Citizens for Sustainable Marina

02/04/2026

Help clean up litter Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, 10am-1230pm.

This Sunday please consider joining us starting at 10am at the junction of Lapis Rd. and Del Monte Blvd. 1/2 mile north of the Beach Rd. roundabout.

We meet here 10am, every month on the second Sunday (e.g. Feb. 8, Mar. 8, Apr 12, 2026) and a pizza angel serves us free lunch at 1215pm.

All supplies provided by Citizens for Sustainable Marina and support by Regen Monterey and County of Monterey. A great partnership!

01/18/2026

Gotta love today's harvest photos from Devi, one of our more active raised bed managers, at the Oak Woodland Community Garden.

Here's a quote from Devy: "That's Red Turnips far left, 'small' white Daikon Radish, Yellow Radishes, and White Turnips. I'll probably put in Black mini Bokchoy, the Tatchoy, & Chinese mustard seeds collected last year, and that Red Stalked Chickory, soon."

01/18/2026

Thank you Marina Girl Scout Troop 30502 and Marina Brownie Troop 35506 for all 21 of your volunteers who worked hard today shoveling out w**dy narrow-leaf iceplant (Conicosia) at Locke-Paddon Wetland Community Park today! It was an inspiration to watch these youth remove every single narrow-leaf iceplant we could find!

Thanks also to community volunteer leaders from Sustainable Marina (Jackie Gardner, Steve Lee, Elias Rodriguez, and Mike Cook) and Friends of Marina Parks (Gary Kresja, Jeff Markham, Cosette Moeller, and Jackie Gardner).

P.S. This was the 3rd volunteer event focused on this w**d at Locke-Paddon. May 17 and Aug. 22, 2025, Friends of Marina Parks and Santa Catalina High School (hosted by Sustainable Marina) had successful service events in the same location.

At the 2026 Marina Earth Day, April 18, another sweep of sprouting Conocosia will be one of the volunteer activities.

01/12/2026

Thanks to many volunteers today (Jan. 11, 2026) who scoured miles of roadsides and bike pathway for trash and dumped items. 19 bags of trash, 6 bags of recyclables = 25 bags plus one large back seat to a bus!

Join us Feb 8 and March 8, 2026, for our next monthly adventures here. We meet 10am at junction of Lapis Rd and Del Monte Blvd.
Keeping the neighborhood clean!

Group photos by Pat Grant who also served up pizza. Thanks to Randy Goodchild for trucking services!

01/04/2026

Marina Farmers Market open until 2pm. One more hour! Help these hardy vendors out on a beautiful if damp, day!

Great fresh produce (Organic Asian Pear, Persimmons, and citrus), organic fennel, carrots, and all sorts of greens)!
I stopped into the market's sweet shop and was fairly amazed!

NEW YORK COOKIES (kinda look like muffins) of the following incredible flavors:
Andes Mint
Red Velvet Chocolate
Smores
Terry's Orange Chocolate
Double Chocolate Biscoff
Double Chocolate Dubai Pistachio
Strawberry Matcha
Churro!
Cookies n Cream
BROWNIES
Dubai Pistachio
Walnut Chocolate
Chocolate

SHORTBREAD COOKIES
Alfajores
Oatmeal Almond
Cinnamon (home ground!)
Mini Crunchy Chocolate Chip

SWEET EMPANADAS
Guava
Dulce de Leche

02/22/2025

PUMP UP THE JAM ON YOUR SUNDAY!

Volunteers wanted for late afternoon community cleanup of "Salinas Ave Woods" in Marina, Sun. Feb. 23, 2025. 3pm-5pm
Many of you showed up Sun. Apr. 25, 2021, for the grand initial cleanup (29,000lbs!) of this Salinas Ave./Carmel Ave oak-wooded area. Volunteers have been maintaining it clean ever since!

Please consider joining us today for "spot" cleanups in the same area. Mainly a gentle stroll in a beautiful, gentle, open space area looking for stray litter.

One team with me will focus on the Reservation Rd corridor. This isn't as fun.

Steve Lee's team (slackers!) will pick up odds and ends of litter/camp debris in the interior of the woods. Really beautiful maritime chaparral and oak woodland.

Meet 3pm near corner of Salinas Ave and Reservation Rd at 496 Marsan Circle.

Parking near the MCWD well site but not blocking their access gates, and on residential streets nearby.

Feel free to contact me at 277-7690 if you have questions. thanks everyone, Bruce p.s. maintenance is key, tho not glamorous, to keep progress going!

01/13/2025

very cool!

10/24/2024

https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-county-california-traffic-cameras-crackdown-illegal-dumping/62699003

Since the cameras went up at least two people have been caught dumping their junk on the side of the road.

10/24/2024

Wierd object illegally dumped on Lapis Rd north of Marina.
Much effort now being made to issue citations to dumpers.
Since Jan. 2017 monthly volunteers have been removing trash and dumping from Beach Rd in town to Hwy 1 north of town (by the landfill).

For now, if you see someone dumping try to get license plate and call 9-1-1 (who should inform County dept of environmental health and CHP or city for this area depending on location).

10/03/2024

SWAT Team responded to Acorn Alert and in 40 minutes collected 10lbs of these oak tree nuts! They will be cured, cold stratified for 3 months then after they germinate they'll be sown into tube's for growing out and eventually planted around town and parks
Thank you Andrew, Teresa, and John for volunteering on short notice!
That was fun!

09/30/2024

Its acorn time, a joyous time!
Best acorn production in the Monterey Bay area in the last several years. These nuts are dropping starting about 10 days ago. The next few weeks they will be dropping in mass everywhere as they have these last few days at the MoCo Fairgrounds.

We'll be collecting on Fort Ord the next few weeks for native oak tree planting projects around town. If you would like to join volunteers to do this to keep your acorns or to contribute them to Citizens for Sustainable Marina for a good cause let me know!

For now, just appreciate that wildlife and oak trees are happy for this year's good acorn crop!

09/22/2024

Of course life is good and precious and it's made more so when community comes together to make the world a healthier and more beautiful place. Today's volunteers and volunteer leaders planted 300 local native wildflower plants outside Marina Library for humans to enjoy natural beauty and for nature (humming birds, bumblebees, and butterflies) to be able to thrive around us and support us.

Thank you everyone!