This month we'll be walking through nature with noted Master Naturalist Jim Varnum and tuning up our wildflower beds, pulling privet and moving mulch for our new Meadow Trail. The Nature Walk begins at 9 am, Community Day will follow.
Visitors come to tour the gardens and purchase herbs, flowers and vegetables. The funds raised help support Gardeners in Community Development’s projects, which include gardens that donate freshly harvested produce to food pantries, gardening educational programs for children and adults, regional community gardening training, and neighborhood beautification and involvement. Free.
Info: Don Lambert at 972-231-3565.
Visitors come to tour the gardens and purchase herbs, flowers and vegetables. The sale will feature Asian American gardeners offering some of their special Asian herbs and vegetables. The funds raised help support Gardeners in Community Development’s projects, which include gardens that donate freshly harvested produce to food pantries, gardening educational programs for children and adults, regional community gardening training, and neighborhood beautification and involvement.
Free. Hours: Sat, 9am-4pm, Sun, 10am-3pm. Info: Don Lambert at 972-231-3565.
Hours Sat: 10am-5pm; Sun:11am-5pm.
Parking is behind Montgomery Street Antique Mall along the I-30 access road. This lot is a short walk to the Japanese Garden entrance.
Presenters Dustan Compton, Arlington's conservation program coordinator, and ACC board president Danny Kocurek will explain how to hook up that nice rain barrel you made or bought, how to use it when it gets full, how to deal with common problems like overfill and how to scale it up.
They will demonstrate a 55-gallon rain barrel, a 600-gallon homemade approach and a 3,000-gallon professionally installed system. They also will show how to deal with gutter debris and overflow, how to calculate how much water to expect, and how to attach devices to use your free water. All of this can be done with a few simple implements, which will be available for a little hand tool hands-on.
Refreshments will be provided, to complement the self-satisfied glow of accomplishment.
See the group's website for list of plants that will be available.
COLLIN COUNTY
Collin County Farmers Market: http://www.collincountyfarmersmarket.org
Fairview Farms Marketplace, Plano: http://www.fairview-farms.com
Frisco Farmers Market: http://www.friscofarmersmarket.com
Georgia’s Farmers Market, Plano: http://www.georgiasfarmersmarket.com
McKinney Farmers Market at the Adriatica: http://www.chestnutsquare.org/programs/farmers_market.asp
DALLAS COUNTY
Carrollton Square Community Farmers Market, http://www.cityofcarrollton.com
Celebration Farmers Market, Dallas: www.celebrationrestaurant.com/farmersmarket
Coppell Farmers Market: http://www.coppellfarmersmarket.org
Cox Farms Market, Duncanville: http://www.coxfarmsmarket.com
Dallas Farmers Market: http://www.dallasfarmersmarket.org
Eden’s Organic Garden Center, Balch Springs: http://edensorganicfarm.com
Four Seasons Market, Richardson: http://www.fourseasonsmarkets.com
Grand Prairie Farmers Market: http://www.gptx.org/farmersmarket
Little D Farmers Market: http://littledfarmersmarket.com
The Earth Day fest features local environmental vendors. Good Kitchen Karma food truck will be serving up vegan and vegetarian food. Herb plants and reusable water bottles will be handed out. Earth Day T-shirts will be sold $5-$10. Free.
Friendly gathering of gardeners. All welcome. Free.
Howard Garrett will speak on organic gardening and landscaping. Learn how organic programs can save 50 percent of irrigation costs. Also learn about various organic gardening techniques that benefit you and our environment. Free. Info:. 972-699-1687. KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.