Events

Transition Sebastopol Energy Group is holding its first reskilling workshop at Laguna Farm @ 10am - 2pm. 

We will look at designs of simple Solar hotwater heaters and build a Solar Batch Hotwater Heater. This is basically an insulated box with reflective interior and double pane (reused) sliding glass door to heat the water in a steel tank from a used tanked hot water heater. This concept could be also used to make a Solar Oven. Come join us at Laguna Farm for a fun hands on workshop. $10 suggested donation. email 

Join in planting 350 gardens on the weekend of May 15-16! 

If you are planning to work on your own garden projects, remember to register your garden at www.igrowsonoma.org/350_garden_challenge.

Learn more about the 350 Garden Challenge here.

Want to get inspired?  Check out this video!

There are several 350 Challenge events, projects and classes to get involved with around Sebastopol!

Saturday May 15

350 Garden Challenge Hub for the day is the Skate Park Community Garden.

Come pick up your 350 garden challenge signs, extra plants, cardboard for sheet mulching, see what is happening for the day, speak with garden experts.

Classes:

• Sheet Mulch Class- Skatepark Community Garden- Laguna Park Way (just down from the movie theater)  Saturday 10-11 am. 
• Drip Irrigation Class- Sebastopol Hardware, 660 Hwy 116 N, 10-2

Volunteer Opportunities:
~bring tools and gloves if you have them~

• Skate Park Community Garden Sheet Mulch expansion- Sat. 10 am - 2 pm; Laguna Park Way near Flynn

• Pine Crest School Garden- help put in their new school garden ,  Sat  9 am-1 pm ; 7285 Hayden Ave.

• Earth Camp Heritage Plants and Traditional Skills Garden- help plant a native fiber, medicinal, and food crops for Earth Camp kids. Laguna Farm  9 am to 5 pm   (1pm lunch), 1764 Cooper Rd

Check out the Freestone Fermentation Festival from 12-5 at Salmon Creek School.

Sunday May 16

350 Garden Challenge Hub for the day is the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church from 10 am-3 pm, 500 Robinson Rd.

Come pick up your 350 garden challenge signs, extra plants, cardboard for sheet mulching, see what is happening for the day, speak with garden experts.

Free Tour:

• Permaculture Neighborhood Center - 2 pm @ 208 Nelson Way. Come by for inspiration to transform your yard into a food oasis

Volunteer Opportunities:
~bring tools and gloves if you have them~

• Community Seed Garden-  Help start the new Community Seed Garden sponsored by the West County Community Seed Bank at St. Steven’s Episcopal Church.  10 am-3 pm,  500 Robinson Way 
• Nelson Way Garden Block Party- help Permaculture Artisans install several new gardens on Nelson way, tour the Permaculture Neighborhood Center at 2 pm for inspiration to transform your yard into a food oasis.  Music and food.  208 Nelson Way. 
• 350 Community Celebration -  5 pm- 8 pm  Julliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa.  Come celebrate the success of the 350 Garden Challenge with live music, community potluck, and garden friends.  Here reports on final numbers and inspiring projects. Bring your own plate and utensils and a potluck dish.

West County Organizing by Transition Sebastopol - for more info go to transitionsebastopol.org or contact sara at 829-5234

Join in planting 350 gardens on the weekend of May 15-16! 

If you are planning to work on your own garden projects, remember to register your garden at www.igrowsonoma.org/350_garden_challenge.

Learn more about the 350 Garden Challenge here.

Want to get inspired?  Check out this video!

There are several 350 Challenge events, projects and classes to get involved with around Sebastopol!

Saturday May 15

350 Garden Challenge Hub for the day is the Skate Park Community Garden.

Come pick up your 350 garden challenge signs, extra plants, cardboard for sheet mulching, see what is happening for the day, speak with garden experts.

Classes:

• Sheet Mulch Class- Skatepark Community Garden- Laguna Park Way (just down from the movie theater)  Saturday 10-11 am. 
• Drip Irrigation Class- Sebastopol Hardware, 660 Hwy 116 N, 10-2

Volunteer Opportunities:
~bring tools and gloves if you have them~

• Skate Park Community Garden Sheet Mulch expansion- Sat. 10 am - 2 pm; Laguna Park Way near Flynn

• Pine Crest School Garden- help put in their new school garden ,  Sat  9 am-1 pm ; 7285 Hayden Ave.

• Earth Camp Heritage Plants and Traditional Skills Garden- help plant a native fiber, medicinal, and food crops for Earth Camp kids. Laguna Farm  9 am to 5 pm   (1pm lunch), 1764 Cooper Rd

Check out the Freestone Fermentation Festival from 12-5 at Salmon Creek School.

Sunday May 16

350 Garden Challenge Hub for the day is the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church from 10 am-3 pm, 500 Robinson Rd.

Come pick up your 350 garden challenge signs, extra plants, cardboard for sheet mulching, see what is happening for the day, speak with garden experts.

Free Tour:

• Permaculture Neighborhood Center - 2 pm @ 208 Nelson Way. Come by for inspiration to transform your yard into a food oasis

Volunteer Opportunities:
~bring tools and gloves if you have them~

• Community Seed Garden-  Help start the new Community Seed Garden sponsored by the West County Community Seed Bank at St. Steven’s Episcopal Church.  10 am-3 pm,  500 Robinson Way 
• Nelson Way Garden Block Party- help Permaculture Artisans install several new gardens on Nelson way, tour the Permaculture Neighborhood Center at 2 pm for inspiration to transform your yard into a food oasis.  Music and food.  208 Nelson Way. 
• 350 Community Celebration -  5 pm- 8 pm  Julliard Park, 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa.  Come celebrate the success of the 350 Garden Challenge with live music, community potluck, and garden friends.  Here reports on final numbers and inspiring projects. Bring your own plate and utensils and a potluck dish.

West County Organizing by Transition Sebastopol - for more info go to transitionsebastopol.org or contact sara at 829-5234

Come join us at our next Transition Sebastopol Movie Night at the French Garden Restaurant. Come early and enjoy dinner and conversation. 

Wednesday, May 26
7:00 - 9:00pm

free event, donations appreciated to cover screening costs.

About the Movie:

Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt."
DIRT! The Movie--directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow--takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us, "dirt is very much alive." Though, in modern industrial pursuits and clamor for both profit and natural resources, our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. "Drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt."

DIRT! the Movie--narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis--brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil.

DIRT! the Movie is simply a movie about dirt. The real change lies in our notion of what dirt is. The movie teaches us: "When humans arrived 2 million years ago, everything changed for dirt. And from that moment on, the fate of dirt and humans has been intimately linked." But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT the Movie is a call to action.

"The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again."

What we've destroyed, we can heal.

Movie trailer: