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Welcome to the Coalition of Austin Community Gardens representing Austin’s 26 community gardens! Our mission is to promote and support new and existing community gardens in the Austin area.
3rd Annual Austin Community Gardening Tour
Join us for the 3rd Annual Austin Community Gardening Tour on Saturday, April 28th, from 12 – 4pm. This free, friendly-to-all-ages, open-house style tour provides the opportunity to visit an inspiring array of gardens throughout the Austin area where participants are growing food and growing community together. Get on your bike, in your car, or on your feet and check out this showcase of urban food-growing strategies! Enjoy instructional talks, celebrations, kids’ activities, and the opportunity to get your hands dirty by helping at a work day along the way.
The tour is followed by a Celebration of Community Gardening at Kenny Dorham’s Backyard, 1106 E. 11th St., from 6 – 9 pm. Enjoy local food at a p•tl♣ck picnic and learn what’s been going on in the world of community gardens over the past year from the City and Coalition representatives. Then dance to infectious beats from The Flyin’ A’s under the light of a moontower.
grow-together.org
Check out grow-together.org for upcoming gardening events!
February 25th garden expansion at Gateway chruch.
March 31st grow-together film will be played at the Attic Film festival at the St. JOhns For The City Building.
March 10 th community party at Capitol Village apartments.
For more info go to: grow-together.org:)
We are also looking for a bi-lingual garden leader to help us out at our Food pantry at Gateway Church. The food pantry hours are 10 am until 12 pm every Wednesday.
Upcoming Events at Blackshear Neighborhood Garden
New garden work day hours for fall/winter: Sundays 2-5pm. Want to garden but can’t get a plot? Sign up for a monthly shift in our shared community rows.
Cob Wall Workshop sponsored and taught by the fine folks at Design~Build~Live! Saturday November 12th 9am-5pm. Learn about this sustainable building practice while contributing to our garden’s kid play space. Go to designbuildlive.org to register or contact Caitlin for more information.
Our quarterly Garden Dinner will be November 19th at 6pm. Please join us for fellowship and good times in the garden. Bring a dish to share and your own place setting.
December Work Party will be Saturday Dec. 3rd 9am-1pm. The Urban Farm Tour will roll through then as well, so come be part of the magic! Projects on tap: Solar Panel Mounting and Compost Pile Reorganization.
Workshop by TCMG on Bio-Intensive Gardening
We had a successful workshop at Blackshear Garden Saturday 10/8/11 on Bio-Intensive Gardening. Big thank you to Rosalie, Joe, and the rest of the Travis County Master Gardeners who made this free workshop possible. Folks from all over town came to learn about adapting this method of gardening to the Austin area. It was really great to learn from experienced Texas gardeners, and to make connections with other folks who grow food.
A message from South Austin Community Garden gardeners
The gardeners at the South Austin Community Garden (SACG) wish to inform you that the SACG was closed at the end of August 2011. The SACG was formerly on Salvation Army property, which was recently purchased and will be developed into condos. The developer is Terry Mitchell of Momark Development, who is locally well known and most recently worked on The Austonian (here is a relevant article from a recent issue of the Austin Business Journal: http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/print-edition/2011/07/15/austonian-developer-plans-s-austin-condo.html).
The silver lining is that the Galindo Neighborhood Association and developer negotiated and signed contractual paperwork to establish a new community garden on another part of the property. We are unsure when this will occur; however, SACG members were informed it could be as soon as next year. A number of SACG gardeners hope to resume gardening at the new community garden when it is up & running. Meanwhile, SACG gardeners plan to continue meeting and maintain and post updates to the SACG website at www.main.org/sacgarden/aboutus.html. Thanks for your support.
Grow Together Community Garden : Preparing for Growth!
1. Untreated cedar wood for Gateways garden. Someone has donated soil we just need untreated cedar to put up the the raised beds. If you are redoing a deck or fence and your old wood is untreated cedar this wood would be perfect for our raised beds at Gateway.
2. An invitation for people to join us out in the Garden. They can call me at at 816-835-9839 or email me at growtogether@GatewayChurch.com, Facebook (Growtogether)or the LOOP to get plugged in. We meet at the Gateway Food Pantry Wednesday from 11:00 am until 1PM. We meet at the Refugee garden at 7pm at Capitol Village Apt. 6855 E. Highway 290 Austin, TX 78723.
3. And people can donated money to the refugee water expense at Mobile Loaves and Fishes website www.mlf.org and clicking Donate go down the programs and click Karpophero and send an email to steven@mlf.org stating their donation is going to the refugee garden.
2. An invitation for people to join us out in the Garden. They can call me at at 816-835-9839 or email me at growtogether@GatewayChurch.com, Facebook (Growtogether)or the LOOP to get plugged in. We meet at the Gateway Food Pantry Wednesday from 11:00 am until 1PM. We meet at the Refugee garden at 7pm at Capitol Village Apt. 6855 E. Highway 290 Austin, TX 78723.
