Richmond high school garden!
Students and staff have been asking for okras! Y’all got any tips or advice ?!
RHS Urban Agriculture Class
Students have been harvesting a lot more often. We’re saying goodbye to the last of our winter crops and starting up some late spring-early summer crops In the classroom we are finishing up industrial agriculture talk & starting to talk about tomato trellising and how to grow tomatoes in our environment. Stay tuned to see […]
1st Sunday at Richmond High School
Thank you so much to everyone who came@out to support we got a brand new 32 long raised bed built, planted tomatoes, fine-tuned our compost area, and cleared some weedy areas to plant more flowers! Stay tuned for the next community volunteer day at Richmond High!
Making Grandmother Salve at Richmond High
Grandmother Salve was given the name because a wonderful group called 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations reached out to Urban Tilth requested some salve to share with Water Protectors and Land Defenders who followed the “call to action” to go to Minnesota to stand in solidarity with the Anishinaabe to stop the development of the […]
Rotating crops at Richmond High School
Rotating crops at Richmond High School Getting ready for the warmer days We got beans, spinach, carrots, favas, broccoli, & more coming soon Students have been learning more about organic matter and compost. We’re extremely proud of the hard work they constantly put in and how amazing and delicious their veggies come out!
RHS Urban Agriculture Update
February has been a fruitful month! We hosted our first volunteer event before the pandemic! Shoutout to everyone who came out and supported! We appreciate y’all for helping us build/paint raised beds, weeding around the rose bushes, cleaning up the garden, planting flowers, & building the compost sifter This month we’ve been diving into human […]
Richmond Highschool Update
This last week we’ve been finishing up our soil food web conversations & starting up our trees conversation! & Of course, they’ve been harvesting and providing free veggies to their classmates & the staff Students learned about soil health microorganisms mushrooms/mycelium trees & how to prune them during the winter times
Vegetable pa las spices!!!
The year started off a little wobbly at Richmond High school. Staff and students had to work together to make sure we were all safe. We’re sending love and smooth recovery to our peers that are struggling with colds, this virus, and the loss of loved ones!! The Urban Agriculture class has been keeping it […]
Brief Urban Agriculture Class Update
Richmond High School Urban Agriculture academy update After their break students got back to their regular schedule! Harvesting for farmstand and continuing indoor lessons, like environmental injustices in Richmond. We had a heavy topic on the air pollution, the lack of healthy food access, & gentrification going on in our community. Students knew a lot […]
Richmond High Youth Feed Their Community!
The Richmond High School Student Run Farm stand started in August of 2021. Our goal was to offer this as a service learning component of the Urban Agriculture Course where students get the opportunity to grow, harvest, and distribute the 2,000 lbs of crops they cultivate per year in the garden to students, and families […]