WildBasin Workday2nd Saturday of Each MonthLike to get dirty, work hard, and have fun? Then join volunteers for trail maintenance, invasive plant removal, revegetation, erosion control, and other land management projects on the second Saturday of each month.  Date: 5/08/10Time:  8:30am-12:00pmLocation:  Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve, 805 N. Capitol of TX Hwy (West Austin-78746)  Contact:  For more details, email hike@wildbasin.org or call 512-327-7622, ext 17.Note: Wear hiking boots or sturdy shoes and long pants with a long-sleeved shirt; bring bottled water and gloves, plus a day/fanny pack to carry personal items. You need your hands free! Dress for the weather: hat & sunscreen for solar protection; raincoat/light jacket if it's chilly or raining lightly. We don't go out in thunderstorm conditions.Website: www.wildbasin.org

Biodiversity Planting @ Blunn Creek Preserve05/08/2010 Please join in on a big planting effort at Blunn Creek Preserve. With your help, hopefully, volunteers will be putting in more native plants to bring biodiversity back to the Preserve. Volunteers will meet at the south entrance to the Preserve, at 1300 St. Edward's Drive, and would love to have more helping hands. Date:  Saturday, May 8thTime: 8:30am-12:30pmLocation: Blunn Creek Nature Preserve, 1300 St. Edward’s Drive - 78704RSVP: http://blunncreekpartnership.ning.com/events/return-to-blunn-creek-preserve 

Downtown Austin Farmers’ Market – Zero Waste InitiativeEvery Saturday and Wednesday Like landfills? If that’s a big no, come be a part of a momentous zero-waste project at two fun-filled Austin Farmers’ Market (AFM) locations. Help assist customers with recycling, compost, and landfill material and help the market achieve its zero-waste goal! Date and Time:  Six volunteers needed every Saturday at the downtown AFM (3 volunteers 9am-11am and 3 from 11am-1pm) and 4 volunteers needed every Wednesday at the Triangle AFM (2 volunteers from 3pm-5pm and 2 more from 5pm-7pm).Location: Downtown Austin Farmers’ Market 4th & Guadalupe (78701) and the Triangle Austin Farmers Market 45th and Lamar (78798)  Contact Rebecca Saltsman below for detailsContact: Rebecca Saltsman email: debi@sustainablefoodcenter.ccsend.com.   Let Rebecca know which shift you'd like and how many times a month you can participate. 

Mayfield Park and Preserve Workday 5/8/2010 Mayfield Park and Preserve has a workday the 2nd Saturday of every month to help tend the gardens, work on the ponds, and help out in the preserve.  Please bring gloves and make certain children are attended by an adult.  Individuals and groups are welcome.  A group size of 20 or less people works best.  If you have a group or if you would like to arrange special workdays other than these dates listed – please contact Nadene below.  Date: Saturday, May 8th Time:  10am-1pm Location: Mayfield Park and Preserve, 3505 W 35th St, Austin Contact: Contact Nadene Morning with questions, ntmorning@hotmail.com, 467-8132 

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You’re invited to join KAB as we celebrate the hard work of Green Teens and pick up a few environmental pointers as students teach back what they learned this semester.   Celebrate Green Teens’ achievements and ongoing environmental efforts KAB partners with schools and after-school organizations to lead weekly environmental education activities to engage low-income youth in environmental stewardship. During the spring semester Green Teens at Kealing, and Bedichek Middle School designed and built model solar cars while learning about alternative energy and reuse of materials. High school students from LBJ, Eastside, and Reagan have been learning about native plants, organic gardening methods, water quality and much more while installing and maintaining native and vegetable garden beds.    WHAT:  Come say, wow as this spring’s Green Teens showcase all they have learned and accomplished.  WHEN:   Saturday, May 8th  - Time: 11:00am-1:00pmWHERE:   Kealing Middle School - 1607 Pennsylvania Ave, Austin, Texas 78702   WHO:  KAB Green Teens leading hands on educational activities. This is a wonderful event that is FREE and open to the community where you’ll have the opportunity to learn something new, meet some brilliant young people, and meet folks who are invested in the education of Austin’s youth!

• Hot Wheels - Keep Austin Beautiful apprentices from Kealing and Bedichek Middle Schools will showcase the model solar cars they designed and built (11am-noon), race their cars (at noon), and share their knowledge of alternative energy.
• Garden Time - Green Teens from Eastside Memorial High School will be leading a seed planting. Take time to talk with them and hear about their gardening experience this year.
• Compost Critters – Explore live worms while LBJ High School’ Green Teens give you the ins and outs of composting.
• What’s in the Water – Green Teens from Reagan High School will have live aquatic bugs on hand to teach you about water quality.

  Your support means so much to us please stop in to join us. If you are interested in being a Race Official for the Hot Wheels Race please RSVP at your earliest convenience.  

