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Festival Beach Community Forest Fest

December 1, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Basic Info

Date:
December 1, 2018
Time:
9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Event Website / RSVP:
https://www.facebook.com/events/256062371778724/

Who's Hosting This Event?

Festival Beach Food Forest
Who We Are:

Festival Beach Food Forest is a grassroots pilot project neighboring the Festival Beach Community Garden and RBJ Residential Center in East Austin. We have transformed 2/3rds of an acre of City Park Land into an edible forest garden where visitors can openly forage and enjoy fresh food on the shores of Lady Bird Lake. Fruits, nuts, vegetables and herbs now flourish in this experimental pilot project to reclaim the public commons.

Email:
contact@festivalbeach.org
Website:
http://festivalbeach.org/
Festival Beach Community Forest Fest

From the Festival Beach Food Forest –

In addition to the monthly plant identification walk at the food forest, we are planning a really special event for the first-Saturday of December: a Community Harvest Fest!

Make plans to come out and celebrate the abundance of community and the abundance of the food forest.

WHEN: Saturday, December 1st, from 9 pm to 2 pm.

WHAT: a community gathering full of education, nourishment, and celebration. Here’s a preview of the day:

9 am – Enjoy a tour of the food forest Karen Luzius. Karen is a plant-lover, herbalist, and permaculture gardener. This tour will teach you where to find various plants in the food forest, and about their medicinal and edible properties.

10 am – Tea and snacks, herb harvesting and bundling, a community seed exchange, relaxing at the food forest

11:30 am – 2 pm – Community Potluck, relaxing at the food forest

WHAT TO BRING: whatever you have on hand! here are some recommendations –

– a lawn chair, ground cushion, or picnic blanket
– something for the community potluck
– herb cuttings &/or seeds to share
– bags or containers to take herbs, seeds, food, etc. home with you
– drinks or a cup/water bottle (no glass bottles)
– musical instruments, games, kites, etc.