Water-wise Gardens

On Saturday June 22nd 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati to lead a hands-on sheet mulching workshop at one of our original model sites: Pocket Park Food Forest & Wildlife Corridor. With the creek located directly behind the model site, weed intrusion had taken over the food forest, and sheet mulching [...]

On Saturday, June 8th 2019, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma for a hands-on graywater installation workshop for Petaluma residents, Chris and Debbie Fox. The workshop began with Daily Acts’ Coordinators, Liz and Chris, who led a presentation that gave an overview of what graywater is, code requirements, details of a laundry-to-landscape system, [...]

On Saturday, May 4th 2019 from 10am to 1pm, Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor and Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership’s Eco Friendly Garden Tour to host an inspirational and educational guided tour of Resilient Homes and Demonstration Gardens throughout Windsor. Program's Coordinator, Liz Platte-Bermeo, led participants through three inspirational gardens that highlight different [...]

On Saturday, May 4th 2019 from 10am to 1pm, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma and the Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership’s Eco Friendly Garden Tour to host an educational and inspirational guided tour of Resilient Homes throughout Petaluma. The tour began at Betty Pagett’s Cottage Garden, which included raised beds, fruit trees, and [...]

On Saturday, May 4th 2019 from 10am to 1pm, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati and Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership’s Eco Friendly Garden Tour to host an inspirational and educational guided tour of resilient homes and demonstration gardens in Cotati. Led by Chris Clarke, Program Coordinator at Daily Acts, the Resilient Homes [...]

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 [...]

On 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 [...]

Daily 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 [...]

Daily 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 [...]

On March 20th and March 21st 2019, Daily Acts partnered with Habitat for Humanity to work with student volunteers from Quest Forward Academy in the planting of a water-wise gardens for four newly built subdivision units. Habitat for Humanity is committed to bringing people together to build homes, community, and hope. Aligned with their mission, the [...]