I can't say enough good things about this experience. Found out about Jesse and the fur friends…read morefrom an Airbnb app recommendation. I thought it would be a fun, local activity and I could not have been more pleasantly surprised. Jesse is an absolute amazing, fun and thoughtful host/owner. He is funny, fun, patient, thoughtful, knowledgeable, kind... I highly recommend that you go and spend time with these animals. The llama, Dobby and Jasper the horse stole the show for me and my bff. I can't express in words how full my heart and soul felt after this furry experience. So (soul) fulfilling! Love, love, loved it!!!!

Happy Hooves is such a fantastic experience for all ages. You can interact with various mini farm…read moreanimals; horses, llamas, donkeys, and even a mini cow. Watching Annie, the farm dog, play with the animals is so entertaining! Jesse, our host, went out of his way to ensure we were comfortable and getting all the information we wanted during our visit. This is the cleanest farm I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. Even in drizzling rain, there was no animal odor at all. It was unbelievable! When you see how the animals interact with Jesse, you know without a doubt these animals are loved and cared for like family. We will certainly be visiting again.

We had my granddaughters birthday party at Rowell Ranch. She had so much fun. The kids really…read moreenjoyed seeing all the animals! Everyone at Rowell Ranch were so nice and professional. Thank you for giving my granddaughter a birthday she will always remember!

Rowell Ranch is a perfect place for an event or party. With an impeccable, tasteful eye for…read moredecorative detail, the Rowell's will make you feel like one of the family and provide a beautiful outdoor space that is welcoming for all your guests. I recently attended a birthday party there and the candlelit tables, live music and delicious food made for a fab evening. Highly recommend!

Had a day off from work and decided to visit this hidden gem. It's a small, intimate botanical…read moregarden that is absolutely beautiful. My only negative is that I wish there were more areas to sit down and take in the scenery.. I was happy to discover a shaded area with a table and some chairs near a chicken coop where I was able to enjoy Mother Nature. There also are stations to get food to feed the animals like the chicken, duck and fish. Also, when you enter the botanical garden, they give you a wristband that allows you to leave and re-enter for the day which is great especially because there are a couple of fun places with activities and restaurants right in the same area as the garden!!

Beautiful, relaxing, and peaceful. After the garden, we went to eat at the BBQ restaurant and it…read morewas DELICIOUS! Loved it!

My 75 year old mother loves Christmas lights. She stays with us in Phoenix during the winter so we…read morelook for activities to do as a family; me, my husband, our adult son, and my mom. The lights, music, activities, vendors were all good in general which is why I'm giving 3 stars. Except for the items that follow, this would be a very wonderful experience. The part that decreased the rating is the Christian nationalism. Nothing says "birth of our Savior, peace on Earth, good will to mankind" like the juxtaposition of the manger scene across from the American war and killing machine, complete with tanks and paratroopers and the police. And of the 10 songs they kept on loop, 2 were nationalist songs. One of the songs was literally the military recruiting jingles from the 1980s recruitment commercials. The second song was the Toby Keith Trump campaign song "Proud to be an American" . What does that have to do with Jesus, Mary and Joseph? The 10 songs looped every 30 minutes. That means every child there heard those two songs about 4 times in 2 hours. Christofascist propaganda at its worst directed toward children. The USA is the largest human rights violator on the planet, the literal antithesis of Christ and his message of peace and love. The last thing there were small animals without warm accommodations. They should put down some clean straw maybe more enclosure for the babies, or put them up at sunset. The Bible also states that we are to be good stewards to the animals on this planet. https://lightsatthefarm.com/

A fun inexpensive couple of hours! We've gone 2 years now. Parking is free & it was $10 per adult…read moreto get in. You take your time walking around looking at lights & listening to music. They also had free activities for the kids, & a pallet maze. There were bonfires going & you can buy s'mores ingredients. There was a tiny skating rink for an extra fee but we didn't do that.

