North Coast Resource Conservation & Development Council

Farm-to-School: This program connects schools to local farmers to increase fresh produce and other foods available for students in our local schools. It also provides student education and experiences in gardening cooking and farming practices.

Pollinator Habitat & Pollinator Rearing Support- This program works with youth and other community members to increase pollinator habitat including supporting habitat threatened and endangered bumblebees and butterflies like the western bumblebee Behrens Spotted Butterfly BSB Monarch butterfly and other pollinators. BSB work includes laboratory captive rearing and caterpillar butterfly release.

Fire Resiliency: Working principally with small landowners in Napa Sonoma Mendocino and Lake Counties and small portions of Yolo and Colusa Counties to implement practices to reduce fire threats and improve landscape-level fire resiliency in timberlands and rangelands. 2024: $63,227 and expected to grow appreciably in 2025. Russian River Confluence: Watershed -wide collaboration on building drought and flood resiliency in light of climate change and ensuring connections on watershed restoration rehabilitation best management practices implementation and monitoring. Other small programs include Technical assistance to farmers Tree Planting and Urban Greening and general conservation education and outreach.