Did you know? Austin Parks Foundation has been the presenting charity of Austin City Limits Music Festival for the past 14 years, and we are proud to help ACL Music Festival and C3 Presents improve Austin’s parks, trails and green spaces. Fans of ACL Music Festival have helped fund park projects all over our great city by purchasing their 3-day …
Austin Parks Foundation Partners with Zilker Brewing Company for Limited-Edition “Parks & Rec” Beer in Commemoration of Zilker Park’s Centennial Anniversary Beer Release to Kick Off with Happy Hour at YETI Barrr on May 25 Austin Parks Foundation (APF) is excited to announce a collaboration with Zilker Brewing Company (ZBC) to create a special limited-edition beer in honor of Zilker …
Over 70 volunteers from Pearson and Dell joined Kyle and Charlie from the Austin Parks Foundation, along with Parks staff John and Matt (wielding chainsaws and cutting up lots of big stuff) out at Zilker Access on Barton Creek Greenbelt on Friday to build better more compact windrows as well as haul out big logs for chipping. Despite the rumble …
We want to thank the fine people of the Parks Department’s Forestry Division – specifically, Walter, along with Foresters Angela, Keith and Emily and forestry crews for their amazing work in organizing and managing the Zilker Tree Rescue Project, now nearly completed. The Austin Parks Foundation and the Austin Heritage Tree Foundation assisted by applying for funding for arborist services …
Over 130 volunteers came out on Thu, Fri and Sat mornings to help us shovel, haul and spread mulch under another 100 or so trees. Meantime, arborists continue to perform root zone invigorations on 90 trees, they nearly halfway done with the work and given our recent rains (including a rain shower early this afternoon), we’re hoping that the …
Some of our amazing volunteers We had another great crew of 75 volunteers out at Zilker Park today and we made good progress using up three big piles – with volunteers working on two of them and 4 city forestry staff using the brush truck and carts to spread another big pile. We’re about half way done and we’ll be …
Thanks to 65+ Parks staff and volunteers, we were able to spread three of the four big piles of dillo dirt around several hundred trees and started working on one of the four big mulch piles, shaving off about 1/3 of it. There’s still plenty of work to do and we’re looking forward to help from the over 100 volunteers …
We got a good start on our efforts to mulch over 550 trees in the Polo Grounds area of Zilker Park this past Saturday, but there’s a lot left to do. Please join us – if you can – on Friday, 8/27 or Saturday, 8/28 – both days from 9 am to noon. We’ll supply tools, water, and gloves, please …
Wow – over 60 volunteers and four parks forestry staff spread 100 cubic yards of mulch under 75+ trees in an hour and a half at Zilker Park today. Thanks to our great volunteers and staff for their help. But we still have over 450 trees left to do! We’ll be out spreading more mulch with Parks Dept staff next …
We have 53 people signed up for mulching at Zilker this Saturday, from 9 am to noon. We’ll meeting at the first parking lot on the right (enter the road where you go to park for the pool, but bear right (and up) and look for us (lots of tools and wheelbarrows) We need more volunteers and more wheelbarrows too …
