Water-wise Gardens

On the picturesque, sunny, morning at Wiseman Park in Petaluma, Daily Acts hosted an educational workshop, "Native Tree Care and Pruning." This took place the last weekend of the winter of 2024. In the radiant glow of the sun, with mustard flowers painting the landscape in bright yellow hues, 18 eager participants gathered from [...]

On Saturday, September 16th, 2023, Daily Acts volunteers completed the first phase of a landscape transformation at McKinley Elementary and Petaluma Accelerated Charter School. Over 15 volunteers, including McKinley Elementary students, parents, and staff gathered to lay cardboard, compost, and woodchips across 3,000 sq ft to "compost the lawn in-place." Participants learned about sheet mulching [...]

On Saturday, May 13th 2023, Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor to host a hands-on rain garden workshop, educating residents on how to design and construct bioretention basins for their yards.  The workshop was hosted at a Windsor resident’s front yard who had applied through an application process hosted by Daily Acts. [...]

In February, new Windsor homeowners Josh and Alison were selected to host a lawn conversion workshop hosted by Daily Acts and the Town of Windsor. Residential landscape transformations spread water-saving solutions through hands-on education and skill-building. This lawn conversion effort occurred over the course of 2 days and engaged 12 volunteers.In preparation for the sheet [...]

On Saturday, March 18th 2023, in partnership with the City of Petaluma, Daily Acts’ collaborated with B. Mitzvah Academy (B.Mitzvah Academy — Congregation Ner Shalom) for a youth volunteer day at the Cavanagh Center Food Forest. As volunteers trickled in, each youth member greeted their friends with hugs and smiles, while adults caught up [...]

On Saturday, March 11th, 2023 Daily Acts partnered with Santa Rosa Water and the Executive Director of the Habitat Corridor Project, April Owens, to bring a hands-on program that taught participants how to maintain a native, water-smart landscape. This event took place at the Living, Learning Landscapes located on the Santa Rosa Junior College [...]

On Saturday, May 14th, 2022, Daily Acts partnered with Landpaths to host a bilingual insect investigation through Bayer Farm’s two-acre community garden in the heart of Santa Rosa. Families came out to learn how to tread lightly through the garden, observe, and identify the abundance of bugs and insects that can thrive in our landscapes. [...]

On May 2nd and 5th 2022, in partnership with the City of Cotati, Daily Acts completed two landscape transformations for two Cotati families: Brent, Stephanie and their kids; and Molly and Jim. These families took the leap to transform their thirsty lawns into beautiful water-wise, habitat providing, climate-friendly landscapes! Brent and Molly's applications were [...]

On April 6th, 2022 Daily Acts and a team of students from St Vincent High School joined us at our Cavanagh model site for a volunteer workday for their service-learning project. We recently had a crew of workers from Equinox Landscaping come out and help to revitalize our garden and prune, so come spring everything [...]

On Friday, February 11th, 2022 Daily Acts and a group of volunteers enjoyed the sunshine while mulching and weeding at our Petaluma Library model site. As spring approaches it is a great time to touch up our site with mulch to help sink and conserve water, suppress weeds, and cover our irrigation pipes to avoid [...]