An Evening with Alice Waters
Oct
30
7:00 PM19:00

An Evening with Alice Waters

JOIN US for An Evening with Alice Waters celebrating A School Lunch Revolution, presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Tickets: $45 (includes donation to the Edible Schoolyard Project and Life Lab as well as a signed book, plus all taxes and fees)

Location: Rio Theatre for the Performing Arts (1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062)

Date & Time: Thursday, October 30th, 7:00 PM (doors at 6:00 PM)

More info and get tickets at: https://bookshopsantacruz.com/alice-waters

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Día de Muertos Family Event
Nov
1
1:00 PM13:00

Día de Muertos Family Event

(Español Abajo)

📅 Date: Saturday, November 1
📍 Location: Life Lab Garden Classroom
⏰ Time: 1:00–3:00 PM

Join us in the Life Lab Garden Classroom for a Día de Muertos gathering for the whole family! We’ll harvest the marigolds planted by summer campers and honor loved ones by building a community ofrenda together. This joyful, reflective celebration weaves nature, tradition, and memory into a vibrant community experience.

🌼 Activities may include:

  • Scavenger hunt for elements to add to the ofrenda

  • Poetry activity

  • Skull prints filled with marigold petals & seeds

  • Marigold flower harvest for the ofrenda

  • Paper butterflies with loved ones’ names to add to the ofrenda

  • Seed packet making with garden-collected seeds

  • Garden tour

Free to attend - donations are welcome to support Life Lab programs.

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Thank You to Our Event Sponsor!

Únete a nosotrxs en el Jardín de Life Lab para una celebración del Día de Muertos para toda la familia. Cosecharemos las flores de cempasúchil plantadas por los niñxs durante el campamento de verano y honraremos a nuestros seres queridos construyendo una ofrenda comunitaria. Esta alegre y reflexiva celebración entrelaza la naturaleza, la tradición y la memoria en una experiencia comunitaria llena de vida.

Fecha: Sábado, 1 de noviembre
Lugar: Salón en el Jardín de Life Lab
Hora: 1:00–3:00 PM

Las actividades pueden incluir:

  • Búsqueda en el jardín para recolectar elementos para la ofrenda

  • Actividad de poesía

  • Impresiones de calaveras rellenas con pétalos y semillas de cempasúchitl

  • Cosecha de flores de cempasúchitl para la ofrenda

  • Escribir el nombre de seres queridos sobre mariposas de papel, para agregar a la ofrenda

  • Elaboración de sobres de semillas con semillas recolectadas del jardín

  • Recorrido por el jardín

Entrada gratuita – se agradecen  donaciones para apoyar los programas de Life Lab. 

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Gifts from the Garden Family Event
Dec
7
1:00 PM13:00

Gifts from the Garden Family Event

📅 Date: Sunday, Dec 7
📍 Location: Life Lab Garden Classroom, on the UCSC Farm.
⏰ Time: 1:00–4:00 PM

Join Life Lab for a family-friendly day of nature-inspired crafts to make and take home!

Crafts May Include:

  • Flower Pressed Bookmarks and Greeting Cards

  • Veggie Print Wrapping Paper

  • Wreath Making

  • Family Tea Bags

  • Seedy Mosiac Ornaments

  • Burlap Wrapped Seedlings

✅ Please RSVP

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Free to attend - donations are welcome to support Life Lab programs.

Thank You to Our Event Sponsors!

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Plant to Plate Workshop
Oct
16
to Oct 17

Plant to Plate Workshop

  • Life Lab Garden Classroom, on the UCSC Farm. Park in UCSC Parking lot 116 and walk to farm. (map)
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Plant to Plate Workshop

Make the connection from seed to table in this fun and delicious workshop. Using tried-and-true Life Lab lessons and recipes for grades K-8, participants explore effective ways to teach nutrition and encourage kids to eat more fruits and vegetables through hands-on activities with food, including harvesting and meal preparation. Graduate education units available.

Learn more and register here: https://www.lifelab.org/plant-to-plate

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Curriculum Connections in the Garden Workshop
Sep
18
9:30 AM09:30

Curriculum Connections in the Garden Workshop

  • Life Lab Garden Classroom, on the UCSC Farm. Park in UCSC Parking lot 116 and walk to farm. (map)
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Curriculum Connections in the GardenWorkshop

Learn to use a school garden to provide a meaningful context in which students can apply their emerging skills in math, English language arts, science and social studies. Using lessons from using lessons drawn from all of Life Lab’s curriculum participants in this workshop will experience and discuss garden activities. Whether they are graphing the temperature of their compost pile over time; reading a recipe to make fresh salsa; writing a story from the perspective of an ant; or presenting to a buddy class on the animals that visited their sunflower patch, the opportunities for children to practice traditional academic subjects in the garden are limitless! Graduate education unit available.

Learn more and register here: https://www.lifelab.org/curriculum-connections-in-the-garden

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The Growing Classroom Workshop
Jun
11
to Jun 12

The Growing Classroom Workshop

  • Life Lab Garden Classroom, on the UCSC Farm. Park in UCSC Parking lot 116 and walk to farm. (map)
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The Growing Classroom Workshop

Santa Cruz Garden Teacher Workshop

Learn to use a garden to breathe life into standards-based lessons, promote ecological literacy, encourage a love of nourishing foods, and support students’ social development. Using Life Lab’s The Growing Classroom activity guide for grades K-6, participants in this hands-on workshop experience tried-and-true garden-based lessons linked to Common Core Language Arts and Math and Next Generation Science Standards; practice basic gardening techniques; and develop management strategies for a school garden program. Graduate education units available.

Learn More and Register Here: https://www.lifelab.org/the-growing-classroom

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Santa Cruz Area School Food and Garden Tour
May
1
9:30 AM09:30

Santa Cruz Area School Food and Garden Tour

  • Life Lab Garden Classroom, on the UCSC Farm. Park in UCSC Parking lot 116 and walk to farm. (map)
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Santa Cruz Area School Food and Garden Tour

The Santa Cruz area is home to robust, long standing gardens and innovative school meal programs. Join us to visit resilient school gardens and scratch cooking school meal programs that are exemplary of the programming that has been running for decades.

Learn more and register here: https://www.lifelab.org/santa-cruz-area-school-food-and-garden-tour

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