Lifestyle

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.

7:00 AM - 2nd through 5th Sundays each month, Dallas Trekkers group walks at White Rock Lake. We meet at Doctors Hospital, 9330 Poppy Drive, Dallas. Contact Beverly at 972-489-3072 for more information. Click on the White Rock Lake link for event 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.

Skill Sharing of Needle Arts: Basic Crochet 
Homesteading from DFW Ecovillage in the Green Scheme of DFW

Instructor:   Rena Hobbs 

When: June 18, 2011

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.

Luri & Wilma Magazine Announces Coming Out Event: The Very Green Social
 
We’re hip, we’re chic and yeah, we love to be green. A new up-and-coming fashion
forward blog and soon to be magazine, luri & wilma is designed for all you smart, sexy
and sensational gals out there. We pride ourselves on not just covering the latest and
greatest female fads and must haves but also strive to put our best eco-friendly foot
forward by providing information to women on how to stay fun and fabulous while still
making a difference in the community. 
 
Celebrating the launch of our blog and the fall release date of our first ever issue, we
invite you and all of our local eco-friendly and indie designers and businesses to our pre-
launch celebration, The Very Green Social, at IndieGenius. 
 
Enjoy an eclectic evening full of sips, bites, green networking and the opportunity to get
to know the ladies behind l & w.  And don’t forget to enter yourself in the ticket raffle
for a chance to win unique giveaways from some of our favorite local companies

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.