California American Water is hosting a FREE webinar on best management practices for passive and active capturing of rainwater in landscapes! Register to learn about selecting a rainwater capture method, swale and berm tips (calculations, setbacks, installation), information about cisterns, and integrating hardscapes. This class is free, but registration is required.
Properly designing your landscape is critical to helping your plants thrive while protecting our waterways. In this workshop, you will learn about sizing and siting the stormwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This class is free, but registration is required.
Save our Beach invites you to participate in a beach cleanup at Seal Beach. Bags and disinfected pickers are provided. Participants must provide gloves and masks. Pre-registration is required.
Instaling a gray water system can help you preserve our precious water supply. This webinar by California American Water will go over gray water as an appropriate water source, siting and sizing mulch basins, designing and implementing a laundry-to-landscape system, special considerations for plants irrigated with gray water, and maintenance/troubleshooting. This class is free, but registration is required.
UC Master Gardeners of Orange County are hosting a free class to teach you how to have a garden with California Native Plants which rivals any other in color, variety, and beauty. They will also go over how to reduce water usage and chemical fertilizers, while increasing the local wildlife habitat. Register by calling 714-701-3000.
To register contact Elyse Toal at volunteercoordinator@hsb.surfrider.org
Interested in managing your unwelcome visitors organically? Attend this webinar to learn about using an integrated pest management program, preventing pest problems, managing weeds and regrowth without chemicals, and non-toxic solutions for pest control. This class is free, but registration is required.
UC Master Gardeners of Orange County are hosting a free class in Mission Viejo to teach you how to have a beautiful garden with California Native Plants. They will also go over how to reduce water usage and chemical fertilizers while increasing the local wildlife habitat.
In this free webinar, learn about your irrigation system, programming a controller, why drip over spray, and easy ways to conserve water. Registration is required.
Join the UCCE Master Gardeners of Orange County and learn about Orange County's butterfly population, as well as the native plants they depend on to flourish. They'll have volunteer tasks for all ages like watering, seed collection, mulching, weeding, and more! Youth attendees will be able to participate in a "hands-on" nature activity too. No registration is required for this...
This webinar will discuss removing turf without the use of chemicals, replacing turf with cimate-appropriate planting, keeping turf in place but maintaining it organically, and simple lawn care strategies for resilience. This class is free, but registration is required.
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