Friday, May 17 is Bike to Work Day! The event is organized by the Austin Cycling Association, and there are various businesses around town serving as morning and afternoon rest stops for Austinites commuting by bike. The closest to Cherrywood is at the Mueller roundabout on Aldrich St., across…
We are pleased to announce the launching of the new cherrywood.org website! Want to get involved? We’d love collaboration on this ongoing project.
Urban Patchwork Farm members in Cherrywood have put two more plots into production using water-efficient hugelkultur planting methods. Crops include tomatoes, green beans and quinoa, each surely adding to the bounty at distributions later in the season.…
As Austin becomes increasingly urbanized, native landscapes are replaced with impervious surfaces that prevent rainwater from soaking into the ground. Stormwater quickly runs off these hard surfaces, picking up pollutants from the land and…
In February, the East Side Compost Pedallers organized the Cherrywood Shake, their take on the Harlem Shake phenomenon. Forty people gathered on French Place, “a diverse group of families, young people, passing joggers and door-to-door salesmen,” says Pedallers co-founder Dustin Fedako. Look closely enough and you may spot a Teletubbie…
In 2008, four months after James and Leah Nyfeler bought their home, a massive storm leveled all the trees and plants carefully landscaped by the previous owner. “The front yard went from fully shaded to complete sun overnight,” says Leah, which didn’t…
