Food Forest on Mothering Earth

The Festival Beach Food Forest is featured on the Mothering Earth podcast this month. Mothering Earth spotlights sustainable living practices, with topics ranging from transportation to permaculture to urban gardening. Their GardenTOAD website offers information for experienced and novice gardeners alike, including tips and tricks to start and sustain your own organic garden. Learn more […]

Saturday Design Expo & Community Potluck

Join us for an evening of food, community, and visionary conversation about the design and growth of the Festival Beach Food Forest. When: Saturday, August 5 at 6 PM – 9 PM Where: Festival Beach Food Forest – 25 1/2 Waller St, Austin, Texas 78702 What to bring: The entire family, a dish to share (if not there will be […]

Meet the Interns!

Hey there, We are Estelle and Anthony, the French interns. We are both studying landscape engineering in the North of France in the College of Agriculture (ISA, Lille, France). Anthony is 26 and he works in a famous French landscape company as a site supervisor. Estelle is 23 and she works in a town planning […]

FBFF on Shades of Green Talk Radio

Check out food forest board members Jonathan Barona and Christopher Sanchez talk about the food forest and alternative food production today (Thursday, June 29) at 1pm on Shades of Green Talk Radio KOOP radio 91.7! From Shades of Green: Join us today at 1PM on KOOP Radio 91.7FM and streaming at www.koop.org! To join the […]

World Rainforest Day

The Festival Beach Food Forest is a way of reconnecting the Austin community to the natural world and specifically the important role trees and forests play on our planet. With that in mind we our proud to support Rainforest Partnership in launching World Rainforest Day. Please read the blog below by Rainforest Partnership executive director […]

Saturday Volunteers Needed

This weekend is our 2nd-Saturday Volunteer Day! We will focus on mulching, weeding, plant-care, and education for our volunteers. If you want to learn about healthy soil creation and forest gardening this is a great way to get hands on experience. We welcome all volunteers who want to be part of a community interested in […]

Into the Wild: True Tales from Environmental Activists

Thursday, May 25 from 7 PM – 10 PM The North Door 502 Brushy St., Austin, Texas 78702 Six local environmental activists will share a ten-minute, true story on the theme “Into the Wild” to raise funds and support for Festival Beach Food Forest. Produced by The Front Porch and 787 Collective the event will […]

Help Us Flourish!

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Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Festival Beach Food Forest this Saturday, May 13th from 9:00am – 12:00pm! 2nd Saturday Volunteer Site Maintenance Day Every month we focus on mulching, weeding, and educating volunteers. Learn how to build healthy soil and the techniques of forest gardening! This is a great way to get hands-on experience. We […]

Gratitude and Momentum!

Gratitude and momentum Wow, what a display of community love, abundance and momentum at our second annual Spring Feast and FUNdraiser! Thanks to all that showed up and participated! Whether you missed the party or made it, we appreciate all of the ways you support this people-powered initiative and we’re excited to continue to connect, […]

Spring Feast and FUNdraiser

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We need your help! We need to raise a $15,000 cash-match so that the Neighborhood Partnering Program will release the $65,000 grant they awarded us. Every little bit helps- $3 or $100 or $10,000, any amount is appreciated. Our community is huge and if everyone we know (like you!) who cares about the Food Forest- about tranquility, edible landscapes and […]