About LandPaths

LandPaths is an environmental education and conservation leader with the mission to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. We believe everyone should have access to the awe and inspiration of nature.

Annually, we engage thousands of participants like you in joyful, caring, and transformative relationship with the land. We do this mainly through creative outings led in both English and Spanish, environmental education, nature camps, and people-powered land stewardship of local open spaces.

Land Acknowledgement

Our community gardens, office, and preserves throughout Sonoma County are located on the ancestral homelands of the Southern Pomo, Coast Miwok, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, and Mishewal people, past, present, and future. We recognize them as the first people and the first stewards of this land.

Initiatives

Rooting Youth in Nature

LandPaths significantly reduces the barriers and expands opportunities to get outside so that more youth are able to experience wonder, joy, awe, belonging, and connection in nature.

Branching Out Conservation for Everyone

LandPaths expands the amount of people in Sonoma County who benefit from healthy land, understand the value of nature, and cultivate a sense of wanting to care for the land that gives so much back to us.

Community Care

Growing Community with Nature

Wildfires, flooding, and other challenges have dramatically increased globally and locally because of human-caused climate change. Reciprocal and joyful relationships between people and the land is a solution to climate disruption. From volunteer land stewardship days to community gatherings in local open spaces, you’ll find a range of creative, impactful opportunities to participate with LandPaths and make a difference.

Featured Outings

Broomapullooza Closing Day at Riddell Preserve

  • Day: Saturday, March 23
  • Time: 10am – 2pm
  • Place: Riddell Preserve, Healdsburg
  • Family friendly volunteer stewardship day!

Come and help us close out Broompullooza with a day of stewardship, art, snacks, and community at Riddell Preserve in Healdsburg! With artist Kelsi Anderson, we’ll be burning the French broom that’s been collected and organized into a sculpture on the land. And the final result will be a stunning piece of nature art made from the ash of the burned broom. You don’t want to miss this unique and inspiring experience! Bring the family as this is a kid-friendly stewardship day.

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Garden Day at Ocean Song/Myers Preserve

  • Day: Sunday, March 24
  • Time: 11:30am – 3:30pm 
  • Place: Ocean Song/Myers Preserve, Occidental

The pollinator and habitat garden at Ocean Song/Myers is a truly magical place. You are invited to experience the land as you help tend the garden, a home for myriad blooms, bees, and birds (so many birds!) Activities depend on the season, and might include invasive species removal, pruning, mulching, mowing and other seasonal needs. We’ll cater the task to your ability!
The day will be led by LandPaths’ wonderful volunteer garden steward Jan Lochner and Roxy Layden.

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Let's Read Outside with Sutter Family Medicine

  • Day/Día: Monday, April 1; lunes, 1 de abril
  • Time/Hora: 10am – 2pm
  • Place/Lugar: Bayer Farm, Santa Rosa – 1550 West Ave. 

Our guests will be the resident doctors from Sutter Family Medicine. Enjoy stories read aloud that center on eating healthy and taking care of yourself. You’ll also learn a bit about Cesar Chavez, since it is Cesar Chavez Day! This event will happen rain or shine. If it’s raining, dress in your warmest clothes and we’ll make accomodations. Plus, there will be treats to eat and more fun surprise activities!

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Branch Out with Wildflowers

  • Day: Saturday, April 6
  • Time: 10am to 2pm
  • Place: Riddell Preserve, Healdsburg

Join LandPaths, Ag + Open Space District, and Positive Images for a hike around Riddell Preserve and experience the reawakening of nature as seen on the amazing forest floor! This outing is apart of LandPaths’ new Branch Out series, centering LGBTQ+ community members with the purpose of creating a sense of belonging and inclusive spaces in the outdoors. Allies are welcomed! Get a close at what happens on the forest floor after the winter rains pass and spring sunshine helps the seedlings to make their way out the ground and into the world. You’ll be sure to leave this hike with an understanding of the beautiful flowers, plants, and ferns that make up the Riddell forest. If were lucky we can see some early spring flowers beginning to sprout. This hike is open to all and and we welcome all level of knowledge to join!

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Stories + News

Stories from the Field

Enter the Big Tree Month Photo Contest – January 2024

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It’s time for the Big Tree Month Photo Contest!   Large and big old-growth trees in Sonoma County captivate LandPaths participants with their immense size and complex network …

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Reflections: Slow Restoration Community Forestry Project for Women and Nonbinary Participants

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By Lara O’Herlihy, Stewardship Field Specialist This past October, fourteen strangers met for the first time at Riddell Preserve, LandPaths’ 400-acre protected open space preserve in the …

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Students Make More Nature and Science Connections through New Environmental Education Pathways Project in Sonoma County

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Students Make New Connections WithEnvironmental Education Pathways  On a brisk and sunny day at Glen Oaks Ranch, 3rd graders from Flowery Elementary School chat merrily as they hike …

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