Join Patterson Park Community Garden as we celebrate our annual Roots and Wings Festival!

This family friendly event will combine all things nature, gardening and pollinators into a fun, educational and community building experience. Learn about bee keeping, hugelkultur, native plants and so much more while you mingle with neighbors and enjoy kids crafts, live music and a Monarch butterfly puppet show!

Join the South Austin Creek Alliance to learn more about urban waterways and their surrounding ecosystems!

After a creek clean-up, we will have an Indigenous American Four Directions blessing by Daniel Llanes. Explore the creek while learning about the main stream characters and the effects of urbanization on creek life. Explore the pop-up labyrinth and visit our many table exhibits where you can learn about fish, amphibian, and butterfly life cycles along with much more! Get science lessons from professional biologists and activists while making wildflower seed balls!

Enjoy games for kids, including a Critter & Plant iNaturalist Challenge, and taking photos at the selfie butterfly booth!

Join Master Gardener and Love Poet Harve Franks as she tells the story of a woman's sacred journey to finding herself in the forest, the sacred relationship with trees and why she loves them, and how they help to inspire a lifelong love of poetry and trees. During this event, participants will learn the importance of trees and plants in our lives.

Participants will also have the opportunity to recite original poems around nature!

Black Lives Veggies, the nonprofit plans to educate Austins disenfranchised communities on affordable, simple but needed sustainability practices in the context of "How To Plant Your Own Native Fruit Trees and How To Harvest".

What can you expect : The simplest lesson ever created to plant your own fruit tree and instruction on how to nurture your tree as it matures. You can also expect instructions on how to harvest from your tree. Materials provided, but space is limited, so please be on time and ready to learn!

Also on Oct. 20th at 2pm at Rosewood Park!

Rain date for this event is Sat. Oct. 26th, same time.

Come see our forest grow! Join Festival Beach Food Forest as we celebrate the inaugural tree planting of our 2 acre expansion. Our forest garden has been growing for 9 years and is now a thriving ¾ acre of outdoor community learning and gathering space. We are excited to celebrate the beginning of our forest expansion onto the remaining 2+ acres of adjacent parkland!

East Austin community leader and D3 Council Member José Velásquez will speak to our community about the importance of food producing public parkland spaces in East Austin and Jesús García of The Herbal Action project will lead a tree meditation before the tree planting ceremony. In additional to planting trees, we will plant pollinator attractors and seed wildflowers in our meadow. We will also offer a tree education workshop(possibly by TreeFolks), and guided plant walks through our existing and expanding forest. All attendees will learn about the various trees and plants growing together to create a thriving and diverse ecosystem, and our guides will discuss the regenerative practices that help us build healthy soil and fungal network.

• 2:00pm: Opening Circle and Remarks

• 2:30pm: Mini Plantwalks

• 3:30pm: Tree Planting Ceremony Begins - Tree meditation & honoring the 4 directions

• 4:00pm: Tree Panting in Small Groups

• 4:30pm Ceremony ends - Begin Live Music, Festivities & Activities

• 5:00pm: Words From our Partners & Community Leaders

• 6:00pm: Closing Remarks and Community Celebrations

Activities include: - Make your own wildflower seed balls - Enjoy teas made with forest plants - Grapevine crowns or wreaths - Kids Nature Play Activities & Art - Learn more about our co-host’s tabling!

Please wear light, comfortable clothing and a sun hat/sun protection. Hand tools and gloves are provided for anyone participating in tree planting. Bring your water bottle. See you there!

Rain Date: Sat. Oct. 26th at 2pm

Join Latino Outdoors Austin at Guerrero Park in learning about bats through this engaging Read Aloud of "Amara and the Bats". Throughout this story we will learn all about bat conservation and how amazing they are! We will be reading this story in Spanish and English so bring the whole family to enjoy this bat-tastic tale! There will be activities about bats and more information about these lovely creatures for you to take home after the story.

We are excited to host this event and look forward to meeting you soon! Rain Date is Sat. Nov. 2nd at 11am

¡Únete con Latino Outdoors Austin para aprender sobre los murciélagos a través de esta fascinante Lectura en Voz Alta: "Amara y los Murciélagos"! Durante esta lectura, aprenderemos todo sobre la conservación de los murciélagos y lo increíbles que son. Leeremos esta historia en español e inglés, ¡así que trae a toda la familia para disfrutar de este cuento murciélago-tástico! Habrá actividades sobre murciélagos y más información sobre estos adorables seres para llevar a casa después del evento.

¡Estamos emocionados en organizar este evento y esperamos conocerte pronto!

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Black Lives Veggies, the nonprofit plans to educate Austins disenfranchised communities on affordable, simple but needed sustainability practices in the context of "How To Plant Your Own Native Fruit Trees and How To Harvest".

What can you expect : The simplest lesson ever created to plant your own fruit tree and instruction on how to nurture your tree as it matures. You can also expect instructions on how to harvest from your tree. Materials provided, but space is limited, so please be on time and ready to learn!

