Another nonprofit helping fight food insecurity is the Obodo Collective.

Nevadas week's Maria show that got a special tour of their new urban farm on Las Vegas's historic West Side.

A little birdie told me that I wrote The Best of.

Chef and master Gardener Cheyenne Kyle is definitely growing some of the best and tastiest regula in town.

She's going to stay very different from what you get in grocery store.

Joining Cheyenne on this very special taste testing via Bodo Collective co-founder Erica Vital-Lazare and executive director Tamika Henry.

But it's so fresh and it's so refreshing and warm.

The Obodo Collective's vibrant and bountiful urban farm, plus all of the other services they offer, are already making a difference in the historic West Side.

This location was chosen because this area lacked a lot of things access to fresh produce, grocery stores.

We really focus on multiple generations to get them out of poverty.

And so there are programs that we have.

Our three main pillars is food security.

So we have the farm here.

We also focus on housing.

Once they're stable, like they have housing stable, their food secure.

Then we work on getting them employed.

We take a holistic approach.

We want the whole family to be well.

And so we also connect families who need child care resources.

We connect them to the resources.

Rooted in a community with such rich history.

Tamika, Cheyenne and Erica also wanted to honor the beautiful, strong women and mothers turned activists who came before them, and they did so with this breathtaking mural.

Ms.. Ruby Duncan She's someone who I consider an inspiration, a mentor.

I've had some beautiful conversations with Ms.. Ruby.

This is Ms.. Ruby Duncan's work.

This is the work of Bodo to really combat systemic poverty, systemic racism, systemic, you know, all of these oppressive forces that many of us experience has to be, I think, come at it with this kind of beauty, this kind of discipline that Cheyenne and to Tameka have as they attend every day to the families that come to a Bodo for some sort of assistance.

The beautiful mural also honors Indigenous women and mothers.

We consulted with dear Sister Fon Douglas from the Moapa Paiute.

In conversation with Fon, we really understood that was not one tribe that we're honoring, not one indigenous visage that we're honoring, but a collective.

So this is our sister looking in to the work, looking into the future, honoring the past, honoring loss to come.

This masterpiece, a collaborative effort involving talented local artists.

Darren Boy, Malachi Williams.

The actual color of her face is called something groovy.

Every color that's inherent within her.

Just kind of the opposite.

And then we had Courtney Haywood come in.

He's an activist, someone who's very much into community building as well as an artist.

He saw Malachi and Tyrone at work and said, Can I can I lend a hand?

So you have this kind of the hand of three beautiful artists, three beautiful legacy makers in their own right.

We had the honor of experiencing firsthand how neighbors have embraced and welcomed the Abode Collective and its urban farm.

She's very soft spoken and forceful.

Thank you, brother.

Thank you.

Okay.

Oh, that.

Thank you.

Is everything that, you know, we really dreamed of and envisioned because we've all been in these spaces.

I was not born of the West Side, but I'm from a West side.

On your beautiful.

Website, you have a Spanish proverb.

And it's one of my favorites.

More grows in the garden than with the garden or.

I think it kind of encapsulates everything that I'm really aiming for here.

It's about growing friendships, growing communities, growing connections, growing in love, growing in gratitude.

So I have some some collards, I have bunches of dill, I have some kale.

We got a lovely lady back here.

We're very, very lucky.

We have more continental growing days than any other state.

You know, we have.

We can grow so much.

I grow year round.

You just have to grow with the season.

I actually had a neighbor from down the street who was a veteran come and just eat a radish out of the bed, and he was like, It was so good, they're so crispy and juicy and flavorful.

So and.

To have, again, you know, kids to our veterans coming in here at the.

Festival, oh, my goodness.

It means the world to me.

I feel really, really fortunate and very grateful to be able to do this and to share it with everyone.

I love that you're a and you haven't stopped smiling since You guys have made.

My heart so happy because I know what this means to this beautiful.

Community.

And to our city.

And to know that you're doing this again with such love.

And I love what your shirt says.

Get help.

Give help.

That's what it's all about.

Yeah, definitely.

What do you love the most?

To be able to harvest and share with the world.

We have cherry snacking tomatoes, which are the better variety to grow here.

If you're growing in Nevada, it's not going to taste like any tomato you've ever had, I promise.

Right off the vine, fresh from the juicy two.

And again, I can't eat by myself.

So when put on Rachel, bon appetit.

Whatever the.

Oh, that's so good.

Well, we love the stories that our Maria Silva brings us as well.

Thank you.

To her, the farm is open to the public and every Sunday morning you can pick your own fresh produce for a small fee.

The farm is also planning other community events, like just a few weeks ago to celebrate the unveiling of that beautiful mural Maria showed us in the story.

The farm held a special screening of the documentary Storming Caesar's Palace, a film inspired by the life of activist Ruby Duncan.

You can watch that documentary by visiting our website, Vegas pbs.org.

And that is also where you can see any of the other resources that we have discussed here on Nevada Week.