Santa Cruz - Summer 2025
We’re just starting out hosting a handful of gatherings for families, friends, and creative kin — from backyard learning adventures to expressive art in nature. All are lightly guided, community-centered, and designed to leave plenty of space for joy, rest, and connection. If you would like to be sure to see our invitations, please join our gently tended mailing list.
Circles of Friends
Custom Learning Play for Small Groups
Collaboratively shaped creative adventures for families and friend groups who want to gather kids for joyful, nature-connected experiences — hosted at home or in the community. Adaptable for all ages, even toddlers and teens.
Circles can be drop-off or parent-inclusive, and are perfect for homeschoolers, cousins, neighbor friends, or community groups. Each session is lightly guided and uniquely crafted for your group’s rhythm and interests.
We welcome tweens and teens into this experience. Whether they prefer to help guide younger kids, dive into their own creative project, or co-create a Circle just for their age group — we’re happy to support it.
Interested in hosting or joining a Circle? Use the interest form below to share your ideas and availability and we'll let you now what's coming together. Whether you’re an individual family looking to join in, or already have four or more kids ready to go, we can help it happen.
Circles are facilitated by members of our freelance educators collective. If you are a skilled guide with a great idea for a Circle, we’d love to hear from you. Please use the form to share about your offering and express interest in facilitation (fill fields that feel relevant, include ages that you work with). We’ll follow up with details about joining the Circles leadership crew.
Accessibility and Belonging
You are welcome here.
We do our best to make every Green Seed offering feel spacious, welcoming, and adaptable — for bodies, brains, families, and individual ways of being. While many of our events are hosted in outdoor or unconventional spaces, we take accessibility seriously and are always happy to collaborate on creative solutions. Every registration form includes a space to share any needs or requests — sensory, mobility, communication, or otherwise. If you're unsure whether a particular event or location will work for you, reach out anytime.
Tiny Seeds of Repair
Green Seed Arts is rooted in Santa Cruz, California. Everything we offer here is free to Indigenous members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, in recognition of their enduring relationship to this land and the ongoing impacts of colonization. We honor their care and resilience, and invite others to learn more about their continued legacy. www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org
We are you. Come on in.
We believe beauty, belonging, and learning are meant to be shared — and that money in the bank does not reflect a person’s worth or value to community. When checking out, you will usually notice an option to contribute in other forms of energy. We can always come up with an exchange that feels good to everyone. Registration is also often sliding scale, with higher contributions helping fund broader inclusion. Whether you’re seeking support or moved to extend it to others, your presence matters.
What We Are Tending
As Green Seed Arts continues to grow, we’re shaping a collection of tools, gatherings, and shared resources that nourish an ecology of thriving — both locally and beyond.
From collaborative curriculum and courses, to retreats, networking opportunities, and systems of reciprocal support, these offerings are part of a living framework designed to seed deeper culture — one that nourishes imagination, honors relationship, and invites us into thoughtful participation.
Some are ready now. Others are still germinating. All are being crafted with care.
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Little Grove
Gardens for Learning and Play
We design and install living, playful, regenerative spaces that support connection, creativity, and care for the living world. Whether in a backyard, at a school, or at a community site, each garden is tailored to spark curiosity, deeper awareness of interpendence, and joy through ecological design.
Meet the Founder
Green Seed Arts is held by Sage Lampros, founder, creative director, and systems designer.
An artist and educator with a long-established inner compass for regenerative change, Sage’s work draws from roots in permaculture, expressive arts, social ecology, therapeutic horticulture, and place-based learning. Through Green Seed, she helps shape cultural and educational infrastructure that is alive, reciprocal, and community-rooted.
At the heart of her work is a deep love for the Earth– and a belief that human thriving must be re-woven into the fabric of living systems.
