Building Habitat in Your Home Garden

Hands-on, two-hour class held in various sections of Santa Barbara Botanic Garden focuses on how to use native plants and natural features to better attract local animals to home gardens. Led by Stephanie Ranes, Garden grounds manager.

Participants should be prepared for a morning of walking and standing while during this hands-on class, which meets at the redwood bench near the Garden entrance.

Participants will need to bring sun protection and a water bottle, and wear comfortable walking shoes. A notebook and pen will be handy items to bring to take notes.

Stephanie is the Grounds Manager at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. She works with a team of nine Gardeners to help care for and maintain our CA native plant collections. Previous to this position she started and operated a small landscape company locally working to help homeowners improve gardens and incorporate more CA natives and sustainable landscape practices. Born and raised in Southern California, she remains a lifelong enthusiast for the natural history of local ecosystems and is dedicated to helping preserve them.