About Us
Our mission is to promote sustainable beautification of the City of Solana Beach, in both public and private spaces. We sponsor hands-on gardening projects throughout our community.
Prefer to keep your hands clean? You can make a donation to support our projects.
In 2026, our regular meetings are at 10:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday of the month, except July and August, at the Center for a Healthy Lifestyle Cottage behind the Boys & Girls Club at 533 Lomas Sante Fe Dr., Solana Beach. All are invited!
Interested in joining us? Have a question about gardening in Solana Beach?
What We're Up To . . .
Ongoing Events
Fire Resilent Landscaping
Our April 16 meeting featuring Greg Ruben, owner of California's Own Native Landscape Design, was a standing-room-only event.
Greg shared his insights from more than 31 years of experience with native landscaping for some 825 clients.
"We've had 25 client homes that have experienced major fire events . . . and we have yet to lose a home," he says. Although there are no guarantees, his approach to fire-resilient landscaping also was successfully tested in a four-year U. S. Navy research study.
Garden School
We learned a lot about the complexity of creating and sustaining garden education across seven elementary schools during our February meeting! Thanks to Sarah Raskin and Neva Magalnick of the Solana Beach School District's Environmental Stewardship Program for explaining how the instruction was created (painstakingly) and is breaking ground in its first year. The purpose is to give students active roles in hands-on gardening; each school now has raised bed gardens of varying sizes. But also to align instruction with science, nutrition and even art lessons, as well as state of California standards.
In Our Gardens
