Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art invites local families to Living Earth: A Family Day of Exploration with free activities with food, crafts, games, music and storytelling focused on the environment, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 1 at 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara.

The event will spotlight focus the immersive exhibit WILDLAND: Ethan Turpin’s Collaborations on Fire and Water, which combines science and art.

Among the activities will be a birdwatching walk; scavenger hunt exploring nature; Junkyard Jammin’ Jamboree of instruments made from recycled materials; storytelling with Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, a Chumash elder; petting zoo with sheep and a Shetland pony/therapy horse; snail hunt; and cat adoptions with Animal Shelter Assistance Program.

Santa Barbara Audubon Society will bring a kestrel for families to see; the campus garden will be open with tours and activities with Janell Balmaceda, Westmont sustainability coordinator and garden manager; turtle and fish feeding at the duck pond; nature film documentaries; and hiking on a campus nature trail that cuts through a eucalyptus grove to learn about a project replacing the trees with fire-hearty California coast live oaks.

Family crafts include creating an imagination garden to take home; making leaf-print bags; experimenting with watercolors alongside artist Turpin; and making a bug hotel to lure pollinating insects to your garden.

There will be giveaways of wildflower seed bombs, milkweed seeds to attract monarch butterflies, and California poppies donated by S&S Seeds.

Santa Barbara’s groups hosting information tables are Montecito Fire Department; Santa Barbara Fire Safe Council; Santa Barbara Channelkeeper; and CalFire.

Refreshments will be available for purchase from campus caterer Bon Appetit (hamburgers, veggie burgers, salad and lemonade); Rori’s Artisanal Creamery (ice cream cups); Claudia Coffee Bar (coffees and organic smoothies); and water from SolWave Water.