Join us at the Domain for a day of celebrating nature with engaging activities for all ages!

Event Activities:

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Soapberry Demonstrations!

• Hands-on Soap-making demos

• Take home a mini sample

• Free soapberries & recipe card with passport completion

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Cheerio Bird Snack Craft!

• Make bird-friendly snacks with fun shapes

• Grab a bird-watching guide

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM: Create your Herb Haven!

• Learn to grow herbs for winter

• Free herb seed kits for Central Texas

• Learn from kitchen garden expert & take home a care guide

• Mushroom-splent blocks & soil giveaway

Join us at Chaparral Crossing Farmers' Market for a Nature Celebration event! We will have live music, fun activities and crafts for the entire family, and educational materials about pollinators! Take home a baby tree sapling to plant, courtesy of City of Austin’s Community Tree Preservation!

Chaparral Crossing Farmers’ Market is open every first Sunday, 10a-1p.

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!

Join us for an enriching and hands-on gardening workshop with local expert Austin Davenport! This adult-only event will guide you through the essentials of selecting, planting, and nurturing fruit trees, shrubs, and vines specifically suited for Texas. Discover a wide range of fruiting varieties adapted to our local climate and learn the best practices for ensuring healthy growth and long-term success. Register here!

Austin will share invaluable tips on planting, watering, pruning, and protecting your plants from harsh weather, as well as managing pests and diseases to keep your food forest thriving. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced gardener, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge, skills, tools and trees to create your own backyard bounty!

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best and take the first step toward a fruitful future! The first 50 attendees will have the opportunity to choose a fruit tree or blackberry bramble to start their own backyard orchard. Pruning tools and a limited number of grow bags will also be available for attendees who cannot plant their seedlings in the ground.

Register here!

Join us at the Domain for a day filled with fun, learning, and Halloween spirit as we celebrate bats, pollinators, and the magic of nature!

Event Highlights:

Bat Education Booth | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

• Partner with Bat Conservation International and Austin Bat Refuge to educate visitors about the importance of bats.

• Learn about local bat species and their vital role in our ecosystem.

• Kids can participate in naming our symbolically adopted bat, represented by a stuffed animal and a certificate from Austin’s Bat Conservation.

Pollinator Garden Workshop | 2:00 PM

• Discover how to create pollinator-friendly gardens at home.

• Receive native plant seeds and step-by-step instructions to build your pollinator habitat.

• Enjoy Halloween-themed plants and decorations to enhance your garden experience.

Bat Crafts | 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

• Create fun bat-themed crafts suitable for all ages.

Costume Contest & Trick or Treat | 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

• Join our Halloween-themed costume contest for kids and adults, featuring nature-themed costumes like bats, butterflies, and bees.

• Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes.

• Trick or treat with vendors throughout the market.

• Receive a FREE Trick or Treat bag!

Other dates:

Sunday, 10/20: Harvesting Roots & Fungi: A Farm-to-Table Celebration!

Sunday, 11/3: Birds and Bees Festival: Celebrating Our Pollinators and Feathered Friends!

Join Central Texas Mycological Society & Ecology Action for an evening of family friendly, fungal fun as the Circle Acres Preserve in East Austin will be transformed into a Fluorescent Forest!

5-7pm: Come before dark for mushroom snacks, music, mushroom crafts, and a tree identification tour of the Healthy Soils, Healthy Trees community research project. Participate in hands-on demos to upcycle mushroom blocks at the Myco Research Station, and learn how to divert organic matter from the waste stream and turn it into valuable resources for your home and community.

7-8pm: Guided Tour of Fluorescent Forest & Glow in the Dark Bingo Explore the forest in a new light and discover the diverse, nocturnal ecosystem of the Circle Acres Preserve with UV flashlight to see glowing mushrooms, lichens, night pollinators, birds, insects, plants, and more. This family friendly event will highlight fungi's role in transforming a former dumpsite into a thriving urban forest. Learn how fungi are entangled in the forest helping plants gain water and nutrients, creating the pigments that give flowers their beautiful colors, and helping plants communicate with pollinators. We will have UV flashlights and a mothing set-up so we can attract and see the diverse, nocturnal ecosystem in a new light. Guests will learn how to look for, photograph and be community scientists in adding fluorescing organisms to the iNaturalist project.

