Gardening

Eight sessions of gardening for second, third and fourth graders. Cost: $30/residents, $40/nonresidents.

Volunteers needed to help remove invasive plants at the 5-acre nature center located in Oak Cliff. Bring gardening tools. Workday will be cancelled if raining. info@twelvehills.org.

Volunteers needed to help remove invasive plants at the 5-acre nature center located in Oak Cliff. Bring gardening tools. Workday will be cancelled if raining. info@twelvehills.org.

This Coppell Community Garden class on indoor gardening covers what to plant, when and how. Free.

This Coppell Community Garden class covers what can be recycled and where recyclables go.

Course held eight weekends Nov. 17 - March 3, Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Topics include community, green building, growing food and food forest, homesteading, sustainable living, permaculture, renewable energy, soils and water. Most classes held in Greenville. Outside projects held in Hunt County, Rockwall, East Dallas and Collin County. Cost: $275/in advance for all 16 days; $50/weekend; $30/day. Five scholarships will be given to young farmers who don't have access to land yet.

Volunteer at Fruth Farms for a variety of fun and educational activities. Prepare the crops for next season, build a shelter in the goat paddock, help vaccinate the baby goats and more. To participate, email programs@dallasuu.org. Free.

Learn about chickens, egg production and how to make a coop along with how to start and manage a beehive. Instructors – Caroline Fruth from Fruth Farms Southwest, Bob Richie from Bob’s Custom Coops. $60/nonmembers, $30/First UU and White Rock Local Market members.

Bram Franklin, Design Build Manager with Techscape Landscape, will show which trees grow well in the Dallas area and where homeowners can plant them. $27/nonmembers, $24/members.

Marian Buchanan, Dallas County Master Gardener and past chair of the local unit of the Herb Society of America, will offer tips on creating an herb garden. $27/nonmembers, $24/members.