This hands-on workshop will provide resources for best practices and practical financial strategies to save money. Meet local agencies providing efficiency and value-creation resources including workforce incentives, utilities, water, and trash service to improve your bottom line. Special guests include PG&E, Sonoma Clean Power, various local Chambers of Commerce, Sonoma County Resource Recovery, Joblink, and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate within The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development! Schedule: English session 10am-11am Resource fair 11am-12pm Spanish session 12pm-1pm

Join the Garden Steward Program – Volunteer with Daily Acts! Looking for a hands-on way to support Petaluma’s community gardens? Join Daily Acts for their Garden Steward Volunteer Days, where they provide ongoing care for local demonstration gardens while creating meaningful opportunities for community involvement and connection. 🌿 What to Expect These are casual, small-group workdays where seasonal garden needs are tackled. Tasks may include: ✔️ Mulching, weeding, planting ✔️ Pruning ✔️ Irrigation fixes & garden assessments For more information contact emily@dailyacts.org

Program: In this presentation, you will learn why lawns are not eco-friendly, watch a short video that shows the best method to easily eliminate one, and discover how to decide the best use for the space. Discuss the latest in walkable green plants, plus a host of other possibilities that will broaden your definition of “lawn alternative” as UC Master Gardeners answer these questions: Why replace your lawn? Three methods for lawn removal. What do you put where your lawn was? Speaker: Marie Narlock has been a UC Marin Master Gardener since 2004. She studied landscape design through the UC…

Program: A seed and plant exchange where library patrons can get seedlings and seeds to plant, information on planting wildflower seeds and other pollinator seeds, and other planting information from Marin Master Gardeners. Venue: Civic Center Library, Room 427 Cost: Free

Green Living Fair 2026  October 22, 3:30-5:30 – Free and Open to the Public Fashion Studies Mending Bar at the Green Living Fair 2026 Fashion studies students will be on hand at the Green Living Fair 2026 to help you mend, repair, or alter your clothes, giving them new life and reducing textile waste. They can help with a variety of fixes, including patching or mending holes, rips, and tears. They can also add decorative stitching, appliqués, and patches. They can also hem pants, take in garments that are too big, shorten garments that are too long, and more.  In…

Daily Acts and Casa Grande High School are teaming up to transform grass to gardens in front of the school! This summer Daily Acts sheet mulched 3 sections of lawn and fall is the right time to to get native & climate appropriate plantings in the ground for winter rains! Help create a water-wise landscape that will build habitat and bring beauty to the school community for years to come. NOTE: All are welcome (including children with adult supervision) and no experience needed Come for some, or come for all —  gather rain or shine! What’s provided: FREE Lunch & Snacks Instruction &…

Learn how to create and maintain a fire-wise, sustainable garden that supports biodiversity while meeting County code requirements. The Resilient Landscapes Coalition can help you with plant selection, placement, and maintenance to preserve and even enhance wildlife habitat, while keeping your property and neighborhood fire-wise and sustainable. Recommendations for fire-wise landscaping in the 0-5’, 5-30’, and 30-100’ defensible space zones, with specific plant and design suggestions. In partnership with the Santa Rosa Garden Club. This is an official meeting of the Santa Rosa Garden Club, but the general public is welcome to join for the speaker session at 2pm.

Program: Get: seeds for spring planting, wildflower seeds and cover crop seeds; learn about winter sowing and growing garlic. Planting activities for all ages. Cost: Free Sponsors: Marin Master Gardeners and San Anselmo Library

Join the Planting Day — help build a thriving meadow habitat at Santa Rosa Junior College – Petaluma Campus Daily Acts and Santa Rosa Junior College are teaming up to transform the underutilized lawn throughout the school! This summer, they sheet mulched 4 sections of lawn and created a rain garden to help catch all the winter rain. This fall is the right time to get native & climate-appropriate plantings in the ground before winter season arrives! Help create a water-wise landscape that will build habitat and bring beauty to the school community for years to come. NOTE: All are…

Do you know where your water comes from? Join us and visit facilities that divert, pump and treat the water delivered by Sonoma Water to more than 600,000 residents in portions of Sonoma and Marin counties. Register and you will be notified with additional details and directions closer to your selected tour date.

Do you have a lamp, small appliance, textile, or bike in need of repair? Bring it to the Repair Fair! Volunteers and specialized repair professionals will be on-hand to repair* your items. Please stay with your item while it’s being fixed, so you can learn tips for future maintenance, how to shop for repairable goods, and even how to repair things yourself! If you’d like to bring an item to repair, please register the item here. (Pre-registering allows them to prepare for your item!) This is a free public event. *There is no guarantee your item(s) will be repaired, depending on the existing…

Join the Garden Steward Program – Volunteer with Daily Acts! Looking for a hands-on way to support Petaluma’s community gardens? Join Daily Acts for their Garden Steward Volunteer Days, where they provide ongoing care for local demonstration gardens while creating meaningful opportunities for community involvement and connection. 🌿 What to Expect These are casual, small-group workdays where seasonal garden needs are tackled. Tasks may include: ✔️ Mulching, weeding, planting ✔️ Pruning ✔️ Irrigation fixes & garden assessments For more information contact emily@dailyacts.org