Ocean Friendly Gardens 2025 Impacts

It’s been an awesome year for Ocean Friendly Gardens across the Surfrider network! Thank you all for your endless dedication to protecting clean water by creating, stewarding, and advocating for resilient ocean-friendly landscapes in your communities. 

Together we’ve:

• Hosted 97 OFG events & workdays
• Planted 2,905 native plants & trees
• Created or expanded 12 new OFG projects
• Registered 26.4 acres of OFGs to the map
• Filtered 23.1 million gallons of ocean-bound runoff through OFGs across the country

Our chapter network (& 1 club!) hosted an incredible 97 events in 2025. Twelve new or expanded OFG installation projects, 79 stewardship workdays, 2 garden dedications, 2 garden hangouts,1 expert panel, and 1 community mural painting.  

Broward volunteers certify Flamingo Garden as an OFG; volunteers with San Francisco chapter prepare Argonne Elementary for planting

New Ocean Friendly Gardens Projects:

• Annapolis High School Club 
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum
• Los Angeles Chapter
  • LANSCA Palms Condo 
  • Kuruvungna Springs Bioswale (expansion)
• Long Beach Chapter
  • Long Beach Marina Basin 3 projects (4 new sections)
  • Twigs to Trees Child Development Center
• Maui Chapter
  • Kahākūkahi Ocean Academy (K.O.A.)
  • Honolua Bay Tree Planting
    
• San Francisco Chapter
  • Argonne Elementary
• Space Coast Chapter
  • Indiatlantic Bioswale (new section)
    

Eastern Long Island volunteers weed the Village Green Bioswale; Annapolis High School Club members plant an OFG at the Maritime Museum

Super Stewards:

• Eastern Long Island Chapter
  • 25 workdays at Methodist Lane Bioswale and Village Green Bioswale
• North Orange County Chapter 
  • 24 workdays at Irby Park and River's End Park
• O‘ahu Chapter
  
  • 6 workdays at Kakaʻako OFG
• Ventura Chapter
  • 10 workdays at Loma Vista Elementary
• Virginia Chapter
  • 5 workdays at Wildfowl Heritage Museum

Maui volunteers get ready to plant 1000 trees at Honolua Bay; North Orange County adds native plants to River's End Park

New Resources:

• Getting Started with Ocean Friendly Gardens: Free Beginner's Guide (en Español)
• Fire-resilient Landscape Guide for Lahaina & West Maui

Campaigns & victories:

• Connecticut Chapter
  • Victory! Neonic pesticides banned in the State of Connecticut
• Charlotte Chapter
  • Save Urban Nature (in progress)
• Maine Chapter
  • Victory! Pesticide & fertilizer ordinance in Falmouth, Maine

Thanks to our volunteers and community partners who helped create & steward Ocean Friendly Gardens this year! Together we are making healthier, more resilient watersheds and protecting clean water for all.

Want to get involved next year? Volunteer with your local Surfrider chapter or support our impact by becoming a Surfrider member.