Richmond High School Urban Agriculture academy update After their break students got back to their regular schedule! Harvesting for farmstand and continuing indoor lessons, like environmental injustices in Richmond. We had a heavy topic on the air pollution, the lack of healthy food access, & gentrification going on in our community. Students knew a lot […]
Verde partnership garden update We have been learning about soil biodiversity, and seed biodiversity. We spend time learning about seeds, what they need to grow and where they come from. Ms. Meza showed us an 11-year-old fava bean pod that is a mix between purple and green, a unique gem! We also learn about the […]
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At Verde partnership garden we have been learning about soil biodiversity & community health. With our soil health unit, each student is growing a fava bean and watching them grow, learning about plant parts. We know fava beans as an amazing snack but also very nourishing to our soil. We are also learning about how […]
This week we pulled out the rest of the summer crops, besides zinnias, which are still going strong! The bees have been showing so much gratitude. We’ve also been harvesting & drying herbs because those plants will soon go dormant. As always we’re proud of these youngins for putting in the work. This quarter they […]
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 hand-grown California native plants, which create a habitat for a native food web both below- (bacteria, fungi, worms!) and above-ground (insects, butterflies, songbirds). The apprentices […]
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 on. We gathered acorns from the coast live oak. We love to see how these rains have brought a sea of worms! In many classrooms […]
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 up your own vegetable start! Sometimes we grow too many starts and don’t have space for them in our farm or garden beds. So we […]
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 maintenance. Verde partnership garden this week planted carrots! We are also learning about food traditions. We are sprouting a project where youth interview caretakers, older […]
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, harvested veggies for the farm stand, and prepared lots of decorations ourselves, using paper, dried flowers, willow branches, and other natural and sustainable materials! We […]
