The living plants used for decorating the conference will be donated to Bayer Farm, a five-acre urban farm and future city park in the Roseland area of Santa Rosa. The Sustainable Enterprise Conference, Harmony Farm Supply and Empire 1 Nursery are working together to supply Bayer Farm with vegetable starts, ornamentals, and native plants for their first spring planting.

Bayer Farm community garden and park is a groundbreaking new project of the local nonprofit LandPaths in partnership with the City of Santa Rosa. It is a place where school children from Roseland, and soon from throughout Santa Rosa and Sonoma County, visit to discover their relationship to the land at this sustainable, community farm and learning center.

LandPaths is dedicated to fostering a love of the land in Sonoma County and creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities. Not so long ago, most people knew how to grow food and had a relationship of some kind with the land where they lived. Through environmental education, land stewardship, vegetable gardening and community activities, LandPaths’ programs at Bayer Farm promise to give urban folks a place to be in nature, grow food and enjoy being part of a community.

The Sustainable Enterprise Conference, Empire 1 Nursery, and Harmony Farm Supply are proud to contribute plants to this worthy project. Learn more about LandPaths here.