Food

Annual eco-festival featuring green vendors, children's activities, food and entertainment. Free.

Enjoy a tour of the TDG herb garden to see how to correctly clip herbs. Then take these fresh herbs inside and infuse olive oils and vinegars. Leave with your own infused oil and an herb plant. $25. Preregistration required. 

Learn more about MGFA upcoming events: Lobby Training at Black Beauty Ranch, Lobby Day in Denton, and a Screening of Speciesism: The Movie! There will be vegan snacks and good company! 

Come to this Tower Garden Demo and learn how you can grow your own food (non-gmo, organic if you choose) in 1/3 of the time on your front porch. The tower garden is a vertical aeroponic system, that takes no dirt, 90 percent less water, 90 percent less space and little knowledge of gardening.Featuring Marcy Malkey, director & Eeducator for Community and Neighborhood Gardens, Tower Garden Farming and Eco Friendly Instructor for the city of Irving.

Registration is required. Limited seating. $20 check is your reservation. Mail to:
Marcella Malkey
2434 LaSalle Dr., Irving, TX 75062

Info: Marcella Malkey, 214-404-2447 or marcymalkey@verizon.net

Hosted by: Leanne Harris, 940-395-0181

Andrea Bithell, owner and president of Oak Cliff Organics, will give a presentation of The Basics of Growing. Andrea will speak on the different growing seasons, what to plant when, how to read a seed packet, soil prep, how to plant, soil testing and how to synergize gardening.

 RSVP: info@trinityhaymarket.com or 214-202-2163

Presentation by New York Times best-selling author Amy Stewart. Author of The Drunken Botanist, Stewart takes a new perspective on the leaves, bark, seeds, roots, flowers and fruit imbibed around the world. The evening will be mixed with botanical cocktails and savory hors d’oeuvres. 

$30. Info: 817-332-4441.

Seating is limited. Contact classes@urbanacresmarket.com for reservation and class info.

Learn how easy it is to make your own preserves. This class will cover basic knowledge of safely canning and preserving using the water bath method. 

Participants will make a preserve using local, seasonal, 100% organic produce and take home a jar of preserves. 

$55. Class size limited to 10 students. 

Reserve your seat: www.urbanacresmarket.com/classes-register-canning-preserving-1

The exhibit resides within a 20-foot-by-30-foot tent designed to look like the big red barns that most people have become accustomed to associating with their food. Inside you’ll find a series of informative panels, a real gestation crate that students are encouraged to climb into, an encaged chicken display and a film screen that projects PETA’s Paul McCartney-narrated video “Glass Walls.” 

While watching the video students are asked to sit down in chairs partitioned by wire panels, to give them more of a caged-in feel. Once exiting out of the back of the tent participants will find a table set up with literature, stickers and delicious vegan food samples. 

Mean Greens for Animals T-shirts for sale at the event.

Demonstrations, natural health and beauty services and food provided by women-owned businesses and practitioners.