On the twelve days of Copperfield, our greenbelt gave to thee… Twelve Trail Markers Eleven Group Meetings Ten Shropshire cleanups Nine Trail Workdays Eight rolls of landscape cloth Seven bottles of Ivy Block Six illegal pot plants Five steroid shots! (for the ivy rash) Four tons of litter Three trail tours Two car doors And a pile of clothing under …
Thanks to our 40 volunteers at Red Bud Isle
On Sat, December 1st, despite the overcast day and a bit of drizzle, over 40 volunteers from the Central Texas Trail Tamers, the Friends of Red Bud Isle and volunteers from the Austin Parks Foundation came out to spread mulch, pull out or cut down non-native trees, especially ligustrum, and repairs one of the smaller eroded areas along the trail. …
Auction Oaks @ Republic Square Project in Statesman
In the Saturday, November 24th edition of the Austin American-Statesman, Sarah Coppola writes about our upcoming project to restore the Auction Oaks area of Republic Square. Read the story here. Not mentioned directly in the story but I do want to point out is the great work of TBG Partners, especially TBG Partners principal Daniel Woodroofe and great help from …
275 volunteers at Country Club Creek Trail on Sat, Nov 17th!
The sixth annual Project Build A Park, presented by Austin Community College Office of Student Life together with the Austin Parks Foundation was a tremendous success! We had the help of over 275 volunteers on Sat, Nov 17! Amazing! We could not have done this without the incredible help and support from the following: -from SEATAG (Southeast Austin Trails & …
Planting at Brush Square, Downtown Austin
On Sat, October 20th volunteers from the Friends of Brush Square, Austin Parks Foundation, the Hilton Hotel and the Austin Fire Department Station #1 came out and planted 19 trees (18 yaupon holly trees, 1 wax mrytle) and 15 crossvine plants and spread 16 cubic yards of mulch in our next effort to revitalize Brush Square. All of the plants …
Pease Demo Plots – Statesman Article
In the Saturday October 20th edition of the Austin American Statesman, you can read about our Pease Park Demonstration Restoration project. Click here to read the article and check out the pictures.
Red Bud Project Takes Off
Here are a couple pictures from Friends of Red Bud’s recent volunteer day. They used APF grant funds to purchase benches, cedar fences and a kiosk. Bern Abplanalp, project organizer, reports that people were using the benches before they even got them bolted down! You can find out more about the group and their plans for Red Bud Isle at …
Explore Holly Shores – Bring Kids!
After brunch at Mr. Natural (mmm, tofu migas)Dan and I headed west for a little walk along the Holly Shores portion of Town Lake. You could just walk down Chicon to Fiesta Gardens, but we decided to drive over to the archway at the end of Riverview Street. This part of the trail has the Holly Power Plant along one …
West Austin Park Amazing
I stopped by West Austin Park last weekend. There’s a renegade garden growing by the kiddie pool with beautiful flowers and ripening cherry tomatoes. What a nice gift to the neighborhood! (I probably shouldn’t say that if it is really renegade… let’s pretend I didn’t.) The main attraction, for me, though, was checking out the newly terraced off-leash area. West …
Greenbelt Guardians Trail at Gus Fruh
Greenbelt Guardians is a mostly neighborhood group that works to improve the trails at Gus Fruh and Homedale access trails. With the water running in the creek and two new swimming dogs (see picture below), we’ve been heading there evenings and mornings to check out the constant 100 cfs flow. What’s really amazing is all of the work done by …