Think Bigg

Speaking from personal experience, growing up in southern California puts a love of the beach into your bones.

Which is why I feel especially grateful to the folks at the Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. The volunteers in their Beach Garden Project are working hard on the dunes of Seaside Beach to
clean out the non-native ice plant and replace it with native beach sagewort, dune buckwheat, and pink and yellow sand verbena. Volunteers have grown and planted over 100,000 seedlings since their founding in 1992.

Even if you don’t live near the California coast, you can get involved with protecting your local ecology. For more information, contact the Native Plant Conservation Campaign for a listing of local native plant societies near you.

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