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.

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Land Acknowledgement

Our community gardens, office, and preserves throughout Sonoma County are located on the ancestral homelands of the Pomo, Coast Miwok, Kashia Band of Pomo Indians, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, and the Wappo people, past, present, and future. We recognize them as the First Peoples 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

Let's Read Outside / Leamos Afuera @ Bayer Farm

  • Fridays at Bayer Farm all summer long!
  • 10:30am
  • Free!

 

Let’s Read Outside is a garden program at Bayer Farm, Jeff’s Garden at Andy’s Unity Park and other Sonoma County open spaces. This is a special opportunity to get to know Bayer Farm and engage in aloud story time in the garden. The Let’s Read Outside program provides opportunities for families to combine a love of reading with a love of being outdoors.

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Garden Day at Ocean Song-Myers Preserve

Day: Sunday, July 13
Time: 9am – 1:30pm
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, which is home to dozens of plant and animal species!
Activities depend on the season, and might include pruning, mulching, mowing or other seasonal needs. We’ll most likely be removing some teasel!  We’ll provide tools and gloves. Your abilities will guide the task!  Volunteer land stewardship days like this are the best way to experience Ocean Song Preserve, which is closed to public access. The day will be led by LandPaths’ Ocean Song Steward Erin Mulligan.

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Midsummer Hike at Lafferty Ranch

  • Day: Saturday, July 19
  • Time: 9am – 1:30pm
  • Place: Lafferty Ranch, Petaluma

July mornings tend to be on the milder side at the Lafferty Ranch Open Space on upper Sonoma Mountain and you’re invited to come out and experience it for yourself! Join docent Larry Modell, a long-time advocate for public open space, to explore this unique property and discuss its future. 

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Forest Therapy Hike at Bohemia Ecological Preserve

  • Day: Sunday, July 27
  • Time: 10am – 1pm
  • Led by Bohemia docents Emily and Lindsey

Join volunteer docents Emily Wolf McMane, a certified Forest Therapy Guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT) and Lindsey Dyer, outdoor educator, for a Forest Therapy Hike at Bohemia Ecological Preserve. Forest therapy is based on the Japanese practice, shinrin-yoku, which can be translated as “forest bathing” or “taking in the atmosphere of the forest.”

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Stories + News

Stories of Impact

Why Do We Conduct Prescribed Burns?

May 29, 2025

Reflections from Jim & Betty Doerksen, Land Partners at Rancho Mark West

February 14, 2025

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Jim and Betty Doerksen purchased Rancho Mark West in 1967. The Doerksens have worked tirelessly, planting upwards of “one million trees,” according to Jim. They also started […]

Volunteer Spotlight: Carol Carr, Wildlife Corridor Project

February 10, 2025

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After the Glass fire in 2020, Carol Carr was looking for ways to make a difference in her community by helping out with fire recovery efforts. Her […]

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