Looking back at 2020 accomplishments Shout out to the watershed crew, especially our manager Jonah, this year for holding it down at the nursery! 1,020 native plants propagated! 294 planted on our sites Wildcat Creek/ El Cerrito Creek Why native plants? There are several reasons, but the important ones to note are that native […]
2020 Wrap Up Post From The Richmond High School Urban Agriculture Academy! (Photos are pre and post COVID) Urban Tilth is IMMENSELY proud of our education team for their resiliency and flexibility during one of the most challenging years we have ever faced! Given all of the challenges that 2020 presented, our team was still […]
Verde Partnership Garden 2020 review 354 students ages 4-15 engaged with the garden before COVID. Topics include soil and community health, metamorphosis, edible alphabet, herbs for tea and seed harvesting. We harvested 662 pounds of fruits, herbs and vegetables With Ms Meza’s guidance we harvested 40 different types of seeds of medicinal herbs, flowers, fruits and […]
North Richmond Farm 2020 Highlights Very proud of my crew! This year we had many successes despite the challenging year we all had. This year many of our Urban Tilth staff joined the NRF crew and helped us achieve many of our goals! Held our MLK Day of Service annual event! Grew around 8,000lbs of […]
Cooking up goodness via Zoom Update from The Urban Agriculture Course at Richmond High School by Adam Boisvert Needless to say, the past two months of distance learning have been very challenging for educators and students alike! The Urban Agriculture Course has been no exception. We are adapting to hosting a course that is typically […]
Creating Pollinator Habitat in the Greenway Honoring our 20 Commitments In the beginning of this year 2020, we made 20 commitments to the community, one of which was to create new monarch & pollinator habitat gardens for the Richmond Greenway. We made it a goal to be proactive and not just watch as monarch […]
Introducing FREE Farm Stands! Serving more Richmond families in a time of need As fall approached and the COVID-19 pandemic kept getting worse, Urban Tilth’s waitlist for food aid also continued to grow. After using a loan to buy 2 additional delivery vans, by June we already reached our maximum capacity for home delivery of […]
Nothing gives our lives more meaning than being able to serve our extended Richmond family healthy chemical-free food!The Farmers to Families FREE Box Program supports families and residents who have been most impacted by the Covid-19 crisis by delivering a FREE box of fresh fruits and vegetables. Since May 2020, Urban Tilth has used this […]
Help Design the North Richmond Farm! This winter Urban Tilth is doing one last series of Community Design Sessions for the North Richmond Farm before we start construction in the Spring of 2021. Join us for a socially distanced farm tour, community meeting, zoom farm design workshops, or join a focus group to see what […]
Welcome to Halloween Land! Socially distanced Halloween at Unity Park Plaza This year, we hosted our very first Halloween Land at the Greenway Gardens, where a limited number of Greenway kids and their families came to celebrate Halloween with scavenger hunts, spooky freeze dance competitions, pumpkin planter-making, and more! Just a little socially distanced offering […]
