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Support TEAM TILTH!
Let's make sure all Team Tilth Runners cross the finish line on race day.
We are so excited to have
60 brave souls join Team Tilth in the 2016
Oakland Running Festival Team.
We are running to support all of Urban Tilth's programs and our mission to create a more healthy, sustainable and just food system.
After 3 months of training...
Race DAY is almost here!
Sunday, March 20th
* Races begin at 7:30am
Come out and cheer us on!
** Some Runners still need your help crossing their fundraising finish line.
If you can, please click below to make a contribution to one or more of our Runners TODAY:
All donations are 100% tax deductible and go to supporting school and community gardens.
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News from the Gardens & Farms:
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Spring is just around the corner and we are getting as many starts into the ground as possible this past week planting Romanesco broccoli, snowball cauliflower, snow peas, Viroflay spinach, American flag leeks, and Valencia onions!
Inside the classroom students have been learning about winter time fruit tree care, and how to conduct pruning of open center/central leader fruit trees!
Did I mention we have been up to our EARS in broccoli the past two weeks!!??
This is from the winter Walthan broccoli transplants we planted in early December (grown from seed right here at RHS). This broccoli surplus "problem" quickly became the solution today during class where we sliced and diced 10lbs of fresh broccoli into a brown rice stir fry dish with cage free organic eggs!! YUM!
Stay tuned for more updates from the Urban Ag Course at RHS!
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The Verde Partnership Garden continues to provide its weekly "Edible Alphabet Class with Mr. Mijango's Kindergarden class. This month students learned to write, draw, and taste edible foods with the letter O, P, Q and R. Adults from the Family Literacy Center also spent a day in the garden tasting a blend of herbal tea from the garden. They were also given a tour and are looking forward to coming back to do a project.
The garden also continues to feed the Verde Community. Admin and staff held a potluck and fresh produce was brought to help make a salad and for them to take home. Greens, chard, cilantro, and mint were also bundled up and given out at the annual Verde Black History Month celebration. The night was capped off with bundles of flowers from the garden that people went home with.
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In February, the Watersheds team performed erosion control work in the Wildcat Creek watershed, propagated native riparian plant species to be outplanted at our worksites, and spread the knowledge we've acquired over the past year with members of the Richmond community.
The apprentices designed and gave presentations on their favorite topics in environmental stewardship to Richmond High School's Earth Team, which was a particularly cool experience given that many of the apprentices are RHS graduates!
Finally, we hosted a Watershed Bike Tour event in partnership with
Rich City Rides, which was lots of fun!
Wanna learn more about the work done by our Watersheds Team?
- We'll be featured on OpenRoad with Doug McConnell this Sunday at 6:30on check it out! (Watch the promo video)
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If you drove by the North Richmond Farm this past month you probably saw enormous mountains of soil laying across the land. This month, we began to dig out the middle sections of our soon to be row crops.
Initially, we thought we would only have to scrape a few inches down to remove asphalt and gravel, but as we kept scrapping and digging we learned that our farm was intensively dumped on over the years. We have begun to sift the soil we've excavated through a machine so we can separate the clean soil from the rubble. This will take a few weeks, but in the end we will have a cleaner surface and a lot of rubble that can be used later when our gravel drive way is built out.
Farm Community Build Volunteer Days Have Begun!
This month the North Richmond Farm also hosted its 1st 4th Saturday of the Month Volunteer Day. Wow! What an amazing 1st ever Community Volunteer Day at the new North Richmond Farm. 16 volunteers joined us for this inaugural event. We toured the farm site, discussed our plans and timeline for construction and Community Build Days because we plan on using the farm as an opportunity to for community members to build parts of the farm together.
Then we got to work picking up the remaining 14 cubic yards of trash that had been dumped on site over the last 20 years.
We also created a seating area so there is a place to meet and sit while we move through site prep & construction.
And we staked off the major growing areas so we can begin to work on invasive plant control and soil building.
THANK YOU
to Supervisor John Gioia, Robert Rogers, Marilyn Langlois and all 16 volunteers who made it out to this new tradition of growing together in North Richmond at the new North Richmond Farm.
SPECIAL THANK YOU to
Republic Services (formerly known as Richmond Sanitary) for taking great care of our volunteers by sponsoring all of the volunteer snacks and awesome stainless steel water bottle and insulated lunch bag giveaways!
