Urban Tilth's Annual Harvest Festival and Lang Acquisition Celebration

323 Brookside Drive,Richmond CA 94801

23 October, 2021

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Urban Tilth's Harvest Festival- Come carve your pumpkin, flex your costumes, and more! We will also be celebrating the purchase of the farm! Urban Tilth invites you to have some good ol' family fun at our Annual Harvest Festival, as well as help us celebrate the approval by the County Board of Supervisors to purchase the 3-acre land for the North Richmond Farm, becoming Richmond's first permanent farm! We will have tons of fun activities for everyone: straw mazes, darts, potato sack races, pumpkin carving, face painting (above the mask), costume and pie contests, prizes, food, music, and more. This harvest festival will surely be one for the books. We hope you can make it! When: October 23, 2021 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Where: North Richmond Farm 323 Brookside drive Richmond, CA 94801 *parking on farm and at Lucky A's ballpark* Please be sure to bring layers in case it gets cold AND/OR sunblock and protective gear for the sun! CURRENT COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS * REGISTRATION REQUIRED - NO DROP-INS! Due to COVID-19 precautions, you must register for this event using Eventbrite. Sadly we must limit the number of visitors, which means there are 200 total spots available. ******* HEALTH & SAFETY RULES FOR VOLUNTEERS******* Due to the Covid-19, everyone who signs up agrees to the following: Stay 6 feet apart from one anotherWear a mask at all times Sanitize hands whenever possible 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.