Join Groundwork Dallas as we eat, drink and raise funds for the maintenance of hiking and biking trails, summer programs for kids, clean up the forest and river and to just get the word out about our great natural treasure, the Great Trinity Forest.
$20.00 at the door.
Come listen to the Brian Hughes Band and have beverages and tasty crawfish! Come on out and support Great Trinity Forest and the kids who will be working with the Green Team!
Monthly meeting of Dallas Organic Gardening Club. Refreshments at 6:30pm. Meeting at 7pm. More info on Texas Native Plants at http://www.txnativeplants.org.
Tue, Jun 21 - Dallas Sierra Club Night Hike. Celebrate the First Day of Summer. Meet at 7:00 pm near the pavilions. Arbor Hills is located at 6701 W. Parker Rd. in Plano just west of Midway Rd. We will walk 5 miles mainly on a paved path. No reservations, just show up. Optional frozen yogurt afterwards. Leader: Judy Cato 972-238-5738
On June 20 at the monthly meeting of the Dallas Native Plant Society, Carol Feldman will be presenting "Maintenance of your Landscape: Tips for the Homeowner". 7pm at the regular monthly meeting at REI. The
location is the upstairs meeting room of the REI Outdoor Equipment
Store at 4515 LBJ Freeway 75244, on the north side of I-635 between
Welch and Midway.
Learn how to prepare new beds and restore and revive existing beds using
organic techniques. She will also cover garden installation of
flagstone, boulders, fencing, dry riverbeds, and other hardscape
elements. A yearly maintenance checklist will give an overview of timing
for mulching, year end cleanup, irrigation items, and plant
maintenance.
Carol is currently the principal of Feldman Design Studios where she has
supervised home landscape installations for the past 15 years. She is a
licensed Landscape Architect, and contrary to popular beliefs about
landscape architects, she likes to work with plants, especially Texas
Black Vegetarian Society of Texas Father’s Day Luncheon at Spiral Diner,1314 W. Magnolia Av, Ft. Worth, 12:30 pm, 817.332.8834, followed by outing at Jubilee Theater, 3 pm. RSVP to donald.moy@sbcglobal.net for more information.
Habitat Restoration & Trail Maintenance at Cedar
Ridge Preserve from 9 am - 11 am, rain or shine. Volunteers remove
non-native plants, restore trails, and work in the butterfly garden.
Repairing trails reduces erosion trouble spots and removing non-native
plants clears crowded trail edges. We'll provide snacks, water, pruning
shears, shovels, and work gloves. All you need to bring is sun screen
and bug repellent. Questions? Contact
info_CRP@yahoo.com
We will use rainwater harvesting in the ecovillage. This usually means catching water from even the smallest roof. Although a rain barrel is not the appropriate size for serious rainwater harvesting at your home, it is appropriate for outbuildings, so we have included it in the skill building series.
Dr. Dotty Woodson, Extension Program Specialist - Water Resources will be teaching this class and will provide participants the opportunity to construct a 55 gallon rain barrel as well as discuss installing an efficient irrigation system. The rain barrel is yours to take home!
Cost is $40.00 for each barrel and they measure 24 inches in diameter and 36 inches tall. Bring a vehicle large enough to haul your rain barrel(s) home.
Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Pavilion Building, 17360 Coit Road, Dallas 75252.
Tour Coppell Farmers' Market, buy some farm goodies, and hear John of Comeback
Creek Farm speak on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).
Meet at the tent in the front of the market at 8:45 am, stopping to buy a breakfast muffin if you like. About 9:15 or so, John will speak to us about CSAs in general, how he became a farmer, and his CSA in
particular.
Market opens at 8 am if you want a head start.
This is followed by an optional needle skills class on basic crochet which is followed by an optional lunch at Healthy Me Art Cafe in Coppell to visit with fellow students and learn more about the ecovillage forming just east of Dallas.
Fee: Free, except for your purchases.
oin Mercy For Animals to pass out leaflets outside the Rihanna with Cee Lo Green concert educating the public about animals suffering on factory farms and in slaughterhouses.
Learn the basics of canning, freezing, and dehydration to preserve produce when it is plentiful and in season. Free.