Events
Guided tours of the Golden Rule Garden (you DON'T want to miss this!) will be given from 10:30 to Noon on August 16. For those interested in carpooling gather in the Evergreen Parking Lot (Ray's) near the 101 end of it about 10:00 am. The cars will leave for Golden Rule at 10:15 am.
For those unable to carpool, take 101 south to the Ridgewood Ranch exit. Follow the road to the Golden Rule turnoff (it is well marked) and turn right. Signs will lead you through to the garden.
They have invited all attendees to bring sack lunches and enjoy the garden as a picnic spot!
"Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun"
With skyrocketing oil prices & political turmoil in the Middle East, solar power is an efficient and affordable energy option.
Pancake Breakfast
Coordinating Committee Meeting
Project Report Night
Turning Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance!
A Slide Show & Book Signing Tour with Brad Lancaster
Mendocino
County
Tour
Boonville Fire House – Tues, Sept. 9, 2008 - 7 pm
Willits
Community Center
– Wed, Sept. 10, 2008 – 5pm
Get out your shovels and dance in the rain!
That is what Brad Lancaster’s 2nd volume in his trilogy on Rainwater Harvesting will make you want to do!
Rainwater Harvesting Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Building on the information presented in Volume 1 ( www.HarvestingRainwater.com), Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol 2, shows you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen water-harvesting earthworks. It presents detailed how-to information and variations of a diverse array of earthworks, including chapters on mulch, vegetation, and greywater recycling so you can customize the techniques to the unique requirements of your site. Returns come in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, and passive heating and cooling strategies, while controlling erosion, increasing soil fertility, reducing downstream flooding, and improving water and air quality.
Suggested donation of $5 to $10 to support Brad’s great work! No one turned away for lack of funds!
This event is co-sponsored by the
Mendocino
Ecological
Learning
Center
www.melc.us, the City of
Willits
and the Navarro Watershed Working Group (www.nwwg.org). For details call 456-0779 or 895-3230
Coordinating Committee Meeting
