The Nevada Wilderness Project is teaming up with Grow For Me Sustainable Farm, also known as GirlFarm, on a fun farm tour July 21 at the 95-acre ranch and farm 30 minutes north of Reno.

This is a fundraiser for NWP that will provide a rare, inside look at the innovative practices being used at this farm. The suggested donation for the event is $25 per person and $50 per family. The two to three-hour event will start at 2 p.m.

GirlFarm grows produce and fruit and supplies locally raised meat through its trademarked Personal Farmer Program. The program provides subscribers – local families and independent restaurants – with naturally and humanely raised meat, eggs and produce without chemicals, growth hormones or antibiotics.

Subscribers pick up their products and pre-set times throughout the year, and there are varying levels of annual subscriptions based on what the participant has ordered. There are also occasional “farm days” where you can volunteer to work at GirlFarm.

“Our program provides an opportunity that we believe is unique,” said Wendy Baroli, a full-time farmer at Girl Farm. “It’s a chance to participate in the production of your own food. As a matter of fact, we believe this ‘experiential’ product is key to our success and the best fit families for our farm are those that want to participate in their food production.”

Baroli is supported at GirlFarm by her partner, Jill S. Heaton, and her sister, CJ Baroli. Heaton is a full time professor at the University of Nevada, Reno and CJ Baroli works as an artist at IGT and as a personal trainer at CrossFit Initiative in Reno.

The July 21 GirlFarm tour will provide rare inside look at the special practices employed at the farm. GirlFarm uses only heritage breed animals and heirloon plants, rotational grazing, French intensive food production, raised beds, drip irrigation and sheep foraging for weed control. Some of its other practices include daily free-ranging of poultry for pest management, and greenhouses, cold frames and high tunnels for season extension and water conservation and natural insect predators. The farms pigs are never placed in crates or farrowing boxes and enjoy daily trips to the alfalfa field to eat.

The tour begins at 2 p.m. July 21 and spaces are limited. To reserve a spot on the tour, order your tickets below. Questions? Call our office at 775-657-8430 or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Individual$25.00 USD Family$50.00 USD

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Directions to GirlFarm
On Google Maps

From Reno:

1. Head north on Hwy. 395.
2. Take exit 83 at Bordertown
3. Turn left over the overpass.
4. Come to T stop sign. Take a right.
5. About .5 miles past the casino, come to another stop sign. Go straight through stop sign (a right would put you back on 395)
6. After about 1/4 mile,  dogleg left over railroad tracks and onto dirt road. This is Long Valley Road.
7. About .5 mile down Long Valley Road, you will come to a fork -- stay to
8. the right.
9. Go almost 2 miles to a stop sign at the intersection of Green Gulch Ranch and LVRoad. Go straight through the stop sign.
10. Go 1/2 mile and look for the driveway to GirlFarm. It is on the left and is marked by a small, rusty red wheelbarrow full of rocks. (The drive is
11. directly across from a green gate, a large tan house with green roof and a tall hay barn with yellow post. If you pass that house and property you have gone too far.)
12. Turn left and go about 1/2 mile up the driveway to arrive at GirlFarm.