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This October, Santa Barbara’s celebrated cocktail culture meets California’s unique native flora in Garden to Glass, a month-long collaboration celebrating Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s 100 years of natural beauty and conservation through limited-edition botanical cocktails crafted with edible native plants harvested directly from the Garden.
Running October 1–31, Garden to Glass brings together 11 of Santa Barbara’s most celebrated restaurants and bars, each creating an original cocktail (including a few non-alcoholic options) showcasing California’s native plants. Participating beverage teams selected ingredients from the Garden’s curated harvest list, which were sustainably harvested by Garden staff for incorporation into each unique cocktail — offering guests a literal taste of California’s native landscape…