# @macjournalism on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-04-10T02:28:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

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APES IN THE FOREST: Forty people from the AP Environmental Science classes had a chance this morning to take a field trip to the Festival Beach Food Forest, a community park where people can harvest produce, as well as volunteer to plant various greenery. Organized by APES student Clara Williams, a member of the Austin Climate Youth Council, the field trip was a chance for students to give back to their community, while earning volunteer hours and helping add to an urban garden.

Williams discovered the food forest through the council she is on, and she partnered with them to bring students out and showcase the gardens to the community.

“I wanted to host the field trip because I thought it would be a good way to involve our community at a really good organization,” she said. 

The students worked to remove weeds from a series of garden beds, planted sunflower seeds along the bed and topped it off with compost. Williams enjoyed this field trip for a number of reasons, but the biggest one being able to volunteer in an environmental way and motivate others to do the same.

“I liked being able to hang out with my friends as well as help with a really cool project,” she said. “Especially right now there are a lot of things going on that are really bad for the environment, so places like this urban forest is something that has helped provide good.” 

Festival Beach Food Forest has work days every Tuesday and Thursday , from 9 a.m. to noon, where anybody in Austin can come to help out in any way possible. Volunteers help pick weeds, mulch freshly planted garden beds and contribute to an edible urban garden. On the second Saturday of every month, they host work days during the same hours with a focus on weeding, mulching and educating volunteers.

Williams said she learned a lot from this experience and sees herself coming back in the future to volunteer. 

Caption by Priya Thoppil. Photos by Elaine Bohl-Graham, Thoppil and Williams.

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