Urban Roots Executive Director Max Elliott recently met up with State Representative Eddie Rodriguez on the farm to learn about the greatest needs he’s seeing in regards to the COVID-19 Crisis and how people can help. Rep. Rodriguez has been devoting a lot of his time to helping people navigate the unemployment process and connecting […]
Since the COVID-19 Crisis put an immediate stop to our youth programming on the farm, Urban Roots has been focused on growing food to deliver to those in our community who are food insecure. We’ve also been reaching out to restaurant partners, as we all know restaurants were some of the businesses that were hit […]
Businesses across the world and Austin have been rethinking their business models and finding ways to make it work the best way they can amidst COVID-19. Urban Roots Executive Director Max Elliot met with Jester King Brewery’s Volunteer Corps Coordinator Debbie Cerda to talk about how COVID-19 is affecting their brewery and business. For […]
Happy Earth Day from Urban Roots! In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we have been especially thinking about how Urban Roots uses food and farming to cultivate unique connections to food, community, health, and most importantly, to the earth. Food and land bring people together in powerful ways! There’s something magical about […]
We are sold out of boxes for the final week of our summer produce box sales. Our summer season has ended, and we look forward to resuming with produce box sales again in the fall! Thank you for your support! We have enjoyed sharing our produce with the community this past spring and summer! Hurry to […]
Urban Roots congratulates the graduates of the Advanced Leadership Internship! ALI youth learned to farm, developed advanced culinary skills, and learned social responsibility and leadership first-hand. Congratulations to Lizandro, Dyamond, Andrea, Anthony, Elijah, Will, Emmett, Estelle, Aaron, Corissa, Ericka, Dorien, and Kius! For questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to contact anyone on the Urban […]
As a part of our hunger relief efforts, Urban Roots has been working with some of our restaurant partners who have been severely affected by COVID-19 when Austin officials ordered the temporary closure of all dine-in restaurants and bars and gatherings of 10 or more people through May 1st. La Condesa is a long-time Urban […]
Dear Friends, You have been in our thoughts over the past few weeks. As we all continue to practice healthy, safe distancing, we urge our Urban Roots community to work together to find ways to support our most vulnerable neighbors and ensure everyone is taken care of during this critical time. Urban Roots has always […]
Since we are unable to conduct our regularly scheduled youth programming as a result of COVID-19, it’s vitally important that we shift our immediate focus to the farm and maximize our efforts to grow food for the community. Urban Roots has focused on ways to support our restaurant partners, like Suerte, by providing fresh produce […]
