Having scoured my skin . . . now for cherry bloom! - Issa Join us this spring for Inner & Outer Restoration at Green Gulch Farm near Muir Beach. We continue our joyful work of stream restoration and habitat improvement -- saying our prayers with our hands in the earth. Work ranges from light to strenuous, […]
Join us for our 10th year at McNear's Beach in San Rafael. In teams of three, we scour the rocks, sand, and trails for litter. It's a perfect way to start the weekend, enjoying fresh air with fellow earth stewards from all walks of life. McNear's Beach is very popular, and space is limited. Contact […]
Retreat into action! We're putting our hearts and our hands to work this weekend: 1. Phone bank for the bag ban, 10 am to noon. Miriam Gordon, California Director of Clean Water Action, will be our team leader. Miriam has been an activist for years, and helped when we were lobbying for bag and foam foodware ordinances […]
Join us for one of our most popular actions: watershed stewardship at Green Gulch Zen Center and Organic Farm. We began with Arbor Day in 2005, and keep coming back for the fresh air, the learning, and the joy of communal effort. Program includes lunch, work in the field, tea & muffins, a Green Sangha conversation, and […]
Arbor Day comes early! The Watershed Stewardship team at Green Gulch has chosen the Sunday after Thanksgiving for their annual Arbor Day event, in anticipation of next year's growing season. Join us for a day of planting and restoration, and bring your friends and family! Schedule 1:00 pm Gather on the lawn on south side […]
Join us for an afternoon of Watershed Stewardship at Green Gulch Zen Center & Organic Farm. It's a "working retreat," replete with lunch (reservations required), work in the field, tea & muffins, walk in the Peace Garden, and meditation in the Zendo. You get to choose your work detail, with tasks ranging from light to vigorous, as […]
Join us at our annual Mother's Day celebration, showing our love for Mother Earth. Sukey Parmelee, site manager, writes: The earth of this valley is now saturated with water from the heavens. Each rain drop brings a little bit of nourishment along with it – dissolved nitrogen, picked up via the electrical activity in the […]
"It is neither spring nor summer," says Gary Snyder, "it is always." This is how we feel every time we go to Green Gulch. Activities can include: removal of invasive weeds, trail improvement, planting of native shrubs, wood gathering, and sheet mulching. After a couple of hours' work, we enjoy tea and muffins. A short […]
A perfect way to start the weekend -- cleaning up a beautiful beach park and enjoying fresh air and service with fellow earth stewards from all walks of life. In teams of three, we scour the rocks, sand, and trails for litter. McNear’s Beach in Marin County (near China Camp in San Rafael) is very popular, and space […]
Join us for our 13th year of partnership with Green Gulch -- celebrating all things green and beautiful, from the human heart to the buckeyes, oaks, and redwood trees. Arbor Day was founded in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton, a newspaper editor who became the secretary of the Nebraska Territory. Since then, many millions of […]