Help Give Unity Park a Makeover

16th and Ohio Street,Richmond CA 94804

17 July, 2021

Description

Give Unity Park a Makeover! We're looking for 30+ valiant souls to help beautify and weed our beloved Unity Park! Sadly, the WEEDS have really taken over Unity Park Plaza, so we are asking for the community's help to rescue UNITY PARK from the WEEDS. Come out Saturday, July 17th from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM and join forces with Urban Tilth and Rich City Rides and other local organizations to give Unity Park a Make Over <3 With just 2 hours of your time we can transform UNITY PARK and make it BEAUTIFUL again for the community! And ... 3 lucky volunteers will be picked at random and receive a $25 gift card for showing and lending a hand! At the end of the day, it will be a great feeling when you get to look back at the beautifully mulched park and know more families will be able to come and enjoy a clean, beautiful park. JOIN US! Date: Saturday, July 17th, 2021 Time: 10AM-12PM Where: 1605 Ohio Ave Richmond, CA 94804. Free street parking available. Snacks, water, tools and gloves will be provided. Please bring a mask and social distance when you can. *Bring the family, friends, coworkers, your mailman, a date, EVERYBODY! Together, we can do anything! Funded by a Love Your Block Mini-Grant from the City of Richmond City Manager's Office, Economic Development and Community Services Department Urban Tilth cultivates agriculture in west Contra Costa County to help our community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system. We hire and train residents to work with schools, community-based organizations, government agencies, businesses, and individuals to develop the capacity to produce 5% of our own food supply. Founded in 2005 to help build a more sustainable, healthy, and just local food system, Urban Tilth has emerged as a local leader, a catalyst drawing together a variety of individual, discrete initiatives into a web of integrated, food- and community-focused efforts. In sum, we farm, feed, forage, teach, train, build community, employ, and give back. We help our community grow our own food; train and employ our own young people as “home grown experts”; teach our local residents about the relationships among food, health, poverty, and justice; foster public foraging programs; and forge partnerships with local small farmers to increase demand for their produce. We use our 7 school and community gardens and small urban farms to teach and employ community members to grow, distribute, cook, and consume thousands of pounds of local produce each year, to create a more equitable and just food system within a healthier and more self-sufficient community.