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Is your Best Dressed 80s Costume Ready?

1st Annual Unity Bash! Monday, February 17, 2020 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Celebrate President’s Day  on the Richmond Greenway at Unity Park!    THEME:  80’s & 90’s Hip Hop   Join Urban Tilth, Rich City RIDES, and Moving Forward for our Future at our Free 1st Annual Unity Bash. Come meet everyone who works along the Greenway while enjoying good music […]

Welcome to the World Monarch Butterfly

Richmond High School Urban Agriculture Academy Update! A Richmond High School Monarch Butterfly Eclosing from it’s chrysalis today… welcome to the world 🌍 🦋!! Big thanks to Urban Tilth’s Bienvenida Meza for teaching us the ways of the butterfly 🙏🏽! Release video soon to follow!

Verde and Watershed Crew Teamed up

                  Verde Partnership Garden update 🌱This week the Verde and Watershed Crew teamed up to clear several spaces of materials and weeds in preparation for planned educational programs. We also had a visit from @healthyrichmond and brainstormed ideas for community input in the garden. Through the educational […]

1st Annual Unity Bash!

1st Annual Unity Bash! THEME: 80’s & 90’s Hip Hop WHEN: Monday, February 17, 2020 From 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm WHERE: Unity Park Plaza16th & Ohio, Richmond, CA 94804Celebrate President’s Day with Urban Tilth, Rich City RIDES, and Moving Forward for our Future  at the Free 1st Annual Unity Bash on the Richmond Greenway at Unity Park!Come meet everyone who […]

Urban Tilth Awarded 2019 Outstanding Watershed Education Program

      Our Basins of Relations Watershed Restoration Program received an award for Outstanding Watershed Education Program at the 2019 Contra Costa Watershed Symposium! The Symposium is a gathering of all the amazing organizations that do watershed stewardship work in Contra Costa County, we were so glad to be a part of it and […]

Urban Tilth Honored with 2019 Leadership Award

On December the 5th, 2019, the Food Chain Workers Alliance and the HEAL Food Alliance presented the 2019 Leadership Award to Urban Tilth. In honor of their work towards food sovereignty  in Richmond and their role as community farmers, educators, and land stewards organizing for a more just, sustainable food system that is rooted in […]

Urban Tilth Awarded 2019 Outstanding Watershed Education Program

  Our Basins of Relations Watershed Restoration Program received an award for Outstanding Watershed Education Program at the 2019 Contra Costa Watershed Symposium! The Symposium is a gathering of all the amazing organizations that do watershed stewardship work in Contra Costa County, we were so glad to be a part of it and so honored […]

Urban Tilth Awarded 2019 Food Sovereignty Prize!

Volunteers made a soil heart bed during at a Community Build event at the North Richmond Farm. We want to express our sincere appreciation and deep gratitude to the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance for honoring us this year with The Food Sovereignty Prize.  We are humbled to accept this award in recognition of our work helping […]