I've been on their email list for a while and decided to go with a farm-raised turkey for…read moreThanksgiving, as that's something we've never done before. The texture and taste of the meat were noticeably more enjoyable than the frozen variety I've had, lo these many years.

The Edge of Nowhere Farm (EON) is an inspiration to farm in the desert. This is the lifestyle I…read morealways wanted. I found out about EON farm through YouTube. I started watching and learning how to grow certain plants in the desert. What was awesome is they offered a farm tour at no cost. Additionally, you can sign-up for butchering classes. Also, they sell harvested chickens, turkeys, and pork. It has to be pre-ordered. To get more information about the farm. The website is down below. EON Farm: https://www.edgeofnowherefarm.com

I LOVE the Arizona Worm Farm! I've been a customer here for…read moreseveral years and my garden has only gotten better over time because of it. They provide very high quality services and products at reasonable prices. I love how everything is seasonal so transplants or seeds you buy will usually take off well. The service is unmatched compared to other gardening places I've been to. Employees that I've talked to have all been very knowledgeable and helpful. The overall vibe is that people there want a greener Phoenix and genuinely want you to succeed in all your gardening endeavors. I recall nearly buying a chilipin pepper and Daniel showing me where it lands on the scoville heat scale to make sure I knew what I was getting into. I remember Zach seeing I had all 4 of my little kids with me in line and him helping me check out quickly- even throwing in a free transplant to my purchase! The classes are a great deal for all the hands-on experience you get, not to mention the hand-outs, thorough class notes and you can bring a friend along with you at no additional cost! They even have a playground for kiddos of the customer and free self-guided tours. If you are an AZ gardener (or want to be) the AZWF is a MUST visit location!

This place is an absolutely amazing spot if you're into backyard gardening! We come here a couple…read moretimes a year for compost, raised bed soil, mulch, etc. It's an oasis in the desert near South Mountain. The staff are super friendly and helpful, always!

I'm so sad to be writing such a negative review, but the owner has left me no choice after…read morereceiving such poor customer service. I went to a personal shopping appointment on December 28th and picked out a lovely monstera. We went throughout the rest of our tour and noticed palettes and palettes of dead plants. Crotons, herbs, etc. There were several heart leaf philodendrons and pothos that had been left for dead too. My friend, who was at the appointment with me, commented on it, and I justified it. "I'm sure plenty of nurseries look like this behind the scenes too. Not 100% of the plants make it 100% of the time. This is what behind the scenes looks like." But then I had to intervene twice with the pothos I got. I got it home and it began to yellow, no doubt due to the most compact, overwatered soil I've ever seen. I dug her out, inspected the roots, trimmed away some yellow leaves, and combined her with another pothos. To make a long story short, through a local FB group, a handful of women and I were able to connect over our declining monsteras. Each of us had purchased a monstera from Abby Lee Farms at around the same time and were having identical problems. We were all experiencing black/brown spots surrounded by yellow. All of us have multiple happy and healthy house plants, including other monsteras. All of us were stumped as to what this could be, as were other experienced house plant owners that we convened with. After going over our various conditions, we discovered the only commonality was where we got them. We reached out to the president and founder via email, and were met with some of the worst customer service skills. His initial reply to us was helpful in tone (he even offered a smaller replacement), but that quickly faded as we poked holes in his theories. He purported that my problem was that I used neem oil to shine the leaves. That's a common practice of plant care, none of my other plants have similar damage, and the propagations I took from this monstera shortly after I got it home have zero damage. Another woman's problem was that she severely underwatered hers. He was rudely adamant that the varying conditions of our homes were the cause. He wouldn't even consider the fact that something had maybe gone wrong while at their green houses, even though he admitted to me in an email that they make mistakes all the time (ya know, just definitely not this one). His emails got increasingly antagonistic. Eventually it became that we needed to return the monsteras we purchased, which we all found to be a ridiculous request considering we had all done the work of removing the infected leaves. What was left of the plants were the healthiest leaves that we could salvage - all of which have incurred no damage since being removed from the soil/mother plant. You would think that if our conditions were the problem then those trimmings would continue to decline too. All this to say, we are very upset with the lack of customer service skills we were given. The founder and president is too close to the situation, as it's his business, to be responding to customer service emails. We all feel he took things too personally and was unnecessaril y rude. We are all reasonable women and we know that things happen and that businesses have problems/issues, but what speaks VOLUMES is how problems are handled when they arise. This is probably one of the poorest experiences I've ever had as an adult. As far as I'm aware, none of us have any intentions of returning to this establishment or recommending it either.

