About LandPaths
LandPaths is an environmental education and conservation leader with the mission to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. We believe everyone should have access to the awe and inspiration of nature.
Annually, we engage thousands of participants like you in joyful, caring, and transformative relationship with the land. We do this mainly through creative outings led in both English and Spanish, environmental education, nature camps, and people-powered land stewardship of local open spaces.
Land Acknowledgement
Our community gardens, office, and preserves throughout Sonoma County are located on the ancestral homelands of the Southern Pomo, Coast Miwok, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, and Mishewal people, past, present, and future. We recognize them as the first people and the first stewards of this land.
Initiatives
Community Care
Growing Community with Nature
Wildfires, flooding, and other challenges have dramatically increased globally and locally because of human-caused climate change. Reciprocal and joyful relationships between people and the land is a solution to climate disruption. From volunteer land stewardship days to community gatherings in local open spaces, you’ll find a range of creative, impactful opportunities to participate with LandPaths and make a difference.
Featured Outings
Help Tend the Garden at Ocean Song Preserve
- Day: Sunday, October 20
- Time: 11:30am – 3pm
- Place: Ocean Song Preserve, Occidental
The pollinator and habitat garden at Ocean Song/Myers is a truly magical place. You are invited to experience the land as you help tend the garden, a home for myriad blooms, bees, and birds (so many birds!) Activities depend on the season, and might include invasive species removal, pruning, mulching, mowing and other seasonal needs. We’ll cater the task to your ability! Volunteer land stewardship days like this are the best way to experience Ocean Song Preserve, which is closed to public access. The day will be led by LandPaths’ wonderful volunteer garden steward Jan Lochner.
Sign Up HereCelebrando el otoño en el jardín - Fall Fun at the garden!
- Saturday, October 26 – sábado 26 de octubre
- 10am – 2pm
- Location/Lugar: Jeff’s Garden at Andy’s Unity Park, 3399 Moorland Ave., Santa Rosa
Únete a nosotros para celebrar la belleza del otoño en el jardín.
Tendremos una tarde llena de actvidades para toda la familia. Join us at the Fall Fun event for seasonal treats, fun games, and
activities for the whole family.
Self-Guided Adventure at Rancho Mark West
- Day: Saturday, November 2
- Time: 9am – 2pm
- Place: Rancho Mark West, Santa Rosa
- Pre-registration is required.
Join LandPaths and our partner at Sonoma County Ag + Open Space for a free, self-guided adventure at Rancho Mark West. The first Saturday and Sunday of the month, Rancho Mark West will be open to the public from 9am to 2pm, please arrive by 2pm latest and return to your cars by no later than 3:30pm. Explore the trails that meander through a redwood forest, trek across open hillsides with views of oaks, madrones, and doug firs, and picnic along the pristine Mark West Creek as it flows towards the Laguna de Santa Rosa.
Sign Up HereHelp Prep the Redwoods for Fire at the Grove of Old Trees
- Day: Saturday, November 20
- Time: 10am – 2pm
- Place: Grove of Old Trees, Occidental
You’re warmly invited to lend a hand at the Grove of Old Trees! It’s wildfire fuels reduction time on the preserve and also time to prep our second unit at the Grove for a thoroughly planned prescribed burn! Please come out to give your tender care to our beloved Redwoods.
SIgn Up HereStories + News
Stories of Impact
Caring for the Land at Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Educational Center
September 12, 2024
Tags: growing community with nature, right relations, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction
Story by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Senior Stewardship Field Specialist Stewardship is a strengthening of the relationship between person and land. When we steward, we connect directly with the […]
Dar y admirar: Vamos a Yosemite 2024
August 21, 2024
Tags: branching out conservation for everyone, stewardship, vamos afuera, yosemite
El grupo de Vamos a Yosemite con LandPaths llegó al emblemático parque nacional un viernes por la tarde, justo después de una breve tormenta de verano, en […]
Giving Back and Standing in Awe: Vamos a Yosemite 2024
August 21, 2024
Tags: branching out conservation for everyone, stewardship, vamos afuera, yosemite
The Vamos a Yosemite con LandPaths group arrived at the iconic national park on a Friday afternoon, just after a brief summer rainstorm, in passenger vans rented […]
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