Notes from the Field: Loving the Marsh Every Week

Volunteers plant at the Faber Tract during Love Your Marsh week.

This month marked the first annual Love Your Marsh Week at Save The Bay! It was a successful event with over 150 volunteers planting almost two thousand wetland species over one week. Because it was our first time holding this event, we were a little worried that we might not get much love this Valentines Day.  Thanks to a school group from The Harker School, a corporate group from Hewlett Packard and an Alumni Group from Stanford we were able to realize the planting week of our dreams!

We really appreciate large groups of volunteers. With their help we are that much closer to accomplishing our goal to plant 30,000 native plants this season.  But don’t you worry if you think you missed out on your chance to love up a batch of natives. We still have about five thousand plants looking for someone to dig! We will be working hard throughout March to get these little guys home. So feel free to register online for our next event. Now we just need the weather to cooperate and send down some rains to quench our water thirsty natives and our romance will be complete.

Come plant with us.

- Natalie LaVan, Community Engagement Manager