Petaluma Grange hosts its first ever Holiday Hootenanny at the Petaluma Seed Bank, NEXT Mon., Dec. 16th, 6:30pm; you're invited - and I'd appreciate an RSVP to granger@petalumagrange.com to count the heads of you plus another you might bring. Petaluma Grange has met in the Seed Bank a couple of [...]
I've much enjoyed the many paintings of Pat Morgenthaler lo these many years; she's Mother to my partner, Wayne, with whom I share Oasis Community Farm just outside city limits. First years, I viewed her work in Fullerton, CA, near LA, but see them upclose now as she lives on [...]
Petaluma Palooza comes round again at the Train Depot SAT. Sept. 21st - tomorrow! So John Crowley and Diane Gentile have rounded us up again for a fun community-building event, year 2. Visitor's Center and others say "Part non-profit showcase, part business gathering, part learning fair and a large portion [...]
So Whole Foods is promising to buy more local foods while we in the region are growing more small farms. Whole Foods new paper bags read "Eat the Food Less Traveled;" great idea, WF! Good mix expected as John Crowley and Diane Gentile bring us together under the Aqus Community [...]
So I'm stoked - love the Berkeley in the Sixties film done by Mark Kitchell, and now his A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet is coming to Sunflower Center this Sun., 3pm, co-hosted by 7 groups with similar interests - being healthy on a healthy planet. [...]
So easy to slip into a funk as the days shorten, darken, knowing 40,000 people are without homes in NYC and NJ courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, latest installment of climate change, less frequent but more horrible hurricanes due to hotter atmosphere. Not your usual storm, folks. Worse than any B [...]
Whatever you would do or dream you would do, begin! said Goethe and we’re still trying to figure that out! Great films and books are essential for an active 21st Century mind, but great friends and pets are way better for walks. Take lots of walks, I say, and get thee to the countryside right outside Petaluma…so, so pretty…And then actually helping others out is what makes you grounded, being part of the local/global tribe of your choice. They still need members, you know.