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350 Garden Challenge

We did it!!! Over 600 water-wise food gardens sprouted up in neighborhoods across Sonoma County the weekend of May 15-16.

A taste of what happened.....

  • Lawn-to-food transformations

  • Board of Supervisor’s Mini food forest Container Garden Installation

  • Fruit tree plantings

  • Container garden installations

  • Wine barrel salsa gardens

  • Extra food for food pantries

  • Greywater system installs

  • Community seed gardens

  • Business gardens

  • School gardens

  • Church gardens

  • Butterfly and pollinator gardens

  • Native plants

  • Conversion to drip irrigation

  • Mulching to promote water conservation

    The planning team is putting together a summary of the weekend's activities. Please check back soon to see all our accomplishments.

    All 350 Garden Challenge participants: if you haven't done so already, please register your new garden on the iGROW Garden map!


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    Thank you to our Sponsors:

    $15,000 Matching Grant- Sonoma County Water Agency

     

    $2000+

        

      

    $1000 +

        

    Other Sponsors:

    Bei-Boom Trucking, Castillo Trucking, Codding Enterprises/Sonoma Mountain Village, Emerisa Gardens, Evermay Garden Center, Gallo of Sonoma Winery, GV Trucking, Harmony Farm Supply, Jail Industries, KRCB, North Coast Resource Conservation and Development Council, Philip Staley Wines, Porter Creek Vineyards, Recoop, Singing Frogs Farm, Sonoma County Gazette, Sweetwater Nursery, Toby's Trucking, Wertz Trucking, Willowside Middle School Nursery

    Thank you to our Partner Organizations:

    Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Green Sangha, Farm to Pantry, Healdsburg Food Pantry, Laguna Foundation, Land Paths, Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy, North Bay Conservation Corps, Nuestra Voz, Petaluma Bounty, Santa Rosa JC Sustainable Neighborhood Association, Santa Rosa Tool Library, School Garden Network, Slow Food Russian River, Sonoma Ecology Center, Transition Sebastopol, Transition Cotati, Unitarian Universalist of Petaluma, Transition U.S.

    Other Garden Challenges:

    Victory Gardens- Oakland

    Gardens of Gratitude- Santa Monica

    350.org