These past two weeks students have been building skills in tree pruning! Specifically how to properly cut and shape a fruit tree to improve its health and yield. Once they feel ready we will assign them to a tree to prune, as their group project. Aside from that we’ve been cooking and harvesting as our […]
Richmond High School’s first Sunday volunteer events are dormant till February We’re sorry for the late notice! Have a wonderful break
Youth are on break this week so our team has been doing a lot of infrastructure work & garden maintenance. The Richmond High team has been helping at the Verde Partnership Garden & vice versa. We also had support from the Watershed Team today at the Richmond high garden to come through and help continue […]
This weekend we have TWO great volunteer opportunities for the community! Please join us at one or both of these fantastic events as we continue to grow and improve our school gardens! The link to register is in our bio!
In class, we have finished up topics on climate vs weather, and the impacts of climate change and are now wrapping up our Environmental Justice talk. Students are learning & seeing which communities contribute less to climate change but are affected the most. We got through quarter 1! That means that students got new groups […]
A look at what our biweekly farm stand looks like with our Urban Agriculture class at Richmond High School. The students take care of all the plants, harvest, wash, bundle and set up every other Monday in front of the school’s office to offer to staff and students. We LOVE to see it
Location: Richmond High Garden (come in thru the main gate on 23rd street and drive to the back parking lot till you reach the tennis court. You’ll see the garden next to it) Time: 10am-1pm We haven’t had a volunteer event this summer due to our summer youth program but we’re back! We’ll be…. Weeding […]
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 […]
We got intimate with the flowers at Richmond high! We learned about their anatomy & drew them. Students also got to strain their herbal infusions and gave their oils unique names. One student named their oil after Diana. Stay tuned for the final week’s update!
