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Santa Barbara Co-op

Hi and welcome to the webpage for the Santa Barbara Green Living Co-op!  We are excited about starting up a Green Living Co-op in the Santa Barbara area, and we will be building membership, developing workshop and educational opportunities, and training instructors over the next year.  

To Join: Membership in the WMG Santa Barbara Co-op and participation in workshops is free. Please fill out the online application to join. Once signed up, you will receive a bulletin, usually every week,  announcing upcoming Co-op volunteer opportunities to earn hours, special events, and other member benefits such as subsidies and discounts.

For More Information: Visit our Co-op Details page or contact Barbara Wishingrad, Santa Barbara Green Living Co-op, PO Box 22506, Santa Barbara, CA 93121, bwishingrad@watershedmg.org or 805-403-4566.

Host a Workshop as part of the Green Living Co-op!

The Santa Barbara Green Living Co-op is seeking hosts for future workshops. We are presently focusing on earthworks and laundry to landscape greywater systems.

Workshop hosts pay for materials and the workshop instructor's time, which may include a site assessment, design plan, preparation of the site for the workshop, buying materials, facilitating volunteers during the actual four-five hour workshop, and follow up. Workshop instructors on the average put in fifteen hours in the process of holding a workshop.

As a Co-op member, you get a reduced rate on this fee. This applies once you have put in 16 hours of volunteer time for the Co-op, or if you work at least 16 hours in the six months following hosting a workshop.

Thanks to Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North who provided grant funding for a tool shed for the Co-op

The Green Living Co-op has received a $500 grant from Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North to purchase a storage shed for our tools and other materials. We are looking for a used shed, perferably 10' x 10', in excellent condition, that we can use for this purpose. If you have a shed or a lead for us, please contact Barbara Wishingrad at bwishingrad@watershedmg.org or 805-403-4566.  Thanks!

Santa Barbara Co-op seeking tool donations

The Santa Barbara Green Living Co-op is compiling toolkits to use during our workshops.  We are soliciting donations of tools or money to purchase tools to do earthworks and to put in greywater and rainwater harvesting systems.  We are a 501(c)3 non profit and your donation is tax deductible.  

Services we provide:

Consulting

  • Water Harvesting Systems - rainwater and greywater systems
  • Landscape Site Planning - development of site plans
  • Integrated Design - developing a site plan to serve multiple beneficial functions
  • Passive Rainscapes
  • Residential Greywater systems (laundry to landscape)
  • Rainwater cisterns (coming soon)
  • Landscape Restoration
  • Vegetable gardens and fruit trees
  • Compost Systems


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