Summer Youth Apprenticeship Program Update

An amazing four days and three nights of camping are In the books For Urban Tilth’s Summer Youth Apprenticeship Program! This year we travelled to Jug Handle State Natural Reserve to explore California’s beautiful coastal ecology! We observed tide pools, toured nearby Fortune Farm, Learned about invasive species control using goats and sheep, Went on […]

Week 3 of SAP!

During week 3 of SAP, the Ujima cohort learned about community through storytelling and food accessibility. The youth helped set up a food bank at Crescent Park and learned the importance of food access in communities with food apartheids. They also explored the meaning of agroecology and had an insightful conversation on how humans can […]

Ujima Apprentices’ Second Week

The Ujima apprentices made it through their second week of the Summer Apprentice Program! During this week the apprentices were able to dive deeper into collectivism and cooperative business models with @cooprichmond. They were also able to see a cooperative business in person during our field trip to @mandelagrocery in West Oakland where worker-owners have […]

Open Crew Positions

We still have open crew positions open for the Ujima Cohort of the 2022 Summer Youth Apprentice Program! Ujima is a new program in 2022. The scope of this project will include creating and /or adapting and delivering a garden education curriculum that is rooted in the African and African American experience in agriculture. This […]

Immediate Opening for the Apprentice Program

Urban Tilth has immediate openings for the Summer Youth Apprentice Program Crew and for the CSA coordinator! Come be a part of our great team! Share with your friends and family! To apply click on the link in our bio or visit urbantilth.org/employment

Summer Youth Apprentice Program Reminder

Only 4 days left to submit your application to the Summer Youth Apprentice Program for 2022! Click the link in our bio or visit our website at urbantilth.org to apply!

One Week Left!

There is only one week left to submit applications for this year’s Summer Youth Apprentice Program! This program hosts 40 West County youth at the community garden, creek restoration, and farming sites across Richmond, CA where the youth will spend 6-weeks (100 hrs) learning about environmental justice, food justice, and food sovereignty and working alongside […]