Want to support The Marsh Appreciation and Restoration Society for Happiness (M.A.R.S.H) Project?
We are excited to announce that The Marsh Project is officially part of the Carolina Ocean Alliance, which means we can now receive tax-deductible donations to support our work. Woohoo!
With your support, we plan to:
-Continue to buy and donate native plants to the community in order to rewild yards and create an ecological corridor across the Charleston peninsula!
-Offer small scholarships and stipends to students and volunteers committed to rewilding and restoring our neighborhood's ecology.
-Create a digital archive and online resource about the marsh's history and ecology.
-Throw fun community building events that educate and inspire our neighbors to Appreciate and Restore the Marsh!
-And more! New ideas are always welcome!
The Marsh Project is a fun and collaborative process. We are grateful for all the volunteers and community partners who continue to support our efforts.
See you at the next event!
SUPPORT THE MARSH PROJECT donation link here & in our bio!!!
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Often confused for snakes, the eastern glass lizard is a legless creature endemic to the southeastern US. We often see these animals in our Wagener Terrace gardens, either sunning or tucking themselves under leaves, hunting for insects. This one made us jump. 🤗
Back in 2017, Hurricane Irma wiped out what remained of Crab Bank, a vital nesting site and migratory stopping point for a number of birdies. Thanks to the folks at @conservationleague@scdnr and @coastalexpeditionsfoundation (which formed to protect Crab Bank!!) - Approximately 660,000 cubic yards of material from the Charleston Harbor Deepening was used to restore nearly 32 acres in 2021. We’ve been drooling over their community-led restoration project.
📸 @kimgrahamphoto from our Crab Bank cruise a few weeks back with @coastalexpeditions
A fun paddle day along the Ashley River for our marsh to mountains course. Spending time among the saltmarsh and birds (bald eagles, spoonbills, tiny pipers!) inspired some teamwork and stability-in-community exercises. We all one! Happy Friday marshmallows!
Thank you @coastalexpeditions !
📸 @blake_c_scott
Can we give this little squirrel tree frog its own moment? 🐸 If you take a nighttime stroll past the headwaters garden on Halsey Creek, you will hear an incredible orchestra of these amphibians. We spotted four little 1 inchers the other gardening day, no bigger than the ends of our thumbs and their shades of green ranged from emerald, to Bulbasaurus to spring Green! 💚💚💚🐸
This song matches the vibe! Did you know spraying (fogging) for mosquitoes doesn’t just affect mosquitoes—these chemicals wipe out our pollinators and all our other beauitful bugs… and guess what… the mosquitoes are just gonna come on back and the foggers are gonna take more of your hard-earned moolah.
We’re teaming up with @natureandnurture.love and @clemson_vegetable_entomology at @wakerefill on May 31st to discuss the basics of skeeters, managing them PROPERLY, and we’ll be decorating 5-gallon buckets of DOOM! Limited to 20 people, first come first served! RSVP on our site.
What a beautiful morning at the Headwaters garden along Halsey Creek with the Marsh to Mountains maymester course and @nativeplantsttp ! We added a few more flowering thangs like frogfruit, saw some squirrel tree frogs, cut some bamboo and cleaned up trash! :) we really fell for the frogs.
New hats are in! Thanks to local legends @blakefilisuarez for the design and @grizzlywheeler for the production.
The Camino Osprey logo pays homage to both the iconic shape of the Camino and the coastal osprey. The fit is similar to a classic work wear hat and fully custom details on the back and inside.
On sale now on the site for just $30 with $1 going back to @marsh_project and @charlestonsurfrider .
If I see you wearing it your coffee is on the house!
Don’t know if we’ve ever seen Sharleen geek this hard! She spotted flowering Gulf Coast swallowwort on Bulls Island yesterday, before giving our volunteers the planting rundown! (Pic 3 of flower!) Turns out, in 1996 biologist Billy McCord discovered monarchs ALSO lay their eggs on this flowering goodness for their caterpillars to munch on, proving it to be another important host plant! This is a milkweed relative! Thank you @nativeplantsttp for sharing your passions with lil ol’ Marsh Project!
Over 40 volunteers joined today on Bulls Island with @coastalexpeditions@cofc_envsprogram and our little Marsh to Mountains Maymester course to clean up the beach and plant some natives with @nativeplantsttp ! Here are a few cleaning action shots and @lyntally on banana break. Pt. II (pLaNtInG) mañana!
Just a teeny taste of the kind of floral goodness we’ll be planting on Tuesday with @nativeplantsttp and @coastalexpeditions on Bulls Island! There is still room (we know it’s a Tuesday!) After we sweep the beach with our trash picker-uppers, we’ll be planting a beautiful selection of native plants with Sharleen along the footpaths. Link in Bio!
Monarch on Vernonia angustifolia (Sandhills Ironweed)
📸 Tom Potterfield
