We’re excited to announce that the OAEC Nursery is reopening on April 3rd! After taking the 2025 season off to reimagine our vision for the program and do some much-needed tending of our infrastructure, we are getting ready to open the doors again to our plant-loving community. The nursery will continue to be a wild celebration of […]
After a long Covid hiatus, on-site tours of the gardens led by real live humans will resume this April! Join us 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 1pm, starting at the nursery (upper driveway) April – October. More info on in-person tours here. Or watch a new virtual tour! On a very hot and dry day in the summer of […]
The old saying “Don’t miss the water ‘till the well runs dry” couldn’t be more apt in this year’s unprecedented drought. Wells and reservoirs are drying up around the county, the CA State Water Resources Control Board is implementing restrictions throughout the Russian River watershed, and neighboring small farms have been forced to cancel their […]
These are extraordinary times in California–especially in the Dutch Bill Creek Watershed, where OAEC is located, and the watersheds surrounding it. The water in our creeks is so low that the already threatened coho salmon species is in great peril. In response to this mounting issue, OAEC’s WATER Institute helped found the Russian River Coho Water Resources […]
The OAEC Mother Garden Nursery is closed for the 2025 season. As OAEC marks our 30th Anniversary, the Mother Garden celebrates its 50th! The garden and nursery are in a transitional, celebratory year with some big changes afoot. The nursery is taking the 2025 season off to celebrate our achievements, make structural improvements, and re-imagine our vision for the program moving […]
The OAEC non-profit nursery is the outward face of our 45-year-old esteemed Mother Garden and represents an outreach into the community from the experience, work and wisdom we’ve gained by working the land in the same place since 1974. The climate is changing and so is the OAEC Nursery! When we produced our first Plant […]
The old saying “Don’t miss the water ‘till the well runs dry” couldn’t be more apt in this year’s unprecedented drought. Wells and reservoirs are drying up around the county, the CA State Water Resources Control Board is implementing restrictions throughout the Russian River watershed, and neighboring small farms have been forced to cancel their […]
As the number of guests in our retreat program has increased in recent years, so has the volume of food scraps that our kitchen produces. For decades, our chickens, goats, garden hot heap compost piles, and vermiculture (worm) bins were sufficient for processing our kitchen compost, but as we’ve ramped up our integrated food system, […]
Take 30-75% off during our end-of-season sale October 26th-27th! We’re open two more weekends: October 19-20 & 26-27 10am – 5pm 15290 Coleman Valley Rd (upper driveway), Occidental CA Don’t miss your last chance to bring home some new green friends – just in time for rain!