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4worldlovers: There are already over 80 dedicated gardeners and many other volunteers who have come together to build community in the garden with the goal of improving the food security, health, and happiness of the residents of our East Cesar Chavez and Holly neighborhoods. Individual plots are 10′ × 20″ and rent for $80/year with some scholarship plots available. We also have some “raised beds” for those who need them.

In addition to providing our gardeners and their families with a reliable source of fresh, nutritious and affordable food, the garden has become a site of cooperation, collaboration, celebration, and developing friendships between diverse neighbors. FBCG is a vibrant and beautiful space that serves as a habitat for diversity in addition to providing food for regular donations of produce to nearby food pantries.

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Hi All, we now have a weather station on line at the garden. You can view it here.

All plant material and waste generated at Sunshine should be disposed of in the Plant Waste Pile in the compost area. This includes khaki weed, diseased plants, and woody stems. No plant material from outside of Sunshine should be put in the pile. Outside vegetable kitchen waste may be deposited in the vegetable kitchen waste pile as explained below.

Do you want to recycle vegetable kitchen waste? You are welcome to bring it to Sunshine and deposit it in the vegetable kitchen waste collection pile and it will be converted into compost.

And please, take off the PLU stickers (as a home composter, these really are a nuisance).

Please empty your collection containers (another opportunity, to recycle) for reuse.

You can drop off your vegetable kitchen waste any time the gate is open. Our compost area is in the southeast corner of the garden. Please follow the signs when you drop off. No plant material not generated at Sunshine other than vegetable kitchen waste may be disposed of at Sunshine.

When harvesting compost, put any plant material left in the screens in the Plant Waste Pile and any nonplant material such as plastic in the dumpster.

Put any rocks you have retrieved from the compost pile into the ruts in the driveways throughout the garden or in the trash buckets which you dump into dumpster. Never put rocks in any grassy areas in the garden. Mowers do not like rocks.

Return all tools and wheelbarrows to the tool shed but leave the trash buckets in the compost area.

Please remember that compost is a common resource and share accordingly.

Thanks Bob for our sharp tools. Here is a article on it.

Howdy! I hope everyone is having a great planting season so far!

Workdays often evolve into social events! SCG is a fantastic place to meet new friends and learn both new and old gardening techniques. There's a wealth of knowledge here and experienced people that love to share it.

There are several new gardeners at SCG! Please don't hesitate to introduce yourself and y'all get to know each other a little and share garden knowledge and tips. Let's emphasize the Community in Community Gardens.

Please do not connect hoses with aluminum fixtures to our brass faucets. These two metal alloys will chemically bond, effectively welding them to each other. If you have them connected now, be aware that if there are problems with the faucet, your hose may have to be cut in order to get it off.

Additionally, please read handbook and site rules. Any hardware (hoses, sprayers, nozzles, splitters etc.) attached to garden faucets and maintenance of said items are the responsibility of individual gardeners, not garden staff.

Speed limit is 3 MPH. (Primarily for safety, but also to keep the dust down.)

Sunshine's roads provide access to plots and common areas. Gardeners should not

Park on roads except to unload a heavy load from vehicle

Park only in the front parking area or your common area. On weekends there are parking spaces on Sunshine and 49th Street.

Handbook and Site rules specifically state that Parking on garden roads is strictly prohibited. Park in the parking lot or common areas only. When the emergency vehicle enters SCG, they may (I hope not) be coming to assist You. How inconvenient it would be for them to have to wait for folks to move cars.

Maintaining common paths and common areas. If you have plants extending into common paths, trim them. The common paths are designed to allow the biggest wheelbarrows that we own to traverse them unimpeded.

Weeding paths in TSBVI garden and wood chip areas on west side. (This is normally needed. Try to get out roots. Be sure to smooth out paths after weeding to facilitate TSBVI students moving around garden).

4worldlovers: Conveniently located in South Austin, we are by definition an urban garden center. However, with 2 acres of majestic Oak trees, a serene waterfall, a gigantic wind chime, and a tropical greenhouse The Great Outdoors is a bucolic destination.

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4worldlovers:
Every year, the Homewood Heights Community Garden runs the recycling effort at Art City Austin, an art festival downtown on Cesar Chavez street. We are seeking organizations to help make Art City Austin waste free in 2012. Last year, we gathered 2 tons of recycling and 500 pounds of compost, diverting a total of 2.25 tons of trash from the landfill!


The Homewood Heights/Art City Austin recycling effort is a great service opportunity for students or groups who are interested in making an impact on the environmental sustainability of our community. We'll have 12 recycling/compost/trash stations set up throughout the festival, and volunteers will be responsible for helping festival-goers sort their waste into one of the three bins. Our goal is to make the entire festival as waste free as possible. This year's festival takes place April 14-15th. In exchange for volunteering for a four hour shift, each volunteer receives free admittance to the festival, lunch during their shift, a free T-shirt, and an invitation to the volunteer appreciation party at Laguna Gloria in May.


Here are the shifts we need help with for the weekend:

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