LandPaths mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. We engage more than 8,000 community members each year with our (3) core initiatives – Rooting Youth in Nature, Branching Out Conservation for Everyone, and Growing Community with Nature. These complimentary initiatives get youth from marginalized communities outside for recreation and science based nature exploration, connect families to the natural world through our Community Gardens and Vamos Afuera program, and engage volunteers in stewarding the land we manage to benefit the land while nourishing our volunteers.

SEC leads community-driven efforts to address challenges related to water supply and quality, open space, rural character, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and a better quality of life for all residents. Their mission is to work with the community to identify and lead actions that achieve and sustain ecological health in Sonoma Valley and to create measurable benefits in land, water, climate, and biodiversity. They envision a future where—people, land, water, and wildlife —thrive. Through strategic, collaborative approaches, SEC empowers communities to protect and revitalize the valley’s resources.

SEC manages public spaces like Sugarloaf Ridge State Park and Sonoma Garden Park, offering guided hikes and educational programming for diverse audiences. They monitor the Sonoma Watershed’s health, restore, and stabilize stream banks with native plants, and organize community creek clean-ups. SEC strategically strengthens biodiversity with initiatives like the Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor and habitat restoration projects. Critter cameras at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park help map wildlife movement, contributing valuable data for conservation efforts.

Community engagement forms a core aspect of SEC’s work, offering watershed education programs to all Sonoma Valley schools and expanding into Santa Rosa at no cost to students or teachers. The “”EnviroLeaders”” vocational program provides youth with hands-on natural resource work experience. Senderos Naturales invites Latino families to connect with nature through bilingual guided walks and campouts. Furthermore, the Sonoma Valley Collaborative unites diverse community leaders to tackle housing affordability and sustainability issues.

Through these diverse initiatives, SEC nurtures informed, empowered, and resilient communities, safeguarding Sonoma Valley’s land, water, climate and biodiversity for present and future generations.

Farm to Pantry began with a walk around a Healdsburg neighborhood. Our founder, Melita Love, saw so many fruit trees in her neighbors’ yards with once beautiful fruit rotting on the ground beneath them. She thought what a shame it was to see waste like that when 1 in 4 people in Sonoma County are facing food insecurity. So, she DID something about it. In 2008, the nonprofit Farm to Pantry was launched to serve a need in our local community: to provide a continuous supply of fresh, healthy produce to our most vulnerable neighbors who lack access to it by cultivating a community of growers and volunteers. The mission then and now is to bring together communities to end food injustice and reverse global warming by rescuing and sharing locally-grown food with those who have been systematically marginalized. We envision a just food system in which everyone has access to healthy food that honors and nourishes our community and heals the planet through eliminating food waste.

The Cultural Conservancy (TCC) is a Native-led Indigenous Rights nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, CA. Since our founding in 1985, our mission is to protect and revitalize Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of traditional knowledge and practices on their ancestral lands. TCC works with California Indian communities, American Indian Nations, Kānaka Maoli and other Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous communities in Central and South America. From our flagship Native Foodways program to our Native Media work, TCC partners with Indigenous communities on cultural revitalization projects that are shaped by community requests and guided by our Native Advisory Council of Traditional Knowledge Holders, community leaders, and land-care practitioners.

Our work uplifts traditional land practices and Native Foodways through the revitalization of cultural knowledge and ancestral lands. We work with Native community members, from Native farmers and Traditional Ecological Knowledge holders to families with gathering traditions and youth leaders tending their first land projects. By creating opportunities and increasing access to healthy lands and waters, we facilitate community-led transformation for Native communities struggling with food access, land displacement, and a lack of access to practice land-based traditions as an avenue to physical, spiritual, and cultural health. We also work to grow those opportunities and deepen collaborations nationally and internationally, with Native food sovereignty groups such as the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Traditional Native American Farmers Association, the Intertribal Agricultural Council, and the Slow Food Turtle Island Association and Slow Food International networks.