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 people in their […]
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. Halloweenland was this past weekend and it was a huge success, despite the rain! Our WEEKLY farm stands at Unity Park are still going strong. […]
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 of our journey in 2012, when we first submitted a proposal to steward this 3 acre vacant County owned lot. Our dream then was to […]
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 community who came out and had a great time in spite of the light drizzle that came down on us!
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. Everyone was tremendously enthusiastic about the project but we found that there was no guarantee that it would be a slam dunk to get this […]
North Richmond Farm update! This week the crew has been preparing beds and transplanting lots of delicious produce like Onions Bunching onions Green Cabbage Red Cabbage Lettuce Salad mix As well as weeding our pathways and covering them with filtration fabric to help prevent more invasive weeds like Bermuda grass to spread in our pathways.
The Greenway has been doing beautifully. It’s exciting watching the Garden at Lincoln Elementary reawaken. We took the opportunity that was given by October’s first rain. Black Sage, White Sage, Purple Sage and Coastal Sage were transplanted along with others and a sprinkle of Mystery seeds. Purple Tree collards, beets and espinacas ~Spinach~ were added […]
Just Transition in Richmond: Part I From Justice Funders Newsletter In this series, we learn about the visionary work of Richmond Our Power Coalition (ROPC), a core partner of Justice Funders that is building a Just Transition to a regenerative, living economy in Richmond, California. In Part 1: Sowing the Seeds, we heard stories from three ROPC […]
Our Basins of Relations Watershed Restoration Training Program has shifted from our first unit — Our History / Our Watershed — into our second unit: Biodiversity! Our amazing apprentices have been building their knowledge of all the plants and animals that call the San Francisco Bay Area home: bird-watching at the nation’s first wildlife sanctuary […]
This year Verde Partnership Garden is one of the enrichment classes for K-8th students. We see 400 youth weekly and sustain engaging programming for each age group, aligning with district standards and learning objectives. We are creating our own curriculum, adapted and inspired by different programs such as: Lifelab, Soulfire Farm, and Urban Tilth’s Watersheds and […]
