Edible Campus Program: Ink Your Intentions, We Are Isla Vista, and more!

[Elizabeth Lane]

Hi Edible Campus Community, 

We hope you're settling into the new quarter well. See below for our upcoming events!

1) Ink Your Intentions Workshop

• It is a new quarter and a new year! Join us in imagining what an ideal quarter will look like and what goals we can set for our self-care, school, and life.  We will be writing letters to our future selves about our goals which participants will receive back at the end of the quarter.
• January 13 from 3-4pm @ Greenhouse & Garden Project
• Sign up: https://forms.gle/ccoc9hvKZBmVCz6B9

2) The Good, The Bad, and the Bugly Workshop

• Bugged by the pest in your garden? Come learn how to take care of them naturally! You don't need harsh chemicals to keep bugs from your garden, at this workshop we'll take a look at nature's pesticides and learn how to I.D the helpful from the harmful! ( how would this be a fun description that a parent would want to go to with their kids, we will have a bug collection that can look at dried bugs, bug scavenger bugs and cover both good and bad bugs.
• January 16 from 2-3pm @ Storke FSH 
• Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgNEguMajZHG66Pbh9u0RUr3hvczb4M7A1DWMG_3YVBbm2hA/viewform

3) Bloom in a Bottle 

• In this hands-on, reflective workshop, we’ll explore what it takes for a plant to grow—and how those same elements help us thrive as people. Just as plants need nourishment, space, light, and care, we’ll consider what helps us flourish. In this workshop, you will use a variety of upcycled and repurposed materials to create a home for your new plant to grow in. Join us to cultivate insight, creativity, and a renewed appreciation for the ways we grow—inside and out. This event is co-hosted with Gauchos Go Green and the Nature Wellbeing Program.  Please consider bringing an upcycled container that you could grow a plant in.  Extra containers will be provided for anyone that doesn't have one. Soil and seeds will also be provided. Learn to grow and care for yourself alongside your plant for the new year.
• January 16 from 3-4pm @ St. Michael's
• Sign up: https://forms.gle/G2dEPg6vEGhcmQ3e7

4) More upcoming workshops

• See full schedule here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6uP7mvqe1YGF7Jg7gvm7jOc0pbeLqsdXPCGEZFPlUw/edit?usp=sharing

5) We Are Isla Vista upcoming events 

• Our community stewardship program with IVCSD and IVRPD is back! Sign up for events here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AbDfynoe1DHqgMmRXHLnQL67vuk48otGXIcaiw5EdqM/edit?usp=sharing

6) This Week's Saturday Morning Live

• Come volunteer in the garden with us!
• January 17th from 11-1pm @ St. Michael's Community Garden
• Sign up: https://forms.gle/aSaVX9rRxzsqHXkj8

Thank you for always engaging with the Edible Campus Program. We hope to see you this week! Follow us on IG @ucsbecp for more. 

Best, 

Elizabeth Lane