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Food Garden Organizations
iGROW SONOMA
igrowsonoma.org
We provide information and encouragement for people to grow their own fruit and vegetables – inspire people to create neighborhood garden groups and new community gardens, and help people find local sources of healthy food. See BLOG postings on seasonal garden topics at igrowsonoma.org/blog., as well as the garden-related events calendar.
Petaluma Bounty
1500 Petaluma Blvd. South • Petaluma
707-775-3663
petalumabounty.org
Healthy food for everyone. through collaboration, education and promoting self-reliance. Our vision is To grow a thriving local food system where consumers make informed decisions; farmers make a decent living while prioritizing ecological stewardship of the land; and all people – regardless of income – have access to healthy food. We push beyond the immediate demands of hunger relief toward community food security (and hunger prevention) with programming that expands our community’s capacity to feed each other today and into the future.
Community Soil Foundation
422 Larkfield Center #221, Santa Rosa (mailing address)
450 Noonan Ranch Lane, Santa Rosa (physical address)
communitysoil.org
Offering land-based education, creating access to organic produce, and regenerating native habitat and natural resources. At the Larkfield Community Garden, we conduct garden-based and nutrition education to youth and adults. We also promote environmental stewardship through habitat restoration and watershed protection. We also sell affordable, fresh organic produce at a farm stand and donate a portion of the yield to local food banks. Come visit or lend
a helping hand during our volunteer work days on the third Saturday of each month 10am-2pm.
The Mission Blue butterfly is a federally endangered species located only in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2011 CGCI partnered with Golden Gate National Park Conservancy to raise funds to increase lupine diversity and stabilize the mission blue butterfly population.
CropMobsters
sfbay.cropmobster.com
CropMobster is an online community-based exchange system for the trade and exchange items within the food and agricultural space. CropMobster SF Bay is focused on providing a locally based community for hunger relievers, tackle food waste and build our “farm-to-fork” economy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Daily Acts
P.O. Box 293, Petaluma
707-789-9664
www.dailyacts.org
Check website for complete
listing of community projects and opportunities to volunteer. Free classes include greywater, rainwater catchment, and lawn-to-lunch transformations. Also available for garden design consultations at your home, with a focus on edible, habitat providing, and water-wise plants.
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Santa Rosa Garden Club has been supporting this project since its inception. The program was successful in increasing the number of mission blue butterflies. In 2016 the Project entered Phase II to extend the existing fundraising through 2022. Funds will be used for propagation materials, planting and scientific experiments for lupine larval plants and twelve native nectar plants that have been identified.
Pictured are five of the twelve native nectar plants.
School Garden Network of Sonoma County
707-861-0593 info@schoolgardens.org www.schoolgardens.org
Golden Aster
Blue-eyed grass
Supports and promotes sustainable garden and nutrition-based learning programs in Sonoma County schools, connects school communities with fresh, locally grown foods, and provides a forum for exchanging information and resources.
(Heteotheca sessiliflora blonder
(Sysyrinchium bellum)
$56 a year brings the Gazette to your mailbox
Checkerbloom
Coast Buckwheat
(Sidalcea malviflora)
(Eriogonum latifolium)
Yarrow
(Achillea millefolium)
FIND these PLANTS at California Native Nureries (pages 14-17) and SEEDS at The Petaluma Seed Bank (ad on pg 13)
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