Saturdays on the Marsh
Learn how to bring fun & sustainable conservation practices into your own home!
Learn how to bring fun & sustainable conservation practices into your own home! These programs will inspire attendees to reuse and repurpose single-use items to make life at home a little more green. By providing a foundation of environmental mindfulness within your family unit, small practices can lead to big ideas that positively impact our community.
These workshops are suitable for all age groups and are geared toward families & households. Each workshop includes a craft project that you can take home!
This program is offered once a month from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Each workshop is $6 per person. This program will be held outdoors under our covered pavilion and out on our property.
See our 2024-25 schedule below and …
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November 16 – Painting with Propagules | Florida’s mangroves provide services for critters of all shapes and sizes. Let’s learn about the history of the mangrove and its biology while we paint a canvas using propagules and other native plants.
December 7 – Compost and Home Gardening | Bring your own container (the size of a pretzel barrel or protein powder container, approximately 70 ounces)! Come have a picnic on Mt. Morgan and bring your food scraps down to the workshop! We will be creating and personalizing our own container while learning some home gardening skills and how to avoid food waste.
January 18 – Migratory Birds | January is a fantastic time to be a birder in Florida. We will break out the binoculars and see who is soaring over Mount Morgan, and review why our Lagoon area is such a great haven for migrating birds. We will be creating our own bird feeder to help those tired birds.
February 15 – Trash to Treasure | We recycle every day but what if you could turn that material into something amazing, like a sea creature! Bring plastic bottles, paper towel rolls, toilet rolls, old magazines, and plastic bags to create your own amazing animal that lives right here in our lagoon. Come with your materials and imagination!
March 15 – Shuck and Share | Come celebrate our amazing oysters in our Lagoon by creating some wind chimes made from our favorite filter feeders. We will explore how human impact has put our oyster reefs in peril and how we can help through our shuck and share program. We will explore oysters in the lagoon and learn how they are a keystone species.
April 19 – Seagrass and Clam Nursery | What do seagrass and clams have in common? Well, they are living together in our Sea Grass Nursery at MDC! Come explore our Aquaculture and learn how clams and sea grass can benefit from each other and take a craft clam and grass home!
May 10 – Native Plant Garden | Take a tour of our Native plant garden to discover all the plants that call Florida home. Learn which plants are good for small gardens and which plants love to spread out! Want butterflies? Discover plants that will attract caterpillars and butterflies. Pick you favorite flower and learn how to preserve by pressing.
If you have any questions about this program,
please contact Carley Metcalf at [email protected] or 386.428.4828.
Our Mission:
"To protect our coastal ecosystems through education, conservation, and exploration"