Summer at Bayer - LandPaths

Our farm and community hub in the heart of Roseland blooms in the summertime in more ways than one! Volunteer with our summer lunch program, feast with neighbors at a potluck, drop-in for a workday in the organic garden, or bring your child to read and play in nature at iRead Outside.

What you can expect during Summer at Bayer:

Visit Bayer Farm: Explore our organic teaching garden, maintained by our staff and volunteers. Learn how to garden yourself at our volunteer workdays!

Let’s Read Outside: Read, explore, play, and dream in the garden! Children 5 and under and their families are invited to join us free reading sessions throughout the summer.

Free Summer Lunch: Starting in June and running through August, in partnership with Redwood Empire Food Bank, we distribute free lunch for youth 18 and younger. Monday through Friday. You are encouraged to arrive early, or stay after lunch, for nature games, playing, and fun on the farm.

Look What's in Store at Bayer in the Summer!

Explore the history of Bayer

Learn more about Bayer Farm

Let's Read Outside

Free Summer Lunch Program

Learn more about LandPaths’ Free Summer Lunch in partnership with Redwood Empire Food Bank.

Stories from the Field

What Happens Now? A Letter from Executive Director Craig Anderson to Friends of LandPaths

November 14, 2024

Tags: executive director, letter from craig, outdoorequity

The results of the U.S. presidential election, one week ago, sent shockwaves through our community, neighborhoods, and families. It makes a person pause, and it certainly should. At a time when it seemed there was momentum to move ahead, for many people what seems a U-turn has emerged, surrounding us. Click one of the tags above to read the entire post.

Community Gardens Internship

November 11, 2024

Tags: Bayer Farm, Community Garden, internship

Are you interested in learning all about what it takes to run a successful community garden? Consider becoming a community garden intern with LandPaths! Bayer Farm, Santa Rosa’s Roseland neighborhood, and Jeff Bodwin Community Garden, in southwest Santa Rosa, together contain 120 garden plots adopted out to community members in addition to a teaching garden for students to learn about growing food and nutrition. The internship is offered on a part-time basis, unpaid, up to 20 hours per week, with an option of work in exchange for course credit. Click on one of the tags above to learn more.

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

Stewardship is a strengthening of the relationship between person and land. When we steward, we connect directly with the plants and animals, fungi and watersheds, but we also connect with history. This is because for tens of thousands of years people have lived on this land and cared for it, as we try to now.

In Sonoma County, these people are the Pomo, Coast Miwok, and Mishewal Wappo. They are represented through various federally recognized and unrecognized tribes. On August 31, we had the privilege of joining community stewards and Sonoma Earth School in an amazing day of stewardship at Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Education and Development, Inc. Click one the tags above to read the entire story.