Water-wise Gardens

On 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, [...]

On 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 [...]

On 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 [...]

On 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 [...]

In 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 [...]

On 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. [...]

On Saturday, August 17th 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma to host an Insect Investigation at the Petaluma Regional Library with local entomologist Kandis Gilmore! Kandis, who has a Master’s of Science focused in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Sonoma State University, was brought in by Daily Acts to describe [...]

On 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, [...]

On Saturday, July 20th 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor to host an Insect Investigation at Robbins Park with local entomologist Kandis Gilmore! Kandis, who has a Master’s of Science focused in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Sonoma State University, was brought in by Daily Acts to describe the connection between [...]

On Saturday, June 29th 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati to lead a hands-on irrigation workshop at Pocket Park Food Forest in Cotati. Participants walked the site and learned about the existing irrigation system, saw different types of point source irrigation techniques, and practiced ways to troubleshoot and evaluate an irrigation [...]