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. [...]
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Radiant Rain Garden Planting & Irrigation at Old Vineyard Park
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:20:45-08:00Daily 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 [...]
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Cavanagh Food Forest Rain Tank Repair
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:23:38-08:00On Saturday, February 9th Daily Acts hosted a community workday at the Cavanagh Recreation Center that was focused on repairing and leveling a platform for the existing rain tanks. A good turnout of community volunteers and Sonoma State students allowed for additional garden maintenance to be part of this workday as well. The day began [...]
Healing Garden at Veterans Village
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:24:37-08:00In 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 [...]
Radiant Rain Garden Sheet Mulching at Old Vineyard Park
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:26:50-08:00Daily 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. [...]
Santa Rosa Junior College: Lawns-to-Habitat
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:33:43-08:00Funded 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 [...]
Crossroads Garden Installation Series
Daily Acts2022-01-11T12:44:33-08:00In 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 [...]
Traditional Medicinals Volunteer Day
Carl Shuller2022-01-11T13:01:31-08:00In 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 [...]
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 [...]