When Dana Goodyear and her son Ramsey lost their Pacific Palisades home in the January 2025 wildfires, they decided to do something unexpected. Instead of only grieving what burned, they started making seed bombs. Little balls of native seeds, compost, and clay about the size of a donut hole. You throw them into the dirt, the clay shields the seeds, and eventually native flowers push through the ash. What started as a healing project for one family has turned into a community movement. The Seed Bomb Project has now distributed 10,000 seed bombs to fire survivors across Altadena, the Palisades, and Malibu. Each one costs around five dollars, and the project is now part of the nonprofit Creative Visions, with schools and local businesses getting involved. Meanwhile, Altadena fire survivor Renée Amy is leading a parallel effort to sow 130 million California poppy seeds in burn areas. The seed mix was created by the Theodore Payne Foundation, a nonprofit native plant nursery, so these aren’t random flowers. They’re native species that can help restore fire-scarred landscapes and build long-term resilience. Dana said she wanted to channel her “pretty extreme disorientation and grief into something meaningful.” And the flowers, as she puts it, are “such a perfect symbol of resilience.” It’s not a solution to wildfire risk, but it’s proof that community, hope, and healing can be planted. What would you want to grow if you were starting over?