In a big show of community spirit, nearly 100 volunteers lent a hand to create a healing garden at Santa Rosa’s soon-to-open Veteran’s Village project. This effort transformed the village for homeless veterans, into a place of beauty and future hope. To slow, spread, and sink water at the site for increased [...]
Homes for Sonoma Landscape Installation
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:26:16-08:00After the October Wildfires in 2017, members of Homes for Sonoma, a volunteer-led coalition of community nonprofits, businesses and individuals, came together to create and collaborate around housing opportunities for five fire victims. Daily Acts was eager to support the landscaping side fo this project, in order to draw plants from local nurseries that [...]
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 [...]
Mulchstock
Carl Shuller2022-01-12T13:31:57-08:00On October 24, 2015 Daily Acts co-hosted the commercial lawn transformation event Mulchstock in Petaluma’s Redwood Business Park. At 64,000 square feet, Mulchstock was the largest community-powered sheet mulching project on record!! 135 volunteers participated in transforming this massive, unused lawn into a drought-proof, mulched landscape, saving 1.6 million gallons of water annually. The water savings from [...]
Sebastopol City Hall & Library Landscape Transformation
Carl Shuller2022-01-12T13:34:17-08:00In September 2014, Daily Acts commenced a partnership with the City of Sebastopol and Permaculture Artisans to transform the landscape at Sebastopol City Hall & Library, and create Our Front Yard: Sebastopol Living History Garden. The landscape design, produced by Erik Olsen of Permaculture Artisans, tells the history of Sebastopol in four distinct areas: indigenous [...]
Saint Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church
Carl Shuller2022-01-12T13:36:27-08:00In the summer of 2015, the Sonoma County Water Agency contracted Daily Acts and Conservation Corps North Bay to execute an eight-week Youth Ecology Corps pilot program to replace lawns in the cities of Rohnert Park and Cotati including the installation of three model sites. One of the model site installations involved transforming the front [...]
Sonoma Mountain Village Food Forest
Carl Shuller2022-01-12T13:39:09-08:00In the summer of 2015, the Sonoma County Water Agency contracted Daily Acts and Conservation Corps North Bay to execute an eight week Youth Ecology Corps pilot program to replace lawns in the cities of Rohnert Park and Cotati including the installation of three model sites. One of the model site installations involved transforming approximately [...]
DIY Drought Solutions
Carl Shuller2022-01-12T13:41:52-08:00Daily Acts was asked by the City of Santa Rosa to produce this amazing annual event. The DIY Drought Solutions event is a free family-friendly event exploring a range of practical and ‘do-it-yourself’ solutions to help citizens meet (and even exceed!) mandatory water restrictions. Participants learn how to liberate themselves from their water-thirsty lawn, use smart controllers, install [...]