Thanks to a grant awarded from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Daily Acts is working with Burbank Housings' Carrillo Place Community to create a demonstration garden in the play area. As a part of this process, Daily Acts and Burbank Housing hosted two listening sessions to gain insight on how to create [...]
Landscaping with Fire in Mind Workshop
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:22:28-08:00On Saturday, November 16th 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor and Foothills Homeowner Association to host a workshop on landscaping with fire in mind. The day was led by Daily Acts’ Senior Programs Coordinator, Liz Platte-Bermeo, and was supported by HOA resident and board member Ward Cargay. The day began with [...]
Pocket Park Revitalization Part II with JUMP
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:23:40-08:00On Saturday, November 16th, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati to finish the revitalization of Pocket Park with a seasonal maintenance workshop. 10 Sonoma State University students from Join Us Making Progress (JUMP) came to Pocket Park to finish sheet mulching from June and do some infill planting. Infill plants included lupines, [...]
Cavanaugh Center Bilingual Adult Education Sustainable Gardening Workday
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:24:43-08:00On Saturday, November 9th, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma to host a bilingual sustainable gardening program with a Sonoma County Adult Education class. The program was held at one of our original demonstration gardens that was installed 10 years ago, at the Cavanaugh Recreation Center. First, students were able to take [...]
Coffey Park Front Yard Landscape Installations
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:27:40-08:00On Saturday, October 12th Daily Acts partnered with four homeowners in Coffey Park to install water-wise and fire safer front yard landscapes for those who were affected by the 2017 wildfires. 65 community members joined the event and volunteered to help implement the landscape templates that were created by multiple architects, designers [...]
Coffey Park Spanish Adult Education Irrigation Workshop
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:28:51-08:00On Saturday, September 28th, Daily Acts worked with a Sonoma County Adult Education class from the Santa Rosa Junior College to lead a hard-line irrigation installation workshop in Spanish. This workshop took place one week prior to the Coffey Park Front Yard Landscape Installation, as not only a hands-on learning opportunity for students, but [...]
Design & Install Your Dream Garden: 3-Part Workshop Series
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:34:57-08:00In Fall of 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma and the Sonoma County Library to host a 3-part workshop series designed to offer all the skills needed to design and install your dream garden. We started with a workshop focusing on designing a base map. Creating a base map involves observing [...]
Live Oak Charter School Drip Irrigation Installation
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:37:31-08:00On Saturday, September 7th 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma to host a drip-irrigation installation at Live Oak Charter School. A presentation was given at the beginning of the workshop, which covered irrigation theory topics including how to estimate a landscape water budget and how to properly schedule an irrigation timer. [...]
Straus Family Creamery Sheet Mulching
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:39:49-08:00On Saturday, July 27th 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma and Straus Family Creamery to host a 14,500 square foot landscape transformation for Straus’ Headquarter in Petaluma. The day went from 9am – 3pm, and with the help of 78 volunteers we were able to move 45 cubic yards of compost, [...]
Pocket Park Revitalization – A Sheet Mulching Party
Daily Acts2022-01-10T14:46:08-08:00On Saturday June 22nd 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati to lead a hands-on sheet mulching workshop at one of our original model sites: Pocket Park Food Forest & Wildlife Corridor. With the creek located directly behind the model site, weed intrusion had taken over the food forest, and sheet mulching [...]