Celebrating the Return of the Rain!
Our ‘Basins of Relations’ Watershed Restoration apprentices have been celebrating the return of rain and water to our Creek ecosystems! This is the perfect time of year to plant our […]
Learning About Food Traditions at Verde!
Verde K-8 update !This week we continued learning about food traditions. We learned about the Ohlone people and how they continue to protect and tend to this land we are […]
Introducing the FREE SEEDLINGS at the North Richmond Farm!
Have you been looking to add some veggies to your garden? Well, look no more! Come by the North Richmond Farm every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9-4pm to pick […]
Volunteers at Verde!
Verde partnership update! Thank you Hass Sustainability Task Force (UC Berkeley) for coming to volunteer with us at Verde, we had a great time planting cilantro and doing some infrastructure […]
Harvest Festival!
This week the NRF team has been very busy preparing for our annual Harvest Festival. We prepared a bed to plant garlic with the community, weeded and cleaned up fields, […]
Volunteers at Verde!
Thank you Hass Sustainability Task Force (UC Berkeley) for coming to volunteer with us at verde, we had a great time planting cilantro and doing some infrastructure maintenance. Verde partnership […]
New Signs for Lincoln Elementary School Garden and Weekly Farm Stands
Lots of happenings on the Greenway! The Lincoln Elementary school garden is hard at work making new signs to help invite all of its students to enjoy the garden area. […]
WE DID IT: We Bought the Farm!
On September 14th after an historic Contra Costa County Board of Supervisor vote, Urban Tilth made history by becoming the first permanent farm in Richmond, CA! We began this part […]
Halloween Land was a Spooktacular Time!
Attendees participated in face-painting, carving pumpkin planters, a scavenger hunt, a freeze dance competition, a costume contest, and finished it off by breaking some piñatas! A huge thanks to the […]
Permitting, definitely a process!
Orienteering in the permitting world We started discussing the North Richmond Farm Project by convening all the departments that would eventually be responsible for permitting different parts of the project. […]