ECI & Central Coast Wilds

01/19/2023

Perennial natives are the best erosion control out there! Follow us of Instagram for the full post!

01/19/2023

05/13/2022

Our CA Native Plant Nursery is in very good hands!
Thanks Matt!

When asked how he became the Nursery Manager at Central Coast Wilds, the answer was unexpected.

04/07/2022

This is why we sell & plant site-specific CA native plants. You can start your own Eco-Patch and create a CA native plant corridor in your own backyard!

This is the story of a unique group of people in one neighborhood in a big city, who all gathered around one very special idea. Landscapes of Change A Mini-D...

04/05/2022

From mid-April to mid-May, millions of shorebirds fly north along the Pacific Flyway to summer breeding grounds in the Artic, stopping to rest and refuel along the way.

Within this flyway, the San Francisco Bay serves as a critical stopover for migrating waterfowl. As the largest estuary on the West Coast, there are an abundance of habitat types and food sources for migrating birds. Although 90 percent of the wetlands that originally surrounded the Bay have been developed or degraded, this estuary hosts higher proportions of the total migrating shorebirds on the Pacific coast than any other wetland. More than one million individual shorebirds representing more than 38 species make their way through Bay wetlands every year!

Learn more about essential salt marsh habitats at our 50th Anniversary Bayside Family Festival on April 30th! There will be nature education, a scavenger hunt, food trucks, music and more!

Get your free tickets: https://lnkd.in/gqGmmiFt
(Reposted from MidPen)

03/11/2021

Want to try something really fun for Easter using natural resources?

How amazing to get such rich colour from basic onion skins?! Use easily found leaves, botanicals and other materials to dye eggs without painting or drawing

02/08/2021

As promised - here is an updated photo of our Bollinger Wetland Mitigation project. Our grading and erosion control work held up to the recent rain events. Hurrah!

07/14/2020

Our Director of Landscape Architecture, Rita Manna, will be leading a 3 part series on landscape graphics and visual communication for Santa Cruz Permaculture's Advanced Permaculture Design Course.

When: August 29 to September 5, 2020
Where: Santa Cruz, CA
Who: Dave Boehnlein of Terra Phoenix Design and the Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead; David Shaw of Santa Cruz Permaculture; Lydia Neilsen of Rehydrate the Earth; John Valenzuela of Cornucopia Food Forests; Ken Foster of Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping; Rita Manna of Ecological Concerns.

For more information, please visit:
https://santacruzpermaculture.com/apdc/

07/01/2020

Grading for Bollinger Wetland Mitigation
Our field crew at ECI recently completed a job clearing and grading a site for the Bollinger Wetland Mitigation project. After grading, our crew will install wattles and silt fencing to control erosion before installing California native plants grown at our nursery, Central Coast Wilds! See the picture below of the crew running some serious yellow iron on site. Stay tuned for more updates on this important project!