Grow Green is a creek-friendly gardening education program. We help protect Austin’s water by encouraging less use of landscape chemicals and keeping rain where it falls — reducing flooding, erosion, and pollution, because what runs off our land flows straight to our creeks and river....
Come Celebrate the 120th Birthday of our east Austin farm site! On Saturday, November 11, we’re hosting a Feast in the Field, 6-9 pm where you can dine under the stars, enjoying organic foods from our farm and others, prepared by the Escoffier Culinary school. This fundraising...
Join us for a conversation about the role fungi can play to address land conservation and regeneration, and cultivate resilience to climate change and other challenges in Central Texas. Speakers will include Dr. Colin Averill, Founder and CEO of Funga, a public benefit corporation reintroducing fungal...
Join us and Central Texas Seed Savers to learn about the Austin Public Library Seed Collection, gardening, and sustainable living while we process seed donations for the Seed Collection. RSVP here. Location: Central Library, 710 W. César Chávez St., Demonstration Area (1st floor)...
Howdy, Austin! It’s SXSW time. It’s also the start of our 50th year of business unusual. We’re excited to celebrate right here in our Austin retail store. Join us for conversations around regenerative organic agriculture, corporate and grassroots activism—and the importance of weaving environmental and...
Kick off the start of the Milwood Branch’s seed library. Learn about Texas indigenous plants and meet other gardening enthusiast. All ages welcome. ...
Please join us June 16 in celebrating our partner projects and Austin community urban agriculture at our first ever fundraiser, Goodness from the Garden! Since we began in 2020, Fruitful Commons has been helping communities in Austin grow their own food. We’ve distributed $30,000 in mini grants to gardens...
Spring is in the air, and that means it's time to get our hands dirty! Join us with Black Lives Veggies on May 14th to repair and build garden boxes. This is a great opportunity to get outside, meet new people, and help make a...
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension-Travis County kicks off the 2022 educational series with A Lawn of All Seasons – Best Management Practices for a Healthy Happy Lawn, on April 20th at 10 am to noon. Dean Minchillo, Extension Program Specialist with the Urban Water Team, will...
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