Sheetmulching

Funded by the Coastal Conservancy and Prop 1, Daily Acts is partnering with the Sonoma County Water Agency, Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) and three Sonoma County schools to convert 20,000 square feet of lawn and asphalt into water conscious habitat gardens. Beginning October 17th 2017 and continuing through spring 2018, Daily Acts will work [...]

On Friday April 20th, 65 volunteers from Navitas Organics, Guayaki, and World Centric joined forces at the Santa Rosa Junior College to complete a garden re-vitalization for the Community Resilience Challenge, and for team building time! Volunteers helped to weed, sheet mulch, paint signs and install a variety of habitat providing, pollinator attracting and edible [...]

Over the course of two weeks, Daily Acts partnered with corps members from Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) to sheet mulch, plant, and install irrigation at a 3,815sq ft. space at McDowell Elementary School.  With the school mascot being a monarch butterfly, pollinator attracting and habitat providing plants were emphasized at this site. Students [...]

Funded by the Coastal Conservancy and Prop 1, Daily Acts is partnering with the Sonoma County Water Agency, Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) and three Sonoma County schools to convert 20,000 square feet of lawn and asphalt into water conscious habitat gardens. Beginning October 17th 2017 and continuing through spring 2018, Daily Acts will [...]

Daily Acts partnered with Petaluma Regional Library and the City of Petaluma, on October 28th, 2017 to create a rain garden and sheet mulched landscape in phase one. Daily Acts worked with a group of 50+ volunteers and transformed the preexisting lawn, roughly 8,000 square feet, which will save approximately 200,000 gallons of water annually. [...]

Daily Acts and the City of Sebastopol partnered with community volunteers to plant the first chapter of this story, the Pomo native plant garden. The “Our Front Yard” project tells the history of this City and this region, in a garden. This part of the garden is being planted to honor the first inhabitants of [...]

The 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 [...]

In the Summer and Winter of 2017, Daily Acts partnered with Crossroads Community Day School and the City of Petaluma to create a pollinator habitat and rain garden on the Crossroads school campus, located at 700 Bantam Way. Crossroads is an alternative junior high for disadvantaged students who need more support than a traditional school [...]

On Saturday, February 25th, Daily Acts partnered with McNear Elementary School and the Cityof Petaluma to create a native pollinator habitat garden. There were two main activities slated for this workday: 1) to install a native grassland at the entrance to the school and 2) sheet mulch an additional 4,000 sq ft of lawn to [...]

In the summer of 2015, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Petaluma to host an educational lawn conversion workshop at two neighboring residential properties in East Petaluma. Daily Acts staff were joined by volunteers from local tea company, Traditional Medicinals and the general public to completely transform both landscapes in one short day. Between [...]