On a warm sunny morning in Fort Bragg, a colorful school bus pulls into the parking lot of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. Out pours a group of six vibrant young people sporting colorful pants, beanies and smiles. After a quick coffee and pastry detour, they head out to the coastal headlands to meet Staff Gardener and Naturalist Mario Abreu. The group was set to tackle the bi-annual removal of invasive Lampranthus spectabilis “Ice Plant” from the native grasslands on the coastal bluffs.