 Mary Moore Searight Disk Golf Hole Improvements5/22/2010 Join South Austin Disc Association volunteers for workdays on both Saturday and Sunday mornings (5/22 & 5/23) to work on the slope of Hole 15 (cedar rails, mulch, etc).  Work will begin at 8:00 a.m. and go until noon (at the latest) both days.   Please come to help out if you can.  Bring shovels, rakes or pick axes if you have them.  Water will be provided.  Please head straight to Hole 15 when you get to the park. Date: Sat, May 22Time: 8am-noon (at the latest)Location: Mary Moore Searight Disk Golf Course, Hole 15RSVP: Stephanie, enoxallen@yahoo.com

Zilker Preserve Invasive Species Removal5/22/2010 Workdays will be held a few times a month at Zilker Preserve on Saturday mornings from 8:30-11:00 AM. A typical workday consists of removing various invasive species, including Nandina, Japanese Privet, and Chinaberry among other species. Once the species are removed using the respective removal methods, the City of Austin will help with planting native species to restore Zilker to its naturally beautiful state. Date: Sat, May 22Time: 8:30am – 11:00amLocation: Zilker Preserve.  Park at the old pistol range on Rollingwood Drive.  From Barton Springs Road, go west along Barton Springs Road, underneath Mo-pac, and turn right on Rollingwood Drive.  The pistol range is a stone Civilian Conservation Corps building with chain link fence on your right.RSVP: getinvolved@ecotx.org  

West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt Cleanup and Invasive Species Removal5/22/2010Please join volunteers and help restore the natural health and vitality of the greenbelt.  Volunteers will meet the third Saturday of every month through May of 2010.  Coffee in the morning and refreshment at the end of the work session will be provided. Keep Austin Beautiful will loan volunteers some tools, but if you have handsaws, shovels or rakes, please bring those. Organizers also recommend wearing boots, long pants, long- sleeved shirt and gloves as protection against poison ivy. Date: Sat, May 22, 2010Time: 8:30am – 1:00pmLocation: South 6th Street entrance to the greenbelt. (Central Austin – 78704)  Please meet at the park entrance in the 1200 block of South Sixth St.   Note: if you see taverns & bars you are on the wrong Sixth Street.Contact: To confirm work days, or for questions, please contact:  Ingrid Weigand at urpprods@earthlink.net or by phone: (512) 663-4632

 Gullet Elementary School5/22/2010 Gullett Elementary School, located at 6310 Treadwell Blvd. in central Austin has been in Austin over 50 years and has many ways of providing children with a learning environment that includes plants and animals.  They have vegetable gardens, pet animals, and now a larger butterfly garden.    All of this helps create a "living experience" for the children that attend the school. Many volunteers have been helping them in their efforts to create a green learning environment that also attracts wildlife.  Additional volunteers are needed to help clean up the front garden at the school entrance and to remove invasive plants and weeds around the mature plants.  Come help this garden cleanup project on Saturday, May 22nd.  Bring spouses, friends, children and can make it a family event. If you can make it, bring your garden gloves and come join the fun anytime between 8:30 and 11:30 am. The alternate work day is Saturday, June 5'th and please contact Kris if you can help out either day. Date: Saturday, May 22ndTime:  8:30am-11:30amLocation: Gullet Elementary School, 6310 Treadwell Blvd. (North Austin- 78757)RSVP: Kris Weitz Rammer at krramm@aol.com or 512-426-2899

Downtown Austin Farmers’ Market – Zero Waste InitiativeEvery Saturday and Wednesday Like landfills? If that’s a big no, come be a part of a momentous zero-waste project at two fun-filled Austin Farmers’ Market (AFM) locations. Help assist customers with recycling, compost, and landfill material and help the market achieve its zero-waste goal! Date and Time:  Six volunteers needed every Saturday at the downtown AFM (3 volunteers 9am-11am and 3 from 11am-1pm) and 4 volunteers needed every Wednesday at the Triangle AFM (2 volunteers from 3pm-5pm and 2 more from 5pm-7pm).Location: Downtown Austin Farmers’ Market 4th & Guadalupe (78701) and the Triangle Austin Farmers Market 45th and Lamar (78798)  Contact Rebecca Saltsman below for detailsContact: Rebecca Saltsman email: debi@sustainablefoodcenter.ccsend.com.   Let Rebecca know which shift you'd like and how many times a month you can participate. 

UpLift Green School Project5/22/2010 Uplift Austin is seeking volunteers to help with a Green School Project at a local charter school for underserved students. Volunteers will be building a deck for an outdoor classroom.  Light construction experience helpful, but people with any level of skills (including none) are welcome!  Please bring your own water bottle. Snacks provided! Date: Sat, May 22Time: 9am-2pm (come whenever you can!)Location: Garza Independence High School, 1600 Chicon Street, 78702 Contact: Please contact Kizzy at kizzy@upliftaustin.org  if you are available or would like additional information. 

 JOSLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GARDEN WORK DAY5/22/2010Help put the finishing touches on the garden students have planted. The Joslin Elementary School 4th graders have planted their native plant garden. Now, volunteers are needed to do a little weeding, delineate some of the beds, and figure out where to put several paths to direct student foot traffic. Bring tools including rakes, shovels, trowels, weed poppers, hoes, and wheelbarrows, gloves, water bottle, sunscreen, hat, sunglasses, a snack, and please wear closed-toed shoes.Date:  Saturday, May 22, Time:  10:00am-12:00pmWhere: Joslin Elementary School, 4500 Manchaca Rd. (South Central Austin – 78745)Meeting Point:  parking lot on Redd StreetRSVP: Julia Ragsdale at ragsdale_julia@hotmail.com

Cameron Road Cleanup5/22/2010 Join the energetic volunteers from RCCG Salvation Center as they cleanup Cameron Road near 183, St. John, & 290. Date: Sat, May 22Time: 11am– 1pmLocation: Cameron Road from 183 to St. John AveRSVP: adesanyayinka@yahoo.com