Funded 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 [...]
Petaluma Library: Phase 1
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:38:55-08:00Daily Acts partnered with Petaluma Regional Library and the City of Petaluma, on October 28th, 2017 to create a rain garden and sheet mulched landscape in phase one. Daily Acts worked with a group of 50+ volunteers and transformed the preexisting lawn, roughly 8,000 square feet, which will save approximately 200,000 gallons of water annually. [...]
Sebastopol City Hall & Library Landscape Transformation
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:42:22-08:00Daily Acts and the City of Sebastopol partnered with community volunteers to plant the first chapter of this story, the Pomo native plant garden. The “Our Front Yard” project tells the history of this City and this region, in a garden. This part of the garden is being planted to honor the first inhabitants of [...]
Sebastopol Village Building Convergence
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:42:57-08:00The Sebastopol Grange is an incredible community asset, home to many of our region’s most dedicated people and cherished gatherings. Daily Acts and the Village Building Convergence supported the community landscape transformation into a low-maintenance pollinator garden located in front of the building and at the road frontage of Sebastopol Grange Hall #306. The goal [...]
SOMO Village Food Forest
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:47:21-08:00In partnership with SOMO Village, Daily Acts teamed up with Credo High students between May 15th-19th, during their service-learning week to transform over 20,000 sq. ft of under-utilized lawn space into an edible, sheet mulched landscape. Additionally, local food and farm project called Farmster, donated grafted apple trees to the cause, which provide environment and [...]
McKinley School Garden in a Day
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:48:00-08:00In Partnership with the City of Petaluma, Daily Acts and Rebuilding Together hosted a workday at McKinley School on Saturday October 15th, 2016. The purpose of the day was to create a pollinator habitat and an outdoor learning space for students and faculty to benefit from. Students, teachers, parents, and community members joined us [...]
Charles Street Village
Carl Shuller2022-01-11T12:48:58-08:00On Earth Day, April 22nd, Daily Acts partnered with Charles Street Village, a Burbank Housing affordable housing senior residency, to support their efforts to grow food on site by converting a 650 square foot lawn into a water-wise edible habitat garden. Promoted as a Community Resilience Challenge event, it also embodied the intended spirit [...]
Pocket Park Annex
Carl Shuller2022-01-11T12:49:33-08:00On Saturday, June 4th, 2016 Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati and Oliver’s Market to work with 20 local volunteers to transform a barren corridor of city land into an edible and medicinal landscape for the community to enjoy. Through the process of sheet mulching and building soil, we were able to successfully [...]
Fire Station Lawn-to-Garden Transformation
Carl Shuller2022-01-11T12:51:31-08:00On Saturday, March 12th,2016 Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma to host an educational and inspirational volunteer event to sheet mulch the lawn at Petaluma Fire Station #3 and plant a new water-wise demonstration landscape in its place. This site is now growing a multitude of drought-tolerant, multi-functional plants while beautifying the neighborhood [...]
Tahola Lane Water-Wise Demonstration Garden
Carl Shuller2022-01-11T12:54:07-08:00In May 2014, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma to host a Community Resilience Challenge event with the students of Loma Vista Immersion Academy. The challenge was to take an abandoned well lot adjacent to the school and transform it into a water-wise demonstration garden through the process of sheet mulching and the [...]