Six Northern Nevada women farmers and entrepreneurs selected for new accelerator program

by Freixys Casado

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Gov. Sisolak, The Nevada Department of Agriculture and the National Association of State Department of Agriculture Foundation recently announced the selection of 10 Nevada women for the Farm2Food Accelerator program.

This workforce development program is designed to help female farmers and entrepreneurs with food or beverage products and expanding into new markets.

Six of those ladies are in Northern Nevada, including Crystal Leon, co-owner of The Radish Hotel.

For Leon, gardening started at a young age with her grandmother and turned into a form of expression.

“It was sort of a constant love language for me. It was the one thing that i always went back to no matter what I did,” she adds.

Over the years, she has used urban gardening and education as ways to combat food insecurity.

“The idea that people would be without access to fresh foods because they can’t make it to a place to buy it... I just want to be part of a group that absolves that problem,” said Leon.

Last year, she and her significant other started selling boxes with produce from her urban farm in Sparks.

Read the entire article at KOLO 8 News Now: https://www.kolotv.com/2021/11/11/six-northern-nevada-women-farmer-entrepreneurs-selected-new-accelerator-program/