I feel so sad to give a local nursery such a low rating. I've been to most nurseries in the valley…read moreand I have to say I won't be returning to this one. There are a few reasons for this poor review. I want to start by saying I am not new to plants. I have a large collection of successful plants that have been thriving for years. I grew up gardening and owning indoor plants even as a young girl. I purchased a heart leaf philodendron which was clearly over watered which I rehabbed and is now doing much better after a change of soil. I also purchased a Tradescantia zebrina which seemed happy at the time but as time went on declined rapidly. Any time I even would touch this usually hardy plant, large branches would fall off. This plant is not hard to grow by any means it's one that I commonly recommend to my friends who are new to plants. I went into the soil and realized that it was not established what so ever In the soil. It had no roots at all. So it was clearly just chopped from a mother plant and placed into soil. Which I actually wouldn't have minded if I was told this along with my purchase because I would have cared differently for it. Now the part in which I have a 1 star. My friend and several other people I know of have gotten monsteras from this nursery and all their plants died within less than a month. They had to chop and prop. When they reached out to the nursery the man was incredibly rude as I saw the emails he sent. Blaming them for the decline of all 6 of their plants and continuing to bully them and tell each of them they cared for their plant carelessly. The experience I had paired with these other 6 woman is unacceptable. The customer service on this end is not something I or anyone else should accept.

Very pretty, working location that normally closes for the intense Arizona summers. You can walk…read morethe property and see what they have growing, and say hello to the chickens/ducks and sometimes turkeys in their coops. This is also a reservable venue for weddings! The food here is pretty pricey, but delicious. It's a great time when the weather is nice to sit outdoors and enjoy a good meal. The eggs are fresh and most of the produce is too. Would recommend!

2/28/26: it was disappointing eating lunch at The Farm. Years ago we had eaten at Quiessence and…read morehad a lovely time. Wanting to try another of their restaurants before the ungodly heat arrived, we decided to stop in for lunch. Parking: can be a bit nerve wracking, especially parking in the dirt lots east of the place. You have to walk across 32nd St & if you know Phoenix drivers, this can be dangerous. There is a pedestrian light now, though, so that helps -- but oddly enough, there's no "walk" signage. It's merely a blinking yellow light for north- sound-bound traffic so you have to pray to the universe drivers are paying attention & actually stop for you. Ordering: a bit odd. The main door we went in was more the middle door that didn't really take you to the beginning. There's a drink station then the food station. We skedaddled to the right of the main doors for the drink order, only to discover there's another door that people walk through to place orders. So we joggled w/ another customer trying to figure out who was there first. It honestly felt like a school cafeteria, a bit chaotic, as well as cramped. The patio was pretty large & well shaded, but it was also full -- and this particular day also the ONLY SHADE. We were left to sit at one of their many tables on the grounds with no shade. Food: not worth the $77 we paid. I get it's a working farm, & though we try to support local as much as possible, the food we ordered was not good enough that we will stop by again. The strawberry fields salad was a typical salad, no wow factor there. The Italian sammy was dry. There was a minuscule amount of some kind of dressing on it, but def not enough. Dessert: red velvet whoopie pie was so overpriced it's not funny. If it tasted great, I wouldn't complain...it did not taste great. The pecan pie was abysmal; not enough filling and very bland. Two "specialty" drinks, a salad, a sandwich, & two small desserts, for $77? No, sorry, not again.