Sowing Seeds of Resilience
What is the Seed Saving Project? Seeds are a big part of our food system that have been privatized and taken from our communities over the years. The Seed Saving […]
Making Verde Garden BLOOM!
This year Urban Tilth is concentrating its efforts to revitalize Verde K-8 School Partnership Garden (VPG), a 0.6-acre plot in North Richmond’s ONLY school. In the face of a growing […]
VPG Update
This week we hosted a Free Breakfast celebrating Black History Month and the legacy of the Black Panther Party in different cities, even Richmond! Students enjoyed warm wheat pancakes, fresh […]
Verde Partnership Garden UPDATE
Recently, a lot more kids have been taking advantage of the garden to hang out during breaks and help us out with some garden tasks, which we’re really grateful for […]
Verde Garden’s Doctors Appointment!
Last week, we took a tour of the Verde garden with our resident doctor for the month, to learn about the team’s plan for the next few weeks and how […]
JOIN TEAM TILTH 2023
Help Verde Elementary Garden BLOOM! We’re calling upon our community to help us raise $30,000 to fund Verde Elementary Partnership Garden. With the funds we raise from this year’s Oakland […]
Verde Partnership Garden Young Update
Verde Partnership Garden youth have been learning about animal and plant science and helping the education team plant roots and greens. K-3rd are studying CA native ecosystems and the animals […]
Education Team Update
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 […]
Volunteer Opportunities
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 […]
Learning about Richmond’s soil composition!
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 […]