Rudy Lozito Fellowship Cooking Demo

Today’s Rudy Lozito Fellowship cooking demo was an absolute blast with guest Head Chef Paul (Rudy’s Dad) and Sous Chef Tim! Together, we whipped up a culinary masterpiece: refreshing gazpacho soup with crunchy croutons, vibrant orzo pasta and zoodles tossed in flavorful pesto, and the most refreshing watermelon mint juice. All featuring cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, […]

The Richmond Chamber of Commerce’s Best of Richmond results are here!

Thank you to Richmond for voting for Urban Tilth as one of two organizations voted as the best Richmond non-profits! Thank you to the Richmond Chamber of Commerce for all the work that goes into hosting the Best of and uplifting Richmond’s fabulous businesses and organizations @ Congratulations to RYSE Center and Empathy in Action […]

WTS Youth Conclude Summer Apprentice Program with Community Showcase and Graduation

Our WTS Youth have officially finished week 6 and have reached the end of the Summer Apprentice Program! The Watershed youth spent their last week bottling up their Agua Florida from week 2, learning how to make salves, and creating the poster boards that they displayed for the community during the Crescent Park bash! We […]

Roots Run Deep | What is Intersectionality? Episode 6

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Roots Run Deep Podcast! We are your hosts Rafa & Kiara. We work at Urban Tilth as Just Transition Organizers. We want to thank our listeners for always staying consistent and tuning in. In this episode, we are talking about Intersectionality and how it makes us feel in addition […]

SYAP Graduation!

Slide through the community to celebrate these young people graduating from their 6-week apprenticeship programs!! 3-5 pm @ Urban Tilth’s North Richmond Farm 355 Brookside Drive 94801. Back porch of the sage colored house near the crop rows!

Orchard For All! Recap

Orchard For All! program update: Over the last 5 weeks our apprentices have had the chance gain the necessary skills for orchard and tree care, while learning they have been able to put them to work in different ways around our community while meeting and creating new connections, that will help in applying it in […]

Returning Apprentices

Our North Richmond Farm Summer Youth Apprentices have returned from camping! The NRF apprentices joined our 4 other SYAP sites at @blueoakranchreserve. They participated in group hikes almost daily! They spent a lot of time exploring nature, playing in the water, and learning about the local ecosystem. The NRF apprentices were also responsible for cooking! […]

Bountiful Seed Saving Turnout!

Thank you to all these beautiful faces that came out to our Seed Saving in Community event yesterday We got to process a whole bunch of seeds, cilantro, Japanese indigo, calendulas, collards, Fava beans, arugula, and many more! And of course a lot of laughs and storytelling. Should we do another seed saving in a […]

Update from the North Richmond Story Tellers!

This week our amazing apprentices used their tools as storytellers. They worked together as a team to capture the stories of elders of North Richmond. The elders shared themes like – education, giving back to the community, music, respect, discipline, prayer and love. We the North Richmond Storytellers are excited to share their stories with the […]