Details: Whether you’re an architect, contractor, design-build team, artist, hobbyist, or student, the Garden needs your help to build nature playhouses that encourage the community – especially families – to get outdoors and play in the natural world. Every two years, we host an open call for applications and select up to four “casitas” designs…
Details: Children are invited to join us in some holiday cheer by creating a pinecone ornament. This activity will be hosted in the Backcountry and is free with admission for children ages 12 and younger. We hope to see you there.
Details: Join UCSB researchers and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden staff for a presentation on best management practices to create and maintain gardens in high fire risk zones. Learn how these gardens can both save water and provide habitat for native species. Researchers will also share emerging research results on plant flammability.
The 10th California Islands Symposium, November 6–10 at the Ventura Beach Marriott, will present recent work in all disciplines of natural, environmental, and cultural science on the California Islands, which include all of the islets, rocks, and islands off the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, Mexico. Presentations cover a wide scope of subjects including marine…
Tiny Taxa Doing Big Things Presented by the Nakashima-Rennie Family Sometimes in life, it’s the little things that make all the difference. That’s true in nature, too. The web of life is beautiful and complex. From the “belly plants” forming a miniature forest to feed the food web and the myriad of microscopic organisms holding…
Details: Visit the Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society on Wednesday, October 4, for a talk by the Garden’s Executive Director, Steve Windhager, Ph.D. Steve will talk about a new initiative at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden to use residential and commercial landscapes to reduce the impacts of climate change and development on biodiversity through the use…
Details: Come to the book launch of Out of the Ground: Poets Respond to Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, an anthology of poems co-edited by David Starkey and Chryss Yost, published by Gunpowder Press, in association with Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. The launch will feature an introduction by the editors and by Scot Pipkin, the Garden’s…
Details: Workshop participants, led by experienced teacher and former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate David Starkey, will explore and write about the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, with a focus on native flora in autumn. Drafts of poems completed during the first part of the class will be shared in small groups, with select poems receiving a…
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