Hi Waccos!

My lawn is full of tasty grass, dandelions, clover and sorrel, and I'd be delighted to offer your goat the opportunity to chew it down to the roots.

My severely-ill daughter has a...

38209It's simple, really. Just go to your dreaming (or drumming or dancing) with the intention, in mind, of peace.

This event was created in response to the recent increase in hate crimes that...

I wish I could afford to pay extra, to hire and retain good workers, but as DreadTori pointed out, we have to be poor to qualify for help.

There was a short time this summer when I felt well...

In any employment situation, abuses can go either way. The thing that makes abuse by employees especially sensitive with IHSS, is that the employer is a vulnerable, disabled person.

An employee...

Do not despair. I think lots of us wacco folks are saving the world by composting, already. To quote the Beatles' "Revolution," We're all doing what we can.

I am a lifelong composter -- learned...

Excellent note of caution, thanks. I think theft may not be the biggest fear, but other sorts of offenses certainly do occur.

Anyone looking at IHSS work as a way to break into houses is risking...

This-here took me a few questions and clicks to find, so I'm sharing it here. There's a petition, to put a referendum on the ballot regarding mandatory vaccines. and this link lists place in Sonoma...

Some complexes have frequent inspections at short notice, and then even if they don't, and even if you don't smoke, growing would be a risky undertaking. If there were some emergency or even ordinary...

Yes, this does need to change. Federal agencies have said they will no longer make raids enforcing federal laws that run counter to our state laws which allow medical cannabis use, so I'm hoping...

This post is getting great response, via private messages, but no public replies. I just want to encourage folks not to be shy. Please feel free to post here to discuss or ask questions. I promise I...

Hear, hear!

With the discussion reshaped as, "Let's fund libraries, so they can stay open more days and hours," I'm enthusiastically in agreement.

As a supporter of workers' rights, I am also...

An excellent category. Thanks!

The NIDA has this month revised its statement on Medical Marijuana. The new text includes admissions of the value of cannabis, like these:





I think this is a really hopeful sign for...

Petaluma Health Center Dental Clinic -- Excellent. Unfortunately they are not taking new adult patients at this time BUT they are building a new and larger clinic in Rohnert Park and they say they...

Loving libraries, I too see them as a wonderful possible place to spend a holiday. But is it just a matter of budget? I guess I see holidays from a workers' point of view: the holidays are days off...

My family farmer gave me the okay to share this. He calls it ...

... a Socialist Organic Cannabis Cooperative.

Patients with valid, current Medical Marijuana Recommendations can join, and...

Looks like the original link was broken --- SF Gate took down the story and put up a couple others. Here they are, and I will edit the original link to substitute these in for the missing story.
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Dr Jamie Deckoff-Jones' most recent two blog installments are worth reading, regarding vaccination and safety.

Starting with a look at the current debate, The Myth of Vaccine Safety cites...

I hope all our Wacco people are safe. I know there was a time in my life when I too might have skirted warning signs but having worked for parks, I know that the decision is not taken lightly, to bar...

This new paper in the scholarly journal, Surgical Neurology International, finds links from Glyphosate to Manganese depletion to diseases from autism to Alzheimer's and more.



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As a member of a co-op that has been operating for more than a couple of years, I can enthusiastically endorse the concept!

As part of my involvement in the coop I make cannabis-infused coconut...

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Hi there, WACCO :waccosun:

I have been hibernating but I'm back and ready to share Spring's delights!

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My composter is doing well so I can spare a couple of handfuls of fat worms -...

NaNoWriMo is just around the corner. Now would be a great time to get a writers' group started, and share preparations and plans for some write-ins.

Thank you so much, Patricia, for your very thoughtful and so very well-organized responses. And thank you too, sealwatcher, for inviting Patricia's input. There's a lot of excellent, useful material...

A thorny topic but the time is ripe to pick your fight.

Quick recap for those who didn't see earlier discussion:

Sonoma County Water Agency sprays Monsanto's "RoundUp" along our county's...

Warning Signs...

Anybody want to make your own? Help me out with the wording on mine? Check the Spanish translation?

I'm thinking something like this...

Warning: Sonoma County Water Agency...

Actions You Can Take:

Anyone: can help by putting us in touch with experts willing to write a statement to our county water agency re: dangers of Roundup.

Anyone: can write letters to Sonoma...

Wonderful sealwatcher!

Thank you, I'm so glad you can go meet with them.

It sounds to me like what they are offering is not so much a one-sided presentation from them to us, as an actual...

Sacramento County points the way, with an environmentally-sound alternative!

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/08/13/sacramento-county-ditches-lawn-mowers-for-goats/

We have received a reply on Facebook from the SCWA:



I replied that we will be in touch soon to schedule a meeting. But before we do that, we need to gather our coalition of activists and...

Roundup has been linked to Infertility; birth defects; Alzheimer’s disease; Parkinson’s disease; Multiple sclerosis;ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease); Autism; Gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory...

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There are alternatives to spraying. This petition asks Supes to look into those. https://www.change.org/petitions/sonoma-county-supervisors-stop-using-toxic-roundup-on-our-creekbanks

Just...

Heartfelt and humble thanks to all who visited the blog and poked the paypal button. Hazel's goal has been met, she'll have the impacted teeth extracted, and she'll even have some left over for...

Smoochies to Wacco! I now have two care providers splitting the job, and it looks like both will work out great. Wacco turned out to be a better source of responses than Facebook, Craigslist, or the...

Got a couple of leads so it looks like we might have this one solved. Many thanks to the community member who is donating a used monitor! And also to the community member who clued me in to this...

Thanks Barry for the added note! This is still in the works so, here's hoping! :Thanks: