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Welcome to the Coalition of Austin Community Gardens. Our mission is to promote and support new and existing community gardens.
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
Austin Community Garden Tour - May 1st
Join us for the first annual Austin Community Garden Tour on Saturday, May 1st 2010 from 10am to 4pm. This is your chance to see Austin’s community gardens all on the same day! Participating gardens will be open to the public and have food, demonstrations and activities. Click the map icons below and visit the garden profile link for more details about each garden.
Tour Materials
-New! Download and Print the Community Garden Map and Information Guide to help you find your way on May 1st.
-View Tour Postcard
View Austin Community Garden Tour, Saturday May 1st 2010 in a larger map
Participating gardens and events
- Alamo Community Garden: Acoustic music performance, vermicomposting workshop, garden tour
- Blackshear Community Garden: Garden tours, rainwater collection demonstration, fresh food and beverages for guests to enjoy
- Clarksville Garden: Popsicles and lemonade, garden dig-in
- Deep Eddy Community Garden: Work day refreshments, guided tour with history of the garden
- Deloney Street Community Garden: Work day, garden tours
- Festival Beach Community Garden: Garden tours
- Homewood Heights Community Garden: Work day with HoHi gardeners, workshop on building a Mandala Style Garden, and growing organically, sustainably, and locally. Refreshments and and seasonal, fresh garden treats
- Reagan High School Community Garden: Games such as balloon races, May Day celebration with May Pole
- South Austin Community Garden: Garden tours
- Sunshine Community Gardens: Tours of garden and chicken coop, lemonade and cookies. Visitors are welcomed to bring their lunches to picnic at Sunshine’s tables, restrooms on site
- Windsor Park Community Garden: Garden tours and decorate our fence. A group from Architects for Humanity and a UT architecture class designed a wooden fence made of empty frames that could be completed by community members using found objects. Come by and add something to it! We’ll have materials and tools for you to use.
