If you talk about Las Vegas, you can only think about gambling, extravagant neon lights, modern hotels and condo buildings, shopping, buffet restaurants, dining haven, clubs, girls & shows but you rarely think that Las Vegas also offers anything but family friendly activities. We have our Lake Mead (a man-made lake reservoir) where you can jet ski, boat and fish around and we have our own marina facilities. Go to the mountains on winter and you can ski your hearts out in our very own ski resort. Another thing you might not imagine existing in Las Vegas, a city in the middle of the desert is a vegetables & fruit plantation. We have our own apple orchard in the middle of the desert.
Last Saturday, I happened to visit Gilcrease Orchard with my close friends. They are open to the public 3X a week from 7am to 12noon. You can go into the field in your car at $3 per car entrance fee or just walk-in for free. You can pick and eat all the apples as you can but you cannot bring them home unless you buy them at $1 a pound on your way out. They also have pomegranate, okra, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, sweet potatoes, peanuts, squash, pumpkin, cucumber and many more vegetables. People come with baskets and bags on hand to hold the produce they are harvesting. With the coming of the Halloween, pumpkins were very popular.
Armed with my camera, I had a blast taking pictures in the field. I only ended up having a bag of some apples and 4 gallons of fresh apple cider which I got at the gate on our way out. It was a Las Vegas version of apple picking, but aside from the apples, there are other things that you can get from that farm.
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