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Fort Worth Prairie Fest is the annual fundraiser for Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area. Learn more about how funds are plowed back into Tandy Hills HERE.

Prairie Fest grew from a small neighborhood event in 2006 to become the “Best Outdoor Cultural Event in 2010”, according to the Fort Worth Weekly. By 2011, Prairie Fest had attracted hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of visitors to Tandy Hills.

For 2012, Prairie Fest has been re-imagined and re-focused back to discovery and enjoyment of Tandy Hills, itself. Instead of a single event, there will be three festivals throughout the Spring on the last Saturdays of March, April and May. Event hours will be from 4 PM - Dusk.

http://tandyhills.org/fest

“Keepn’ Our City Green” Eco Fest, 2012

Promise of Peace Community Garden

Fort Worth Prairie Fest is the annual fundraiser for Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area. Learn more about how funds are plowed back into Tandy Hills HERE.

Prairie Fest grew from a small neighborhood event in 2006 to become the “Best Outdoor Cultural Event in 2010”, according to the Fort Worth Weekly. By 2011, Prairie Fest had attracted hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of visitors to Tandy Hills.

For 2012, Prairie Fest has been re-imagined and re-focused back to discovery and enjoyment of Tandy Hills, itself. Instead of a single event, there will be three festivals throughout the Spring on the last Saturdays of March, April and May. Event hours will be from 4 PM - Dusk.

http://tandyhills.org/fest

Science Saturdays are held the first weekend of every month and feature numerous events hosted by BRIT’s botanists: plant IDs, demonstrations of BRIT’s digital herbarium, Plant Preservation Studio tours, access to the BRIT libraries, and books on display from the BRIT Press. Come and go as you please.

We have developed a class schedule with a focus on preparing and managing your landscape during drought conditions.  We are also offering a few classes and ideas if you want to get rid of that old turf grass and make that space more useful and enjoyable to you.

Activities for Kids: 

Water Conservation, Library Craft Project, Composting,  Wildlife, Watershed Protection, and more.

Classes for Adults:

9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.:  Managing Lawns During a Drought, Warren Tingley, Tarrant County Master Gardener

9:45 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.:  Backyard Composting, Donna Fry, Tarrant County Master Gardener

10:30 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.:  Drought Tolerant Landscaping with Native Plants, Callie Mitchell, Tarrant County Master Gardener

11:15 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.:  Vegetable Gardening, Lance Jepson, Tarrant County Master Gardener

Join Bella for reading and exploratory activities in the Burk Children's Library and the Tree House at BRIT! Bella is the host of BRIT’s family story times. Much more than a hand-puppet, Bella represents a begonia collected by field research botanists in Peru and sent to BRIT as a specimen. Beginning in February of 2012, Bella's Story Time will take place on the first Tuesday and first Saturday mornings of each month. These hour-long programs are designed for preschool-development levels and their adult partners. Parents, grandparents, or guardians enjoy an interactive story read aloud, side-by-side, and explore hands-on nature activities inspired by the story. Pre-registration not necessary; however, due to limited space, preschools and day care centers will need to schedule at least two weeks in advance. Families may attend at no cost thanks to the generous support of the Fash Foundation.

Join Bella for reading and exploratory activities in the Burk Children's Library and the Tree House at BRIT! Bella is the host of BRIT’s family story times. Much more than a hand-puppet, Bella represents a begonia collected by field research botanists in Peru and sent to BRIT as a specimen. Beginning in February of 2012, Bella's Story Time will take place on the first Tuesday and first Saturday mornings of each month. These hour-long programs are designed for preschool-development levels and their adult partners. Parents, grandparents, or guardians enjoy an interactive story read aloud, side-by-side, and explore hands-on nature activities inspired by the story. Pre-registration not necessary; however, due to limited space, preschools and day care centers will need to schedule at least two weeks in advance. Families may attend at no cost thanks to the generous support of the Fash Foundation.

http://www.brit.org/calendar/

The Earth Day Festival is a community-wide, free, fun, family event where ordinary people will learn practical things to improve the health of the planet, their children and themselves.

http://www.earthdaytexoma.org/ED2012/index.html

Learn what makes fish, mammals, reptiles and other aquatic creatures uniquely suited for their life at sea.

https://emuseum.natureandscience.org/generaladmission.aspx

http://dallasmuseumnatureandscience.org/

Event:  "No Impact Man " Documentary Film Screening
Date:  Friday, February 10, 2012
Time:  7:00 PM
Location:  Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 901 Page Avenue, Fort Worth, TX
Contact:  tkb2101@columbia.edu or
http://www.westsideuu.org/misc/calendar.html

About the film:

"A guilty New York liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one year.  He turns off the electricity, stops making garbage, gives up TV, taxis and take-out, and becomes a walking, bicycling, composting, tree hugging, polar bear saving, local food-eating citizen, all while taking his baby daughter and caffeine-obsessed, television-addicted wife along with him."

For the trailer, see http://www.noimpactdoc.com