1st St. Sol Garden update: Thank you to our beautiful Urban Tilth family for helping with improvements to the garden. We now have a shade structure for reading and resting at the garden, a drip irrigation system for more efficient watering and to waste LESS water, a perimeter fence to protect garden beds from […]
A productive day at the Verde Elementary Partnership Garden! We harvested crisp and delicious vegetables that were donated to the North Richmond Senior Community Center (and were greeted with big smiles and requests for more). We trimmed back blackberry plants to clear pathways. Ms. Meza taught an informative and engaging class that consisted of a […]
We’re so thrilled to welcome 6 new apprentices into our ‘Basins of Relations’ Training Program! Over the next 3 months, they will improve their understanding of how natural spaces function in an effort to build mutually beneficial relationships between our community and the natural environment. At its core, this program insists that environmental health IS […]
Come through every Friday 3-5pm to get your fresh organically grown produce and support the Urban Agriculture Course! We are currently fundraising to take our students on a field trip to the California Academy of Sciences! 22 tickets fundraised so far and 18 left to go! RHS Students can pick up produce free of charge! […]
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 our community to build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.
Panorama shot With the 🌽 as the backdrop
NEWS from the North Richmond Farm! We are so excited to let everyone know how the last two months have been very fruitful! In June we harvested 718.5 lbs of produce; July we had 878 lbs that was distributed through CSA and just today we harvested 400 lbs of just tomatoes!!!! ??? We are thrilled that […]
The Richmond High School Urban Agriculture Course is back and the 2019-2020 school year is in full swing with nearly 40 students deep!This week students got to tour the garden, co-create group agreements, and make a garden-fresh pesto and lemon cucumber snack!!Stay tuned for more updates from the Urban Agriculture Course!
Geotechnical Team Starts Work at the North Richmond FarmWe were excited to have the Geotechnical team out boring holes to test the ground in preparation for determining specifications for the building foundations (barn, cafe, commercial kitchen, and office) and the ideal location of a possible well at the North Richmond Farm.
FLOWERS are coming to the North Richmond Farm! Our cut flowers are almost ready at the North Richmond Farm! We will be making beautiful bouquets We want to thank First Generation Farmers (now Urban Edge) for teaching us about the flower growing methods and all the tips and tricks they taught us !! We also […]
