Unite for Water Rights! A community Gathering with Quail Springs

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August

26

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2023

6:30pm

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August

27

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2023

11:00am

Patagonia Ventura Presents:

Unite for Water Rights! A community Gathering with Quail Springs

A Celebration of Water, Land and People!

RSVP Here

What To Expect

Celebrate with us Saturday, November 4th, as we host a spectacular community gathering here at Patagonia Ventura! A real hoot and holler event, filled with live music, fundraising for Quail Springs, hands on activities for kids and families led by Great Pacific CDC. Tasty food and numerous drinks, chance to win prizes and Patagonia Gear and much more! Oh, and come appreciate Quail Springs' very own goats! YES, GOATS!

In collaboration with Quail Springs, we are creating an open space for organizations from Cuyama Valley, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ojai and Ventura all uniting together sharing the important work they are doing for the environment. From land conservation, environmental education and advocacy, protecting indicator species and regenerative agriculture. We all are working together to raise awareness and Stand with Cuyama to save the Cuyama Valley basin's water supply. *More details below.

Follow @patagoniavta and @quail_springs on Instagram for updates prior to the event and more details!

RSVP's welcome but not required to attend this event. Click the 'RSVP' button at the top of this page to let us know you'll be there!

Event Notes

When: Saturday, November 4th at Patagonia Ventura

Where: Patagonia Ventura, 235 W Santa Clara St

Location: Courtyard behind Patagonia Ventura Retail Store

Time: 11:00AM - 4:00PM

*Event is open to the Public and first-come-first-served.

Event Timeline:

The event will kick off with live music by Quail Springs’ very own high desert choir, the Muddy Daughters and Cuyama Mama & The Hot Flashes will be bringing their foot stompin', apron flauntin' high desert dance music in the afternoon! Access to the outdoor play area of the Great Pacific CDC will be available and fun activities for kids will be spearheaded by our very own GPCDC teachers. From face-painting, building your own mini mud fairy houses, native flora and fauna coloring sheets and so much more! Brief presentations will take place throughout the event from Quail Springs and opportunities for give-aways filled with hand-crafted local goodies to stock up for the holidays.

There will be a chance to win Patagonia hiking and Workwear gear, with winners drawn at 3:30 PM. The drawing will consist of three winners and items will range from small, medium and large-scale collections. Winner must be present in order to receive the gear. A purchase or donation per ticket will be used to enter and all proceeds will be donated. $10.00 for small, $15.00 for medium and $20.00 for large.

How To Attend

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, capacity is limited for this event to {INSERT NUMBER} participants to ensure the safety of our staff and event guests. Registration is required for EACH attendee (please don't bring a guest if they haven't registered!). Click the RSVP button at the top of this page to sign up.

If sign ups are full, click the 'Add To Waitlist' button and you will be notified if someone cancels.

COVID-19 Protocols

To keep event participants safe, we ask that you follow these protocols:

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First and foremost, we ask that you stay home if you've been experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms.

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If you have any questions about our COVID-19 protocols, please give us a call during store hours at: {INSERT STORE PHONE NUMBER}.

Save Our Basin

Stand With Cuyama Against Corporate Greed

Grimmway Farms and Bolthouse Farms, the world’s largest carrot growers, produce 80% of the U.S. carrot market (an annual crop worth $69 million) and together they pump over 40% of the Cuyama Valley basin’s water supply. Last year they pumped 28,500 acre-feet of water; enough water to supply three cities the size of Santa Barbara with a year's worth of water. Now they’re suing every homeowner, business, small-scale farmer, rancher - even our schools - for rights to the water we all depend on.

For ways to take action and learn more click: here

Quail Springs

Building a living example of a better future.

Founded in 2004, Quail Springs (QS) is an environmental education non-profit that resides in the hyper-rural Cuyama Valley on the ancestral homelands of the Chumash people. Quail Springs resides on a remote, off-grid demonstration site in the Cuyama Valley surrounded on all sides by the Los Padres National Forest. Our team is composed of farmers, ecologists, scholars, artists, and builders of diverse cultural backgrounds, including first-generation immigrants, refugees, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ identified people.

To learn more about Quail Springs, visit their website: here.

Our Participating Groups

Nonprofits & Organizations

Tierra Sol Institute: website

The C.R.E.W.: website

Los Padres ForestWatch: website

Beaver Brigade: website

Blue Sky Center: website

Wilderness Youth Project: website

Ventura Wild: website

Ventura Botanical Gardens: website

Rural Community Assistance Corporation: website

Entertainment & Vendors

Channel Islands Juice Co.

Channel Islands Juice Co has a simple mission. To make truly organic juice that is restorative and nourishing. Each hand-crafted nutritious blend is served in a returnable/reusable glass jar, that protects and assures freshness. We are fiercely committed to using locally sourced ingredients from sustainable sources that nourish the mind, body and soul.

Apiary Beverage Co.

Our philosophy is simple: ferment the highest quality ingredients known to nature to create beverages that are not only delicious but better for you too.

Freedom 4 Youth

F4Y’s culinary team was established over the years as youth in our programs were trained by F4Y’s Culinary Director, Executive Chef Jean Paul Lu Van Vi, to cater estate weddings, work and manage multiple restaurants, and even have a contract with the Santa Barbara Polo Fields in which 23 youth were brought on to cook and serve for 1000+ people per weekend event. Led by the youth’s vision, F4Y has formed a catering social enterprise and is now ready to cater your next event!

The Muddy Daughters

You can hear the high desert sing through this choir from Quail Springs. With voices like the breeze, songs from the land, and harmonies from the spring, the voluptuous sounds of these singers will carry you up and over the mountains to the desert canyon they call home.

Cuyama Mama & The Hot Flashes

Foot stompin', apron flauntin' high desert dance music!

Film Bios

Monte Cosby

Like many across the United States today, Demonte Cosby’s life growing up in the inner city of Richmond, Virginia, could be described with phrases such as gun violence. Single-parent home. Poverty. Drugs. Sirens. Trauma.

But one day, someone got Monte on a bike. He learned how to navigate obstacles. How to start well and finish sprinting. How to pass on a narrow trail, and when to let others pass. Biking became more than two wheels, and one mantra a way of life: Can’t stop. Won’t stop.

He’s excited to tell you a part of his story, one that also includes phrases like college senior. Mentor. Older brother and role model. Proud son.

Dave Mayers

Dave Mayers is a Peabody and three-time Emmy-winning documentary director, cinematographer and sometimes journalism professor. He was most recently a member of the 2022 class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University, where he looked into how to open up documentary filmmaking to underrepresented communities.

Dave is drawn to stories that try to evoke empathy and understanding for people and from places that are often misunderstood and overlooked. He has worked for VICE News on HBO, Showtime and Hulu, and the Johannesburg desk of the New York Times and Time Inc., and he has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. His career has allowed him to report throughout the United States and from dozens of countries around the world.