Wild Rocket Gardens

Transform your Gardening Skills to Grow Year-round in Silver City and Grant County, NM

Through specialized courses and in-person coaching, Wild Rocket Gardens provides tailored, practical strategies to empower you to grow vegetables, herbs, and pollinator plants. Discover the joy of yielding abundant harvests and cultivating nutrient-dense foods in your high desert backyard!

I'm Janna Mintz, and I teach gardeners challenged with growing in the high desert how to grow a diverse edible garden.

I have been gardening in New Mexico's high deserts for over 30 years. I started with a volunteer squash plant that was quickly infested with squash bugs - oh, so yucky! I have learned a lot over the years, and I’m excited to teach you how to successfully grow food, herbs, and pollinator plants in the high desert. I'm on a mission to teach people how to save seeds to create local, climate-adapted seed supplies in our communities.

Let's Grow Together

Spring Harvests

Start your garden before the last frost in the spring, and you'll be eating salads before you get your tomatoes in the ground.

Fall Harvests

Let's plan your garden based on what you like to eat.

Get Your Garden Growing

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