Tour: Rain & Greywater Fed Urban Oases

Saturday, August 21st, 10am-3pm, $45

Come visit the home and garden of Trathen Heckman, director of Daily Acts. We’ll explore Trathen’s backyard oasis, featuring the first single-residence permitted greywater system in Sonoma County, a constructed wetland, and rainwater catchment. Learn how it is possible to grow over 1,000 lbs of food annually using low-water growing techniques. We’ll tour this abundant city garden hosting bees, chickens, an apple-tree fence and over 200 varieties of edible and medicinal plants.

Then, we’ll see how water-savvy solutions have been implemented at sites around the neighborhood. Across the street is a water saving-and-harvesting food forest installed as a workshop in 2009 at the Cavanagh Center. Around the corner we’ll check out another abundant water-wise garden and home. Down the street we’ll explore Roger Gadow’s impressive site with over fifty varieties of fruit grafted onto a mere handful of trees, a rain barrel and much more.

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