Author: Matt Pelletier

SoulStretch Movement Class at CCWF

The first two groups set their mats down when they arrived in the room and my third group, a combination of women 65+, some in wheelchairs and some with their yoga mats, formed a semi-circle for class.

The Land is Our Inheritance

Bare feet. Fruit falling and some still hanging. This apple tree feels like I’m in Eden. The tree of life without the serpent. I think about how it was innate for my ancestors to come to the trees, to know the time for planting them, for eating from them.

The Earth Program submitted 2 grants to ecological restoration programs in California, one for agriculture and one for soil health

Fish and Wildlife started surveying the upper part of Rancheria Creek where it meets Anderson Creek on our property. They’re counting the number of Steelhead (threatened species) and Coho (Endangered) in the Navarro and its tributaries.

<span class="black">Love to Table is delivering 200 burritos and wraps weekly in Harlem </span>

Earth has partnered with a landscape design firm to create plans for 100,000 gallons of new water storage for our garden irrigation that will reduce our use of our river and our well.

Art of Soulmaking has a waitlist of over 200 women at Central California Women’s Facility, putting our enrollment at 22% of the entire population.

<span class="black">Earth is transitioning our garden to no-till farming, working in collaboration with Paul and Elizabeth of Singing Frog Farm in Santa Rosa as an effort to reduce our water use and build soil health.</span>

<span class="black">Unconditional Freedom Project delivered the next round of 60 yoga mats and workbooks to Central California Women’s Facility for the next bath of Art of Soulmaking students, now over 20% of the population at CCWF is enrolled in The Art of Soulmaking</span>

<span class="black">Earth convened a Water and Soil Summit on our property, including documentary Kiss the Ground’s Ray Archuleta to assess soil health. On the last day during Ray Archuleta’s outdoor presentation, it started raining for the first time in 6 months, and didn’t stop for 2 weeks (and 18 inches later). </span>