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Westmont students Sharon and Alex have been working in concert with A Rocha to create a garden on their campus to promote sustainability awareness and connect students with the community. Students plan to grow food and share the produce with a local group on the Westside of the city that is looking to provide a healthy food source for low income families.
From 9-noon about 40+ people built 12 4′X16′ raised beds at Grace Lutheran Church in Santa Barbara. Several agencies came together including EcoFaith and Habitat For Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County in order to make this possible. Several people commented that the best part of the day was getting to know new people while building a garden to benefit the community. Check out a short video highlight of our day.
With these garden plots Grace Lutheran and Santa Barbara A Rocha will facilitate a new community source of fresh produce and plants as well as access to satisfying outdoor work, neighborhood involvement, a sense of community, and a connection to the environment. Call Grace Lutheran and learn more about how you can become involved in this garden project by calling 805-687-2628.
Special thanks to Karis Jolley and Ned Nelson for their work in planning this successful event and to Mark Jacobsen for helping secure and deliever the dirt for the raised beds.
Join us April 4, 9:00-noon, at Grace Lutheran Church (3869 State St.) as we build a series of raised beds for a community garden. RSVP: rich@arochasb.org
Congratulations to Trinity Western University’s A Rocha student chapter on their upcoming community garden event. Check it out.
In the last two weeks A Rocha Santa Barbara has hosted several visitors. Professor Sir Ghillean Prance, Chair of the International Trustees, and Tom Rowley, Executive Director of A Rocha USA came to be part of a presentaiton to a local land owner about conservation proposal we made as well as a public lecture the following night. Ben Lowe, author of “Green Revolution” was here for a very short visit. Lastly, Karen Steensma, Professor of Biology at Trinity Western University in Canada will visit us tomorrow for a quick tour and update on our local projects.
Each visitor has brought a unique perspective to our local projects. Including our next joint garden project with Grace Luthern Church and Habitat For Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County scheduled to take place April 4. More info about this project to come.
Here is a resource that I thought I’d pass along. We get lots of composting questions and I just found this site, which looks promising:
We are working on a possible garden project #2 in Goleta.
More details to come….
