Outdoor Equity Project: Community Design Session #2

16th and Ohio Street,Richmond CA 94804

18 September, 2021

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Help Design exciting and FREE Outdoor Activities for Richmond families and youth! Join us for our 2nd hands-on Community Design Session in Unity Park Plaza to help design a series of FREE outdoor activities for Richmond families and youth! We want to hear from you! Tell us where you’d like to go and what you’d like to do outdoors... Bike rides, hikes, gardening, creek walks, boat trips, camping, photography, kayak to Brooks Island, learn to swim, try rock climbing, camping, back packing, take and ocean cruise… the sky’s the limit! Help us design an AMAZING program so we can bring these outdoor activities to All Richmond Families… Register TODAY! * This is a project of the For the People, by the People Coalition (Urban Tilth, Rich City Rides and Moving Forward) 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.