Festival Beach Community Garden

Join us on October 8 for an educational session, featuring a compost demonstration with master gardener Joy Ruth. Joy will also be teaching about vermiculture and will give a demonstration on how to start your own worm bin.

We will be filming Joy’s compost demonstration to help “seed” the community we are creating around the documentary film “What Are You Growing?”

Saturday, October 8, 2011, 10am-12pm at Festival Beach Community Garden. This class is free and open to the public. Please invite your friends and family to join us for an exciting education session!

Greetings Fellow Gardeners & Planners!

Please join us on October 1st for a fall and winter gardening class taught by Rosalie Russell and sponsored by Travis County Master Gardeners Association and the Travis County AgriLife Extension.

Learn about:

• Garden vegetables which only thrive in the cool temperature of the fall and winter.
• General gardening principles and guidelines for protecting plants from usually cool temps will be discussed.

This event is outdoors. Please bring a chair if you wish to sit during the lecture portion of the class.

Saturday, October 1, 2011, 10am-12pm at Festival Beach Community Garden. This class is free and open to the public. Please invite your friends and family to join us for an exciting education session!

Please join us for a special presentation and slide show by Permaculture designer and teacher, Patricia Michael.  Patricia has been an invaluable consultant for Festival Beach Community Garden,  helping us create our initial site plan and assisting with our strategies for surface water management.  In this presentation, she will discuss Permaculture principles that are useful in any design work.

Wednesday, March 30, 6:30 – 8:00 pm — Terrazas Library, 1105 East Cesar Chavez.

Patricia will draw from her many years of experience as a landscape designer and Permaculture teacher to give us some ways to think about designing gardens.  She will emphasize surface water management and soil quality as two major considerations in our design work.  She will also discuss principles of design for both beauty and user-friendly function.

This presentation will be useful for your home gardens as well as our land at Festival Beach.  It is open to the neighborhood and wider community, so feel free to invite guests.