Creek friendly home improvement and yard care
The days are long and warm, but many of us are anything but lazy. We are in our yards tackling our outdoor honey-do lists. We are refinishing our decks, painting our homes and taming our yards. After painting the house, sanding the deck, or trimming back the landscaping it would be convenient to sweep or pour the mess into the storm drain (or gutter). The problem is that everything that enters the storm drain eventually flows into our creeks untreated.
Car care as if creeks mattered
One of Murphy’s Laws is that you can’t get something clean without getting something else dirty. Depending on how you wash your car, you may be trading a dirty car for a polluted creek because the water that flows into our storm drains does not get treated, it flows directly into our creeks.
Heirloom Expo returns with new exhibits and speakers
For the seventh year in a row the Heirloom Expo returns to Sonoma County, with three packed days of food, education and fun, Sept. 5 – 7. The celebration of small-scale, organic and sustainable farming returns with a variety of new displays, new speakers and some new vendors.
Seniors: health care starts at any age
The Sebastopol and Gravenstein Community Health Centers in Sebastopol are part of the West County Health Centers network. With the large number of ‘baby boomers’ and their elders in the west county, we are busy working to promote good health in the senior population.
Parents: why your kids need you to exercise
Top reasons that you need to exercise for the sake of your kids and tips about how to make it happen
A puppy named Peyton
Nancy Pierson’s path to providing support to kids started with one special dog
Exercise for health: you know you have to
Sonoma County is a lousy place to live for people looking for excuses to not eat well or stay physically active. That’s because fresh, tasty and wholesome foods are grown and produced here year-round and the area’s natural beauty, open spaces, trails and walkable neighborhoods are daily invitations to get in motion.
The ups and downs of breastfeeding: My journey into the great unknown
Deciding to breastfeed was easy.
Bike to Work Day cycles through Joe Rodota Trail rain or shine
Cyclists around Sonoma County skipped their car rides and hopped on their bikes, despite drizzly gray weather in honor of Bike to Work Day on Thursday, May 12. In Sebastopol, the Joe Rodota Trail served as the main route to and from Santa Rosa, where many cyclists headed to their destinations.