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It's time to find a REAL, strong and beautiful name for the new "North Richmond Farm".
During March and April 2016, Urban Tilth will be asking our community to help name the North Richmond Farm!
Do you have an idea of what the name should be?
You can submit your name ideas using the online form and we will be going to community meetings, events and gatherings to gather people's ideas where you can submit name ideas in person.
We will be accepting submissions until
April 30th, 2016.
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Come through and volunteer with Urban Tilth @ Richmond High School's Urban Ag. Gardens every first Saturday 10am - 1pm!
Saturday, March 5th
10:00am - 1:00pm
Richmond High Garden
(next to tennis courts)
This month we will:
- Seeding tomatoes, peppers, eggplant etc. for spring/summer
- Building out a chicken run
- Building new tables for our greenhouse
- Loving up our fruit trees
(Any extra building tools are always appreciated ie. drills, saws, etc)
**One of our very own Urban Ag. seniors will be offering information on local stores that provide healthy and organic food options in the Richmond/San Pablo area!
Additionally we will be planting enough starts for volunteers to come back and grab veggies for their own spring/summer planting at our volunteer day next month!
Hope to see you Saturday!
- Mr. B
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Community Garden Party at the 1st & Market Garden
Sunday, March 6th
10am - 12pm
1st & Market St
North Richmond, CA 94801
The 1st Street Community Garden crew has been gearing up for spring. Cover cropping, pruning, mulching, and seeding for the spring. Garden parties will begin in February with a tea party!
We will be top dressing plants for a strong start in spring, and sheet mulch to keep the weeds away. Transplanting into beds, and sharing plant stories of healing.
In light of recent community violence we will be making a special tea for the heart.
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Volunteer Projects will be hosted at the following locations on the Greenway:
- 2nd Street - TRAIL CLEAN-UP (Rich City Rides)
- 6th Street Community Gardens (Urban Tilth)
- 7th Street (The Watershed Project)
- 16th street Edible Forest (Urban Tilth)
We will provide the rakes, brooms, shovels and tools. All you need to bring is your energy, family and friends.
Please dress in layers. wear sturdy shoes and bring a water bottle.
Children welcome if accompanied by an adult.
Let's CELEBRATE our Greenway by showing it some love!
For more information contact, or to RSVP if you are coming with a group of 5 or more people:
- Sherman Dean, [email protected]
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Join us at AdamsCrest Farm the 3rd Saturday of every month, help grow healthy fresh veggies for our community!
AdamsCrest Farm
5000 Patterson Circle
Richmond Ca
Every 3rd Saturday
March 19, 2016
10:00am - 1:00pm
Lend a hand, make a difference ♥
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North Richmond Farm Community Build Volunteer Day
Every 4th Saturday
Saturday March 26th
10:00am - 1:00pm
Brookside Dr & Fred Jackson Way
North Richmond, CA 94801
Grow Community from the ground up!
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"We can begin by doing small things at the local level like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors.
That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above
but from within, from many local actions
occurring simultaneously." - Grace Lee Boggs
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Growing Our Souls, Building Our Soil :: A Day of Vision In Action
--As part of the official Bay Area Grace Lee Boggs memorial celebration weekend--
10am-3pm
The Richmond Greenway @16th Street
(Between Ohio and Chanslor Ave in Richmond, CA)
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Nothing helps a Runner keep going after mile 2, 5, 10 or 20 more than seeing neighbors, friends and family cheering your name, helping you across the finish line!
Join us! Bring s
ound makers, pom poms, funny costumes, witty cheers and post race libations to cheer on the 60 Runners of Team Tilth 2016!
Oakland Running Festival 2016
March 20th, 2016
Snow Park, Harrison St,
Oakland, CA 94612
* Races begin at 7:30am
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CELEBRATE Earth Day and Green Festival
The 6th Annual North Richmond Green Festival and Earth Day Celebration is coming!
Saturday, April 23rd
9am - 2pm
* Verde Elementary
* Wildcat Creek
* North Richmond Ball Field
In additi
on to numerous free activities and food, we'll all chip in to clean Wildcat Creek.
For more information, call Carla Orozco at 510.776.7568
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If you like what you see, please consider helping us continue to do this work
by making a small contribution today.
Without YOU this work would not be possible!
Spring is coming 2016!
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