Sunshine Community Garden This short documentary chronicles the regular practices and annual plant sale of a community garden in Austin, TX.  It was created by the spring intern class of Elephant Productions.  Enjoy!

The show might be over, but we have at least one (and possibly two) episodes still to air.  Tonight, May 7th is one of them, and it’s one that we’re particularly proud of.  It’s all Community Docublogs!  What a way to wrap up the series!

Watch it on KLRU-TV, Austin PBS at 7:30, and look for it on YouTube later today.

Due to the trying economic times facing our country, KLRU has been forced to undergo large cutbacks.  On the chopping block is Docubloggers, along with Domenique Bellavia and Sean Cunningham, the show’s producers.

We’re sad to see the show go, sadder to lose our jobs, but most importantly, sad to see this experiment in social media come to an end.  For all our fans and docubloggers, this is the Docu-Duo signing off.

This short documentary chronicles the regular practices and annual plant sale of the Sunshine Community Garden in Austin, Texas.

This year, the theme was Give5: “Bring 5 Friends”, “Give $5″, “Give 5 Hours”

Mayoral Candidates Brewster McCracken and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, along with Team Leffingwell, were the keynote speakers. Volunteers put in an estimated dollar value of $36,400 of volunteer hours in the Austin community in one day!

Projects featured in the video:

• 3M volunteers update Wooten Elementary Library
• Community Volunteers Improve Mt. Sinai Christian Academy childcare center
• Allstate volunteers remove graffiti for the City of Austin, Graffiti Abatement Project
• Dell GRSO and Intel volunteers help recycle computers for Goodwill
• Nordstrom volunteers beautify the Umlauf Sculpture Gardens
• Amplify and Team Qwest volunteers renovate Open Door Preschools playgrounds
• Freescale Semiconductor volunteers inspect, sort and box donations at the Capital Area Food Bank
• Flextronics and Four Seasons Hotel volunteers beautify Reagan High School grounds

“Were you there? Send us photos, tell us about your volunteering experience:
web@unitedwaycapitalarea.org”