Gardening

Organic landscape specialist Lucy Harrell will help you learn how put beneficial insects to work for you. 

Join us for this class discussing all of the varieties of vegetables that can be grown here in North Texas, including tomatoes, peppers, beans, peas, lettuce, radishes, squash, okra and countless other types of vegetables. 10:30 a.m. at both stores.

Join us as The Promise of Peace Community Gardens celebrates the installation of three new sites and launches its "Seed to Soul" programming to provide equal access to real food and better lives for all! 

This will be a four course, farm to table dinner with Chefs Janice Provost of Parigi, Uno Immanivong of Chino Chinatown, Anastacia Quinones of Oddfellows, and Katherine Clapner of Dude, Sweet Chocolate. They will serve sensational seasonal dishes of locally sourced ingredients. 

For more than 20 years, veteran and novice gardeners alike have anticipated this rare opportunity to purchase plants from a huge selection of the best plants for North Central Texas gardens at the annual Spring Plant Sale. This year, we are offering natives, hard-to-find herbs, and well-adapted plants. Admission to the Heard is not required to visit the plant sale.

Public sale: April 22, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and April 23, 1-5 p.m.

Members only pre-sale: April 21, 4-7 p.m.

Let us introduce you to some of the common insects and why they are important for all of us. This program is open to the public and is free with paid general admission or Heard Museum Membership. Many of these programs will have an outside component. Please dress appropriately. 

Dr. Jeffry Robb of Texas Woman’s University will discuss the TWU Pollinator Garden. Free.

Info: Cathy Lustgarten, drgoodrad@gmail.com

"Make Potting Soil and Potting Your Plants" presented by Josephine Keeney and Joe Martinez.

Info: Donna Ressl, donnarus@usa.net

Prairie Seekers is a prairie assessment and mapping program developed by Native Prairies Association of Texas.  The Fort Worth chapter is hosting a field training day which covers: the program, how to complete the datasheet, prairie plant ID, soils, succession ('reading the land'), mapping and iNaturalist.  After completion, Prairie Seekers volunteers conduct surveys whose data will be contributed to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department state biodiversity database. This information is used to identify future prairie conservation opportunities across the state.

Pat Merkord of NPAT to speak on midwestern native prairies.

The Coalition's Urban Agriculture Action Team invites to you to come network and learn with other urban gardeners and farmers. Seeding Dallas offers many topics for a wide range of gardening skills. Local experts will share what they have learned growing food and managing gardens in North Texas.

Topics include community garden management, soil building, planting for diversity, seasonal planting, organic pest management, composting, rainwater harvesting, vermicomposting, and keeping chickens.