Garden Details
Garden Details
Our Saint Vincent de Paul Urban Farm is connected to a kitchen which feeds hot meals around 300 per day in Mesa Arizona. Our SVdP kitchen in Phoenix cooks upwards of 5,000 hot meals every day for the valley residents in need of food. We grow Organic fruits and vegetables in extreme weather year round. Our farm is very unusual as we grow tropical Banans Guava, year-round, Grapes, Figs 80 types of plants and give lots of garden vegetables to our kitchen for serving daily.
Garden Practices
Garden Practices
We are a Sound Garden and use sounds developed by Jim Dilettoso from Agrosonix .com in Phoenix Arizona. The sounds delivered to the Mesa SVdP farm for over 2 years have induce in our new fruit trees rapid growth and heat and insect tolerance. We use sound to prime our seeds and new transplants to help them adapt to our 120-degree weather. We have also found that our earthworm population is very active and responds to sound generated from the speakers. We use gongs and bells and drums flutes all sorts of musical instruments in the garden our guests and volunteers enjoy our community activities.
Fruits and Vegetables: Melons, cucumbers, beans, squash, peas, celery, carrots, lettuce, beets, pumpkins, onions, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, okra, herbs, and lots of flowers.
Fruit Trees: Peaches, Persimmon, Pears, Plums, Apples, Guava, Figs, Nectarines, Mangos, Banana, Papayas, Grapes, Blackberry, Gogi Berry
Our Mesa location is in a food desert, SVdP is offering our guests receive fresh fruits and organic vegetables. Our fruit forest also offer shade for our portable showers that we offer our guest. The shower water is being redirected for graywater treatment for the trees.
Our local Congressman Gregory Stanton is coming to the SVdP Mesa Farm to precent a Congressional Accommodation for our 10 years of service to the Mesa Arizona community. Our local public library in Mesa we are offering classes on Urban farming.
We offer tours of our farm to encourage more volunteers participating in a greener Mesa with more backyard gardens urban farms. We have a regular group of dedicated volunteers and about 1,000. volunteers that donated thousands of hours yearly.
Additional Information
Additional Information
When the weather hit 120 degrees no one wants to go outdoors. We have installed a reflective shade material call Aluminet and this has reduced the direct heat on the plants by 10 degrees. We deep water the trees during heat waves . With all the direct sunshine we do get very sweet fruit .We work just until 10 AM in the summer so less work gets done but we manage to harvest the crops and give to our families and guests in the kitchen. In august we can harvest upwards of 800 lbs of food.
Need more space in Mesa to plant fruit trees and blackberries. would love for a Church that has the ability to offer a site that we could plant more fruit trees. We have lots of figs and grape and banana trees and berries to share.
Converting a hard parking lot into Eden and a Fruit Forest in 2 years in extreme summer heat and hot winters. Inducing cold into fruit trees when we have no cold weather. no 30 degree days. Last year our Apricot and plum trees did not flower at all they never went dormant. with climate change 90 degree weather in the winter.
This year 2026 we have induced flowering and, on our trees, and fruit set with sonic treatments and specific organic amendments.
