Conservation

Bring your friends to mix and mingle. Proceeds will benefit NPAT projects. Cash bar with appetizers provided by Grace.  

This month we will be cleaning up some of our trails, clipping some privet, working on our butterfly and wildflower beds, and our host plant bed. Please bring your gardening tools, work gloves, or litter picker upper. Wear appropriate clothing for the weather and for working in a natural area (long pants, long sleeves, sturdy shoes, hat). Water and snacks will be provided. O.S. Gray Natural Area has no restroom facilities, but Kroger is near by.

World's largest eco-fest featuring hundreds of green organizations and businesses, speakers, films, food and kid's activities. Free.

Gary and Sue Price, owners of the 77 Ranch, have spent the last 40 years making their 2,500-acre ranch into an award winning cattle operation that focuses on conservation practices that not only increase production but also improve water quality and wildlife habitat and protect natural resources. Join us as the Prices share their approach to conservation ranching and land stewardship.  

Water-themed conference featuring speakers on the current state of Texas' water supply, saving water, using native & drought resistant plants, climate change & water, water resources threats and aquifer storage. 

Register online at DFWWaterConference.org starting July 20. $35 until Sept. 9. (Includes lunch, 11 speakers)

Info: Rita Beving, Rita.Beving@gmail.com or 214-557-2271.

The Great Seed Bomb was started last year by Jillian Jordan as a bike ride along the Trinity Trails in Fort Worth to promote awareness of the monarch and bee crises. Riders scattered wildflower seed bombs along the trail. 

This year Jillian is hoping to grow the event. GSB is needing 1- a team, 2- funding and 3- support for GSB's next phase and the next round of events.

Join Women in the Environment for its annual Networking Breakfast. Members will have an opportunity to share their story, product, business cards and passion for the environment with other like-minded women (and men).  Non-members are invited, too, but only members will have the opportunity to share their information. Walk the gardens after the breakfast for a great way to celebrate the morning! $20-$25.

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Please bring your gardening tools, work gloves, or litter picker upper.

Wear appropriate clothing for the weather and for working in a natural area 

(long pants, long sleeves, sturdy shoes, hat).

Water and snacks will be provided.

O.S. Gray Natural Area has no restroom facilities, but Kroger is near by.

Speaker Katherine Wells Power of the Historic Frankford Church and Cemetery will talk about the church and the founding families of the area.  We will also be able walk near (but not on) one of the few unspoiled remnants of native grassland prairie in the Metroplex.  The land "was never broken by a plow.” We will also be able to see the cemetery and the historic Wagon Yard Elm, which has been recognized by our coalition. There is also a spring on the site.