This Sunday 10-1 pm we will be having our LAST Richmond High Garden Volunteer event of the year! If you haven’t come and shown some love to the garden now is your time!!! Our students maintain the garden throughout the school year where they also use this space to learn mindfulness, food justice, environmental justice, […]
Thank you to everyone who came to our monthly volunteer event at the Richmond High School garden! We got some beds prepped for fall/winter crops, completed our greenhouse tables, built our washing station frame and seed saved some zinnia flower seeds!! Grateful for the child energy we get from a local mini-gardener! He brings in […]
Orchard for all update! We are now on our Third week and we are now, and our topic for this week is TREE CARE 101! Started off the week in our lovely Greenway community garden. We talked about how to care for specific trees and essential steps to take to Identify the 4 D’s disease, […]
We’re on the second to last week of the school year! Students are finalizing their summer crop planting to complete the school year. We’re really impressed by their hard work and dedication! Some students have exceeded our expectations and can be trusted to plant and do bed maintenance independently! Stay tuned for the last week […]
Rhs Urban Agriculture Update! These past weeks students worked on their flower anatomy project and cooked a tomato glazed pasta! We got to take a break from school and visit UC Santa Cruz and their farm!! They got to see a bigger-scale farm and got to learn about the history and techniques they use. Also […]
Students are starting to transition their beds with summer crops. For most of them, this will be their last crop rotations of the school year!! They’ve worked in the gardens and grown food to feed themselves and give the extra produce away to their teachers and other classmates. It’s a bittersweet feeling! We hope that […]
The sun is SHINING!! We made the infamous cilantro pesto pasta that the students love! Did you know pesto can be made with many herbs, not just basil? We use our cilantro as we wait for basil! 10/10 recommend! Aside from that students have been planting their summer crops! We got tomatoes in the beds […]
Ms. Meza gifted the Richmond High garden some seeds she collected herself! Thank you! We can not wait for the next Saving Seeds workshop! Keep an eye out for the date
Richmond Highs Urban Agriculture Update! Happy Spring We seeded wildflower seeds with the students and started replacing and upgrading old beds. Students have also been slowly pulling out winter crops and replacing them with spring crops, like flowers, greens, berries, & roots. I’m the greenhouse we started our early jalapeńos, flower bulbs, celery, tomatoes, & […]
The rain has definitely given life to the weeds in our gardens. We went over a weed suppression technique, sheet mulching!! Sheet mulching is basically using cardboard or cloth to cover the ground after pulling big weeds out, then we put wood chips over it Students learned quickly and got down to it! We got […]
