New School Garden Celebration at Riviera Ridge
The official dedication of the Momma Works Garden at the Riviera Ridge School was a beautiful success as friends, families, and supporters gathered to honor this new garden and the […]
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Nature’s Palette: A Night to Remember
SCAPE’s Nature’s Palette Exhibition and Benefit was a huge success! Held at the Music Academy of the West, the event brought together a vibrant community of artists, art lovers, and […]
Garden Explorers Celebration
Our Garden Explorers Early Childhood Education program has been busy wrapping up a busy year of seasonal trainings and distributing plants and seeds to early childhood educators. We’d like [...]
Unwrap the Magic: Miracle Pop-Up Bar at Pearl Social Benefits Explore Ecology
Pearl Social is transforming into a festive Christmas wonderland, bringing the heartwarming spirit of the holidays to the Funk Zone with the Miracle Pop-Up Bar! Get ready to immerse yourself […]
Eco-Friendly Ideas for Your Thanksgiving Celebration
Thanksgiving is just around the corner! It’s a holiday celebrating family, friends, and the harvest bounty. But sometimes bounty becomes excess and waste. If you’re looking for some simple and [...]
Watershed Field Day at Restoration Oaks
We had a fantastic time at the Understanding and Sustaining Our Regional Watersheds educational field day at Restoration Oaks in early June. Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology […]
Start a Vermicomposting System
Do you have a lot of food scraps at home? Is your soil lacking fertility? Maybe it’s time to stop throwing your food scraps away. Red wiggler worms are ready […]
Tips for a Eco-Friendly Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season here in the US. Unfortunately, it also marks a drastic increase in food and packaging waste. Did you know that between Thanksgiving […]
The Persistence of Plastic: 5 Ways to Decrease Marine Debris
This year’s Santa Barbara County Coastal Cleanup Day presented us with the opportunity to band together to clean up our shorelines for the first time in over a year since […]
Thank You, Santa Barbara!
Thank you, Santa Barbara. This year, you really cleaned up! Over 1,287 volunteers showed up for Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, September 18th at 28 sites throughout the County. You […]
Josh was born and raised in Santa Barbara, where his passion and curiosity for the environment began and has continued to grow. During his undergraduate studies, Josh pursued this interest at the University of California at Santa Cruz, receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies.
Melissa Dodos developed her passion for creative reuse as a mother of four and elementary educator over the past 25 years. She loves to inspire creativity by connecting people with resources and ideas.
Veronica grew up in San Diego and spent four years in San Luis Obispo studying Animal Science at Cal Poly. As an undergrad she learned lots about livestock, agriculture, and wildlife.
Stephanie began her journey as an educator over twenty years ago working as a preschool teacher in Washington state for a cooperative preschool program affiliated with Whatcom Community College. She loved observing the wonder and curiosity of the children and bringing them out into nature to explore the natural world. She continued her love for learning and got her teaching license and then her Montessori certification and worked as an elementary teacher in Tribal, Public, and Montessori schools. She collaborated to create a school garden and her students loved it so much that it became a special place where they could garden, read, explore, play, and it provided a safe sanctuary for students to calm down and reset when they were having difficult moments.
Morgan’s mermaid soul is always seeking adventure—swimming a relay across the Santa Barbara Channel and taking the first photo of a newborn orca off Anacapa Island being standout experiences close to home.
Lindsay Johnson