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Everyone is invited to socialize while mending or crafting at Mend & Befriend! The Grange will host four seasonal M&B events in 2025, each an informal time to chat while helping each other increase our skills. Each event will include a clothes swap/ fabric swap. Stay tuned for announcements of special guests bringing craft supplies for teaching an optional project.

When: Mark your calendars!

Tuesday, February 11th from 4:30-6:30 pm (a Valentine station will be set up for kids of ALL ages to make cards)
Tuesday, April 1st from 4:30-6:30 pm
Tuesday, June 3rd from 4:30-6:30 pm
Tuesday, October 7th from 4:30-6:30 pm

Where: The Sebastopol Grange 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Hwy 12
Who: Community members of all ages.
Bring: Mending or craft project, tool or simple item in need of repair, sewing supplies (your sewing machine if needed), clothing or fabric for the clothes swap and a snack if desired.
Wanted: New friends to mend & craft with and to learn new skills from.
More Info: https://sebastopolgrange.org/
produce@rahus.org

Grangers and friends enjoyed a delicious potluck meal.
Our Grange musicians Elaine Stanton, Paul Shwebel, Peter Schurch and Lawrence Jaffe performed a song from “The No Pan Hand”.
Craig Litwin shared a presentation on the 25 year anniversary for PEA – Planting Earth Activation, a community based garden-giveaway and seed saving group in Sebastopol.
Jessica Seevers was awarded a scholarship for her third year of herb school.
We welcomed new members David Gray Laverine, Cynthia Poirier, and Patricia O’Connor.

The Grange Virtual Farm provided a Harvest Meal for the Grange community made with love and produce from their gardens and farms on October 29, 2024. The Virtual Farm members met in person this past August to discuss growing food and local food security over a delicious potluck. It was at this dinner party that members decided to offer their fellow grangers a harvest meal from their surplus produce and to provide a resource list for the Grange website to help others that want to share their surplus produce with our community. The Harvest Meal included homemade/homegrown butternut squash and garlic greens lasagna topped with homegrown tomato sauce and homegrown apple crisp for dessert.

Learn more about the Grange Virtual Farm and find the application form to join.

On November 1st, Carol Henderson and Laura Shafer planted geraniums and garlic in the metal planters in front.

Bogatyr is a rare hardneck variety with marbled purple stripe. Fiery, raw heat. Large dark purple/brown bulbs with 4 or more large cloves. One of the longest storing hardnecks. Will store 7-9 months. A Chester Aaron variety, originally from the Moscow area.
Donated by the Seed Garden. This is our 2nd year growing garlic at our Grange.

At our June General Meeting, Grangers and friends enjoyed a great potluck meal and good company and were entertained by Peter Schurch, Mohawk Blade, and Jana Mariposa performing “Put a Woman in Charge” by blues musician Keb’ Mo’.

We cheered watching a sample of the US women’s Olympic rugby team play that President Lawrence and his family will see in Paris next week. And we learned from Vincent Ajayi about an innovative method of converting commercial food waste into healthy, organic chicken feed (uptakefarmsinc.com)

There will be no Grange meetings in July, but plan to join us for our general meeting and potluck on Tuesday, Aug. 27.

At our March General Meeting, we enjoyed a potluck dinner, with delicious entrees prepared by caterer Isa Jacoby. Grange musicians serenaded us.
Adam Peacock led a presentation about the Camino de Sonoma, a 75-mile journey across Sonoma County that invites people to enjoy the beauty of this land and learn more about its unique history while participating in the deeply human experience of an extended walk. 

At our February Grange general meeting, our Chaplain Barton Stone gave the blessing in our welcome circle, then Grangers and friends enjoyed socializingas they enjoyed a delicious potluck dinner that included tamales made by the California Homemakers Association.
We were serenaded by our Grange musicians, led by Peter Schurch, we swore in and welcomed new members Michael and Carol Ellis, and we finished the evening by swearing in members of our 2024 leadershp team.
Join us for our next meeting on the last Tuesday of the month. Everyone is invited!