Featured Event: Forest Health Extravaganza
March 29TH, 2025
Join us for a packed weekend of workshops, demonstrations, and community action focused on forest health and fire resilience.
See full event details & RSVP on Facebook
Latest News & Updates
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Natural Building Workshop
Tired of drywall? Come play in the mud with us. Join our hands-on Natural Building Workshop in Leggett, CA from August 10-17! We believe in building real skills for a resilient community. You’ll learn multiple techniques from expert Colin Gillespie: • Cob building • Natural Plasters • Earthen Floors & more! We learn while we work, and then we feast. Get ready for amazing food,…
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Defensible Space and Fuels Reduction Work Party
With all the wonderful things Tan Oak Park does for our community like host our Fire Benefit free every year and now provide a huge water tank for fire departments, we can give back a little by working a few hours to make the park more fire-safe. Next Wednesday July 23rd, community volunteers will join…
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TOPFest 2025
Tan Oak Park hosts a Summer Solstice Event Saturday June 21, 2025 celebrating the completion of the Leggett Fire Water Tank, a 72,000 gallon water tank dedicated to fire protection for Tan Oak Park and the surrounding region. Get Your Tickets
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Forest Health Extravaganza March 29 & 30
We’re co-sponsoring this packed event with the Eel River Recovery Project and many other groups shown below. On Saturday March 29, 2025 at Harwood Hall in Laytonville, we’ll host an all-day gathering featuring speakers, panels, lightning talks, a poster session, and plenty of time for questions and networking discussing all aspects of forest health, fire…
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Photos from the Pile Burning Workshop
On Saturday December 7, 2024 we gathered along a private road north of Laytonville and explored different ways to burn piles while making biochar. The piles were created by a thinning project under a Calfire Forest Health Grant. The thinning crew came through and built the piles and saved about an acre of piles for…
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Pile Burning Workshop
Saturday December 7, 2024 10:00 am to 4:00 pm 7 miles north of Laytonville Learn how to build piles in the forest and safely burn them Get hands-on instruction in lighting piles, monitoring them, and quenching them. Learn about what permits are required and how to get them. Learn new techniques for burning, including the…
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Natural Building with Clay, Stone, and Wood
A week-long immersion in practical skills for developing a healthy reciprocal relationship between people and place. Imagine inhabiting the landscape in a way that simultaneously enhances the health and resilience of the local ecosystem while harvesting materials to build beautiful and energy-efficient human shelters. Such a lifestyle is not only possible but has been the…
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Open Compass Skills Gathering – June 21-23, 2024
Join us on the Summer Solstice for a Skills Gathering at Tan Oak Park. Learn new and old skills, meet new friends, renew your connections to community and earth. Enjoy good food, sit by the campfire, swim in the creek, play music, and sleep under the stars. Bring the whole family. Get more details here.
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Women’s Chainsaw Workshop
UPDATE: The Women’s Chainsaw Workshop has sold out. To get on the Waiting List, go to the eventbrite page and click the “Get Tickets” button. You can then sign up for the Waiting List. There may be a few cancellations and you will be first in line for future sessions this year. The Mendocino County…
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Biochar Burning & Learning Day
The Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance (NM-ERA) invites you to a day of Learning and Burning at Tan Oak Park on Thursday, February 22, 2024. We’ll start at 10:00 am, assembling our Ring of Fire Kiln, then loading it with forest thinning wood. We’ll light it up and keep adding fuel as we discuss biochar…
