This year’s Watershed Youth Program has officially made it to week 5! Since last week, the youth have taken a visit to our native plant nursery where they learned how to transplant, mix soil, sow seeds, and work with various native California plants. They also got to meet the frogs that call the greenhouse home! […]
Our summer youth apprentices had an eventful week here at the North Richmond Farm! They started the week off with a transformative sheet mulching activity. This activity highlighted the benefits of mulching in connection with our environment! The apprentices also got the opportunity to collaborate with our CSA program this week. They assisted with packing […]
July 16, 2024 It may be summertime, but you still get to play with mud….In June, we had a Volunteer Build Day, applying the first coat of plaster to the interior of the Watershed Workshop. Thanks to all who came out!! And in July, concrete (“mud” in casual construction lingo) was poured for a new […]
Update from the free farm stand team! Hello everyone the team has been busy busy with distributing produce to our community on a daily. We are so excited for the summer and we are planning on lots of educational content and video demos with recipes that you all can try! Stay posted on what’s to […]
So excited to share that we are 2 weeks into working with our Summer Youth Apprentices at the North Richmond Farm! We’ve gotten to learn how to create/foster safe spaces. We learned more about local history at the Richmond History Museum. All while we’ve continuously learned about how our environment impacts our communities! We had […]
This year’s Watershed SYAP has been amazing so far! For Week 2, the youth have been developing a better understanding of native plants and their healing properties, environmental justice & seed saving. They harvested native plants for our Agua Florida (herbal spray) lesson that was led by Diana! They also learned about seed saving and […]
This week our apprentices learned about the importance and true power behind storytelling. Our youth is essential to stopping the erasure of our community’s history. We are proud to be a part of this next generation of storytellers. ¡Actualización de los narradores de historias de North Richmond! Esta semana nuestros aprendices aprendieron sobre la importancia […]
Our summer youth apprentices at the Greenway have been working hard! This week we have been discussing environmental justice and how important the Greenway is towards our collective benefit. Our youth have followed in this example by creating community agreements, cleaning up the Greenway, beautifying the bathrooms, making delicious food from fresh ingredients, visiting the […]
Another episode of the Roots Run Deep podcast is out! 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 Environmental Racism and how it makes us feel in […]
We are so excited to finally share the winners publicly with their designs! These three individuals truly captured what these kits are made for. Which is our community here in Richmond CA! The winners are: @accidentes_felices @hechodemaiz @xicanosb Thank you to these three amazing artists that poured so much love and creativity onto their designs […]
