The Seventh Annual East Austin Garden Fair: Get Up, Get Green!

This year’s theme is “Get Up, Get Green!”

 

Free and open to the public, this fun, hands-on fair involves community members in creative, low-cost ways to grow food and native ornamentals, improve their family diet, and green their homes!  Fairgoers will get expert advice from Master Gardeners on all aspects of gardening and composting, as well as backyard chicken and beekeeping.  The fair will feature an assortment of DIY and demonstration activities, including garden planning, building your own container gardens and rain barrel, kids’ crafts, food pickling 101, produce tastings, SNAP registration counseling (and how to double benefits at farmers markets), and healthy cooking demonstrations.

 

FREE SEEDLINGS will be offered to participants.   Free mini-classes will also be held inside the Zaragoza community center throughout the day.  Materials are available in English and Spanish.

The fair is free and open to the public. The 2013 fair, “Get Up, Get Green!", will feature numerous booths, activities, and classes under the areas of Horticulture, Family Health & Nutrition, Greening Your Home, and Kiddos. This fair will be very fun, hands-on and interactive. There will be an assortment of DIY and demonstration activities, including make your own container garden station, produce tastings, garden planning, theatrical skits, cooking demonstrations, and free seedlings offered to participants. Mini-classes will also be held inside the Zaragosa community center throughout the day. 

• To learn (and see) how to build a rain barrel for under $20

• A free veggie or herb seedling (and watch a cooking demo using this produce)

• Learn easy steps for greening your home, and how to get partially reimbursed for doing so

• Watch a 101- level pickling / food preservation demonstration that you can repeat at home

• Learn very inexpensive, innovative, and EASY (no power tools involved!) ways to create container and raised-bed gardens

• Learn about school gardening, beneficial insects, backyard chickens, organic veggie gardening, citrus, all manners of composting, butterfly gardens, or beekeeping, or get expert advice on many other topics

• Sign up for SNAP benefits and learn how to double your benefits at farmers markets

• Your kids can make cool outdoorsy crafts and have fun learning about the ecology and nutrition

For more information, please email Lindsay Razzaz at lindsay.razzaz@ag.tamu.edu. Or, call 512-854-9616.