Enjoy our Origami Butterfly Gallery
Look at the beautiful butterflies our booth visitors created during Fiesta del Sol in Solana Beach, May 21-22, 2022. Click the video to...
Events + Tips
Although our regular meetings have been curtailed due to Covid restrictions, we've been able to get outdoors and tend to our projects and gardens.
- Feb 3
It's official, Western Monarchs are back
The Xerces Society added its weighty voice to a chorus of positive reports that the Western Monarchs have rebounded. "In a surprising...
- Dec 14, 2021
Cookies, Eggnog and Wreaths!
Our 2021 wreath-making-meeting was a hit, once again. About a dozen gathered December 4 to share garden cuttings and create holiday...
- Nov 30, 2021
Our growing pollinator habitat
In April, 2021, Mayor Lesa Heebner and Solana Beach City Council members signed the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge to help make Solana Beach...
- Jun 8, 2021
How is your pollinator garden growing?
SeaWeeder Cindi and I recently visited the pollinator garden planted April 23 at La Colonia Community Center. We were delighted to see...
- May 5, 2021
Replay our May 20 meeting to learn more about Western monarchs and native milkweed
Ann Baldridge, Community Programs Director of the Resource Conservation District of San Diego County* talked about the monarch life...
- Apr 13, 2021
Solana Beach Steps up for the Western Monarchs
As reported March 6 by the San Diego Union Tribune, “Western monarch numbers have been steadily dropping for decades, from 1.2 million in...
- Oct 18, 2020
2020 Mulch Day at the Post Office
On October 10, several Teen Volunteers in Action and some of their parents joined the SeaWeeders in layering newsprint and mulch at the...
- Mar 12, 2020
Mulch Party at El Viento Pocket Park!
On March 11, Skyline 6th graders helped us move 10 yards of mulch into place around new plantings and boulders at El Viento Pocket Park,...
- Mar 5, 2020
Bonsai Basics
On March 4, we learned bonsai pruning basics with Oriental tree artist Joe Elmer. Sixteen miniature trees were designed. Joe will return...
- Jan 2, 2020
Get another life out of your holiday flowers.
Amaryllis, Hippeastrum & Paperwhite Narcissus are very popular holiday gifts. Once the blooms have faded you can plant them outside in a...
- Dec 1, 2019
Annual Poinsettia Sale
In advance of the holiday season, our annual fundraiser traditionally has been a sale of poinsettia plants. Proceeds are earmarked for...
- Nov 27, 2019
Holiday Wreath Weaving
In December, we gather and gab and turn garden "waste" into holiday decorations. Cooler temperatures provide the perfect opportunity to...
- Oct 30, 2019
RoundUp Round-up in Solana Beach
On October 6, 2018, we collected an estimated 850 pounds of pesticides and herbicides at the Bulky-item + Pesticide Cleanup Day, at La...