Tomorrow (Saturday) is the annual scion exchange held by the California Rare Fruit Growers, Redwood Empire Chapter. It’s at the Vet’s Memorial Hall in Sebastopol (next to Ives Park), and sounds like a fantastic resource for getting to work on your own home food forest.
Here’s the info; you can also download a PDF flyer:

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Many people have been inspired by the important documentary, The End of Suburbia. David Holmgren, the co-originator of the concept of permaculture and author of Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, has an inspiring response in the video, Endurance of Suburbia.
The video only seven minutes long, and well worth watching:

I hear a lot of [...]

Did you know that you can learn how to work with draft horses, or hire them to work your property, right here in Sebastopol? You can, at Stone Horse Farm!

Farm services from Stone Horse include mowing, plowing, sowing cover crops. cultivating orchards or vineyards, and more. They’ll even do woodland operations and restoration work. [...]

If you haven’t seen the documentary The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, you’re in for a fascinating look at the real effects of peak oil…AND some real solutions. It’s shocking and uplifting at the same time.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of [...]

Here’s a great introduction to Permculture featuring one of my own teachers, Penny Livingston-Stark. It’s a good one to bookmark for those times when someone asks you what this permaculture stuff is all about. And for days when you might need the boost of a little re-inspiration.:

Beekeeping, or “apiculture”, is at least as old as the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. In permaculture, they’re an example of a feature that neatly stacks functions: they produce delicious honey, useful wax, and are incredibly useful pollinators. Keeping bees seems like a daunting task, but there’s a store in Sebastopol that can help: [...]

Here’s an announcement from Erik Olsen about an exciting new initiative in Sebastopol:
Need land for a Permaculture Center near Sebastopol
We are a Permaculture design firm (Permaculture Artisans) and group of Permaculture-based organizations looking for a site close to Sebastopol to build a Permaculture Learning center/farm/enterprise.
We could potentially put hundreds of thousands of dollars of [...]

Most locals probably already know about Harmony Farm Supply and Nursery, north of Sebastopol on Rt. 116, just after Graton Road. It’s a wonderful local resource for plants, seeds, irrigation needs, books, and other farm and garden supplies.
In addition to the usual plants and supplies you’ll find at other nurseries, Harmony stocks items you [...]