Volunteering: Festival Beach Community Garden

Volunteer at Festival Beach Community Garden, Waller & Clermont Streets, near Festival Beach

Please come join us in developing our new community vegetable garden at the next volunteer WORKDAYS:

Saturday morning, September 11, 9:00-12:00 AND Saturday morning, October 9 , 9:00-12:00

We need your help and participation with workday tasks: moving and spreading mulch, mowing open spaces, weeding our communal vegetable garden, and developing our composting system.

We have the tools – we need your participation (bring your own work gloves).
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Education: How To: Garden Organically

As the Festival Beach Community Garden inches toward planting many of us are looking for ways to get educated about organic gardening. We’ll be having educational opportunities at the garden (dates TBD), but until then check out Garden-Ville University. They offer a range of free online classes. It doesn’t come close to digging in the dirt, but you are already spending time on the computer. So stop reading this and go learn about organic gardening 🙂

Our Community: Scoop the Poop

Keep East Austin clean and healthy. Scoop the Poop

Pet waste is more than smelly and unsightly, it pollutes our water! Pet waste left outdoors is flushed into the nearest waterway when it rains. This waste contains disease-causing bacteria and viruses that are harmful to pets and humans, particularly children.

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Our History: Festival Beach Fence Design 2009

Thanks to everyone who contributed their brilliant ideas for our fence design, especially Jessica Braun, Alex Gilliam, Amy Starling Rampy and Emma Brandt. Have a look here…

In reviewing the designs, several ideas emerged as important:

– there should be some visual continuity in the fence design, for example, wood and mesh panels that repeat at intervals along the perimeter.

– for the more decorative areas, we liked the idea of a framework that people could work with to create different patterns (see “warp”)

– we’d like to incorporate some educational elements — murals, other signage — on the exterior in addition to (and as part of) the community vegetables and native and habitat plantings already discussed.

PARD and the City are reviewing our application for a general site permit, and we hope to be able to start construction in December. In the meantime, we’ll focus on getting our design clear, identifying materials and sources and recruiting volunteers. More updates to follow… stay tuned!

Click on the images and links to view ideas and sketches:
Festival Beach Fence Details
Mural

Rampy Mizner sketches

warp

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For Gardeners, Only: Howdy!

Thanks for stopping by the Festival Beach Community Garden website.  We are planting ideas and waiting for some sunshine on this site.  So really we can only offer you fertalizer here.  But if you are looking to get involved with the garden visit our site over here at Austin Community Gardens.  You can also join our email list to get involved and stay informed about how things are progressing with this important community project!