Working with the Green Community in Sonoma County

I am blessed to work with some amazing and wonderful people in planning the conference. I am inspired daily by the way people in the green community care for the environmant and work together creating a better future.

This includes our volunteers. When I asked one of our volunteers, Greg Zirbel, if he wanted to contribute to our carbon offset raffle, here's what he offered:

I would like to donate one of my Historic birdhouse feeders that resembles what was the St. Francis winery in Kenwood. This original birdhouse was made from the recovered redwood barn wood from what was once the largest pig farm in Sonoma County, the Ress Pig Barn of Cotati, CA. Many of Sonoma's giant Sequoia were cut down in the early 1900’s, to help turn Sonoma County into the “chicken capital of the world”. I regretted seeing all this old growth redwood go to waste, in Sonoma Counties' condemned barns. By recycling old redwood, NeatTweets is excited to be preserving a part of history.

I figured that for this project I would create numerous birdhouses and let them sit and weather for years before I would accept my art project as complete. I wanted to create another ghost town of my own. If I let them weather for years, getting rained on, sitting in the heat of the summer sun and letting the wind and fog work on them, I’d have a collection of historical miniatures that resembled an abandoned town as was Bodie, the second largest city in California in it’s time. Then I’d have completed my art project.

You can learn more about these handcrafted birdhouses on Gerg's website - NeatTweets. 

Thank you Greg for volunteering, donating and sharing your cool project with us.