Fruitful Commons

FBFF-Morning Garden Workday
2025-08-28 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-08-26 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-08-21 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-08-19 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-08-14 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-08-12 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-08-07 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-08-05 03:00 - 06:00 (America/Chicago) and 14 more dates | Festival Beach Food Forest, 29 Waller St, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
Event Details

Morning Garden Workday – Festival Beach Food Forest
Help us keep the Food Forest vibrant and healthy at our weekly workdays! Come join a small group of food-forest-friends who love to leave the screens behind and put their hands in the dirt.
Please bring:

water
sturdy shoes
comfortable loose fitting clothes
hat for shade

Gloves will be provided. We can’t wait to see you in the Food Forest! (Having trouble with the RSVP? That’s okay, you’re still welcome to join!)

Address
29 Waller Street, Austin, Texas 78702

Second Saturday Workday at Festival Beach Food Forest
2025-08-09 04:00 - 07:00, 2025-07-12 04:00 - 07:00 | Festival Beach Food Forest, 29 Waller St, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
What to expect:
Volunteer days at FBFF involve various gardening and site maintenance activities that vary by season. Sometimes we are planting and sowing seeds, sometimes we are spreading mulch, working on pathways and irrigation, pruning or cutting back vegetation, etc. It’s always a beautiful day and a learning opportunity. Come prepared to be plugged in to a task by the FBFF Plant Team volunteers.
What to bring:
– Wear work clothes and sturdy closed-toe shoes
– full water bottle
– [optional] your own gardening gloves and tools
– whatever weather protection is needed that day (sun protection, a rain jacket, etc.)
– whatever else you need to be safe and satisfied (snacks, medication, EpiPen, etc)
Plant Team Volunteers often stay after the work day to unwind and socialize in the park for a bit — you are welcome to join, and might consider packing a lunch or a cooler (no glass).

Monthly CTSS Seed Gathering
2025-07-14 07:30 - 09:00 | TX
Seed Gathering

Join Austin Library and Central Texas Seed Savers to share your passion for seed saving, gardening and sustainable living. Bring your own seeds to share or help us process donations for the Seed Collection to keep it growing.
Meet us by the Seed Cabinet on the 6th floor.
Beginner to experienced attendees welcome!

Monday, July 14 – 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Central Library
710 W. César Chávez St.
Free and open to the public | Gratis y abierto al público
For accessibility accommodations: 512-974-7400
Presented by the Austin Public Library in partnership with:

Grand Meadow Seed Harvest
2025-07-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Grand Meadow Neighborhood Park, 8022 Thaxton, Austin, TX, 78747, United States
Join Friends of Grand Meadow as we partner with Central Texas Seed Savers and Central Texas Plant Rescue as we collect seeds from the meadow! Now is a great time to collect as the meadow begins to go to seed and before park construction begins! Help us save seed to reseed the meadow with our native wildflowers when construction is completed.
We’ll learn together how to identify the native plants in the meadow currently going to seed. We’ll also have a station for volunteers to help process the seeds and package them up! Volunteers are welcome to bring seeds home to plant on their own!
Wearing closed toe shoes and long pants is recommended for walking through the meadow. The seed processing station will be a good option for those who would rather not walk through the meadow and to stay in the shade under the canopy.
Meet us at the log circle off on Panadero Rd. Parking is available on the streets adjacent to the park. Please leave room for the buses on Panadero. Capital Metro buses 333 and 318 stop at the park.
Volunteers of all ages are invited to join us! Please share this invitation with anyone interested. And we kindly request RSVPs here.

First Saturday Plant Walk at Festival Beach Food Forest
2025-07-05 04:00 - 06:00 | Festival Beach Food Forest, 29 Waller St, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
Event Details
First Saturday Plant Walk – Festival Beach Food Forest
Every First Saturday from 9am to 11am we walk among the plants and point out what is growing, what can be harvested, how to use the medicinal herbs and invite you to be part of the Food Forest family. It’s a perfect time for people who have never visited to come and check it out, or for people who have come many times to take home a bag of medicinal herbs and plants to make tea with or add to their meals at home.
First Saturdays are a perfect time to connect with the earth, find relief and relaxation from the mechanical world and be taken in by the diverse kaleidoscope of our natural and social systems. We want you to find yourselves inside of something larger, feel the mind-blowing delight from discovering something new about the systems of our earth, and be humbled by the grace and interconnection of it all. An earthen mandala will be generated from your unique expression as it joins with the whole.
Schedule:
9am Welcome & sign-in
9:15am Educational Plant Walk
10:45am CommuniTea time
11:00am Volunteer Orientation
Bring a basket or bag to harvest herbs and plants and a water bottle and other preparations that you might take if you were going on a very gentle trail walk in the hill country.
See you at the next First Saturday Plant Walk!
When
Saturday, September 6th, 2025 from 9:00am to 11:00am
Address
29 Waller Street, Austin, TX 78702
See you at the next First Saturday Plant Walk!

First Saturday Plant Walk at Festival Beach Food Forest
2025-07-05 04:00 - 06:00 | Festival Beach Food Forest, 29 Waller St, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
Event Details
First Saturday Plant Walk – Festival Beach Food Forest
Every First Saturday from 9am to 11am we walk among the plants and point out what is growing, what can be harvested, how to use the medicinal herbs and invite you to be part of the Food Forest family. It’s a perfect time for people who have never visited to come and check it out, or for people who have come many times to take home a bag of medicinal herbs and plants to make tea with or add to their meals at home.
First Saturdays are a perfect time to connect with the earth, find relief and relaxation from the mechanical world and be taken in by the diverse kaleidoscope of our natural and social systems. We want you to find yourselves inside of something larger, feel the mind-blowing delight from discovering something new about the systems of our earth, and be humbled by the grace and interconnection of it all. An earthen mandala will be generated from your unique expression as it joins with the whole.
Schedule:
9am Welcome & sign-in
9:15am Educational Plant Walk
10:45am CommuniTea time
11:00am Volunteer Orientation
Bring a basket or bag to harvest herbs and plants and a water bottle and other preparations that you might take if you were going on a very gentle trail walk in the hill country.
See you at the next First Saturday Plant Walk!
When
Saturday, January 4th, 2025 from 9:00am to 11:00am
Address
29 Waller Street, Austin, TX 78702
See you at the next First Saturday Plant Walk!

Grand Meadow Community Garden and Food Forest Design Feedback Gathering
2025-06-29 04:30 - 06:00 | Grand Meadow Neighborhood Park, 8022 Thaxton, Austin, TX, 78747, United States
Join the Friends of Grand Meadow community as they co-create our new community hub!

You’re invited to Grand Meadow Park to see the draft designs for our community garden and food forest and help us envision how the spaces will be used and what features to build! We have a survey available now to gather opinions from our community on the community garden, food forest, and play area spaces. If you haven’t already, please fill out the survey linked below. And then at this event we will discuss the results from our community’s voices!
Food and Play Spaces Survey
Meet with our team and learn about permaculture, food forestry, and other skills we will learn together as a group through this project.

Free snacks and beverages will be provided!
Learn about permaculture!
Free seeds!

Please RSVP here!
To sign up to be a volunteer or to join our leadership team, fill out this short survey!

Tree Care Mini Grant Office Hour
2025-06-18 07:00 - 08:00 | TX
Join Fruitful Commons staff between noon and 1 pm on the third Wednesday each month from April to September for office hours! Bring your questions about our Tree Care Mini Grant program, your ideas for applying for a new project, or questions about an ongoing mini grant project.
Please Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZ7eIZmHQL-gsG1anxRlCg