Rain date for this event is Sun. Oct. 27th, same time.

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the Milwood Branch for a look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year! Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art!

Experience "A Planting, Nature and Performance Journey" with Cosmic Intuition Productions at beautiful St. Edward's University!

The journey begins with a drums-led procession to the trees to perform libations, and then a return to Jones Auditorium to enjoy the poetry and music from Stevie Wonder's "Secret Life of Plants" and naturistic covers from Marvin Gaye, performed by local artists. Lastly, guests can participate in a tree transplanting workshop led by Master Gardner Baba Ifalade with free tree saplings to take home!

Co-sponsored by Museum of Human Achievement and St. Edward's University

Join Red Salmon Arts/ Casa de Resistencia Books for a Roots & Wings Festival Event Series!

Oct. 5th, 8:30am-11:30am: "Café Librito & Garden Daze", a bilingual interactive program, where we will plant a mushroom trail on the land at Red Salmon Arts, watch a movie, and make mini zines! Together we will prepare the land, plants, and fungi for our UV night walk for "Cafe Librito: 2024 Dia de los Muertos Festival". No experience needed! Come learn with us! After planting, volunteers are welcome to our Cine Resistenica where we will watch a film about the intersection of pollinator plants, monarch butterflies, and Dia de los Muertos! Don't miss our mini zine workshop where we will create bilingual mini zines about fungi, native pollinators, and Dia De Los Muertos to inform our communities about the importance of pollinators and our cultural traditions!

October 26th 7pm- 9pm (Rain date: 11/2): "Cafe Librito: 2024 Dia de los Muertos Festival" Join us for an evening of honoring our ancestors and cultura! Bring the family to enjoy:

• live music food & drinks

• BIPOC vendor market

• bilingual kid’s storytime

• kid’s crafting

• guided fungi UV night walk with Central Texas Mycology

Guests will hand pick flowers from our very own Resistencia Community Garden. Together, the community will build an altar to our ancestors with cempasuchiles, mano de leon, and amaranth flowers.

Everyone is encouraged to leave pictures (copies) and offerings for their loved ones! Goodie bag giveaways include the books, “Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock” and “Lotli”, native pollinator seed mixes, & cempasuchil flowers for family altars at home.

• 7:00pm: Opening Ceremony

  • Guests can bring their ofrendas for the altar andcut fresh flowers from garden for altar

  • Goodie Bag Giveaway: children books, native pollinator seed mixes, and zines

• 7:30pm: Kids Bilingual Storytime (inside) with Lotli Illustrated Book about the origin of the Monarch Butterfly & Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock

• 8:00pm: Bilingual Fungi UV Night Walk guided by Central Texas Mycology Jesus Garcia

• 8:30pm: Open Mic poetry

• 9:00pm: Event Ends

Ongoing Activities!

• BIPOC Vendor Market

• Live Music

• Arts & Crafts Tables

• Making mariposa wings

• Making seed balls

• Painting paper mache skulls

November 2nd, 8:30am-11:30am: During Native American heritage month, our Native Roots program activities will center around The Three Sisters/Milpa, (currently growing in our Resistencia Community Garden). We will intertwine indigenous storytelling centering, celebrating corn, harvest songs, and craft corn husk dolls in partnership with Central Texas Cherokee Township!

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the Yarborough Branch for two sessions that look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year! Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art!

Session 1: 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Session 2: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the University Hills Branch for a look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year! Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art!

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the Central Branch for two sessions that look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year! Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art!

Join Red Salmon Arts/ Casa de Resistencia Books for a Roots & Wings Festival Event Series!

During Native American Heritage Month, our Native Roots program activities will center around The Three Sisters/Milpa, (currently growing in our Resistencia Community Garden). We will intertwine indigenous storytelling centering, celebrating corn, harvest songs, and craft corn husk dolls in partnership with Central Texas Cherokee Township!

Come out to branch out and get rooted at Givens Park with The Healing Project!

Starting at 11:11, we will be offering fun and kid-friendly educational activities for all individuals interested in becoming more connected with nature and getting grounded within themselves. A short presentation of how trees are an active contributor to our environment will be held and we will host art therapy workshops, instructor led-yoga, and a group nature walk!

Rain Date: Sun. Nov. 3rd at 11:11am

Join North Village Branch for the Garden Club Team Up Plant Show to see and learn about the unique plants of the Austin Bonsai Society and the Austin Cactus & Succulent Society! Plus, come learn about beekeeping and honey production from beekeeper Konrad Bouffard of Round Rock Honey!

Full Gallop's event is back again this year at a new venue that prides itself on preserving its ecosystem and respecting the location and land, Cosmic Saltillo. This event will celebrate Texas Arbor Day and the monarch migration as well as the Dia de los Muertos tradition of Mexico and its ties to the migrating butterflies. Music by Mira Mira.

In case of rain, this event will be held under the awnings of Cosmic Saltillo. Produced by Full Gallop and hosted by Cosmic Saltillo @fullgalloparts fullgalloparts.com @cosmicsaltillo (instagram)