Water-wise Gardens

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 [...]

On February 5th, 2022 Daily Acts hosted a workday instructing our community on how to prune fruit trees at our Cavanagh model site! Back in May 2009 Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma, Rebuilding Together, and Petaluma Bounty to spearhead a water-wise transformation of the city’s Cavanagh Recreation Center. We are so happy [...]

On December 3rd, 2021 Daily Acts and a team of volunteers from World Centric came together to sheet mulch Petaluma Fire Station #3. Our first responders do so much for our community to keep it safe and it is with great respect and enthusiasm that we were able to go out and show our support. [...]

On November 20, 2021, in partnership with Burbank Housing and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Daily Acts had the great joy of leading the planting of a brand new landscape with residents of Carrillo Place in Santa Rosa. The new landscape at Carrillo Place, which surrounds the playground, was designed in collaboration with [...]

On Saturday, October 23rd Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati to host a laundry-to-landscape graywater installation for Cotati Water customer, Kelly Hennesy. Through an application process developed and distributed by Daily Acts, Kelly was chosen as the installation site because of the location of her washer to the landscape, her interest in being [...]

On Saturday, October 16t Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma to host a laundry-to-landscape graywater installation for Petaluma Water customer, Camille Esposito. Through an application process developed and distributed by Daily Acts, Camille was chosen as the installation site because of the location of her washer to the landscape, her desire to be [...]

On Saturday, April 17th 2021, Daily Acts staff Liz Platte-Bermeo, Annie Silverman, and Connor DeVane partnered with the Town of Windsor and three Windsor homeowners to complete the transformation of three turf lawns to beautiful water-wise landscapes. This program was the final step in a process of many months. Following last fall’s sheet mulching workshop [...]

Paula Lane Project Profile In 2011 the City of Petaluma and the Agriculture and Open Space District purchased the 11.2 acres of the Paula Lane Preserve through a matching grant agreement. This preserve is nestled in the middle of a residential neighborhood, and was an enticing site for developers. The Paula Lane neighbors, ecosystem [...]