Update from the Urban Agriculture Academy at Richmond High School! We want to welcome Lily and Lisbeth to the RHS team. This week the students have been learning about human foodways. As well as how acquiring food has changed over time and how that has affected their community and humanity as a whole. ¡Actualización de […]
Thank you to all the nature babies and caregivers who came out to our first Semillitas Rising class. The future is bright juego & thank you to the volunteers who came out and helped beautify the garden before we got rained!
Thank you to everyone who came to our monthly volunteer event at the Richmond High School garden! We got some beds prepped for fall/winter crops, completed our greenhouse tables, built our washing station frame and seed saved some zinnia flower seeds!! Grateful for the child energy we get from a local mini-gardener! He brings in […]
Richmond High School’s first Sunday volunteer events are dormant till February We’re sorry for the late notice! Have a wonderful break
Youth are on break this week so our team has been doing a lot of infrastructure work & garden maintenance. The Richmond High team has been helping at the Verde Partnership Garden & vice versa. We also had support from the Watershed Team today at the Richmond high garden to come through and help continue […]
This weekend we have TWO great volunteer opportunities for the community! Please join us at one or both of these fantastic events as we continue to grow and improve our school gardens! The link to register is in our bio!
Location: Richmond High Garden (come in thru the main gate on 23rd street and drive to the back parking lot till you reach the tennis court. You’ll see the garden next to it) Time: 10am-1pm We haven’t had a volunteer event this summer due to our summer youth program but we’re back! We’ll be…. Weeding […]
School Gardens Apprentices this week learned about what soil is made of and Richmond’s soil composition. Then we learned about seeds and their relationship with soil. We seeded corn, cayenne peppers, zinnias, & snapdragons. We then learned that when understanding fungi’s contribution to soil biodiversity. soil diversity can help us protect our forests in the […]
Our very own Doria Robinson has been appointed to the State Board of Agriculture by Governor Gavin Newsom! Doria becomes the first Urban Agriculture representative and the first Black woman to serve on this board! We are so incredibly proud of Doria to be recognized for all her hard work in our community and organization […]
