Ever since my discovery of this place, it has helped me to enjoy being in Vegas more. It's so refreshing to know that a place like this exists in the desert. To me, it's almost the equivalence of man's modern and miraculous achievement!
As a non profit orchard, Gilcrease has seasonable vegetable crops as well as various types of fruit trees. All throughout this summer, I've enjoyed eating, picking and purchasing apples, peaches, nectarines, baby kale leaves, zucchinis, squash, Armenian cucumbers and a few other bonus trees around the orchards that you don't really have to pay for.
I am somewhat ashamed to tell you that I've eaten so many of those figs off of the two fig trees at a corner of the orchard, so much that my boyfriend had to offer the cashier extra dollars for my excessive fruit eating directly off the trees. Oh and I am not even going to mention the berries on that boysenberry tree near the entrance. Those are my little Gilcrease Orchard secrets but I'm nice so I'm sharing this to you guys.
Aside from the fruit, my boyfriend and I love to take strolls among rows and rows of fruit trees and vegetable patches. It's wonderful to walk around this place, with the breath-taking mountain backdrop and the vast and beautiful blue sky.