Community Restoration Projects
Learn more about our Community Restoration Projects here!
Thank you Restoration Volunteers! On behalf of the local Native Bumblebee Guild we sincerely thank you this Easter for planting all of these nectar producing native plants at the Bucket Brigade Humanitarian Garden. It’s not easy being a bumblebee these days with all of the pesticides and herbicides people are using in their gardens. We really appreciate it when people plant nice native flowering plants with no pesticides and we especially thank Yes Yes Nursery for all of the beautiful organic seedlings they brought to the Bucket Brigade for us. ❤️🐝 #bbhumanitariangarden
Thank you Restoration Volunteers! On behalf of the local Native Bumblebee Guild we sincerely thank you this Easter for planting all of these nectar producing native plants at the Bucket Brigade Humanitarian Garden. It’s not easy being a bumblebee these days with all of the pesticides and herbicides people are using in their gardens. We really appreciate it when people plant nice native flowering plants with no pesticides and we especially thank Yes Yes Nursery for all of the beautiful organic seedlings they brought to the Bucket Brigade for us. ❤️🐝 #bbhumanitariangarden
Bucket Brigade Academy - Make your summer count and then feel fully justified in chilling the *&%# out — and really enjoy the rest of your time off. If you knock out two levels…your parents might even be proud of you and that tends to lead to good things on the home front. THINK IT THROUGH - HAVE A PLAN for a Kick @$$ summer. #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Bucket Brigade Academy - Make your summer count and then feel fully justified in chilling the *&%# out — and really enjoy the rest of your time off. If you knock out two levels…your parents might even be proud of you and that tends to lead to good things on the home front. THINK IT THROUGH - HAVE A PLAN for a Kick @$$ summer. #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Training citizen responders this summer at the Bucket Brigade Academy. Know something - do something. #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Training citizen responders this summer at the Bucket Brigade Academy. Know something - do something. #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
GOLETA VOLUNTEERS!
Join us this weekend for a Monarch butterfly habitat restoration project at Ellwood Mesa! This is a family-friendly event.
Monarch butterflies need our help and we need your help to restore their winter nesting ground.
This Saturday at 9AM - Click the link in our bio or click "Volunteer" on our website.
This project is a partnership between Monarch butterflies, the City of Goleta, Ellwood Friends and the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade. You are invited!
#sbbucketbrigade #communityrestorationproject #bucketbrigadeacademy
GOLETA VOLUNTEERS!
Join us this weekend for a Monarch butterfly habitat restoration project at Ellwood Mesa! This is a family-friendly event.
Monarch butterflies need our help and we need your help to restore their winter nesting ground.
This Saturday at 9AM - Click the link in our bio or click "Volunteer" on our website.
This project is a partnership between Monarch butterflies, the City of Goleta, Ellwood Friends and the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade. You are invited!
#sbbucketbrigade #communityrestorationproject #bucketbrigadeacademy
Yes! By popular demand - a third Level 1 Bucket Brigade Academy training class has been added to our summer program for students who will be out of town in June! Yes - we received the calls and emails and we listened. See you this summer 💪🏽#bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Yes! By popular demand - a third Level 1 Bucket Brigade Academy training class has been added to our summer program for students who will be out of town in June! Yes - we received the calls and emails and we listened. See you this summer 💪🏽#bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Thank you Ellwood Restoration Volunteers!
This Community Restoration Project wouldn`t be possible without your support. We salute you for stepping up to help restore the critical winter nesting ground of our endangered Monarch butterflies! #communityrestorationproject #elllwoodmesa #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Thank you Ellwood Restoration Volunteers!
This Community Restoration Project wouldn`t be possible without your support. We salute you for stepping up to help restore the critical winter nesting ground of our endangered Monarch butterflies! #communityrestorationproject #elllwoodmesa #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Don`t just get ready - stay ready. This @worldhealthday we encourage you to start your community leadership journey and begin training this summer at the Bucket Brigade Academy. You never know when or where someone will need urgent first-aid assistance, so get trained - update training - and stay ready for your family and your community. #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Don`t just get ready - stay ready. This @worldhealthday we encourage you to start your community leadership journey and begin training this summer at the Bucket Brigade Academy. You never know when or where someone will need urgent first-aid assistance, so get trained - update training - and stay ready for your family and your community. #bucketbrigadeacademy #sbbucketbrigade
Monarch butterflies need our help! They are literally going to go extinct if we don’t do something. Do something with us this Saturday at 9am.
Restore their winter nesting area at Ellwood Mesa at a family-friendly volunteer habitat restoration. We will be planting nectar-producing native plants to feed them through the winter. We can make a difference!
You just need to care enough to show up!
No experience necessary! Our student restoration leaders will teach you how to do it, and then provide all volunteers with a nice pizza lunch party from @RustysPizza.
#communityrestorationproject #bucketbrigadeacademy #elllwoodmesa #sbbucketbrigade #habitatrestoration
Monarch butterflies need our help! They are literally going to go extinct if we don’t do something. Do something with us this Saturday at 9am.
Restore their winter nesting area at Ellwood Mesa at a family-friendly volunteer habitat restoration. We will be planting nectar-producing native plants to feed them through the winter. We can make a difference!
You just need to care enough to show up!
No experience necessary! Our student restoration leaders will teach you how to do it, and then provide all volunteers with a nice pizza lunch party from @RustysPizza.
#communityrestorationproject #bucketbrigadeacademy #elllwoodmesa #sbbucketbrigade #habitatrestoration
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.
