Your Green Week Ahead: A Permablitz & A Free Gardening Class

[Gardening Workshop] Saturday, January 16th and Sunday, January 17th from 9am to 5pm the Austin Permaculture Guild is hosting a two-day permablitz at the Naylor Homestead in Leesville. Participants will help to create a marketplace garden with berms and swales on contour and integrate goats and chickens as working animals into the design. More info>>

A permablitz is a community organized and supported event to spread permaculture design, practice, and implementation throughout the Central Texas Area. Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around nature, imitating the natural world’s approach and applying it to everything from landscapes to buildings.

[Gardening Class] Saturday, January 16th at noon Brite Ideas is hosting a free class on plant quality and productivity at its store on South Congress Avenue. Students will learn how to engineer optimum plant environments and become better gardeners in the process. More info>>

[TV Screening] Sunday, January 17th from 2pm to 4:30pm the Faulk Central Library is hosting a screening of Austin Resource Recovery’s five-part television series,“Dare to Go Zero.” The series follows the lives of four local families that challenged themselves to reduce waste and become better recyclers. More info>>

[Volunteer] Monday, January 18th from 9am to 1pm the Austin Parks Foundation is hosting a day of service in honor ofMartin Luther King Jr. Day. Volunteers can sign up to plant baby trees or participate in a tree mulching project at a local park. More info>>

[Volunteer] Monday, January 18th from 10am to noon Austin Youth River Watch is hosting a cleanup event at Buttermilk Creek in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Volunteers are needed to clean up the creek and plant deep-rooted native grasses to improve the creek’s health. More info>>

[Food Meeting] Tuesday, January 19th from 6pm to 8pm the Sustainable Food Policy Board is hosting its monthly meeting at the Street Jones Building on East 11th Street. The Sustainable Food Policy Board advises the Austin City Council and Travis County Commissioners’ Court on the need to improve the availability of safe, nutritious, locally, and sustainably-grown food at reasonable prices for all residents. The public is invited to attend and learn more about the Sustainable Food Policy Board and its plans for 2016. More info>>

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Your Green Week Ahead: A Permablitz & A Free Gardening Class