Friends of Pease Park was joined on Valentine’s Day by the University of Texas student service fraternity Gamma Beta Phi and by the Eeyore’s Birthday Board of Directors’ organization known as “Friends of the Forest” for a special work-day in Pease Park. Nearly 100 volunteers, wearing “I © Pease Park” T-shirts worked tirelessly to address both erosion control and soil compaction problems …
It’s My Park Day – March 7 2009 – over 1,500 volunteers needed
Join the Austin Parks Foundation for the 7th annual It’s My Park Day, presented by Wheatsville Food Co-op This is the annual Austin area volunteer park improvement day on Saturday March 7 and we have over 40 park improvement projects that needed volunteers – planting trees and plants, clean-ups, non native tree and plant removal and many other projects are …
The Ultimate Recycled Benches
Our friends of SEATAG (that’s the Southeast Austin Trails and Greenways Group) who have designed and built the (so-far) 1.5 mile Country Club Creek Trail practice the ultimate in recycling. They taken three huge concrete slabs, dumped at the park at one point and hauled them to beautiful spots along the trials under some of the bigger trees and working …
College Forward & Natural Texas @ Shoal Creek – Thanks
A big thank you to College Forward and their wonderful 50 plus volunteers who worked with the Austin Parks Foundation and Carl Brockman and his team from Natural Texas – who provided arborists with chainsaws, a big chipper and the wonderful forestry mower. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” …
APF Honors Park Volunteers
Every day, we work with volunteers from neighborhoods all over town. And every day we marvel at their dedication, perseverance, and accomplishments. From building new trails by hand to raising thousands of dollars for new playground equipment, our volunteers have an incredible impact on Austin’s parks. This year, we honor a few of our volunteers with Park Volunteer of the …
It’s My Park! Day – Call for Project Leaders!
It’s My Park! Day is the Austin Parks Foundation’s biggest annual one-day event! And we need your help! The next It’s My Park! Day will be March 7, 2009. Project leader registration is now open via www.austinparks.org/itsmypark.html. This earlier date will allow for tree planting and avoid major conflicts such as Clean Sweep, SXSW, Earth Day, and Spring Break. This year we …
Photos from Sat Copperfield & Tarrytown Park workdays
Alice from Copperfield Nature Trails and Elizabeth from Tarrytown Park sent us their photo albums from their successful (and chilly) Saturday morning volunteer workdays. Volunteers at Copperfield (photos here) worked on blazing another portion of their trail while volunteers at Tarrytown planted trees (photos here) with help from the Parks Dept Forestry team. Congrats to both groups on very successful workdays.
Another Successful Project Build A Park
Once again, the Austin Parks Foundation and SEATAG (SE Austin Trails & Greenways) partnered with the office of Student Life at Austin Community College to host the 7th annual Project Build A Park. For the third time, we worked at Country Club Creek Trail in SE Austin inside Guerrero-Colorado River Park to build more of the 1.5 mile trail, remove …
ClifBar Greenotes Barton Creek Cleanup & Concert – Nov 1
Our thanks to ClifBar and REI along with Keep Austin Beautiful for helping us host the ClifBar Greenotes Barton Creek Greenbelt clean-up. 95 volunteers turned out to the Zilker Park Polo Fields Picnic Area to sign-in, grab trash bags and then clean-up portions of the Barton Creek greenbelt from a number of trailheads including Zilker, Spyglass, Loop 360, and Twin …
Volunteer Nov 1 to Clean-Up Barton Creek Greenbelt!
GreenNotes Concert and Cleanup, November 1 Join CLIF Bar, Austin Parks Foundation, Sierra Club, Keep Austin Beautiful, REI and Austin-based musician Ben Kweller for a Barton Creek Greenbelt cleanup and concert event from 10 am to 3 pm beginning at Zilker Park Polo Fields Clif Bar will provide the food to keep the energy up, and Ben Kweller will provide …