Learn how easy it is to make your own preserves. This class will cover basic knowledge of safely canning and preserving using the water bath method.
Participants will make a preserve using local, seasonal, 100% organic produce and take home a jar of preserves.
$55. Class size limited to 10 students.
Reserve your seat: www.urbanacresmarket.com/classes-register-canning-preserving-1
Artist Ken O’Toole's appearance is part of Mountain View College's Sustainability Speaker Series. O'Toole is an experimental artist working in various media. His works include “Cultural Ghosts,” a monograph of photos exploring the unintended beauty of refuse on our nations highways and “Quintina,” which is constructed of hundreds of pieces of recycled cardboard, reclaimed from discarded pizza boxes, soda pop cartons, and frozen TV dinner boxes.
11 a.m.: Tour begins at Scrap Denton for registration, networking and browsing the facility.
11:30 a.m.: Lunch at Banter Bistro of Denton (219 W. Oak St, Denton) sponsored by CDM Smith, along with two presentations. Order at the bar and identify yourself with the WE event.
Presentions by:
1. Amanda Austin, co-founder and Director of Cardos Farm Project
2. Katherine Barnett, city of Denton's Sustainability Plan
1 p.m.: Tour of the Querencia Community Bike Shop (219 W. Oak St., Denton)
Free to current members. Non-members can join on the WE website or pay cash/check for membership at the door. Info: www.womenintheenvironment.org.
Register by Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. at the link below:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mastering-the-3-rs-reduce-reuse-recycle-registration-10423201075
The exhibit resides within a 20-foot-by-30-foot tent designed to look like the big red barns that most people have become accustomed to associating with their food. Inside you’ll find a series of informative panels, a real gestation crate that students are encouraged to climb into, an encaged chicken display and a film screen that projects PETA’s Paul McCartney-narrated video “Glass Walls.”
While watching the video students are asked to sit down in chairs partitioned by wire panels, to give them more of a caged-in feel. Once exiting out of the back of the tent participants will find a table set up with literature, stickers and delicious vegan food samples.
Mean Greens for Animals T-shirts for sale at the event.
Demonstrations, natural health and beauty services and food provided by women-owned businesses and practitioners.
UNTHSC is converting an unused piece of land into the campus' first community garden. You can help establish the garden on Feb. 15 by building the plots, regardless of whether you plan to get a plot of your own.
Build Day will be a group work-and-fun event. With guidance from experts, we'll build frames, fill them with soil, mulch pathways and share gardening wisdom. Weather permitting, if you've registered for a plot in the garden, you also could start your cold-season crop.
We especially need people with carpentry skills, but all hands will be appreciated.
At the site, a light breakfast will be provided as well as a Garden Ergonomics info session by Mike Richardson, PT, DPT, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy. You'll also receive a goodie bag with small gifts.
An information/orientation session will be at 12 noon Tuesday, Feb. 11 in Everett 524. All who are interested in the garden - Build Day volunteers, plot registrants and "undecideds" - are urged to attend. You may bring your lunch.
Essential Oils with Bre Taylor of Nourishing The Home. Reserve a seat: classes@urbanacresmarket.com.
Take a plant walk all over the land to gather the specific wild edibles of late winter in North Texas. You will learn about them and be able to taste them as we go.
Wear comfortable walking shoes or boots (the farm may be muddy if it rains). Bring a canvas bag to collect edibles, your own bowl and utensils to enjoy a wild green salad we will create from our bounty and a camera if you'd like to photo the edibles we discover.
$30. Children 8 and under/free. We are also open to partial or full barters (contact us for details). Ask about family pricing.
The only thing Molly likes more that chocolate cake is to see a gigantic pile of privet, so let's give her her wish. You may come and go, work or goof off; you decide. Lunch and cake at Mijo's at 12:30 pm.
What to Bring - If you have loppers, bring them. What to Wear - Long sleeves and pants, gloves, hat and a smile.
The event will feature green vendors, entertainment, raffle and prizes. Learn ways to invest in a sustainable future, improve daily living and save money by going green. K thru 6 graders can bring juice pouches for a chance to win an Apple iPad.
Free. info@texasgreenfest.com