Are you curious about growing food in community? Come join central East Austin neighbors in a conversation about low-maintenance, low-water edible forest gardens, aka food forests. When: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 6:15pm – 8:00pm Where: Metz Recreation Center...
We believe the Food Forest’s mission for free, publicly-accessible, organically-grown food is in fact one of the BEST USES of public land. Do you agree? Let the city know! When: Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 4:00pm Where: Austin City Hall Background: In September...
Join us for a neighborhood Q&A meeting about the food forest and help spread the word to East Austin neighbors!We will provide fliers for distribution in nearby neighborhoods and watering holes. (We can almost guarantee they’ll be friends made in the...
What’s a food forest? What are the possibilities for a food forest at Festival Beach? East Feast leaders have been hard at work creating potential designs for a Festival Beach Food Forest, just south of the Community Garden. It’s time to share these ideas,...
It’s time to spread the word, reaching out to Holly and East Cesar Chavez neighbors about the food forest (and August workshop), and decorating our bus-bench-gardens with signs to help people connect to the movement! Calling all Austinites! Have you ever dreamed...
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Community Call to Action:
Pause Wastewater Pipeline Construction at Festival Beach Food Forest
Festival Beach Food Forest is facing imminent disruption from an unexpected and insufficiently communicated wastewater pipeline relocation associated with TxDOT’s I-35 project. We are calling on the community to help us secure an immediate pause so the City, TxDOT, and community stewards can work together on a permaculture-based approach that minimizes ecological damage and honors years of City-approved planning and public investment.
