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What it takes to Regrow a Community After Wildfire
This story was originally published by Grist.org , a non-profit news organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions. ...
Mar 11
Sign the California State Parks Foundation Petition to List Western Monarch Butterfly as Threatened Under U. S. Endangered Species Act
Visit: http://www.calparks.org/monarchthreat Monarchs at Natural Bridges State Beach “The western monarch butterfly is one of the most...
Feb 12
Xerces Society Reports Western Monarch Population Decline to Near Record Low
Western Monarch Population Plummets San Francisco, Calif. Jan. 30, 2025 — Following efforts by hundreds of volunteers and partners to...
Feb 12
ProduceGood Practices the "Gospel of Glean"
Each week, ProduceGood volunteers collect some 9,000 pounds -- that's more than four tons -- of surplus fruit and vegetables from dozens...
Oct 10, 2024
Microbial Magic . . . Thanks to EDCO!
The SeaWeeders achieved a long-sought dream of visiting the EDCO Anaerobic Digester facility in Escondido on May 23!  Yes, we are mulch...
Jun 13, 2024
Six Solana Beach Gardens Featured on Recent Native Plant Society Tour
Congratulations and kudos to our neighbors whose front yards were showcased during the California Native Plant Society's San Diego garden...
Apr 9, 2024
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...
Feb 16, 2024
New Poop Post at the P. O.
The SeaWeeders asked, and the City of Solana Beach swiftly answered by installing a new pet waste station at our popular Post Office in...
Feb 6, 2024
From grocery store to sculpture garden . . . History of the Solana Beach Post Office
The first U.S. Post Office in what is now the City of Solana Beach operated out of a grocery store run by Addie Waits and her husband...
Feb 6, 2024
Wreath Weaving 2023
Thanks to all who joined a fun afternoon of wreath-making with our new friends from the Boys & Girls Club San Dieguito La Colonia...
Dec 13, 2023
SeaWeeders Visit Master Topiary Artist
About a dozen of our Garden Club members delighted in a December field trip to the three-acre Elfin Forest garden and studio of master...
Jan 28, 2023
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...
May 17, 2022
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...
Feb 3, 2022
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...
Dec 14, 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...
Jun 8, 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...
May 5, 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...
Apr 13, 2021
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...
Oct 18, 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 12, 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...
Mar 5, 2020
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.
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