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Fire, Grief, and Recovery at Riddell
September 4, 2020
As the Walbridge fire bore down on Riddell, LandPaths’ 400-acre preserve west of Healdsburg, firefighters carefully swept the deck of the dry leaf litter around Steve’s cabin. The simple […]
Tags: community care, community resilience, growing community with nature, Healdsburg, riddell preserve, walbridge fire, wildfire
The Power of LandPaths’ Community Gardens in Pandemic Times
July 23, 2020
When LandPaths broke ground at Bayer Farm in 2007 and kids from the neighborhood began planting seeds on a neglected plot of land in Roseland, we knew […]
Tags: Bayer Farm, branching out conservation for everyone, Community Garden, Covid-19
Strawberries, Chickens, Pickles, and Creeks: Otherwise Known as Just Another Magical Day at Owl Camp North!
July 9, 2020
Two Fridays ago marked the end of another exuberantly successful two weeks of Owl Camp North at Preston Farm. For the second year, LandPaths partnered with Lou […]
Tags: Food, Healdsburg, Nature Camp, Owl Camp, Preston Farm
Cosechando Con La Comunidad/Harvesting for the Community
July 2, 2020
[In English below] Los jardineros de nuestra comunidad en Bayer Farm están en el centro de nuestra misión de fomentar el amor por la tierra en el […]
Tags: Bayer Farm, Community Garden, Roseland, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Volunteer
What Does People-Powered Land Stewardship Look Like In a Pandemic?
June 24, 2020
At LandPaths, people-powered stewardship of the land lies at the core of our mission. Our volunteers return time and again to tend the land at our preserves and community gardens across Sonoma […]
Tags: Covid-19, stewardship, Volunteer
IOOBY Goes Digital: How our Youth Team Brought the Joy, Wonder, and Awe of Nature to the Screen
June 11, 2020
When schools across Sonoma County closed down for in-person learning in March due to the coronavirus, teachers, students, and parents were suddenly faced with a series of […]
Tags: environmental education, iooby, Rooting Youth in Nature
An Update on LandPaths Preserves and Partner Properties
June 3, 2020
LandPaths exists – if for nothing else – then to harness community power to protect healthy land on which to experience and be inspired by nature, where […]
Tags: Bayer Farm, Bohemia Ecological Preserve, Coronavirus, grove of old trees, LandPaths, Ocean Song, rancho mark west, riddell preserve, Sonoma County
Children Still Need Community: How iREAD Outside shifted online during the pandemic
May 13, 2020
Guadalupe Casco, Senior Bilingual Field Specialist, runs iREAD Outside, one of LandPaths’ hallmark programs for children. Recently, she’s taken on the challenge of shifting a completely outdoors-based […]
Neighborhood Nature: Meet a Gopher Snake
April 29, 2020
This photo, taken by LandPaths Education Field Specialist Mineaux Gray, is of a Pacific Gopher Snake (Pituophis catenifer catenifer) at Ocean Song Preserve. The four-foot long reptile […]
Tags: biomimicry, gopher snake, iooby, Ocean Song, Rooting Youth in Nature
Neighborhood Nature: Meet a Banana Slug!
April 27, 2020
by Jessica Holloway, Senior Education Field Specialist With all this time at home, we’ve been noticing all kinds of cool creatures cruising around outside, like these Banana Slugs! Use […]
Tags: banana slug, Beetles Project, hidden nature, iooby, neighborhood nature, Rooting Youth in Nature
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