"An old growth redwood speaks in a soft toned voice of patience and endurance. From a seed no bigger
than a tomato's, Sequoia Sempervirens may grow to a height of 367 feet (122 m) with a width
of 22 feet (7m) at its base."
--NPS Redwood site

In the spirit of patience and endurance, Heritage Salvage brings purpose and skills to wayward youth.
As the redwoods make rain out of fog, we will add purpose to bolster young spirits.
Our intent is to teach and empower at risk youth to assist themselves and our at risk planet.

Heritage Salvage is in the process of forming Fogcatchers Foundation, a 501 c-3 Non Profit Company.
In my search to put together the means to teach carpentry and furniture building skills to troubled youth,
I ran into a serendipitous groundswell of support and participants. When you build the right thing,
they will come!

Fogcatchers already has volunteers with their own businesses and skills to teach:

This is just the beginning. Stay tuned, and we will keep updating our progress. This is a concept of
major growth potential! We will happily accept volunteers, suggestions and donations.

Fogcatchers has a plan to use the redwood not deemed fit enough for furniture or dwellings.
We would like to go round to all the school grounds and have the students help us
build their composting worm bins! This would be our first step in assisting the establishment of
a nutritional curriculum for our schools.

It will, on the other hand, take a little while to work through the process to get our
501 c-3 and assemble our cohesive selves. The time line of jumping
through bureaucratic hoops to make a non-profit status a reality is long,
(up to a year). We would, meanwhile, love to get you in our rolodex and keep you updated with
our progress. Any volunteer assistance and knowledge in the setting up and streamlining of these endeavors
is also appreciated and humbly accepted!

The first recipient of a composting bin will be Salmon Creek School in Occidental.
Villa Vista School in Petaluma has also requested one.

Synchronicity rocks!
Michael 'Bug' Deakin

Fogcatchers Board

Fogcatchers distinguished board and advisory board of directors has been set.

Chas Starr , director of Ya Ka Ama Indian Education fund is putting together the submittal
and charter for Fogcatchers.