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Share your holiday gift giving with our feathered friends! Children of all ages are invited to make biodegradable bird treats ahead of time and bring them to the event to hang in the Garden’s Grove, providing food for wildlife and a little holiday cheer! This free event, complete with music and entertainment, is one of Fort Worth’s oldest holiday traditions.
Feast your eyes on the fall color of the Japanese Garden while you and your family enjoy traditional Japanese dance, music, martial arts demonstrations, papermaking, and tea ceremonies. Admission: Adults $5.00, Children (4-12yrs.) $3.00, under 4 free.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Fall is the second great planting season, so come peruse our perennials and native Texas plants. Browse our selection of decorative grasses, shrubs and bulbs as well. Planting in the fall is a great opportunity to give your plants a jump start on the Texas summers.
Choose from a wide assortment of trees, shrubs, grasses, ground covers, perennials, vines, and spring-flowering bulbs. The sale features many specialty plants grown at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. In addition, rose, African violet, begonia, iris, daylily, cactus & succulent, and daffodil societies will be selling their plants. Other vendors will be selling garden-related merchandise as well.
Garden staff will be on site to answer your plant questions. BYOW (Bring Your Own Wagon) for loading plants! In “The Grove,” the wooded area west of the Trial Garden and the Japanese Garden parking lot.
Be a part of the world's largest grassroots solar event!
The
Texas Solar Energy Society is pleased to announce four Solar Tours this
October in conjunction with the American Solar Energy Society's National Solar Tour.
Join our TXSES chapters and colleagues around the state. Look for a self guided tour near you!
Come join the Gleaning Network of Texas for sweet potato gleaning! We will gather the sweet potatoes left in the field, bag them up, and distribute them to a wide range of food assistance programs. Look for more information as we get closer to this event!
The Gleaning Network of Texas is a nonprofit, grassroots organization whose goal is to use our state’s existing surplus fresh produce resources to help alleviate hunger and improve nutrition for food-insecure Texans.
The Network brings together growers, volunteers, and service
agencies to provide food for the hungry from fruits and vegetables left
in the field after the harvest and other unutilized supplies.
North Texas Renewable Energy Group (NTREG) announces the DFW Solar Home Tour, October 1st, 2011 www.dfwsolarhometour.org
The 2nd annual DFW Solar Home Tour is a part of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) National Solar Tour www.nationalsolartour.org . It offers the public the opportunity to tour innovative green homes and buildings and learn how homeowners and businesses can use renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies.
Organic and naturally grown food from local farmers. . Organic garden supplies.
Take a hike, listen for frogs, watch the river roll by, enjoy the LEEDs building..
Free all day and evening.
Outdoor Events
5:30p.m. Guided Hike & Texas Turtle Watch
6:00p.m. Animal Encounter
8pm Chimney Swift Monitoring Join Master Naturalist Natha Taylor of this citizen science project
8:15pm Amphibian Watch with TRAC Volunteer Naturalist Mel White
Indoor Events
Multi-purpose Room
6-6:15 Audubon Dallas interns review TRAC summer projects
6:30-6:45 Dr. Patty McGill introduces our newest Audubon Center, Dogwood Canyon.
Conference Room
6-8pm Book club. Please stop by and pick up our fall reading list as we launch our seasonal book club. We'll be reading mostly non-fiction nature titles that contain local interest.
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6:30 pm Eco-origami with recycled paper artist Alicia Colina-Ashby $15. Please call front desk to register. 214-309-5891
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Drop off your electronic items: household, office, or personal, we recycle it all!
Here are just some of the items that we recycle:
-Computers
-Televisions
-Monitors
-Circuit Boards
-Servers
-Cellphones
-Radios
-Hard Drives
-Cds
-Networking Equipment
-Back up Tapes