Heritage Salvage reclaimed materials from the esteemed John I Haas Hops Warehouse in 2010. The 1924 warehouse yielded materials that have landed as custom tables, flooring, bar and counter tops in Bay Area breweries and restaurants from Lagunitas Brewery and Wild Goat Restaurant in Petaluma, Dean Biersch’s Hop Monk Tavern in Sonoma, Grable Vineyards in Knights Valley, Boca Pizzeria in Novato, and three San Francisco restaurants: Southpaw BBQ, Galette 88, and Hops & Hominy.

While sustainable organic food becomes a key ingredient in today’s best restaurants,
sustainable furnishings and décor are right behind. Heritage Salvage has
been providing sustainable restaurant furnishings, flooring and building materials to
Bay Area restaurant designers, architects and owners for years.

It is fantastic to collaborate with fabulous restaurateurs who care about source
of the materials they are using in their spaces. Reclaimed old wood transforms
into beautiful tables and bars with wonderful charm and a talking story
shared over a meal.

Heritage Salvage recently expanded to offer a line of reclaimed douglas fir shiplap wood through a new collaboration partner EcoSupply on the East Coast. At the same we unveiled our new name, WoodTalks, for the many fabulous reclaimed building materials we offer. Afterall, our wood all has a story to tell, and we love that.

For those that may be new to the term shiplap refers to wood planks that were used frequently as interior walls of old homes and buildings by placing them horizontally from floor to ceiling over the 2 X 4 studs.

WordUP! FREE Community Learning Fair debuts Sunday, October 30th, 2011 11am -6pm at Sonoma-Marin County Fairgrounds in Petaluma. WordUP is Literacy Works in action, an organization dedicated to learning. 

Bring your curiousity and choose to learn something new from up to five Learning Lounges: Health Up!, Green Up! Village Up! Skill Up! MixIt Up!

We just discovered a gem - the Petaluma Wildlife Museum and we have to share!
Located on the Petaluma High School campus, this student run musuem is open
to the public on Saturdays from 11:00 - 3:00pm. The museum houses 50 species
of animals, including aligators, lemurs, lizards and more.

It is founded on an innovative education theory: if you give high school students
as much responsibility and freedom as possible, they will rise to the challenge and succeed!
We agree! Students are able to take courses in Wildlife and Museum Management to learn

1. Repurposing reclaimed wood for a table is among the most adaptive and interpretive ways to realize the range one can achieve, from a rustic country kitchen farm table to a beautifully refined dining table.You can also let the original patina be a greater part of the legs while the table top necessarily needs to achieve ability to clean. Whether you use redwood barnboard or vinegar tank fir, a windfall slab or a hardwood door you can present it in trestle style, harvest table, turned legs or sawhorse chic!

Friedman's Home Improvement stores have been serving Sonoma County for more than
65 years. In 1946, Barry Friedman's (VP Operations) grandfather opened the first Friedman's Brothers in Petaluma with his brother. The two brothers ran a salvage yard fixing old stoves and such, which led to the opening of Friedman Brothers. It is from these roots, that the saying "if we don't have it you don't
need it." originated. The brothers were green before green was in fashion.

Inspiration comes to Occidental, California in the form of a Free Range
Yoga Feast: The Lotus Feed, August 13, 2011!

Local Yoga Teacher, and Photographer Jenay Martin created the Lotus Feed,
an event offering mini mind mouth and body feeds:

+Yoga with Shiva Rea
+Harvesting and herbology with Iron Chef Cat Cora,
+Natural and cob building, with Janine Bjornson
+Meditation with Demetri Velisarius
+ & More!

It is a gathering to celebrate all that we receive from the Earth -
there will be a bounty of locally harvested food from oysters,

Join in Daily Act's 350 home & garden challenge! It is Sonoma County's annual challenge to grow food, save water, conserve energy and build community.

Started last year to help create more resilient sustainable communities, the campaign goal to plant 350 gardens around Sonoma County, was exceeded as schools, churches, businesses, city governments all joined in planting 628 registered gardens.

Plastic Is Drastic! Three families recently took on the challenge to become more aware of their use of plastic, and how to reduce it. Sponsored by Krush Wine Country Radio and Heritage Salvage, for three weeks the families tracked their plastic use and reduced it!

The Family Challenge is part of the Plastic Is Drastic campaign to bring attention to the plastic garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean.