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Santa Barbara Seed Swap
March 20, 2022
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free
Don’t miss the 14th Annual Santa Barbara Community Seed Swap at a brand new location! Join us for this year’s event at the airy and spacious Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop (with both indoor and outdoor space) on Sunday, March 20th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. We are excited to announce that Explore Ecology’s School Gardens Program will be honored as the 2022 Local Food Hero at the Seed Swap this year. Join us for the Awards Ceremony at 2:00 pm.
Explore Ecology Garden Educators teach children how to grow food in 30 elementary schools throughout Santa Barbara County. Using the garden as an outdoor classroom, students learn about planting, cultivating, harvesting, composting, and nutrition. Students in our School Gardens Program grow organic vegetables, healthy bodies, and lasting friendships. We are very grateful for all of the little green thumb gardeners we work with at local schools. Teaching them how to grow food and seeing them excited about being outside during their school day is so rewarding!
Join us and become part of the seed saving movement- making sure that locally adapted seed and plants are passed onto future generations.
Local groups will have plant and seed related exhibits with many sharing valuable seed saving techniques that encourage local gardeners to grow out and harvest some of their best seeds for future gardens and seed swaps. Enjoy lectures, workshops, children activities, and live music.
Seed saving is a fun and easy way to connect to the circle of life and helps to make Santa Barbara County a truly food secure community.
Bring seeds, plants, cuttings, and garden knowledge to swap. If you don’t have any, come anyway and start seed saving in 2022.
The Seed Swap is hosted by the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network. Learn more at www.sbpermaculture.org.
Co-Sponsors of the event include: Island Seed & Feed, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Blue Sky Biochar, Explore Ecology, Art from Scrap, and the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.
Joey is grateful to have grown up with an abundance of nature around him and is happiest in the water or in the sun. From a young age, Joey felt a responsibility to take care of the Earth in return for all the ways she has taken care of him. This led Joey to pursue a degree in
I love coming to work and getting pets from everyone. In my spare time, I like to sleep, eat, hike, and explore nature. Did I say eat and sleep?
Emma Serr is an artist and a student studying Studio Art at SBCC. Emma has a background in art and customer service, having worked as a camp counselor at sewing camp and assistant for sewing events and classes, and display manager and cashier in previous positions, and was recently a nanny to several young children. Emma first found us as a customer who loved what Art From Scrap represents!
Veronica grew up in San Diego and spent her last four years in San Luis Obispo studying Animal Science at Cal Poly. As an undergrad she learned lots about livestock, agriculture, and wildlife. Veronica is very passionate about conservation and sustainable agricultural practices. Veronica has spent many summers working in environmental education at various zoos and museums and loves introducing kids to the plants and animals that coexist with us. In her free time, she likes to sit at the beach and read, take dance classes, roller skate, and walk around fancy neighborhoods to look at the houses.
Lu’s love of all things Earth began at James Madison University in Virginia, where they got their Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Lu has a Master’s degree in Spatial Ecology- the study of how creatures interact across landscapes- from East Carolina University, where they studied rock pools along a river and the critters that dwell in them. Lu is thrilled to be teaching budding scientists about the Earth and why it’s important for us to protect and preserve the environment. 
Lydia
Jenny joined Explore Ecology first as an Environmental Educator, then as a Program Coordinator, and most recently moved into the newly created Programs, People & Culture position. Prior to Explore Ecology Jenny worked in science research and consulting, however her passion has always been science education and outreach. Jenny loves all things related to the ocean, especially free diving, and enjoying the beauty and wonder that is the underwater world. Her greatest life passion is traveling, which she hopes to do more of again soon.
Ian Docktor
MELISSA BROOKS
Lindsay Johnson
