On Friday, May 3rd, Daily Acts led a stewardship day at the Petaluma Library Landscape for B Corp volunteers. The goal of this workday was to educate people about how to perform ongoing landscape maintenance needs including fixing irrigation leaks, applying more mulch, and infill planting. During this 2 hour workday, Daily Acts staff [...]
Foothills of Windsor Workday
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:20:19-08:00On Saturday April 27th from 10am - 2pm, Daily Acts joined forces with the Windsor community and students from Sonoma State for a workday at Foothills of Windsor Demonstration Garden, located within the Foothills Home Owners Association. The day began with an opening circle to get a sense of what brought the volunteers to the [...]
Radiant Rain Garden Planting & Irrigation at Old Vineyard Park
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:20:45-08:00Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor to transform 5,280 square feet of underutilized space into the Radiant Rain Garden in Old Vineyard Park. This project was completed in three phases: first sheet mulching, second planting, and third irrigation. The first phase of sheet mulching was completed in November of 2018, with 25 [...]
Petaluma Fire Station #2 Landscape Transformation
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:21:15-08:00Daily Acts partnered with Fire Station #2 and the City of Petaluma, on March 16th 2019 for a community workday to weed, plant and install drip irrigation in this new pollinator friendly landscape. Daily Acts staff worked with a group of 30+ volunteers of all ages to weed existing raised beds, plant 101 plants and [...]
Radiant Rain Garden Sheet Mulching at Old Vineyard Park
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:26:50-08:00Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor in the Fall of 2018, in order to transform an under utilized lawn, into a demonstration garden. This garden was designed by Foresite Mapping Inc. and Permaculture Artisan's, Sebastian Bertsch, who put created the cross-section level spillway swale design, leveled and excavated by Anchordoguy Landscaping Inc. [...]
Guerneville School: Lawns-to-Habitat
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:27:17-08:00Funded by the Coastal Conservancy and Prop 1, Daily Acts is partnering with the Sonoma County Water Agency, Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) and three Sonoma County schools to convert 20,000 square feet of lawn and asphalt into water conscious habitat gardens. Beginning October 17th 2017 and continuing through spring 2018, Daily Acts will work [...]
SRJC Petaluma Campus: B-Corps Workday
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:29:56-08:00On Friday April 20th, 65 volunteers from Navitas Organics, Guayaki, and World Centric joined forces at the Santa Rosa Junior College to complete a garden re-vitalization for the Community Resilience Challenge, and for team building time! Volunteers helped to weed, sheet mulch, paint signs and install a variety of habitat providing, pollinator attracting and edible [...]
McDowell Elementary School: Lawns-to-Habitat
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:28:57-08:00Over the course of two weeks, Daily Acts partnered with corps members from Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) to sheet mulch, plant, and install irrigation at a 3,815sq ft. space at McDowell Elementary School. With the school mascot being a monarch butterfly, pollinator attracting and habitat providing plants were emphasized at this site. Students [...]
Youth Transform Lawn into a Native Garden in One Day!
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:28:17-08:00San Lorenzo Earth Team partnered with the City of Hayward, Keep Hayward Clean and Green Task Force, Daily Acts, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center and more for their 2016-2017 service learning project. This project represents a multi-stakeholder collaboration, in order to create a 'Garden in a Day' during the Community Resilience Challenge. [...]
El Molino High School: Lawns-to-Habitat
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:32:45-08:00Funded by the Coastal Conservancy and Prop 1, Daily Acts is partnering with the Sonoma County Water Agency, Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) and three Sonoma County schools to convert 20,000 square feet of lawn and asphalt into water conscious habitat gardens. Beginning October 17th 2017 and continuing through spring 2018, Daily Acts will work [...]