The Brookland Park Community Garden is hosted on school property and provides community growing plots, a greenhouse, fruit tree orchard, herb garden, pollinator gardens, and a three sisters garden Students conduct experiments on the property, grow produce for distribution to low income neighbors,, and are actively involved with the upkeep and maintenance of the property. Student leaders help to manage activities in the space.

Community service is integral to learning at Richmond Community. Our students can be found volunteering from food banks to churches to environmental clean ups. Let us know if you have a project that students can support through service.

Pictured here are students providing books (and candy) at a local elementary trunk or treat event.

For the past 4 years, Friends of RCHS has sponsored learning through service trips building cross cultural connections with first Americans in the highlands of Guatemala and the highlands of Arizona to support resiliency program in collaboration with these communities

Students will travel to the White Mountain Arizona Apache reservation. this spring break. Students learn about sustainable practice, the history of indigenous peoples in the United States, and work on initiatives directed by the tribe.

These experiences are funded through donations and grants. Students raise the funds to cover the cost of the trip as a group so participation is not dependent on a families ability to pay the cost of the trip. They learn about resiliency, economic realities and historical oppression, and experience indigenous peoples whose lives are interconnected with the land, plants and animals around them.