Learn to identify trees with Gillian Lea Hodler at the beautiful Festival Beach Food Forest! Gillian is the community engagement and volunteer coordinator with Tree Folks in Austin, Texas. In this episode, discover tree characteristics of Redbud, Cypress, and Holly trees. Learn the benefits of root collar clearing, nitrogen fixing legumes, evergreens, caffeinated hollies, and more. Join the walk!

It’s a slideshow! View chapter images on Podverse, a podcast 2.0 app.

Tree Folks events and volunteer opportunities:
https://www.treefolks.org/

Festival Beach Food Forest donations:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
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Find your plant friends! Join the walk with Gillian Lea Hodler of Tree Folks in Austin, Texas. In this episode, we learn how to identify tree characteristics by taking a closer look at Walnut, Goldenball Leadtree, Texas Persimmon, and Loquat trees. Hear how the permaculture designed Festival Beach Food Forest protects its trees from frost and heat.

It’s a slideshow! View chapter images on Podverse, a podcast 2.0 app.

Tree Folks events and volunteer opportunities:
https://www.treefolks.org/

Festival Beach Food Forest donations:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Support this podcast! Send bitcoin to:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

In this episode we join JVL and the twins for a walk around our tiny permaculture homestead in Austin, Texas. Get a glimpse at plants that are creating microclimates. Discover what plants thrives in the Texas heat. And, why do ants farm aphids? 

It’s a slideshow! View chapter images on Podverse, a podcast 2.0 app.

Festival Beach Food Forest donations:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

Sit back and relax every muscle. Join land steward, Karen Luzius on a walk around Festival Beach Food Forest. Discover antispasmodic plants, nervine and antiviral herbs, and trees that make good heart tonics. Learn which plants help with stress and which plants balance hormones. Enjoy the walk!

It’s a slideshow! View chapter images on Podverse, a podcast 2.0 app.

Festival Beach Food Forest donations:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

Be a tree detective! In this episode we join Gillian Lea Hodler of Tree Folks in Austin, Texas. Learn to identify tree characteristics by taking a closer look at Pecan, Peach, and Live Oak trees in this walk around the beautiful Festival Beach Food Forest.

It’s a slideshow! View chapter images on Podverse, a podcast 2.0 app.

Tree Folks events and volunteer opportunities:
https://www.treefolks.org/

Festival Beach Food Forest donations:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

It’s spring in Austin, TX! Join us for a stroll around the beautiful Festival Beach Food Forest with land steward, Karen Luzius. Discover surprising benefits of plants that are native to Texas. Learn what is edible, and what is not. Get a glimpse of the layers of the forest in this shorter episode of Food Forest Walk. Enjoy the walk!

It’s a slideshow! I recommend using Podverse to view chapter images.

To donate to Festival Beach Food Forest, visit:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin to:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

Join our guide Robert Leal on a tour of Festival Beach Food Forest in Austin, Texas. Permaculture design strives to mimic natural systems, embracing the ethics of earth care, people care, and care of the future, fair share. For a glimpse of some of the amazing plants mentioned in this agroforestry system, tune in on a podcast 2.0 app to view chapter images.

It’s a slideshow! I recommend using Podverse to view the show.

Following the walk enjoy the musical stylings of Oliver Rajamani, a melody inspired by early morning walks in the forest.
https://oliverrajamani.com/

To donate to Festival Beach Food Forest, visit:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Opening music is by Josh Robins of Invincible Czars
https://invincibleczars.com/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin to:
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Join the walk with land steward, Karen Luzius on the second half of her guided tour of Festival Beach Food Forest deep in the heart of Austin, Texas. Traverse the berms, enjoy the shade of the canopies, discover the benefits of cover crops, and admire the arthropods. In conclusion, enjoy a poem by Marcia Beckford. Walk this way!

To donate to Festival Beach Food Forest, visit:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin to:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

Music by Josh Robins of Invincible Czars.
https://invincibleczars.com/

Take a walk with land steward, Karen Luzius, on a guided tour of Festival Beach Food Forest, an ecological garden deep in the heart of Austin, Texas. Learn about the stacking functions of permaculture, find incredible nutrition in wild native plants, meet plant communities and their happy pollinators!

To donate to Festival Beach Food Forest, visit:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is produced by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin to:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

Music by Josh Robins of Invincible Czars.
https://invincibleczars.com/

Join the walk with plant enthusiast Grace Gilker at Festival Beach Food Forest, an agroforestry system deep in the heart of Austin, Texas. Discover Texas native plants whose leaves make delicious teas, native grasses whose roots tap for water, and a volunteer plant who will make you blush.

Bamberger Ranch Preserve
https://www.bambergerranch.org/

Bracken Cave Preserve
https://www.batcon.org/

The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821-1859
by Kelly F. Himmel

To donate to Festival Beach Food Forest, visit:
https://festivalbeach.org/donate/

Food Forest Walk is hosted by Leah Lovise.
Show your support! Send bitcoin to:
https://getalby.com/p/lostinaustin

Music by Josh Robins of Invincible Czars.
https://invincibleczars.com/