Urban Tilth
Michael Bauer serves as the Facilities & Operations Manager at Urban Tilth since May 2023, following a role as a Facilities Technician at Delphon. With over a decade of experience in operations management at DER Janitorial, Michael has demonstrated expertise in project management, customer service, and leadership. Responsibilities included overseeing maintenance operations, preparing contracts, and conducting inspections for safety and compliance. Prior to that, Michael held various positions in the mortgage industry, including Funding/Closing Mortgage SME and Legal Auditor Manager at CMG Financial, developing a robust skill set in compliance, funding processes, and client coordination. Michael's educational background includes a high school diploma in Accounting from Concord High School and coursework at Diablo Valley College.
Urban Tilth
Urban Tilth inspires, hires, and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture, feed our community, and restore relationships to land to build a more sustainable food system, within a just and healthier community. 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; 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.