Another great volunteer day at North Richmond Farm, and this time we planted new trees for our orchard and weeded the original ones! I’d say they they look pretty happy and healthy. We were also able to treat our wonderful volunteers to some egg muffins and sautéed veggies thanks to Debora. Oh, and we also […]
Raspberry Beds and Tending the Soil The NRF crew plus volunteers have worked in rain or shine to finish our raspberry beds and weed the orchard! Here are some pictures of us adding some nice, fluffy soil to a 2 ft deep trench that we dug. Our native soil is very clayey and is prone […]
Meet our chickens at UT! Check out some of their awesome transformations, a lot of the chickens we have at the North Richmond farm right now are adopted. The chickens at the farm have been hard at work laying eggs, eating left over produce. They also keep our compost nice and healthy t00! We are […]
North Richmond Farm Update! Sunday was a bobcat/tractor training day for Urban Tilth Staff! Thanks to some locally sourced ingredients; wood chips, horse manure, and organic juice waste from Urban Remedy, we have begun rolling out our compost program / windrows at the North Richmond Farm! These windrows will be turned and cooked for the […]
VERMICOMPOSTING! Chris, the worm whisperer, helped us build a worm bin for vermicompost and worm castings at NRF, so that we can transfer all the rich nutrients into the beds for better produce. He works with farms all over the area and we were grateful to be one of those farms! Thank you Chris! More […]
We are partnering with the Center for Land-Based Learning, by providing on-the-job training hours to 5 Urban Tilth staff members who have entered into this 2 year Farm Manager Training Program. We will be hosting trainings and work experiences for these staff in specific areas of farm management including irrigation, integrative pest management, soil management, […]
Starting the New Year Off with New Pathways Yesterday at the North Richmond Farm, we added gypsum to pathways to help with drainage and to prevent clay and puddles from forming. We’ve been working on the soil so that it’s less clay and more receptive to the rainfall. And we added mulch on top of […]
Introducing FREE Farm Stands! Serving more Richmond families in a time of need As fall approached and the COVID-19 pandemic kept getting worse, Urban Tilth’s waitlist for food aid also continued to grow. After using a loan to buy 2 additional delivery vans, by June we already reached our maximum capacity for home delivery of […]
Help Design the North Richmond Farm! This winter Urban Tilth is doing one last series of Community Design Sessions for the North Richmond Farm before we start construction in the Spring of 2021. Join us for a socially distanced farm tour, community meeting, zoom farm design workshops, or join a focus group to see what […]
Urban Tilth, along with 4 other organizations committed to creating healthy food systems in the Bay Area, is featured in a virtual tour created by the Food and Environment Working Group of the American Public Health Association. This is the first time this tour is being done virtually. We were asked to submit a video […]
