Braided Seeds

Please join us in welcoming our newest team member, Tina Guevara! Tina is joining Braided Seeds as our new Youth + Families Program Coordinator.

Tina (she/her) is an environmental justice educator and critical scholar. She is passionate about learning within place and storytelling as avenues for deepening connection to lands and waters. As a Filipina American, cultural ways of knowing the natural world through food, movement, and slowness are essential to her teaching practices. 

After finishing grad school, Tina has spent her time rooting in Seattle through community work. You can often find her making compost at the Danny Woo Community Garden or talking about trees in the CID neighborhood. When it comes to being outside, she loves sitting near the water with a snack, watching sunsets, knitting by the fire, and slowly getting into biking.

Tina is looking forward to building more BIPOC community and sharing stories outside!

Please join us in giving a warm welcome to our newest team member, Cathy Jackson!

Serving as our Programs + Outreach Assistant, Cathy (she/her) is an artist who mainly works across ceramics, poetry, and painting. Born and raised in Seattle, she has always felt a deep connection to the PNW and grew up with nature woven into her everyday life, from fishing trips with her father to braiding daisy crowns with her cousins.

She is passionate about building community and believes it is one of the most important parts of living a healthy and meaningful life. As a recent graduate of the University of Washington Tacoma, she is excited to bring her creativity and experience to an organization whose mission she deeply cares about.

Outside of work, she loves working with her hands, whether baking bread, making clay sculptures, or learning guitar. She especially enjoys taking nature walks and finding little moments of beauty in the world around her.

Welcome to the Braided Seeds team, Cathy!

Thank you for making Give 8/28 a success! Whether you made a gift, shared our posts, or encouraged a friend to donate, your support means the world to us.

We couldn’t do this work without our community!

While Give 8/28 is over, our work continues year round. Steady, monthly support from a network of donors sustains our momentum and helps us grow our offerings. Consider becoming a recurring donor! Visit the link in our bio to learn more.

With gratitude,
The Braided Seeds Team 🌱

As Give 8/28 comes to a close, there’s still time to invest in Braided Seeds.

Every gift—no matter the size—helps support our work of removing outdoor access barriers for BIPOC communities.
If you’ve been thinking about giving, now is the perfect time.

Visit the Linktree in our bio to make a donation or purchase a bag of the Braided Seeds Blend through our fundraiser with Campfire Coffee Co.. 🌱☕️



💙 Donate before the day ends through the link in our bio.

When you give to Braided Seeds, you’re helping create opportunities for Black communities and communities of color to experience the outdoors, build community, and reconnect with the land.

Because of supporters like you, we’re able to:
🌿 Provide free Discover Passes
🥾 Lend outdoor gear at no cost
🏕️ Host and fund outdoor adventures and wellness experiences

And so much more!

Help us grow our impact. Donate TODAY through the link in our bio. 💚

Today’s the day to invest in Black-led organizations creating lasting change in their communities.

At Braided Seeds, your support helps remove barriers to the outdoors by expanding access to Discover Passes, community sponsorships, outdoor recreation, and spaces for rest, healing, and belonging for Black communities and communities of color.

Looking for a place to start giving? 
    •    $5–$15 – Small gifts have a big collective impact.
    •    $25 provides general support for Braided Seeds’ work throughout the year.
    •    $50 sponsors a Discover Pass, providing an individual or family with a full year of access to Washington State Parks and other public lands.
    •    $100+ – Makes a meaningful investment in the future of our programs, helping ensure more people can experience the outdoors.
    •    Prefer to support another way? You can also purchase a bag of the Braided Seeds Blend from Campfire Coffee, with 50% of proceeds supporting Braided Seeds.

Together, we can create a future where everyone has the opportunity to experience the healing power of nature.
🔗 Donate today through the link in our bio.

Early Giving starts NOW! You don’t have to wait until August 28 to make an impact. Your early gift helps Braided Seeds continue creating opportunities for Black communities and communities of color to experience rest, reconnection, and restoration through outdoor experiences.

Every contribution—big or small—helps remove barriers to nature and invest in a future where everyone has the opportunity to belong outdoors.

If you’re ready to support Braided Seeds, you can donate today through the link in our bio—or purchase a bag of the Braided Seeds Blend through our fundraiser with Campfire Coffee Co.! Each option is in our Linktree! Every contribution helps this work grow.

So much fun in the North Cascades with this group of middle school students last week! We learned that rest is personal and what we need may not be what the person next to us needs. For this bunch, it looked like time near water, art, napping, and lots and lots of play.

A Discover Pass grants more than just access to Washington’s state parks. It provides individuals and families with the opportunity to reconnect with the land and with themselves in the outdoors.

Through our Discover Pass Distribution program, we’re helping remove financial barriers so Black communities and communities of color can create lasting memories on Washington’s public lands.

During Give 8/28, every gift to Braided Seeds helps make opportunities like this possible. When you donate just $50 to Braided Seeds, you gift an individual or a family one year of access to Washington’s beautiful state parks. 

Click the Linktree in our bio on August 28th to make your gift!