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Coppell Farmers Market - Coppell

The Coppell Farmers Market, established in 2003, has become one of the best community markets in the DFW area, a one-stop shopping trip for fresh, seasonal produce, pastured meats, eggs, breads and locally made foods. Both the customers and the farmers/producers have shaped the market to what it is today, guided by a community-based organization, the Coppell Farmers Market Committee. The guidelines for the Coppell Farmers Market state that all products sold at the Coppell Farmers Market shall be grown, raised, and/or produced directly by the vendor within the North Central Texas region, with the exception of full disclosure and approval of selling another’s product. 

The Coppell Farmers Market is now located one block south at 793 S. Coppell Road at Burns Street with plenty of on-street parking. This is a transition site while the new Old Town development is under construction. Hours are from 8:00 a.m. to noon every Saturday

White Rock Local Market - Dallas

Just Farmers and Artisan Foods and Pie Contest
April 28th - 8am to 1pm

White Rock Local Market is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit farmers market where local farmers, ranchers, and artisans sell directly to our East Dallas neighborhood.Our vendors bring fresh, local and healthy foods, and quality arts and crafts.

WRLM is held twice a month – the second and fourth Saturday – at The Green Spot Market and Fuels. Second Saturdays are Everything Markets and feature farmers, food artisans and arts and crafts. Fourth Saturdays are Just Farmers - farmers, producers, and food artisans.

With our outreach programs -- a Lone Star food stamp program at the market, workshops, school field trips, and an after school entrepreneurial program -- White Rock Local Market hopes to make a lasting difference in our community.

White Rock Local Market - Dallas

Everything Market
April 14th - 8am to 1pm

White Rock Local Market is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit farmers market where local farmers, ranchers, and artisans sell directly to our East Dallas neighborhood.Our vendors bring fresh, local and healthy foods, and quality arts and crafts.

WRLM is held twice a month – the second and fourth Saturday – at The Green Spot Market and Fuels. Second Saturdays are Everything Markets and feature farmers, food artisans and arts and crafts. Fourth Saturdays are Just Farmers - farmers, producers, and food artisans.

With our outreach programs -- a Lone Star food stamp program at the market, workshops, school field trips, and an after school entrepreneurial program -- White Rock Local Market hopes to make a lasting difference in our community.

Learn 2 Live Green - Plano

Learn 2 Live Green (L2LG) is a fun, family-friendly, FREE event encouraging people to adopt a greener lifestyle. L2LG includes the latest in green and/or fair trade products, along with interactive hands-on activities, entertainment, presentations, a film festival, artwork, children’s activities and prize drawings. Learn about keyhole gardens which provide enough food for an entire family in just a 6’ diameter area. Discover how food additives and processing contributes to children’s allergies and asthma. Hear how  global observations about water impact the local water supply. Learn! Enjoy! Experience! In making greener choices, you’ll help the environment AND save a little green.                     

Register for one of the many workshops or classes at L2LG here https://livegreeninplano.obsres.com/Info.aspx?EventID=21

Web site http://www.learn2livegreen.com

UTA College Park Tour - ACC Monthly Meeting - Arlington

Special April ACC Meeting

On Wednesday, April 11 at 7 pm we'll learn about sustainable architecture during a free tour and talk at the gleaming new UTA College Park Center, 601 S. Pecan St.

For this month's general meeting we will tour the CPC, UTA's newest environmentally-friendly sports arena/events facility. We will be guided by the building's architects and managers, who will highlight its green features.

Representatives of the UT System and the architecture and engineering firms involved ­ Bill Amendola, Office of Facilities Planning and Construction, UT System; Ellen Mitchell, sustainable design coordinator, HKS; Jennifer Blount, LEED coordinator, Jacobs Engineering; and Keith Schobert, assistant director, UTA College Park Center ­ will lead a discussion of green building elements, both visible and stealth, and other environmentally aware features of the state-of-the-art venue and how the entire 20-acre College Park District is accelerating a growing synergy between the university and downtown Arlington.

Master Composting Training - 5/31, 6/1 & 6/2 - Dallas

Date & Time Location
May 31st 6:00 pm – 9:00pm 
June 1st 6:00 pm – 9:00pm 
June 2nd 8:00 am – 4:00pm 

Dallas Farmer’s Market - Multi Purpose Room - 1010 S. Pearl Expwy. - Dallas, TX 75201

Purpose
To grow a community of volunteers dedicated to the reduction of organics in the municipal solid waste stream, education of organic composting among citizens of Dallas and increasing community participation in waste diversion efforts via composting.

Requirements
Master Composter candidates will attend:
Introduction to Composting 1 hr
History of Solid Waste 2 hrs
Compost Recipe 101 2 hrs
Composting Techniques: Backyard and Commercial 2 hrs
Vermi-composting 2 hrs
The Indore Method – Hands on Training 2 hrs
Compost Quality 2 hrs
How to Use Compost 2 hrs
Read “The Rodale Book of Composting” 5 hrs
Total Education 20 hrs

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