Family Friendly

May 3, 9:00AM – 9:00PM

Enjoy FREE admission all day and join us throughout the day for guided hikes, animal encounters, and children's arts & crafts activities.

International Migratory Bird Day Festival at Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center

Saturday May 12, 2012  

9:00AM – 5:00PM

Admission $3.00 (kids under 3 yrs free)

Celebrate our migratory birds and learn more about what you can do to help them during their amazing journey across the Americas. This event features fun activities for all ages, including kids’ crafts and activities, a live falcon, guided hikes, and a warbler identification class.

White Rock Local Market is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit farmers market where local farmers, ranchers, and artisans sell directly to our East Dallas neighborhood. White Rock Local Market is a meeting place for residents to buy fresh, local and healthy foods, and quality arts and crafts.

WRLM is held twice a month – the second and fourth Saturday – at The Green Spot Market and Fuels. Second Saturdays are Everything Markets and feature farmers, food artisans and arts and crafts. Fourth Saturdays are Just Farmers - farmers, producers, and food artisans.

White Rock Local Market has several community programs: a Lone Star food stamp program at the market, workshops, school field trips, and an after school entrepreneurial program.

For six decades, the Dallas Farmers Market has been a fixture in downtown Dallas. It has grown into a true Texas treasure, as one of the largest public markets of its type in the country.

The Dallas Farmers Market is a one-stop shop for all your produce, meat, floral and specialty-food needs. It is one of the largest public markets of its type in the country, open seven days a week from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, 362 days a year. 

Farmers from 150 miles around come to the Dallas Farmers Market, giving you the chance to "buy locally." These certified local producers offer a wide array of seasonal produce, from tomatoes to sweet potatoes, peaches to watermelons. Other produce vendors complement these local offerings, with everything from Mexican avocados to Washington apples.

At the Dallas Farmers Market, you can also find specialty and prepared foods, flowers, shrubs, and trees, and the opportunity to buy produce in bulk. It only takes one visit to understand why the Dallas Farmers Market is the market where the locals go.

The Downtown Arlington Farmer’s Market is a community-oriented market focusing on Texas provided foods, arts, crafts, services and wares.

 We are located at 215 Front Street Arlington, Texas 76011 and we open every Friday and Saturday from 8AM to 1PM.

The goal of the market is to provide a venue for local vendors to offer Arlington, Texas residents an opportunity to buy the freshest meat, produce, breads and other great foods, crafts and products available.

The DFW Truck Farm 5k Fun Run will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2012, at the Earth Day Dallas Festival at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.

www.dfwtruckfarm.com

The first annual 5K Fun Run is a non-competitive event (no chip timing) in which participants can run, walk, jog, or skip to the finish line!  This is a family event and strollers are  welcome!  For this year's fun run, we have designed a course full of farming-inspired challenges to complete before you cross the finish line!

You will have farm challenges along the way around the race course, you might harvest a seed, plant a seed, save water, or pollinate a flower.  Whatever the challenge you are faced with you will have a good ol' time completing it!

Join the vendors of Cowtown Farmers Market for this one-day event in Federal Plaza Park, in front of Lanham Plaza (federal building) at 1000 Throckmorton St. Featuring fresh, local produce; artisan bread and baked goods; hot tamales; cut flowers and vegetable plants; soap and bath product; and more. Everything is grown or made within 150 miles of Fort Worth. The Bacon Wagon and SoCal Tacos food trucks will be on site for the farmers market.

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This will be a free screening of the documentary King Corn at Westside Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Worth. (The following is taken from the website of the documentary King Corn)

King Corn is a Peabody-winning feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.