The Brookland Park Community Garden is hosted on school property and provides community growing plots, a greenhouse, fruit tree orchards, and pollinator gardens. Students conduct experiments on the property, grow produce for distribution, and are actively involved with the upkeep and maintenance of the garden. Student leaders in the Environmental Club/ Interact Club help to manage activities in the space.

Each year the entire Freshman class and incoming students in other classes attend an environmental research camping trip for a week. Students learn about camping and self-sufficiency away from electronics. They learn about the DelMarVa waterways and watershed and conduct research such as water and soil testing to determine the health of the environment.

In June of 2023, RCHS and Open High School students traveled to the highlands of Guatemala to build stoves and learn about the indigenous Mayan people. Students raised the funds to cover the cost of the trip as a group. We learned about resiliency, economic realities, and families whose lives are interconnected with the land, plants and animals around them.

In 2024 14 students traveled to White Mountain Arizona to learn from and work beside the Apache. Students help with re-establishing reservation school garden, learning land for a healing center, and assisted at THE PEOPLES FARM.