The welcome mat—and interpretive signs—are out at the Barbareño Chumash Heritage Garden, the collective name for landscaped areas edging the new Student Resource Building. Using plants and seeds native to the campus, Wayne Chapman of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration has designed and planted the garden in cooperation with the American Indian Cultural Resource Center (AICRC). It salutes the Chumash people, who lived in the region (and had a village where UCSB now stands) for thousands of years, and how they lived with nature. The signs—edited by Chumash ethnobotanist Julie Cordero-Lamb and her mother, Roberta Cordero—give the native usage and the Barbareño Chumash word for each species in the garden. Helping to install a sign are, from left, Chapman, AICRC Coordinator Judy Zachary, and Chapman’s assistant, Ben Reder.

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