Visit 8th & Bee on the Sonoma-Marin Eco-Friendly Garden Tour
Tour our permaculture pollinator paradise on April 30. Grow food. Build Soil. Start here. 8th & Bee Homestead & Resilience Guild is honored to participate in this year’s…
The Writing
Ixchel Lunar
Decolonize Time to Liberate Flow
4 All-Star Urban Agriculture Cities We’re Watching in 2016
A look at four U.S. cities leading the food justice movement with thriving urban agriculture programs and farms.
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Winter is such a great time of soil regeneration. Plus it makes mushrooms! 🙂
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Mycorrhizae love. Mushrooms gracing the moist Winter soil around the 8th & Bee homestead.
Idea: Marvelous Elevated Straw Bale Garden Bed Design
In our Tierra Chicas Grow Your Green Smoothie Course, master gardener and plant guild expert Delia Carroll showcased a truly excellent straw bale garden bed system she’s installed in her…
In the News
May 23, 2013 ‘Foodies’ spark reawakening of Grange in California March 1, 2013 Growing the Granges January 8, 2013 Peak Prosperity: Your Local Grange November 19, 2011 Press Democrat: Home on the…
2016 is the International Year of Pulses — Let’s Celebrate!
It’s a perfect year to shout out for heirloom legumes… Happy 2016, everyone! As we’ve turned the calendar from 2015 and said goodbye to the U.N.’s International Year of…
New Year’s Letter 2015-16
Hello Petaluma Community Guilders! Three cheers to a full and fruitful 2015! As we get ready to turn the calendar to a new year, let’s take a look…
Carbon Farming Love at COP21
People with a pulse agree: Carbon Farming and Regenerative Farming a key to reversing climate change. Highlights from COP21 in Paris We’re a big fan of soil, of…
Proposed Pesticide Ban for City of Petaluma
The Petaluma Community Guild has led the way in adopting better policies around the use of pesticides. Last year we proposed a ban on glyphosate (RoundUp) which was…