Here are some pictures from the Urban Agriculture class at Richmond High School, starting the week off with some garden and farm observations and maintenance! The students are finishing up their Growing with the Seasons lesson and will soon start learning about Soil types. Check out the fun flowers that are continuing to give even […]
Mixed in some tea blending and packing to our 4th Saturday Volunteer Day at the North Richmond FarmWe started the day with transplanting lots of green onion and prepping their bed for success, as well as a ton of weeding around the other veggie beds. Thank you to our new volunteers and our returning volunteers, […]
Verde K-8th school has been welcoming the fall. The pumpkins are turning orange, the leaves are falling, and we are eating apples every day. We have been planting more greens like collards and cilantro. So far 5th, 6th, and 8th grades made apple crisps! When we harvested the apples we began learning about solidarity and […]
TOMORROW, we are having our 4th Saturday volunteer event at the farm, but we need additional support to help mix herbs for our wildfire safety kits’ tea blends and decongestants. These 500 kits will be distributed to families in Richmond to help combat the effects and dangers of wildfire season. We plan on doing this […]
Cooking with the Urban Agriculture students at Richmond high Cooking with summer crops as much as we can until they’re gone !
Urban Agriculture students distributing food from the garden. Every Monday from 3:30 – 4:30 PM!
A lot of things have been happening at the farm from finishing our dry shed storage and completing the roofing as you can see our team crew member Chito finishing the installment of the shingles. This shed will be used specifically to store our tomatoes, squash, watermelons, herbs, onions, and garlic. The greenhouse team has […]
This week the students got to practice what they learned, TRANSPLANTING! Really proud of them for putting in the work up until now. We’re halfway through quarter 1. Time flies!!! As staff were constantly caught up in teaching the students but when we spend time together outdoors you get to learn more about THEM. We’ve […]
Verde K-8 has been learning about, bioregional history, our local ecosystem, and harvesting abundance. Tending to the garden is part of our time in the garden. This week we transplanted, seeded, and watered. Thank you 6-8th for harvesting 88 pounds of tasty apples! We are sharing them with staff and parents, and hope to make […]
This last week at the Richmond High Urban Ag course we did our weekly harvest for our farm stand including apples! We saved some of the apples for ourselves to make some apple casseroles This was the first time the students took full control and cooked on their own! Really proud of them!!
