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Saturday, April 16: United Way Capital Area Spring DAYS of Caring at FBCG

13 Apr

This Saturday, we are excited to welcome volunteers from the United Way Capital Area Spring DAYS of Caring, sponsored by Freescale Semiconductor.

In celebration of National Volunteer week, which honors individuals who dedicate themselves to taking action and solving problems in their communities, UWCA and Hands On Central Texas is sponsoring a work day at Festival Beach Community Garden!

We welcome volunteers to join us from 9:00-12:00. We will be planting perennials, creating our rain gardens, mulching and working on the fence.   You can register for our project on the Hands On Central Texas website.  Please bring: Gloves, water, sunscreen,  hand tools (marked). Shovels and wheelbarrows  are also in great need.

For gardeners, participation in this event will count toward your work hours. See you Saturday!

Wednesday March 30: Permaculture Presentation with Patricia Michael

23 Mar

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.

Sunday, March 20: Spring Equinox Celebration

15 Mar

Let’s get together to celebrate the coming of Spring, this Sunday, March 20th, the day of the Equinox. Please bring family and friends, a potluck dish, your own plates, cup, and utensils, and any games you’d like to play (bocce, horse shoes, etc.) The potluck will start at 4pm. We will also have a variety of heirloom tomato seedlings for sale, thanks to John and Marian! The money will go towards funding the Grand Opening Celebration in June. Hope to see everyone there!

Saturday, March 12: Workday, Guest Speaker and Picnic!

9 Mar

Festival Beach Community Garden is gearing up for the Spring! This Saturday, in preparation of our upcoming anniversary party, we will be focusing on building a teaching circle in our teaching garden, plus planting perennial flowers, asparagus and artichokes, and continuing to make progress with our fence and compost.

After the work completes, we will have a picnic and a special guest speaker. Patricia Michael, MFA, Landscape Designer and Permaculture Consultant, will speak to us about her experience with the Festival Beach Community Garden and our garden’s history. Patricia is a wonderful speaker and has been instrumental in the site plan for our garden. Read more about Patricia at her company website, Patricia Michael Design.

Please bring family and friends, and a dish to share with the group. Hot dogs, hibiscus tea, and door prizes will be provided! The fun starts at 9:00!


Wednesday, February 23: Garden Planning Meeting

19 Feb

Please join us for our monthly Garden Planning Meeting this Wednesday, February 23, 6:30 – 8:00 pm at Terrazas Library.  The library is at 1105 East Cesar Chavez (just west of Waller Street).

This meeting will include a special leadership training, so it’s a must for all committee and project leaders, all members of committees and work teams, all planning team members, and anyone who wants to have a role in helping us build our garden and create our community.  We are learning that the work we have to do requires leadership on the part of everyone.  Ours is not the type of organization where a few people at the top do all the directing.  We count on everyone to take part in the decisions and take their turn to initiate activities and lead work projects.  This training will give us an opportunity to learn some tools for effective leadership and share our ideas and strategies for making meetings fun and productive.

The agenda will also include reports from each of the current work projects, followed by discussion and input from the group.  We will also have discussion about the Grand Opening Celebration, which will take place in May.

Saturday, February 12: Workday

10 Feb

Saturday is a workday! Come soak in the sun and do something great for your favorite community garden. We’re prepping for grapes! The fun starts at 9:00. Bring the kiddos, we’ll have some fun and educational garden activities for them!

Saturday, January 8: Monthly Workday

6 Jan

Come to our monthly workday this Saturday, January 8th from 9.m. to noon. We will be focusing on preparing the orchard for the tree planting later this month. We will clear Bermuda grass from the orchard area and spread compost and granite.  We will also put up more fence posts. Bring your kids or your neighbor’s kids! We’ll have some kid-friendly fun and educational activities about trees between 9 and 11 am!

MYSTERY VEGGIES:
Where can this beautiful new bok choy and cauliflower be found in our garden?

Fall Potluck Brings Gardeners and Friends Together

5 Dec

We celebrated friendship and the Fall season, while sharing the bounty of our garden at the Fall Potluck on December 4.

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Urban Farm Bicycle Tour

5 Dec

On December 4, the Urban Farm Bicycle Tour brought nearly 100 two-wheeled visitors to our garden, our biggest community event yet!

The bright sunshine and gorgeous 70-degree-weather had everyone in great spirits. Folks who had participated in last year’s tour, prior to our new garden being officially open, marveled about the great progress our gardeners have made.

Members of our garden conducted educational sessions and demonstrations on organic gardening, winter gardening and composting. Cyclists toured garden plots while sipping hot coffee kindly donated by Texas Coffee Traders and lavender lemonade provided by Hot Mama’s Cafe.

The event was organized by The Bicycle Sport Shop as part of Edible Austin’s Eat Local Week.

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Mandala Harvest Festival

4 Nov


Festival Beach gardeners, Cindy Guerrero, Daniel Barrios, Nick
Castrop, Kaela Champlin, Gregory Klein, and Edie Cassell represented
the garden and the Sustainable Food Center at the HOPE Farmer’s Market
on Sunday, Oct 31st during the Mandala Harvest Festival. We told
market-goers about our garden and helped them make little one-seed
eco-pots to begin their own gardens at home.


The Mandal Harvest Festival, happened on Sunday, Oct 31st at the HOPE
Farmer’s Market. It is sponsored by SFC, Austin Green Art, Theater
Action Project, Capital Area Food Bank, and the HOPE Campaign.
Members of Festival Beach Community Garden had an info table there and
donated extra garden harvest to the creation of several vibrant,
living sculptures which consisted of a colorful produce mandala + can
mountains. All the donated food was taken to Capital Area Food Bank,
where it will be distributed to families who need it.

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