LAST MONTH, we held out first Food as Medicine Community Health Forum led by a resident doctor Darshan from Lifelong William Jenkins Health Center. The topics of discussion included chronic inflammation and how it relates to insulin resistance, food-conversion-to-glucose levels with healthy and unhealthy diets, and the relationship between our body’s organs to chronic diseases […]
What a beautiful day it was today at the North Richmond Farm! Many members of the community came out and helped with weeding, planting citrus trees, transplanting cabbages, and building a new fence for the chickens! We love to see the farm growing and thriving thanks to the community. To find out more info about […]
Join us this Saturday at the North Richmond Farm for a great day of volunteering! We will need as many hands as possible in order to help beautify the farm! There will be plenty of activities for the whole family and opportunities to learn about urban farming! We cant wait to see you all there! […]
Help us bring the vision of the North Richmond Farm to life by making a donation today We are only $440 away from meeting our $50,000 fundraising goal! Every donation gets us closer to our goal. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far – we really can’t do this without your support.
Thanks to the speedy hands of the many volunteers we were able tó make this a quick pack! 150 bags of healthy produce was distributed to families that live at the Barrett Terrance Plaza Apartments and to the Community Heritage Senior Apartments. We are so thankful to those who volunteered their time to help feed […]
Help us bring the vision of the North Richmond Farm to life by making a donation today We are only $440 away from meeting our $50,000 fundraising goal! Every donation gets us closer to our goal. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far – we really can’t do this without your support. URBANTILTH.NETWORKFORGOOD.COMSupport […]
Next year the North Richmond Farm will be taking an important step forward, we will be applying for Organic Certification. Since the very first seed was planted at NRF, we have been operating following sustainable practices, we have worked on building healthy soil to sustain strong, nutritious plants, and we have stayed away from chemical […]
Have you been looking to add some veggies to your garden? Well, look no more! Come by the North Richmond Farm every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9-4pm to pick up your own vegetable start! Sometimes we grow too many starts and don’t have space for them in our farm or garden beds. So we […]
This weekend we held our 2nd Annual Harvest Festival and celebrated the Land Acquisition of the North Richmond Farm. We had such a blast! We had a free farm stand, carved pumpkins, sold healing salves, tomato sauces, and pesto! We even had booths to show the community the vision we have for the future farm! […]
This week the NRF team has been very busy preparing for our annual Harvest Festival. We prepared a bed to plant garlic with the community, weeded and cleaned up fields, harvested veggies for the farm stand, and prepared lots of decorations ourselves, using paper, dried flowers, willow branches, and other natural and sustainable materials! We […]
