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Garden Tours

Part 1: Designing a Garden with California Native Plants and Stones: Creating a Sense of Place and Connection {CLICK HERE TO WATCH}

Part 2: Designing with California Native Pollinator Plants {CLICK HERE TO WATCH}

Calmar plant list *This plant list accompanies the Two Part Series

Gardening By Nature's Design: A Permaculture Approach to a California Native Plants Garden {CLICK HERE TO WATCH}

Oakland Hills California Native Garden Plant List *this plant list accompanies the video tour titled above

Bringing Back the Natives

Bay-Friendly Garden Tour

Native Plants

California Native Plant Society – East Bay Chapter

Yerba Buena Nursery - the first native nursery in California

Regional Parks Botanic Garden - a California native plants botanical garden in Tilden Park

Edible Gardening 

Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and Coastal California by Pam Peirce

How to Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine by John Jeavons

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening by Louise Riotte

Gardening Without Work by Ruth Stout

How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening by Ruth Stout

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Permaculture

Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

Classes, Workshops and Certification

OAEC (Occidental Arts & Ecology Center)
15290 Coleman Valley Rd. Occidental, CA 95465
707 874 1557

Regenerative Design Institute (RDI)
451 Mesa Rd. Bolinas, CA 94924
415 868 9681

Urban Permaculture Institute
San Francisco

Greywater Action - For a Sustainable Water Culture
how to bring the water from your washing machine, etc. into your garden – classes, publications, actions, philosophy

Sustainable Landscaping & Living

StopWaste.org

Merritt Landscape Horticulture Department

Sustainable Homes & Living

East Bay Green Home Tour

Home Power magazine - generally easy to read do-it-yourself articles about: solar systems, wind energy, hydro power, rainwater harvesting, etc.

Grid Alternatives - volunteer to install a photovoltaic (solar)  system for a low-income household.
1171 Ocean Ave #200
Oakland, Ca.
510 731 1310

Solar Living Institute - classes in solar design & installation and sustainable living: greywater, permaculture, etc.