Urban Tilth feature

Based out of Richmond, Urban Tilth runs a total of seven school and community gardens with the goal to teach and employ community members to grow, distribute, cook, and consume thousands of pounds of local produce each year, and to create a more equitable and just food system within a healthier and more self-sufficient community.

The Healing Movement at Richmond High School is an afterschool, student-driven wellness club to support youth’s inner peace by working with plants and herbs. The Greenway Gardens (6th Street and Ohio Ave) and Unity Park Project is the transformed defunct Santa Fe railway line that now hosts 2 large, open gleaning gardens of 26 raised beds and an 84 fruit tree Edible Forest (16th street and Ohio Ave). The sites are collectively managed by community members and staff. A weekly farmers market at Unity Park Project is currently in the works.

Along with running CSAs, Urban Tilth holds Free Pop-up Farm Stands, serving neighborhoods without access to fresh produce, at schools, parks and local cafes.

See more of their food and farm/garden projects including:

-Summer Apprentice Program -Farm to Table CSA -Farmers to Families Free CSA -Urban Agriculture Academy -Verde Elementary Garden -Sol Garden -North Richmond Farm At their website urbantilth.org