Spring is a great time to break away from the Winter blues, get some dirt under your fingernails, and transform your yard into a place of ecological function. Surfrider initiated the Ocean Friendly Gardens Program (OFG) to help its members and the general public take some steps at their own homes to clean and prevent pollution reaching the ocean and start to restore urban watersheds. Water leaving residential and other developed sites can carry away and/or pick up pollutants on its journey to the ocean. This urban runoff has become the #1 source of ocean pollution. To learn more about simple steps you can take to make a positive change in your own backyard, visit the OFG website by clicking here. At the site you can order a guide to simple steps to Ocean Friendly Gardening implementation. There is also an abundance of information on different things like rain barrels, composting, and turf removal.