In addition to gaining hands-on skills in native plant propagation, green infrastructure installation, vegetation management, and erosion control, and our outdoor classroom sessions introduced the apprentices to topics necessary to understand and reconnect to the land

The Richmond High School Student Run Farm stand started in August of 2021. Our goal was to offer this as a service learning component of the Urban Agriculture Course where students get the opportunity to grow, harvest, and distribute the 2,000 lbs of crops they cultivate per year in the garden to students, and families in need at Richmond High School!

Typically every other Monday, 75 students from the Urban Agriculture Course harvest fresh produce and flowers from the 1,600 square foot raised bed garden located at Richmond High School..

This Holiday season Urban Tilth has continued to serve the community we are in by providing healthy fruits and vegetables to families in need. COVID-19 has had devastating effects on our community, so being able to distribute healthy food has been an honor and a major privilege.

Sadly, the It Takes Roots delegation, a 60-person delegation representing Indigenous, Black, brown and other frontline communities of color including members of Urban Tilth;'s staff, found itself dwarfed by 500+ fossil fuel company representatives. It Takes Roots delegates were excluded from the rooms where negotiations were held and fossil fuel lobbyists seemed to have no problem influencing negotiations directly. For decades, communities on the front lines...