Commentics Water is going to be one of Sonoma County's biggest challenges. Water for homes, farms, fire fighting, etc. Without thinking seriously about water we can have all the lovely trees and farms and homes we want and still run completely dry. We need to manage our farms, our home, our wetlands, our street trees, our wetlands, etc. with water conservation and groundwater recharge in mind. No water, no life.

]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:07:54 -0700 item_183 Agriculture and Forests for People, Managed by the People, within their local communities. A permaculture guided green infrastructure development plan in each community based on numbers of residence that requires so much edible food + natural forest per residence and designates local land for these vegetation holding areas to reduce urban sprawl and produce food and carbon for people and the earth in each community. This is different from parks, which we need for recreation, because it's permaculture balanced food and forests, and not corporate or private farming alone, as we now have. This leaves business farming to far outside of residential communities while allowing for local organic agriculture and nature within them. It is community managed human centric food and eco-forest development for all. It allows for several neighborhoods to have both natural food and forest production close by per capita.

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