We will have mushroom blocks for everyone to take home and upcycle. Mushroom snacks and warm Mush Love Tea provided. Get creative with glowing outfits, face paint and don't forget your camera and tripod.

Space is limited so to reserve tickets, RSVP here. Learn more here about how some plants, mushrooms, lichens and insects have evolved color patterns that are visible in the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic light spectrum, which humans cannot see but many insects, birds and animals can see.

Rain Date: Sun. Oct. 27th

BLACK LIVES VEGGIES is a local organization that addresses food insecurity by providing disenfranchised communities with gardening education & resources!

For the Roots & Wings Festival, BLACK LIVES VEGGIES will educate and provide resources to our East Austin and North Austin communities that stimulate the planting and nurturing of trees that are native to Austin, with the Mexican Buckeye baby tree as a gift to those who participate in this event!

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

Also on Oct. 19th at 2pm at St. John Branch Library!

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

Join us at the Domain for a day filled with fun and learning during the Roots & Wings Festival as we celebrate trees, healthy soil, mushrooms, and the beauty of nature!

Event Highlights:

Tree Planting Ceremony | 12:30 PM
Join us as we partner with local tree-planting organizations to plant trees with our neighbors. Take home a sapling to plant in your own yard.

Tree Identification Tools
Discover how to enhance tree growth using mushroom compost blocks. Booklets and apps available.

Mushroom Compost Blocks | 1:00 PM
Participate in hands-on workshops exploring soil health, urban forests, and the vital role of fungi. Receive free mushroom compost blocks for your tree-planting efforts.

Mushroom Growing Workshop | 2:00 PM
Learn how to cultivate edible mushrooms at home with a live demonstration. Mushroom growing kits will be available for purchase from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM to support sustainability projects.

Art Station | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Kids can create tree and mushroom-themed crafts, including leaf rubbings and mushroom paintings.

Event Partners: Food to Fork Community, Sustainability Alliance, and Silos Farmers Market

Other dates:

Sunday, 10/27: Batty for Bats & Pollinators: A Halloween Market Celebration with Trick or Treat!

Sunday, 11/3: Birds and Bees Festival: Celebrating Our Pollinators and Feathered Friends!

BLACK LIVES VEGGIES is a local organization that addresses food insecurity by providing disenfranchised communities with gardening education & resources!

For the Roots & Wings Festival, BLACK LIVES VEGGIES will educate and provide resources to our East Austin and North Austin communities that stimulate the planting and nurturing of trees that are native to Austin, with the Mexican Buckeye baby tree as a gift to those who participate in this event!

What to expect today: The simplest lesson ever created to plant your own tree and instruction on how to nurture your tree as it matures. 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.

TreeFolks NeighborWoods will hold a tree adoption in conjunction with the annual Pumpkin Carver event at the George Washington Carver Museum!

Come pick out a free tree or two to plant at your home! Tree experts will be on hand to ensure that you know how to plant and take care of your newly adopted tree.

TreeFolks NeighborWoods is a partnership with the City of Austin and Austin Energy.

Join Friends of Grand Meadow Park for corn husk doll making and games with the Central Texas Cherokee Township! Families are welcome to attend and learn about the improvements coming to our park in 2025 and share their dreams for the trees and foods grown in our new food forest and community garden!

We will have fun with nature crafts and activities for kids, give away free trees, and spoil you with snacks and coffee!

Rain Date: Sun. Oct. 20th at 10am

Join us beneath our beautiful 100 year old heritage oaks at Adelphi Acre Community Garden for Roots & Wings 2024!

Come explore and experience the beauty and wonder of nature AND the importance of organic vegetable gardening! We're excited to offer of a wide variety of family friendly, multi-generational activities that celebrate all things Roots & Wings:

• a bug scavenger hunt

• wildflower seed bomb making

• build-your-own-bee-motel

• DIY pollinator wings

• a Qigong introduction class

• backyard composting demo

• fruit tree care

• small space organic gardening techniques

• and yummy nibbles – from our member plots to your plate!

To learn more about or join AACG visit us at www.adelphiacre.org

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