Fruitful Commons

FBFF-Morning Garden Workday
2025-09-25 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-09-23 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-09-18 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-09-16 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-09-11 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-09-09 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-09-04 03:00 - 06:00, 2025-09-02 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
2025-09-13 04:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-09 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
2025-09-08 07:30 - 09:00 | TX
The Seed Collection has taken root!
The Central Texas Seed Savers and the Austin Public Library are committed to supporting the local environment and community by sharing seeds and related knowledge through our programming and circulating collection. We believe that seeds are nutritional and historical suitcases which contain the potential for both physical and cultural sustenance. Seed collections like ours are intended to promote sustainability, self-sufficiency, food security and interpersonal exchange.
How does it work?
Browse the drawers, check out up to four seed packets per visit and record them on our checkout clipboard on top of the catalog cabinet. When you have extra seeds, keep the spirit alive with a donation. Fill out a form from drawer 19, and place it with the donation in drawer 20. If needed, you can find seed envelopes in drawer 21. The Seed Collection relies upon your contributions to keep it growing.
Join us for our next Seed Gathering on Monday, 9/8, at 12:30 pm on the 6th floor NW.
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:

First Saturday Plant Walk at Festival Beach Food Forest
2025-09-06 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 Groundbreaking Ceremony
2025-08-30 05:00 - 07:00 | Grand Meadow Neighborhood Park, 8022 Thaxton, Austin, TX, 78747, United States
Celebrate this neighborhood milestone with us!
It’s been four years since Friends of Grand Meadow formed to dream, plan, and engage our neighbors about creating a food forest and community garden at our park.
Now, thanks to years of vision, hard work, and partnership, construction at Grand Meadow Park is set to begin soon and we’re throwing a party tomark this long-awaited milestone!
Bring your friends, family, and neighbors for a day of food, fun, and festivities:
🌮 Food provided by Austin Parks Foundation
🍪 Bake Sale supporting future park programming – please bring individually wrapped baked goods to support the park
🎨 Kids’ activities
We want to thank all who helped bring us to this point. It’s been over 20 years since the very first community conversations about bringing a park to our neighborhood. Many neighbors have advocated for a park over the years. In the last four years we have partnered with Fruitful Commons for fiscal sponsorship, the City of Austin Community Garden Department for support with the garden permit, and Austin Parks Foundation. We are immensely grateful that APF chose our park for Overall Park Planning services and helped us create a concept plan that reflects the values and desires of our community. They have gone a huge step forward and are now facilitating building the first phase of that plan!! Once this first phase is completed, we can begin building and planting our community garden and food forest.
Please RSVP so we can know how much food and beverages to bring. And please forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested in attending!
Details
Saturday, August 30th, 2025
Grand Meadow Park
8022 Thaxton Rd, Austin, TX 78747

Free Community Seed Swap!
2025-09-13 05:00 - 09:00 | TX
Free Community Seed Swap!September 13, 2025Turner Roberts Recreation Center 7201 Colony Loop Dr., Austin, TX 78724
**Educational content offered in Spanish and English***Seed Saving handouts available in English, Spanish, & Mandarin
10 AM – 11 AM Lecture on Local Climate Adapted Crop Varieties**
10 AM – 2 PM – Seed Swap (if you have seeds, bring them to share)
Cooking Demos: Registration required (20 max) 12 – 12:45 Cooking Demo ** 1 – 1:45 Cooking Demo**
Seed Saving Workshops: Registration required (30 max) 12 – 12:45 Seed Saving Workshop ** 1 – 1:45 Seed Saving Workshop**
Please RSVP here

Free Community Seed Swap!
2025-08-28 03:00 - 12:00 | TX
Community Seed Share Event FlierFree Community Seed Swap!
September 13, 2025
Turner Roberts Recreation Center 7201 Colony Loop Dr., Austin, TX 78724
**Educational content offered in Spanish and English
***Seed Saving handouts available in English, Spanish, & Mandarin
10 AM – 11 AM Lecture on Local Climate Adapted Crop Varieties**
10 AM – 2 PM – Seed Swap (if you have seeds, bring them to share)
Cooking Demos: Registration required (20 max) 12 – 12:45 Cooking Demo ** 1 – 1:45 Cooking Demo**
Seed Saving Workshops: Registration required (30 max) 12 – 12:45 Seed Saving Workshop ** 1 – 1:45 Seed Saving Workshop**
Please RSVP here

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:
