Coalition of Austin Community Gardens

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

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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.