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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!

Important information from the organizers of the Grange Produce Exchange/Donation

It has been brought to our attention that some counties have procedures to follow to prevent the spread of a citrus infestation called Asian Citrus Psyllid.  Sonoma County does not have any bans at this time on trading/gifting citrus within our county but to help stop any spread of the insect we can do the following as a precaution.

• trade or gift citrus within Sonoma County
• take leaves off the citrus before it leaves your property (leaves can go into the green bins)
• wash the citrus

You can find information about Asian Citrus Psyllid on the Sonoma County UCCE website.