Hosted by the Travis County Master Gardener Association - Get ready for tree planting season! There are many types of trees, such as ornamental or fruit trees, understory or large shade trees, deciduous or evergreen trees, that will thrive in Central Texas. Matching a tree’s characteristics...
Hosted by Partners For Education, Agriculture, and Sustainability (PEAS) - We are starting early to beat the heat. Help us begin getting the farm ready for the teachers, students, and community. We will be doing a lot of weeding, and hopefully planting the 3 sisters (corn, beans,...
From the Travis County Master Gardener Association - Join us August 10th, 10 am to 12 pm at the Austin Area Garden Center in Zilker Botanical Garden to learn the basics of growing herbs in the Austin area. Explore a fascinating group of plants that have...
Especially here in Austin, we talk a lot about local food. It seems like there's a farmers market or a farm-to-table restaurant everywhere you look. But the truth is, less than 3 percent of what we spend on food in the Austin area (which includes the...
Sponsored Post - from Grow Green Are you a landscape professional? Want to learn how to incorporate stronger environmental practices into your work? Now's the time to sign up for the City of Austin's 2019 Grow Green Landscape Professional Training Series. The Grow Green Landscape Professional Training series has...
Sponsored Post - from the Sustainable Food Center Who out there has a New Year's resolution to cook more? Or to grow your own food? The Sustainable Food Center is here to help. SFC is just about to kick off its cooking and gardening classes for the new year and there's still time...
Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability Meet Susan Ward, a student at the University of Texas working toward a degree in Urban Studies. Susan first became passionate about sustainability while attending high school in her hometown of El Paso. Since attending college...
Sponsored Post - from Lettuce Networks Less then 1 percent of all the food consumed here in Travis County is produced locally. Less than 1 percent! That's why a team of entrepreneurs, farmers, and chefs have teamed up to launch Lettuce GrowShare...
Sponsored Post - from the Sustainable Food Center The wait is over. The Sustainable Food Center has just released its list of cooking and gardening classes for the fall. Some of the classes they'll be offering include...
The results are in! Austin Resource Recovery has just released the testing results from the 2018 Soil Kitchen. Each year Austin hosts the Soil Kitchen to help residents test for heavy metals and nutrients in their gardens and soils. If you participated in this year's Soil Kitchen, you can find the personalized results from...