Swing by MEarth the day before Mother's Day and leave with an abundance of bargain plants! Native Plants, veggies/flowers and more... This is a straight up PLANT SALE for all you hardcore gardeners out there! No entry fee, no food, no music, no frills.
All proceeds go toward supporting the work of MEarth in Monterey County.
Have you always wanted to get invovled in a meaningful project in your community, while making new friends and learning practical skills?
We have a place for you! Volunteers play an integral role in supporting our educational/culinary programs, our gardens and special events.
Please contact our new Volunteer Coordinator, Cassie Chapple at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , for further details.
We look forward to seeing you out here!
On May 21, 2012 science teacher ,Craig Hohenberger, discovered that a Barn Owl had returned to one of our owl boxes and is successfully caring for three owlets! The owl boxes were installed as a strategy to attract owls to the property to help naturally control the burgeoning rodent population. Each day an adult owl eats 2-3 rodents and their offspring can easily eat 1 each! Owl boxes are easy to build and are an excellent way to control grophers and field mice. Click here to download a step-by-step guide to building and installing your own owl box.
To learn more cool facts about owls click here.
Join us Saturday, May 12th 10am-1pm for the 11th Annual Spring Plant Sale.
This event will feature a wide array of California Native Plants, wildflower seeds, organic flower and vegetable starts. Live music will be provided by the Chichagua Playboys.
Garden Production Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator
MEarth is seeking applicants for a Garden Production Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator position at The Habitat. A full position description can be downloaded by clicking here. This is a full time, one year position that will be filled though the Americorps Volunteer Infrastructure Program. Benefits include a monthly stipend, medical insurance and an educational award upon completion.
To Apply: Carefully review the full job description. If you qualify, please email your resume to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (no phone calls please).
MEarth and the Carmel Unified School District would like to invite you to celebrate the grand opening of our new building!
Saturday, March 31
10am-12noon
Enjoy healthy snacks and live music as you explore this exciting new community resource!
Meet the award-winning architects, chat with several of the 'green' contractors and join us in honoring the generous donors who made this project possible.
In the last few weeks, we have made huge strides in completing some of last the finishing touches on the green building project.
With the help of several local contractors, our 4,500 gallon rainwater catchment tanks are connected (and activley collecting rainwater from the roof!), the construction access road through the grassland has been tilled and re-seeded with a blend of California Native Grasses and a beautiful swale has been created on the north side of the building to absorb additional runoff.
A big THANK YOU to these helping hands:
Rainwater Catchment: Garden Solutions Landscaping
Grassland Restoration & Swale Design: Habitat Gardens
Tractor Work: Ed Sigourney
We are happy to welcome Andrea Lewis as the newest addition to the MEarth staff. Andrea comes to MEarth after a long career with the California Environmental Protection Agency in Sacramento as the Assistant Secretary for Education and Quality Programs. As MEarth’s new Executive Director, Andrea aims to further develop and enhance the programming for students, modeling sustainability teaching utilizing the new, green building (beginning in the Fall 2011), and promoting partnerships within the community to support MEarth’s efforts. Andrea is excited to be at The Habitat, seeing the fruit of everyone’s labor materialize before her eyes!
Appeared in the Monterey Herald on Friday November 19, 2010
As part of the winter block scheduling programming, students from the 7th Grade science classes at Carmel Middle School participated in a native plant restoration activity at the lagoon at Carmel River State Beach.
The long awaited Green Building is now under construction.
For the second year the Carmel Middle School is named an Ocean Guardian School. This designation is based on the commitment by the students and faculty to protect and conserve the Carmel River Watershed and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. As a result of this award, over the next year the students and faculty will be implementing a multi-facted campaign to Green the CMS campus. The primary goals of this campaign are to : REDUCE WATER USE, NO MORE WASTE, JUST SAY NO TO PLASTICS . To achieve these goals students will be implementing a campus wide composting program, reduce and eventually eliminate the use of single use plastics, and will work on restoring native plants in and around the campus.
The Ocean Guardian School program is of NOAA and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. To learn more about this program or how your school can apply please visit the Ocean Guardian Website.