3025 Crosscreek Dr. Austin, TX, 78757
Our community garden at the northwest corner of Pillow Park provides 4-foot by 8-foot garden plots for rent for personal use.
Email gardenchair@nscna.org to sign up for a garden plot ($30/year)
NSC Gardeners Agreement
Community Garden Operation Bylaws
The NSCNA Beautification Committee maintains gardens and natural areas throughout the neighborhood, including at Pillow Park. Our activities include creek clean-ups, planting and seeding, and various landscape construction projects including public art installation.
Email beautificationchair@nscna.org if you’d like to get involved.
Community Garden History
Our neighbors and friends put in nearly 500 hours of labor to create our neighborhood community garden in 2017. Through this process, by building this garden piece by piece, and by hand, we are closer than ever as a community and neighborhood.
NSCNA thanks the Austin Parks Foundation for awarding us a Community Grant to build a community garden. We also thank the Sustainable Food Center of Austin for partnering with us on our project, and the City of Austin’s Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Community Garden Program (SUACG) for their help and support.
Between the bonds we’ve forged and the garden we’ve built, we’ll be “growing together” for years to come!
The North Shoal Creek Community Garden is the culmination of efforts that began in the spring of 2016 by members of the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Association. In June, the association approached Principal Brian Hill of Pillow Elementary with the idea of putting in a community garden at the school. Always one to see the value in connecting the school with the community, he was immediately on board.
Over the summer and early fall, a dedicated group formed to work on the initial planning stages of the garden, obtain approval from various entities with an interest in the school’s land, and secure funding. That group bundled the garden, along with various other beautification projects, into one application to the City of Austin’s Neighborhood Partnering Program, which allows the city to pair up with neighborhoods to accomplish medium-sized projects. To ensure specific funding for the garden, the group applied for a grant from Austin Parks Foundation.
In November 2016, Austin Parks Foundation approved a grant of up to $10,000 for construction of the garden, and in February 2017 the North Shoal Creek Community Garden Committee was formed to carry out the logistics and construction involved with building the garden. Shortly thereafter, the Neighborhood Partnering Program called to inform us that they have approved our application in its entirety. This will allow the City to assist in the more challenging components of building a garden, such as ensuring water tap access and proper installation of a fence to border the garden.
For more details about our community garden and our neighborhood partnering program application, visit: Sep 6 NPP Presentation.
Below are resources related to our garden:
Signed NSCNA and NPP Agreement
Austin Parks Foundation Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding with SFC
SFC Sponsorship Guidelines for Community Gardens
