tatsoi Mizuna Kohlrabi Chinese/Napa cabbage Mustard greens Arugula Snow Peas Prices vary. Cheers to the start the gardening season, woohoo! https://www.renofoodsystems.org/event-details/seedling-sale-at-the-farm-stand-2025-04-13-15-00
Farm Stand Sundays are such a treat! Always on Sundays and always 3-7pm. Come down, grab some plantsfor your garden, in-season produce, talk a walk around, say hi to to our animal friends and most importantly participate in a movement to help our local food system flourish 💜. https://www.instagram.com/p/DI1bTsPpoZg/
The HHGP is a Black-led project, aimed at supporting Black leadership, Black communities & building institutions for Black food sovereignty & liberation. This is achieved by Black-led organizing & building self determination for Reno’s Black community. https://www.instagram.com/hamptonhousegarden
Project aimed at feeding the community & college students with fresh delicious meals. Bring food to share & utensils if you can. https://www.instagram.com/renofamilydinner/
