Our interactive Outdoor Enrichment 101 series will engage all ages with a variety of fun plant and animal-focused classes. Topic: Alligator Awareness. Our area is home to a remnant population of this fascinating reptile. As one of the few top predators left in Texas they play an important part in keeping our watery habitats in balance.
Gardens can change lives. Children who appreciate nature will feel more connected to where their food comes from and to the world around them. It all starts with a seed. Join Seed Preschool and Matilda the Bus as we partner with The Better Block for our Summer Workshop Series: From Soil to Soup. We will explore the process of planting and growing, meet some friendly creatures, create beautiful things, and enjoy a good meal together at the end. For children ages 5 to 10. $30/workshop or $150/6 workshops.
Everything you want to know about LED Lighting, including recent trends, updates in technology, and how they can save you money. Residential do-it-yourself upgrades to "LED" lighting. Bill's presentation will include show-and-tell displays illustrating what should be going into homes today, including fixtures to illustrate manufacturing trends. Ample time for questions and answers will be provided.
Presenter: Bill Neukranz, Vice President, American Energy Efficiencies, Inc., Commercial LED Lighting & Controls
Hear more about the work of Clean Water Action in the DFW area.
Celebrate a win for clean water, local control and successful conclusion of our #SaveLakeArlington campaign. Bluestone has withdrawn its application to put a wastewater injection well by Lake Arlington due to massive community opposition.
Ticket includes one drink voucher and light refreshments.
Sprinkler Demo Stations
Sprinkler System 101
Setting Your Controller
Drip Conversion
Simple Repairs
Efficiency Retrofits
Installing/Testing Rain and Freeze Sensors
SmartScape Talks With Master Gardeners
Landscape Design – 9:30 a.m.
Plant Selection – 10 a.m.
Improving Soil & Maintenance – 10:30 a.m.
Ask a Master Gardener – 11 a.m.
Demonstration garden tours & free water efficient toolkits
What if you find something outside but don’t know what it is? How do you find out? What if you could share that discovery with others to excite them about nature as well? Citizen science is one way to address each of those questions. One particularly useful tool is iNaturalist, an online network with an associated app where participants document all of the living organisms around them, share that data with the rest of the naturalist community, and learn a lot in the process.
The speaker will be the Texas Historic Tree Coalition’s own Steve Houser, who is a certified arborist, master naturalist, master gardener and also a founding member and past president of the Texas Historic Tree Coalition. In addition, he is a co-author of Comanche Marker Trees of Texas, which was recently released by Texas A&M University Press. Steve will speak on the subject of Indian Marker Trees, which he has been studying for over 20 years. (TXHTC volunteers have played a significant role in some of this research.) We will learn what marker trees are an
The annual Green Source DFW Sustainable Leadership Awards honors North Texas' green businesses, professionals, organizations, nonprofits and volunteers.
This year's honorary speaker is Lee Stetson as John Muir.