Learn how to design a yard using the four principles of gorgeous and watershed wise landscaping: building a healthy living soil sponge, holding rainwater on your property, selecting local native plants that minimize water use and maximize biodiversity, and controlling your irrigation. Registration 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.

To register contact Elyse Toal at volunteercoordinator@hsb.surfrider.org

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.

Sign up online today!

Orange County Coastkeeper has taken traditional group beach cleanups and turned them into Beautification on Your Block cleanups. Continue to do your part in keeping your community safe and clean. Take a walk around your neighborhood and clean any litter or trash you find.

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.

Learn how to build a healthy living soil sponge, hold rainwater on your property, select local native plants, and control your irrigation in this webinar hosted by Metropolitan Water District. This is part of a series on learning how to design a yard using the principles of watershed wise landscaping. Registration required.

Learn how to remove turf without using chemicals, replace turf with climate-appropriate vegetation, organically maintain turf, and lawn care strategies at this turf removal and garden transformation workshop hosting by Metropolitan Water District. This is part of a series on learning how to design a yard using the principles of watershed wise landscaping. Registration required.

Have questions about your irrigation controller? Join Metropolitan Water District and learn your irrigation controller's role in maintaining a soil moisture balance, understand the purpose of a weather-based controller, identify special functions, and more! Registration required.

Save our Beach invites you to participate in a beach cleanup at Seal Beach in honor of Earth Day at two locations. The regular 1st St. location in the 1st St. parking lot in Seal Beach; and the Seal Beach Pier (Ocean Ave/Main St). Bags and disinfected pickers are provided. Participants must provide gloves and masks. Pre-registration is required.