Registration and signed digital waiver required. To Register contact John Wadsworth vicechair@newportbeach.surfrider.org.

Save our Beach invites you to participate in a beach cleanup at Seal Beach. They provide bags and disinfected pickers. Participants must provide gloves and masks. Pre-registration is required.

Learn how to identify critical steps for successfully designing a watershed wise landscape including: sizing and siting the rainwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This advanced workshop is geared for folks who have already taken the California Friendly and/or the Turf Removal workshops. Registration is required.

Learn how to identify critical steps for successfully designing a watershed wise landscape including: sizing and siting the rainwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This advanced workshop is geared for folks who have already taken the California Friendly and/or the Turf Removal workshops. Registration is required.

Learn how to design a yard using the principles watershed-wise landscaping, including overview of an irrigation system, programming a controller, why drip over spray, and easy ways to conserve water. Registration is required.

Participate in the Orange County Coastkeeper San Clemente State Beach Cleanup. Registration required.

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Learn best management practices for passive and active capturing of rainwater in the landscape, including review criteria and considerations in selecting a rainwater capture method such as swales and berms, cisterns, and integrating hardscapes. Registration is required.

Learn how to remove your lawn and make the right moves for creating a gorgeous, watershed wise landscape including: removing turf without the use of chemicals, replacing it with climate-appropriate plantings, keeping it in place but maintaining it in an organic manner. Registration is required.

Help protect recently installed new plantings in Big Canyon by removing invasive plants that pose a huge threat to displacing native plant communities and wildlife at the Bay. Meet at 9am at the project site entrance and be sure to follow directions that will be included in your confirmation email. Note: Google Maps will lead you astray. Registration required.

Learn the purpose, potential & programming of irrigation controllers, including understanding irrigation’s role in maintaining a soil moisture balance, outlining the purpose and potential of a weather-based controller, reviewing basic terminology and programming principles, identifying special functions, and troubleshooting typical problems. Registration is required.

Join OC Habitats in the Upper Newport Bay for their monthly restoration of the ecological reserve and salt marsh through invasive plant removal and native planting. Meet at Back Bay Science Center, parking is free. This is a gated site so you will be given access upon arrival at the gate on Shellmaker. Registration and waivers required.