VPG! Where the blue jays sing and the bees buzz. We are welcoming spring! Finishing up our soil unit with k-3 and starting it with 6-8th grade. With George Washington Carver in spirit and mine, we did an experiment, (many thanks to our soil scientist fairy friend Cole ) where we added hydrogen peroxide to […]
This Friday, February 18th, we had another special pack day for bags of produce that will go to Crescent Park Apartment residents for their Health Is Wealth Festival! We’re here for it! Sign up for special pack days like this on our Volunteer Page
Community Love: Today, with the help of our 3 amazing volunteers, we packed and delivered 50 lovely bags filled with sweet potatoes, carrots, collard greens, lettuce, beets, green and red onions to the Multicultural Family & Senior Center in North Richmond for Valentine’s Day! No better way to say we love you than with the […]
Hi all! It’s the Verde Partnership Garden crewWe continue to learn about soil biodiversity and George Washington Carver! Aside from being a soil and plant scientist, educator and healer, he was also a gifted artist! Some grades coloured in a soil biodiversity worksheet with soil! Other grades were working with Precita Eyes muralists who are […]
Greetings community we are so happy to start our Farm to Table CSA again and also to see all the familiar and new faces this year!! We urge you all to sign up and tell friends and neighbours about our program starting up again. Link in the bio 🙂
The Watersheds Basins of Relations team would like to invite you all to the beach for an awesome day of volunteering and dancing! The Basins of Relations crew incorporates cleaning creeks, beaches, and swales with other outdoor activities to create a healthy relationship with our watersheds. The first half of this volunteer event will consist […]
This last week we’ve been finishing up our soil food web conversations & starting up our trees conversation! & Of course, they’ve been harvesting and providing free veggies to their classmates & the staff Students learned about soil health microorganisms mushrooms/mycelium trees & how to prune them during the winter times
*helped build a trench and lay rocks along the trail prevent erosion and muddy trail (Alvarado Park) *Jonah gave a lesson on Soap Plant learned about Ramona Garibay and how she uses soap root to keep alive her Ohlone traditions link attached to article! https://baynature.org/…/versatile-bulb-many-uses-soaproot/ *made a planted end of soaproot to regrow *transplanted 195 […]
LAST MONTH, we held out first Food as Medicine Community Health Forum led by a resident doctor Darshan from Lifelong William Jenkins Health Center. The topics of discussion included chronic inflammation and how it relates to insulin resistance, food-conversion-to-glucose levels with healthy and unhealthy diets, and the relationship between our body’s organs to chronic diseases […]
Urban Tilth has an immediate opening for a CSA Drivers serving the North Richmond Farm and our Farm to Table CSA (Community Supported Agriculture Program)! How To Apply: Send resume, cover letter and a current copy of Driver’s License and 2021 DMV Driving Record and references via mail or email to: employment@urbantilth.org For More information […]
