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It’s almost time to plant the summer garden at Pine Tree Gardens! 🍅🥒🌶️

Pine Tree Gardens East and West provide permanent supportive housing for 28 adults living with serious mental illness in the City of Davis, located in Yolo County, California; the two residential homes are in quiet neighborhoods close to downtown and services. 🏡

What makes Pine Tree Gardens truly special isn’t just the garden—it’s the community that made the homes possible.

A few years ago, these homes were at risk of being lost. But the community came together, raised millions of dollars, and saved the homes.

Now Consero Solutions is helping that same community come together again with ongoing pro bono work.

To donate to ongoing efforts to rehabilitate and improve other homes like Pine Tree Gardens in the continuum of care for people living with serious mental illness in Yolo County, click the link below.

https://srcf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=7600&sorg_id=1000

The Thomson-Williams Mental Health Committee established this fund at the Yolo Community Foundation with the able assistance of Jessica Hubbard and Chelsea Fahr at the Sacramento Region Community Foundation to help support other homes and mental health care facilities now Pine Tree Gardens is safe.

To learn more about the successful effort to save Pine Tree Gardens and the contribution of the Williams family to the continuum of care, as well as to view photos of the homes, click the link below.

https://www.conserosolutions.com/post/pine-tree-gardens-east-and-west

More about the community effort:

The Thomson-Williams Mental Health Committee, composed of dedicated community members like Nicki King, Kathy Williams-Fossdahl, Marilyn Arneson Moyle, Petrea Moyle Marchand,Jeni Price, Nancy Temple, and Linda Wight (many of whom are former Board members of NAMI Yolo County or the Local Mental Health Board advising the Yolo County Board of Supervisors), is raising funds to help rehabilitate and improve other homes in the continuum of care for people living with serious mental illness.

Gratitude for past help:

Many thanks to the people who saved Pine Tree Gardens in Yolo County - including the Board of Supervisors under the leadership of Supervisor Don Saylor and Supervisor Jim Provenza - and the Yolo County Health & Human Services Agency in partnership with Ian Evans and the members of the Thomson-Williams Mental Health Committee. Consero Solutions founder Petrea Marchand and her team contributed pro bono support as part of that effort.

Thank you to everyone who helped save Pine Tree Gardens— join us to help continue this work!

🏞️ Putah Creek in Yolo County, California continues as the source of good conservation news! The Solano County Water Agency and UC Davis report that a total of 2,100 salmon -a record number - returned to Putah Creek this year. Work continues as a result of a partnership between UC Davis, the Solano County Water Agency, the Putah Creek Council, the Yolo Basin Foundation, and the Yolo Habitat Conservancy; the Conservancy prioritized Putah Creek in its countywide Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Community Conservation Plan. For more information about why the return of so many salmon is an extraordinary event, read the story Consero President Petrea Moyle Marchand wrote in 2024 which the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis recently cross-posted on their blog.

https://lnkd.in/gm8b8c89

Consero Solutions has worked with the Putah Creek Council, the Yolo Basin Foundation, and the Yolo Habitat Conservancy, including helping to complete the Yolo Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Community Conservation Plan. We love to point out these efforts are the result of local government and nonprofit partnerships, as well as the leadership of a few powerful individuals, like Robin Kulakow, Steve Chainey, and many other local luminaries. As John F. Kennedy is famous for saying, "One person can make a difference and everyone should try." May 2026 be a year of trying AND making a difference! 🌿