REGENERATING    PARADISE

The Annual Paradise Grazing Festival is one of our favorite local events. This year, we had a great time enjoying local food, feeding the goats, and engaging with community members from across the Ridge and beyond. Here's a quick recap of the day. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Regenerating Paradise booth. See you at the next one!

This fall, the Paradise Tool Lending Library will begin lending tools for the first time! We at Regenerating Paradise are excited to bring this long-awaited resource to the Ridge community. Save the Date Join us on Saturday, September 26th, 2026, to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Paradise Tool Lending Library (PTLL). We're planning a fun community-focused event with local food, art, music, and activities. Plus, you'll have a chance to get to know the PTLL tool collection

The Paradise Tool Lending Library is inching closer to launch, with plans to open later this year. What's the next step? Beautify the Library's storage container with a mural! We're looking for a local artist or art group to take the lead. What is the PTLL? By providing free or low-cost access to expensive, rarely used tools, and the know-how to use them, the PTLL helps neighbors on the Ridge maintain fire-safe properties, learn new skills, and work side-by-side to cultivate

After years of planning, research, starts and stops, the Paradise Tool Lending Library (PTLL) is a giant leap closer to serving the community: We have a shipping container! Future home of the Paradise Tool Lending Library The container -- a beige one-trip, high-cube model -- was delivered to the Paradise Community Garden earlier this week. This turnkey storage solution will keep our collection of tools dry, organized and secure. What is the Paradise Tool Lending Library? Tool

Regenerating Paradise invites the community to two events in October that will teach you how to use the winter rains to build soil in your gardens and nurture the growth of native plants and wildflowers. On Saturday, October 18th, from 9am to noon, we’ll learn how to “Love Your Soil” by using organic amendments to encourage the microbial environment that will nurture long-term fertility. The following Saturday, October 25th, from 9 to noon, we’ll learn more about “Cultivating

On July 24, the Town of Paradise held a special meeting to talk about our community's wastewater system options. This week, on August 14th, Town Council will decide how to move forward.

Curious about the possibilities, Regenerating Paradise invited Eemili Palo, U.S. Manager of the Waterless Toilet Shop, to Paradise to tell us about waterless toilets and the impact these systems could have here on the Ridge.

Last month, we learned a lot and did some great work at the Cypress Family Apartments in Paradise! And it was all thanks to YOU!...

Our Cypress Native Plant Restoration and Fire Mitigation Project is the perfect way to show our community some love!

The Camp Fire destroyed our town of 27,000 and surrounding communities on November 8, 2018. In less than a day, most of the members of...

This last weekend, January 22, Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh, transitioned from this world. His teachings transcended beyond dogma or...

Ten years ago today, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake sent a 45-foot high tsunami crashing into the eastern coast of Japan, devastating coastal...

In the Riias Arc Museum of Art overlooking the city of Kessenuma, Japan, there is an exhibit dedicated not to beauty but to devastation....

Our mission is to reweave the social fabric that regenerates Paradise I was born and raised in Paradise, California, a town of 27,000 in...

Many folks have asked me, "What do you hope for the town of Paradise?" I've given this a lot of thought. On November 8th, 2018 nearly...