Check out the Garden Map page to see an interactive map of school gardens, community gardens, urban farms, and wildlife habitat gardens in the Austin area.

• Invite the Avid club to make videos of your garden or composting program
• Include the garden in CATCH night, Fine Arts Fest, Back to School Night, etc.
• Invite teachers to pick veggies or pick veggies yourself and put them in the teacher lounge
• Start an after school garden/art club
• Ask the PTA groundskeeper to organize a cleanup crew
• Host a garden day/farm day and have all teachers sign up for slots to do activities in the garden
• Set up an adopt a garden bed program for teachers and/or grade levels

• Tree Folks
• The Natural Gardener
• The Wildflower center will donate plants after their spring and fall plant sales
• Wholesale nurseries will sell to schools: Far South Nursery, Native TX Nursery
• AISD Clifton Center students in horticulture class sell plants they propagate 841-3365
• Sustainable Food Center's Spread the Harvest program offers free seeds and plants
• Native Plant Society of TX has seeds

• Contact local coffee shops for coffee grounds
• East Side compost peddlers
• Sustainable Food Center's Spread the Harvest program offers free compost
• Check Daily Juice, grocery stores, and restaurants for food waste
• Partners with KAB can get soil, mulch, and compost
• Natural Gardener, Geo Growers, Organics By Gosh all deliver
• Tree mulch, soil and compost are available from AISD grounds
• Home Depot is an AISD vendor and will deliver soil and compost from Organics by Gosh
• Compost from Texas Disposal Systems

• Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts projects
• Sustainable Food Center offers consultation
• Local businesses like to donate and volunteer
• CiNCA: The Children in Nature Collaborative of Austin
• Local neighborhood associations

Speakers

• City of Austin Parks Dept
• TX Parks and Wildlife
• Keep Austin Beautiful

Field Trips

• Red Bud Center and other LCRA properties
• TDS
• Wildflower Center
• Balcones Canyonland Preserve
• Bamburger
• Westcave Preserve
• Austin ISD SHRC and Outdoor Learning Center
• Sustainable Food Center

See the Resources page for a comprehensive list of organizations.

• Hands on Central Texas/United Way
• Keep Austin Beautiful
• Local restaurants and businesses can pay employees to help out in gardens.
• Large corporations located in the area usually have volunteer days
• Talk to PTA or Parent Support Specialist
• High School Orgs (NHS, sports teams, etc) needing service hours

• AISD's Stone Vendor is AJ Brauer in Jarrell, TX
• Geo Growers in Southwest Austin
• Check Craigslist for free stone
• Construction companies are happy to have you clear stone off their sites (when safe to enter)