CHS Urban Farming - Charlottesville High School

08/23/2026

Last fall, Sarah Colbert (class of ‘26 and current Virginia Tech student) and I participated in an interview with a producer from the CW Network for their national series “My American Story.” The brief final cut from our interview that gives a lightning fast history of the CHS Urban Farming program and why we love what we do was recently released.

08/22/2026

Last fall, Sarah Colbert (class of '26 and current Virginia Tech student) and I participated in an interview with a producer from the CW Network for their national series "My American Story." The brief final cut from our interview was recently released.

Check it out now!

08/07/2026

One more bit of good news heading into the weekend. Thanks to the Charlottesville City Schools office staff and the maintenance crew for running a direct water line into the garden for us. We’ve been running off of a hose line stretched from the garden since we began but this will hopefully be more reliable and easier to maintain!

08/07/2026

The ladies understood the assignment! This new batch of chickens must be a bright bunch because they figured out the nest box right away just in time for students to return next week! Charlottesville City Schools

07/15/2026

Come join us tonight!!

07/14/2026

Come join Building Goodness Foundation Charlottesville Tom Sox and us for an open house tomorrow night from 6-7! See the work Building Goodness Foundation has been doing, pick some peaches (and maybe some tomatoes and peppers), meet the chickens, and stick around and enjoy the Tom Sox game. Don’t miss out! Charlottesville City Schools

06/20/2026

Holden (class of ‘25) kindly pointed out in my last post that the animals I was viewing were sheep, not goats. The student has become the teacher - guess I should pay closer attention while on my vacation - I mean, research expedition. At any rate, since Holden crushed my dreams of smuggling Swiss goats back to CHS, I am turning my focus to the cows. This seems like a pretty great spot to be a cow!

05/31/2026

Save this post if you want to remember when the Community Gardening Days are happening this summer. Come join us in growing the gardening community here at CHS as we keep everything thriving so that we can hit the ground running when students return in August. Happy start to summer!!

05/15/2026

We loaded up the truck for with thousands of pepper, tomato, and eggplant seedlings so that they can distribute them to families all over the region to help folks grow some of their own food at home this summer. We’re thrilled to see them take off to their new homes!

05/14/2026

CHS Urban Farming is launching a new opportunity to help us keep our garden thriving this summer. Check out the attached flyer for our Adopt a Row program. I cannot emphasize enough how little gardening experience you need in order to help, how incredibly flexible the time required can be and especially how much help it will be to our school community! We would appreciate it if you would share this flyer with anyone else you think might be interested. Email [email protected] for more info.