Classroom nearly ready for the @bioneers post-Conference workshop on Regenerative Landscaping on March 29th led by me and @ewillie44 . Come to Bioneers, join the workshop and learn about regenerative design, traditional ecological knowledge, Agroforestry, Water Harvesting, food production and so much more. @permaculture_artisans #bioneers #theregenerativelandscaper #permacultura #agroforestry
Alliance for Felix Cove invites you to gather with us at Tamal-liwa (Tomales Bay) for a hands-on tule canoe building workshop led by Redbird Willie (Pomo, Wintu, Paiute, and Wailaki), a native ecologist and Traditional Ecological Knowledge keeper in the realms of traditional skills, permaculture, basket weaving, herbalism, and regalia-making.
We’ll gather on October 4 & 5 at White House Pool Park to deepen our connection with land, water, and tule, and to honor the knowledge of the Támal-ko/Coast Miwok people—including the Felix Family of Felix Cove.
🗓️ Oct 4 & 5 | 10am–3pm
📍 White House Pool Park, Point Reyes Station
🌱 Harvest and bundle tule
🌊 Launch a canoe into Tamal-liwa
🌀 Reflect on Coast Miwok history and Indigenous stewardship
🍲 Lunch provided—please bring your reusable items
Your presence—whether for 1 day or both days—supports community, learning, and care for this special place.
Registration required (link in bio).
Riparian restoration volunteer day this Friday at Heron Shadow! This is last minute, but from now on we will have our restoration volunteer days on the second Friday of each month. So mark your calendars. The fall time is when we get to do most of our planting. The plants are ready!🌱🌿🪴
It’s impossible to encapsulate the experience we had this weekend at the Sacred Garden workshop. A wonderful community came to circle amongst the seeds, the herbs, the fruits, the fire, and the fiber. Joined by a number of wisdom keepers, incredible experiences were had by all! This is why we keep doing the work. Our hearts were blasted open, hope and joy kindled, and a sense that we can be good ancestors when we treat the land and each other in a good way. Many thanks and so much love to everyone who took apart, including the spirits of these lands and of the plant queendoms we spent the weekend emersed in. @earth_activist_training@permaculture_artisans@ewillie44 #sacredgarden #ancestralskills #seedsaving #foodforests #permaculture #theregenerativelandscaper
Our in-person Sacred Garden Workshop (which takes place in our mature food forest) is coming up in less than a month.
There are still a few spots available! Join me and a host of incredible teachers including @ewillie44 , @cornucopiafoodforestgarden , and Michelle Sauceda for a full weekend exploring regenerative design, traditional skills, food production, friction fire, herbal medicine making, natural cordage and fiber making, and so much more. We will engage with the land through the lens of deep ecology and ancestral folk traditions. Link 🔗 in bio. @earth_activist_training #sacredgarden #permaculture #foodforestdesign #ancestralwisdom #theregenerativelandscaper
Lillawa’s words: The matriarch of our family passed away this morning, June 11th around 6:15am at age 89 surrounded by family and her beloved pets. Rosalie Irene McKay was many things to many people. To me, she was a grandmother and the most important elder in shaping my life and values. She was the strongest person I’ve ever known, who endured struggles and hardships, unlike anyone I’ve known. But she remained positive and inspired, not letting the more difficult times in her life define her. She loved having fun, bowling with her friends when she was younger, she loved laughing and spending time with family. She loved watching her A’s and 49ers – the most devout niner and A’s fan in the world.
Rosalie was a survivor of Indian boarding schools, taken away from her mother in Sacramento at age 6 and taken to Stewart Indian School in Carson City. She was a single mother of five children who worked hard to improve their lives and in doing so created blessed lives for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In between raising her kids, she worked and eventually went back to school. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Native American Studies, and later her masters in Library Science, both at UC Berkeley and created the first Native American Studies Library at UC Berkeley.
She was a lifelong Democrat, who never stopped reading about politics and history, and was constantly listening to political news, commentary and books. She was a delegate for Jerry Brown in his early presidential campaigns. She was an advocate and leader for Native issues and rights. She even took her five children to live on Alcatraz during the Indian occupation, where she got involved in political and community movements and was inspired to go to back to school.
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My book is finding its way into the world still. Grateful for all support folks have shown and the great reviews that are coming in. I had the first college professor reach out inquiring about using my book for their class. Yes! This is what this body of work was meant for. To empower, inspire, and more importantly, provide real, tangible skills to readers to heal our world. Thanks again to @synergeticpress for helping me birth this tome. And many thanks to @ewillie44 for the wonderful illustrations. And @adam_wolpert for the incredible cover art. And to all the voices, writers, and stories of folks doing real regeneration around the world who contributed to the book. Thank you! I love you! #theregenerativelandscaper #regenerativedesign #landscapedesigner #permaculture #gardendesigner #regenerativefarming #ediblelandscaping
Name That Flower! Habitat restoration Volunteer Day next Friday, May 16. Our native flowers are popping like our firecracker flower included here in these slides. Guess which one is the firecracker flower. Also hidden in these slides is a video of our resident mama fox, Zora. She is always hungry (another spring litter in our riparian thicket). She is a traditional native cali mama eating manzanita berries from her abalone bowl. Abalone is one of the few if not the only Ohlone word in common usage worldwide. 🐚 #californianativeplants #californiawildflowers #manzanita #nemophila #nemophilamenziesii #irismacrosiphon #delphiniumtrolliifolium #sisyrinchiumbellum #sambuncus #dicendraformosa #arctostaphylos #cammasia #aquilegia #heronshadow #theculturalconservancy
Last chance to see this all this cool art all in one place! This Saturday evening. Free native mini plants to the first 20 or so people. I will give one more guided tour with my mobile PA. People don’t have to tell me to speak up anymore. I’ve been sick in bed making comic book filter selfies. I will be better by Saturday
This friday, 3/7, is our March habitat restoration day at Heron Shadow.. Here are a few of our plants anxiously waiting to be gently placed into their new permanent homes before native California planting season ends. We will be focusing on our pond restoration corridor. In the last slide we can see the cedar waxwings fluttering about. Maybe you will get to see them before they continue on in their annual migration.