3. And people can donated money to the refugee water expense at Mobile Loaves and Fishes website www.mlf.org and clicking Donate go down the programs and click Karpophero and send an email to steven@mlf.org stating their donation is going to the refugee garden.
4. Chef Chris will be coming in Wednesday during the Food Pantry hours showing people how to prepare and cook the veggies from the garden. All of our educational programs are free/gratis so take advantage of it.
ROMANS 15:13 NOW MAY THE GOD OF HOPE FILL YOU WITH ALL THE JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING THAT YOU MY ABOUND IN HOPE BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Grow Together Monthly Meeting
Grow Together Monthly Garden Meeting
4:00 pm Saturday, July 16, 2011 at Gateway Community Church Garden
Topic: Very Important Garden Meeting – Getting ready to expand Gateway’s garden for the end of September/ October and aiming for a total of twenty raised beds.
A Big thank you to Jamie Soma, Keep Austin Beautiful and Organics by Gosh for donating and delivering 8 cubic yards of soil/compost mix for the 14 additional beds that are being built this fall!! You all are awesome!
Items Still needed for donation this fall:
- Untreated Cedar
- A couple of boxes of 2-1/2” deck screws
- Wildlife netting
2nd Annual Austin Community Garden Tour
Please join the Coalition of Austin Community Gardens, Sustainable Food Center
and the Congress for New Urbanism in celebrating the growing number of community gardens in our city at the Second Annual Austin Community Garden Tour, to take place Sunday, May 1st from 10am – 4pm. The Community Garden Tour is a free, open house-style tour providing the opportunity to visit each of these unique places, talk to the gardeners there, learn how to get involved, and maybe even get inspired to start your own. We hope you’ll join us in celebration of these community spaces for locally grown (and self-grown!) food in Austin. A downloadable/printable map of participating community gardens and additional details are available on the Tour page.
We’ll close out the tour with Community Gardening in Austin: A Panel Discussion and Local Food Potluck from 6 – 8:30 pm at 5604 Manor (home of the Workers Defense Project, the Third Coast Workers for Cooperation, and Third Coast Activist Resource Center). Speakers will share information about the current landscape of community gardening in Austin, the work they are doing to make Austin a more community garden-friendly city, and what you can do to get involved. Bring a dish made with locally grown food, as well as your own reusable plate and utensils, and join in the celebration! Space is limited, so if you’d like to attend the Panel and Potluck, please click here to RSVP via Facebook. You can also RSVP for the Austin Community Garden Tour here via Facebook. If you are not a member of Facebook RSVP for the events here.
Click here for more information…
Act NOW – Tell the City of Austin to Support Community Gardens
After more than 2 years of advocacy work by the Coalition of Austin Community Gardens and Sustainable Food Center, the City of Austin is about to make it easier for community gardens to proliferate and thrive in this city–let’s show them we support this move!
The City will hire a Conservation Program Coordinator (and Administrative Assistant) who will be responsible for making it easier to start community gardens on City land in Austin, and who will work to improve the sustainability and strength of our local food system. Let’s let City staff and Council Members know that we strongly support the creation of the Conservation Program Coordinator and Administrative Assistant positions, and we’d like to see them filled as soon as possible.
City Council will also vote THIS THURSDAY, February 10th on whether to pass ordinances to substantially improve the way the City manages community gardens and to make it easier and more affordable for community gardens on City and private land to install water infrastructure at their gardens. Let’s let our Council Members know how important it is to us that they pass this amendment!
**Please Note**: We encourage folks to attend the Council meeting on Thursday the 10th. Please understand that these items are currently on the consent agenda, meaning they are on the fast track to being approved at the meeting. If two or more individuals sign up to speak on a consent agenda item, the item gets pulled from the consent agenda and goes into the general meeting. This means items will be up for general discussion along with a list of many others, and items could get pushed off of Thursday’s agenda if discussions on previous items run long. Thanks for your support!
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Subject: Support Community Gardens
To City Council Members and Staff,
Community gardens are essential components of a vibrant, healthy, and sustainable city. I strongly support the hiring of a full-time Conservation Program Coordinator and part-time administrative assistant to support the proliferation and sustainability of community gardens and other urban agriculture in Austin. I also wholeheartedly support the passing of the City Council ordinances relating to community gardening and other urban agriculture that are on the Council agenda for review Thursday, February 10th. Thank you for all that City Council and staff has done in support of community gardens in Austin leading up to now!
MLK Jr. Community Gardens Open House & Community Discussion
Sustainable Food Center is creating its headquarters, which will include a new program center and community and teaching gardens, at the MLK MetroRail Station near MLK and Airport Blvd. The MLK Jr. Community Garden will truly belong to the community, so if you live or work nearby, or if you are interested in lending a hand, we need inspiration and involvement from you!
Please join us for an open house and community discussion about this exciting project!
WHEN| Saturday, June 5th, 2010, 2-5 pm
WHERE| Friends Meeting of Austin 3701 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Learn about the project | Give your input | Get involved!
For more information, please contact SFC at 236-0074 ext. 110 or visit www.communitygardensaustin.org/?page_id=496
