We are on our final week of the summer course! Students have been learning a lot!! How to grow food, collecting seeds, herbal medicine, flower anatomy, pollinators, how to reduce waste, and most importantly COOKING & NOURISHMENT We are so proud of how hard these youth have worked and how much they have been growing […]
This past week at the Urban Agriculture Summer School Course at Richmond High School has been full of harvesting, seed saving, pesto making, and tomato trellising! We are teaching students about the health benefits of powerful herbs like chamomile, and lemon verbena and how plant allies from the “Farmacy” can be homegrown solutions used to […]
Week 2 of the summer school is underway and our students are getting a full serving of knowledge and healthy, delicious summertime abundance! In the classroom, students are learning about Soil Composition and its relationship to Soil Fertility. Outside in the garden students are learning about no-till farming, transplanting, and harvesting! Stay tuned for more […]
Summer school is on and students have returned to in-person learning at Richmond High School! We also hosted a field trip last week from the wonderful folks from the Marin City Community Services District! The garden definitely missed these young folks and welcomed them back with tons of late spring flowers.
Yes, another flower post! Hope y’all loving all the colors this spring has brought us just as much as we have the Richmond high crew is preparing to have youth out this summer and to finally share the space to teach & train these young adults how to grow food, medicine & flowers in their […]
Last year and this year, due to Covid we weren’t able to host our annual Festival of Flowers event. This event is dedicated to all the mamas, especially our number one mama, EARTH! In the past years, we would harvest flowers from all of our sites and buy flowers from local farmers to create a […]
We got strawflowers coming up! Will be making bouquets to give out at the free giveaways these upcoming weeks The crew has been really busy on-site! We’re building a new wash station & making more skin salves for the community We’re not the only ones busy, the lady buys have also been putting in work. […]
Still rebuilding the raised beds at the rhs garden one down, many more to go! Keep an eye out for the updates after we paint them
We’re in the process of rebuilding our 10+ year old beds into new cozy ones at Richmond high! Fixed beds = More FOOD
Our class of 38 students is entering into an exciting unit on Soil Composition! The essential question we are asking our students throughout this unit is: How Does Soil Composition Impact Soil Fertility? Students got a chance to share their knowledge on soil composition before our discussion got started using a word cloud activity! You […]
