10/31/22 Construction of the Rain Gardens project began September 12th. The contractor, selected by competitive bid, is California Constructores from San Pablo. Work completed so far includes surveying, utility locating, cleaning out of the old drainage ditch, saw cutting and removal of old concrete, construction of the two bioretention basins, placing subdrain and permeable backfill […]
During week 3 of SAP, the Ujima cohort learned about community through storytelling and food accessibility. The youth helped set up a food bank at Crescent Park and learned the importance of food access in communities with food apartheids. They also explored the meaning of agroecology and had an insightful conversation on how humans can […]
This week the Watershed summer apprentices are learning the important history of the land we work on and the Ohlone people who’ve lived on this land long before us. Local health and wellness advocate @wholistic_shine joined us at the creek for a lesson about water consciousness and layed down a prayer for the water. The […]
School Gardens Apprentices this week learned about what soil is made of and Richmond’s soil composition. Then we learned about seeds and their relationship with soil. We seeded corn, cayenne peppers, zinnias, & snapdragons. We then learned that when understanding fungi’s contribution to soil biodiversity. soil diversity can help us protect our forests in the […]
CSA provides fresh produce from our farm and local farms around the Bay Area. The CSA crew has been loving packing all the different summer fruits and veggies and finding ways to keep our delicate produce safe. If you would like to subscribe, go to this link urbantilth.csaware.com
Friday’s are for #vegetationmanagement at the North Richmond Farm! Interested in volunteering!? Hit up volunteer@urbantilth.org and slide through!
The Ujima apprentices made it through their second week of the Summer Apprentice Program! During this week the apprentices were able to dive deeper into collectivism and cooperative business models with @cooprichmond. They were also able to see a cooperative business in person during our field trip to @mandelagrocery in West Oakland where worker-owners have […]
Edu Team SAP update! The youth have been moving to both of our school sites & are now on week 2 of getting to know the land! This week we are talking about industrial vs sustainable farming, redlining / urban heat islands & climate change/community resilience. We then started doing some garden training. Youth learned […]
Last week our Added Value and Farm Stands team were joined by 3 amazing SAP youth who immediately jumped into making flower bouquets and harvested berries for our CSA Added Value Product for the week. They’ve been very eager and excited to learn about the Farm, the history of the land and how to engage […]
Mondays are for #harvesting at the North Richmond Farm! Interested in coming through to volunteer? Hit up Volunteer@urbantilth.org!
