Stormwater

On Saturday, May 13th 2023, Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor to host a hands-on rain garden workshop, educating residents on how to design and construct bioretention basins for their yards.  The workshop was hosted at a Windsor resident’s front yard who had applied through an application process hosted by Daily Acts. [...]

On January 29th, Daily Acts teamed up with Burbank Housing and BAAQMD to complete our final project for Carrillo Place Apartments; we installed a 550 gallon Blue Barrel Systems rainwater harvesting system. With the help of our friends Moises and William, Daily Acts staff installed ten barrels in the Carrillo Place Community Garden on a [...]

In honor of the Russian River Watershed Association’s annual “Creek Week”, on Saturday, September 21st, Daily Acts partnered with the City of Cotati to host a Community Creek Clean-Up! The purpose of this event was to decrease the amount of pollution in our local watershed, while providing our community with the knowledge and inspiration [...]

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 [...]

Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor in the Fall of 2018, in order to transform an under utilized lawn,  into a demonstration garden. This garden was designed by Foresite Mapping Inc. and Permaculture Artisan's, Sebastian Bertsch, who put created the cross-section level spillway swale design, leveled and excavated by Anchordoguy Landscaping Inc. [...]

Daily Acts partnered with the Town of Windsor, BlueBarrels Rainwater Catchment Systems, and the Windsor Garden Club to host a successful public workshop on rainwater harvesting at the Windsor Community Garden. Kellen Watson of Daily Acts shared a short presentation, which provided an overview of reasons to collect rainwater, stormwater solutions, and catchment system options. [...]

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. [...]