Community Restoration Projects
Learn more about our Community Restoration Projects here!
Harvest PartyThis Sunday!
Volunteers needed to harvest beans and carrots for local food aid.
PIZZA by @rustyspizza! 🍕
Doughnuts from Mesa Bagel Co 🍩
Positive Energy from the BB Academy Volunteer Leaders
You are invited! SIGN UP - LINK ON OUR BIO!!
#sbbucketbrigade #bbhumanitarianfarm
Make a difference this Saturday.
Come and help us restore the Monarch butterfly winter nesting habitat at Ellwood Mesa!
There will be doughnuts, there will be @rustyspizza and there will be 50 nice neighbors to join you.
#sbbucketbrigade #ellwoodmesa #ellwoodfriends
Volunteers Wanted This Saturday!
Join us at Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Preserve and come make a difference this weekend.
Link in our Bio! #sbbucketbrigade #ellwoodmesa #ellwoodfriends #cityofgoleta
Tom Shepherd, Charlotte and Sam led an incredible farm day today!
927 pounds of Carrots, Zucchini and Green Beans picked, packed and delivered to local food aid.
Not bad for a Sunday morning people! Not bad.
#sbbucketbrigade #bucketbrigadeacademy #bbhumanitarianfarm
It`s go time!
Native Plant Planting - Saturday 9AM at the Bucket Brigade Humanitarian Garden.
We`ll bring the doughnuts.
Volunteers needed this Saturday for a fire-adaptive habitat restoration at Elings Park South!
Learn how to prevent wildfires….WITH PLANTS! Click the link in our bio! #sbbucketbrigade #bucketbrigadeacademy #fireprevention #communityrestorationproject #communityresilienceengine
Young people aren’t waiting for change to happen - they’re leading it. With support from Direct Relief, the Williams-Corbett Foundation and people like you, Bucket Brigade Academy leaders are restoring landscapes, coordinating disaster response, and building local resilience in a changing climate. #bucketbrigadeacademy #communityresilienceengine #sbbucketbrigade #directrelief
Fire-adaptive habitat restoration at the Bucket Brigade Academy — Just one of the useful things you will learn for life in a changing climate.
#bucketbrigadeacademy #communityrestorationproject #habitatrestoration
This work made possible by our SPONSORS: #williamscorbettfoundation #annjacksonfamimlyfoundation #rustyspizza
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.
