Sustainability Hub
An expansion of our Green Central location on the Carson High School Property, which began in June 2022. This is where our native plant nursery and composting operations take place.
In 2022, The Greenhouse Project expanded operations to include a new site of nearly two acres of land. It is adjacent to the main site (Green Central) and currently has two native plant nurseries, a worm-compost bin, and several windrow compost piles.
The site was named The Sustainability Hub and is a nod to two different things: First, the sustainment of our program. The operations performed at this site will be an additional funding stream, making the program more self-reliant. Second, the sustainability that will be focused on at this site. Native plants are both drought- tolerant and pollinator friendly, and composting is a great way to reuse waste and turn it into nourishing and bio-available plant food.
Our continued aim is to close the loop within our local food system by using regenerative practices to make for a sustainable future.
This site couldn’t have come together without the help of our community, so a big thank you goes out to Carson High School for letting us use this site, to the Rotary Club of Carson City for their generous $4,670 grant donation, which was used to purchase a continuous flow-through vermicomposting system, the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation for funding the grant for the solar panels, and the Greenhouse Garden Center for the donation of our biggest hoop house at this site. Additionally, the restaurants and schools throughout Carson City like Eagle Valley Elementary School, So Juicy, and The Cracker Box all give us their food waste and deserve recognition because our composting operations would not be possible without them. Lastly, the various businesses and families that donate wood chips, manure, leaves, and more.
What started with a few native species being grown has now expanded to the sale of around 3,000 native plants in 2025. In addition, vermicast sales have become an integral part of our sales and our worm bin has been a huge hit to the various groups that come to tour our site! As with Green Central, everything done, while not certified organic, continues to follow organic practices.