Vegetables on the Banks of Lady Bird Lake

In honor of Green Corn Project's tenth anniversary, we installed a vegetable bed on Lady Bird Lake (formerly Town Lake) as a demonstration garden. On March 22, volunteers Roger Mitchell, and Liz and Wayne Kesterson, and I (board member Suzanne Hurley) double dug the bed on the north side of the lake and planted tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, corn, and herbs donated by Big Red Sun.

The bed is growing great! If you would like to check it out, the bed is on the north shore of the lake between the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge and the Lamar Street Bridge. Our bed is one of many sponsored by the Town Lake Trail Foundation along that spot of the shore, but ours is easily identifiable. It's the only vegetable garden. Just look for the tomatoes!

No parking is available at the immediate garden site. Your options would be to park at the YMCA and walk down to the lake, or park on the south side of the pedestrian bridge, near Lamar and E. Riverside and walk across the bridge and down the steps on the north side.

GCP thanks Sara Moore and Susan Rankin at Town Lake Trail Foundation for embracing and supporting our idea; Sarah Yant and Big Red Sun for their design help and plant and compost donations; and our anonymous sponsor—you know who you are—for helping us fund the bed.

Look for the complete story of the bed in June issue of Edible Austin.