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Butter & Egg Days is currently accepting early bird entries, until Monday, March 8, with the parade slated for Saturday, April 27 at noon, rain
or shine, with other events going on before and after. As always, parade organizers are looking for help from the community with the organization and presentation of the Parade and various other events happening throughout the Butter & Egg Days weekend. Visit petalumadowntown.com for the complete schedule, entry forms, and volunteer opportunities. This year celebrates Clo the Cow’s 50th birthday, and so is appropriately themed as, “It’s Always Punny in Petaluma,” obviously paying homage to all of Clo’s great billboards.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison
Shabbat 100 Last month, I wrote about the pending visit of humanitarian and hero Marthe Cohn to Petaluma’s SRJC campus for a presentation of the incredible true story about her time as a French Jewish spy during WWII, as chronicled in her book, “Behind Enemy Lines.” Getting to meet this 98 year old Holocaust survivor and hero to all in the free world was a truly enlightening experience. A huge thanks to the Chabad Jewish Center of Petaluma, and Rabbi Dovid Bush and his wife Devorah’s efforts to bringing Mrs. Cohn to our community.
Deborah Taylor-French has resided in Sonoma County for over thirty years, writing mystery and poetry. Longtime member of the Redwood Writers Club, she volunteers as facilitator of the Author Support Group. A columnist for
the Sonoma County Gazette for the past five years, she keeps up with local news and events. She has been published in the North Bay Biz magazine, Changing Hurt to Hope, and over a dozen Redwood Writers’ anthologies. Come and meet the author on Sunday March 3rd from 1:30-3:300. Win gifts, prizes, including Copperfield’s gift cards. Copperfield’s Santa Rosa Store, 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa, CA 95405 copperfieldsbooks.com/event/meet-and-greet-deborah- taylor-french
This month’s Chabad event is their Shabbat 100, which is a gourmet Shabbat dinner for 100, to be held on Friday, March 1, at the Hotel Petaluma. We have heard great things about past Chabad Jewish Center Shabbats, especially Devorah’s great cooking, so look forward to attend this Shabbat. The menu will start with hors d’oeuvres, wine, and grape juice, followed by challah, olive tapenade, fire-roasted tomato dip, Asian pasta salad, roasted sweet potato and kale salad, and tomato basil gefilte fish. The main dishes will center around Rabbi’s favorite chicken, and will include chicken soup with matzo balls, wild rice medley, butternut squash kugel, roasted baby potatoes, and garlic green beans. The dessert table will be topped with assorted fruit, blueberry muffins, chocolate chip sticks, zebra cookies, and three kinds of Bundt cakes—citrus, cinnamon, and mocha. Tickets are $18 for adults and $10 for kids, with tables for $180 and sponsorships available at www.jewishpetaluma.com.
Our City of Cotati Has Ten Parks. Enjoy Pocket Park
Firehouse #2 will receive a landscape makeover, thanks to Daily Acts, with the help of any volunteers who are available on March 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Daily Acts is an ecological non-profit committed to building community through landscape transformations.
No Outdoor Space but Want to Grow Flowers and Vegetables?
With the Petaluma Fire Department experiencing a 32 percent increase
in calls as of 2018, the firefighters have less time than ever to tend to their landscaping, so that is where Daily Acts, and Petaluma volunteers come in. “We invite you to take part in appreciating all the work that our firefighters do for us by installing a beautiful water-wise garden and irrigation system. The landscape design will focus on exclusively low water-use native and native adapted plants for dry shade site conditions.”
March 9th Healthy Garden Approach to Managing Weeds—Petaluma Library, 100 Fairgrounds Drive, Petaluma, CA 94952
Everyone is welcome at this event from those wanting hands-on experience planting and installing an irrigation system to those wanting to ask questions and provide moral support. Share a potluck lunch.
March 30 Getting Ready to Plant: Making the Most of Your Garden Space 10:30 am-12:30pm
Register at: dailyacts.org. All you need is a potluck item to share, a hand trowel (if you have it), and a chair, should you desire to sit throughout the event. For more information email annie@dailyacts.org or call 707-789-9664
At the Harvest for the Hungry Garden, 1717 Yulupa Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Stockhome & Bucher Wines are joining forces to bring us the Nordic flavors of Chef Sundell, paired with one of Sonoma’s premier wineries, with a special nod to Flaunt Sparkling Wines, another premium Sonoma producer, on Tuesday, March 5. They’ll start at 6:30 p.m. with a reception and small bites paired with Flaunt Brut Sparkling Wine by Dianne Novy Lee, the wife of Adam Lee, Bucher Wines winemaker. The 4-course dinner and wine pairings starts at 7 p.m. with Alaskan halibut ceviche and a 2017 unoaked chardonnay, Dungeness crab and 2015 Russian River pinot noir, Licorice braised beef cheek and 2017 OPA’s Block pinot noir, and finally, milk chocolate bodini with 2018 late harvest sauv blanc. Guests must be 21 and may be included in photographs throughout the evening. Tickets are $75, including the wine pairing. Visit stockhomerestaurant.com for tickets and the full menu.
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Baker Heirloom Seeds moved to another location downtown Petaluma. I like their new store better, less distractions, and easier to find alphabetical shelved seeds. Their staff has always offered to help pick great food, and flower varieties to grow in our fog belt.
Meet & Greet Deborah Taylor-French, Sunday March 3 at 1:30-3:30 pm Book: Red Sky at Night: Dog Leader Mysteries
“When twelve-year-old animal lover, Nevada, races to a wildfire on a neighboring farm in northern California, little does she know this is only the beginning. Soon, it will take more than courage to protect her small town and the people she loves.”
Pocket Park A friend and I joined with other volunteers and Daily Acts in September ten years ago to sheet mulch the old ratty lawn and plant fruit trees, perennials, and California native plants and grasses. We worked alongside many others, spreading cardboard, bringing in mulch by wheelbarrow, and digging holes to plant in. “The transformation of this former lawn with a beautiful, water wise garden at Loretto & LaSalle Avenues has saved at least 60,000 gallons of water annually since September 2009, as well as the cost of pesticides, herbicides, and mower fuel that would be required to maintain the turf. Visit it today. Neighbors have harvested raspberries, figs, pears, herbs, artichokes, blueberries, and more.” govserv.org/US/Cotati/321344994563494/ Pocket-Park-in-Cotati
Check out the Master Gardeners website for year-round planting ideas, community gardens, and free workshops held in Sonoma County Library branches. They have Food Garden Specialists and dozens of gardening workshops held around the county. Learn about the community gardens active in Sonoma County. Their website has seasonal and month to month local organic gardening advice and activities to do in the garden. Look up sonomamg.ucanr.edu/Food_Gardening/
March 16 The same workshop held in the Central Santa Rosa Library, 211 E Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Best Place to Buy Local Seeds? Baker Heirloom Seeds
You will find them located at 110 Petaluma Blvd. North Petaluma, CA 94952 Phone (707) 773-1336 email: seedbank@rareseeds.com You can also download a pdf of the 2019 free catalog rareseeds.com/request-catalogus/
March 30 Cotati Community Yard Sale
Held from 9AM-1PM in the Cotati Room, behind city hall at 216 East School Street, Cotati.
Save Sunday April 7th for the Annual Chicken Barbeque
A fundraiser for Cotati Historical Society held in the Ray Miller Community Center, and Cotati Rooms behind Cotati City Hall at 216 East School Street, Cotati. Meals served from noon to three P.M. Also happening during the afternoon will be live music, a car show, a bake sale, and a silent auction.