AUSTIN, Texas — With more construction on the I-35 Capital Express Central Project set to begin this week through downtown and Central Austin, volunteers at Festival Beach Food Forest spent Saturday, Feb. 14, removing the last trees and plants impacted by a temporary wastewater pipeline relocation.
More than 65 volunteers helped unplant about 90 trees and other plants, which organizers said will be “well cared for until after the pipeline is complete.” The plants will be replanted once construction is finished.
Fruitful Commons, the nonprofit that oversees the Festival Beach Food Forest, located on city parkland near Lady Bird Lake, has spent the past decade cultivating the public food forest, where Austinites can forage for free produce. That oasis will soon be disrupted by construction, but the group is working to preserve the trees and plants around the site…