WHEN: Saturday, October 18, 2025, 1 - 4 PM
WHERE: North Austin Community Garden
COST: Free Admission (Donations accepted for blocks)
We will be at the North Austin Community Garden and Walnut Creek Branch Library for Roots & Wings Fest and will be giving away mushroom blocks! Come learn how to use mushroom blocks to help your trees thrive!
This family friendly event will combine all things nature, gardening and pollinators into a fun, educational and community building experience. Learn about bee keeping, mycology, native plants and so much more while you mingle with neighbors and enjoy kids crafts, live music and a Monarch butterfly puppet show!
Mushroom blocks are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Download the Caring for Trees with Mushroom guide.
We are also looking for volunteers to help at the event. Wear your favorite mushroom outfit and sign-up here.
About the Roots & Wings Festival
The Roots & Wings Festival is an annual community-wide celebration of trees, pollinators, and all creatures.
The Festival is dedicated to celebrating nature in our neighborhoods. We embrace the fundamental concept that we are all connected to each other and to our local ecosystem. Growing these connections creates a stronger, more resilient and healthy community.
The Roots & Wings Festival is not one event, it is many, and it is led by the community in neighborhoods all over Austin. Community events feature celebrations of our urban forest ecosystem (trees, butterflies, plants, fungi, soil health, pollinators, birds, bats, and more)!
In 2023, the Roots & Wings Festival helped to support over 129 community-led events!
How to Reuse Mushroom Blocks
Want to help out?
Volunteer and sign-up here to pick-up blocks from the farms in North Austin to deliver to future events and pick-up spots.
Can’t make it?
Sign up to pick up blocks at one of our 30+ spots in Central Texas or San Antonio