Community Restoration Projects
Learn more about our Community Restoration Projects here!
Get Mom something delicious this Mother`s Day🍓...and maybe even pick some for other mom`s too! Click the volunteer link in our bio!
Get Mom something delicious this Mother`s Day🍓...and maybe even pick some for other mom`s too! Click the volunteer link in our bio!
Bucket Brigade Farm Volunteers and Supporters! Join us for a farm celebration party with Spencer the Gardner and La Lieff Winery! FREE ADMISSION! There will be music, strawberries and a no host bar. All ages welcome.
Bucket Brigade Farm Volunteers and Supporters! Join us for a farm celebration party with Spencer the Gardner and La Lieff Winery! FREE ADMISSION! There will be music, strawberries and a no host bar. All ages welcome.
Two weeks left before the 20th Anniversary of Ellwood Mesa! Help us get the Main Butterfly Gove ready this Saturday! 9AM - 1PM
Check the link in our bio to sign up.
Two weeks left before the 20th Anniversary of Ellwood Mesa! Help us get the Main Butterfly Gove ready this Saturday! 9AM - 1PM
Check the link in our bio to sign up.
Thank you Santa Barbara Foundation Volunteers!
We are restoring the Ellwood Mesa Main Butterfly Grove and we really appreciate your help this April.
Everyone is invited to join us this Saturday and each Saturday this May as we work to bring the butterflies back to Ellwood Mesa with a massive habitat restoration.
This is a Community Restoration Project partnership with The City of Goleta, Ellwood Friends, UCSB and the Bucket Brigade.
Learn More at our website: https://bucketbrigade.volunteerhub.com/vv2/ #sbbucketbrigade #bucketbrigadeacademy #communityrestorationproject #elllwoodmesa
Thank you Santa Barbara Foundation Volunteers!
We are restoring the Ellwood Mesa Main Butterfly Grove and we really appreciate your help this April.
Everyone is invited to join us this Saturday and each Saturday this May as we work to bring the butterflies back to Ellwood Mesa with a massive habitat restoration.
This is a Community Restoration Project partnership with The City of Goleta, Ellwood Friends, UCSB and the Bucket Brigade.
Learn More at our website: https://bucketbrigade.volunteerhub.com/vv2/ #sbbucketbrigade #bucketbrigadeacademy #communityrestorationproject #elllwoodmesa
What if pedestrian and bicycle access actually got better and safer during a disaster recovery? Inquiring minds want to know…
#sbbucketbrigade
What if pedestrian and bicycle access actually got better and safer during a disaster recovery? Inquiring minds want to know…
#sbbucketbrigade
You can help native bumble bees like Beezus and her friends like the Monarch Butterflies each Saturday with the Bucket Brigade. We don’t have to just sit around and watch them go extinct. We can help if we are just willing to restore a little more of their habitat each week. #sbbucketbrigade #bucketbrigadeacademy #helpfulnothelpless
You can help native bumble bees like Beezus and her friends like the Monarch Butterflies each Saturday with the Bucket Brigade. We don’t have to just sit around and watch them go extinct. We can help if we are just willing to restore a little more of their habitat each week. #sbbucketbrigade #bucketbrigadeacademy #helpfulnothelpless
Apply now for Bucket Brigade Academy 2025!
There are only 11 Training Seats left across our three Level 1 summer courses (but only since we added the third week after week one and two filled up.)
This is your last chance to get a foot in the Youth Leadership Door this summer!
#bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Apply now for Bucket Brigade Academy 2025!
There are only 11 Training Seats left across our three Level 1 summer courses (but only since we added the third week after week one and two filled up.)
This is your last chance to get a foot in the Youth Leadership Door this summer!
#bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
We don’t get ready 👊🏾 we stay ready. #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade #climatechange
Climate change and natural disasters have taken a toll on our local ecosystem. Repeated wildfires, record-breaking droughts and short-duration, high-intensity rain events have caused all kinds of problems in the past 10 years. The Bucket Brigade has been working to restore ecological damage since our first deployment in 2018. Our restoration work began in the debris-flow damaged areas of the Ennisbrook Open Space and the Casa Dorinda Open space where we spent a whole year removing man-made debris, digging out native oak trees, rebuilding trails and replanting areas that were struggled with post-disaster invasive species pressure.
This work really resonated with volunteers, with the neighborhoods where we worked and with communities served by these restorations – so we stuck with it. To carry our our mission to train volunteers and volunteer leaders, we found a damaged area of a beloved local park and began a 7-acre Community Restoration Project: The Bucket Brigade Humanitarian Garden.
The garden sits in the heart of a vital watershed ecosystem that was badly damaged by failed agricultural ventures and a decade long drought. For this reason, it seemed like the perfect place to teach restoration leadership…by actually restoring the whole area together. The work began with weekly volunteer projects to remove flammable invasive plants to reduce fire risk and to clear areas for restoration. We then replanted the area with endangered native trees and an edible native cactus grove. We also created a 1-acre buffer area with 72 species of native nectar-producing plants to create a native pollinator demonstration garden.
In 2022, we launched the Bucket Brigade Academy at the Humanitarian Garden where we have trained 66 local students to lead volunteer deployments and restoration projects. Many of those students have gone on to lead flood-relief and sandbag assistance projects in the community. 8 elite students have become professional volunteer coordinators for the Bucket Brigade and lead local restoration projects at open spaces, schools and trails.
Our current restorations projects include The Humanitarian Garden (ongoing), Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Preserve (on behalf of the City of Goleta) and The Bucket Brigade Humanitarian Farm – a 1-acre urban farm restoration where we grow produce for local food-aid.
