in this episode…you’ll hear from Angelina Alanis (she/they), the Community Organizer and Communications Coordinator for the Festival Beach Food Forest (FBFF), share about the vision for the FBFF, how came into being and how it has evolved and expanded, how their majority volunteer-led team organizes and governs themselves to foster collective democratic decision-making, and about how the forest is a tangible example of what a regional solidarity economy - quite literally rooted in place - can look like.
more about the Festival Beach Food Forest »
Festival Beach Food Forest is a grassroots pilot project neighboring the Festival Beach Community Garden and RBJ Residential Center in East Austin. We have transformed 2/3rds of an acre of City Park Land into an edible forest garden where visitors can openly forage and enjoy fresh food on the shores of Lady Bird Lake. Fruits, nuts, vegetables and herbs now flourish in this experimental pilot project to reclaim the public commons.
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resources and links lifted up in this episode:
Food Forest Website and more about its lore is on the FAQ page
FBFF’s fiscal sponsor: Fruitful Commons
People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER)
PODER’s Struggles & Victories, including the Holly Power Plant Shutdown
Austin’s History regarding the 1928 Master Plan
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