Urban Sustainability

Nature Explore Families Club aims to connect children and families with nature and each other through fun, age-appropriate activities. This month's theme: color in nature. Free.

Family-friendly event celebrating the Fort Worth Prairie. Activities include making seedballs, historical marker tour, face painting, guided prairie walks, paper flower-making, demonstrations of soap and candle making, basket weavingm gourd art and live entertainment.

 Entertainment schedule:

10:00 a.m. Bearclaw Singers and Dancers

10:30 a.m. Cowboy Poet Lanny Joe Burnett

11:00 a.m. Prairie Divas & the Outlaw

12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Live music by 3 Fools on 3 Stools

Texas Worm Ranch’s Heather Rinaldi shares how to keep vegetable gardens producing with summer hearty plants, water-wise techniques and healthy soil. Plan a Fall Harvest while getting hands on experience in planting and take home sweet potato slips, basil transplants and pumpkin seeds. $40. Proceeds benefit programs offered by White Rock Local Market, including Love Your Farmer volunteer days, cooking demos, Sprouting Healthy Kids – a hands-on gardening and nutrition after school program, SNAP/Lone Star food stamp program and White Rock Local Garden.

The screening is part of the Chipotle Food Film Series presented by Edible Dallas & Fort Worth. The film is ollowed by a panel discussion featuring local experts.  A minimum $2 donation will be accepted at the door in support of local charities, and all attendees will receive a Buy One/Get One card good at all Chipotle restaurants.

Calloway's Nursery is filling its 17 DFW locations with 50 varieties of native Texas plants for Native Plant Day. See website for listing of plants and store locations. A Gardening with Texas Native Plants garden clinic will be held at the above locations at 10:15 a.m. 

DFW Wildlife Coaltion hosts this "Call of the Wild" event for those interested in helping native wildlife as a wildlife rehabilitator. This adults only class will focus on opossoms but much information applies to other mammals. RSVP required. $10. Info: Kate at kate.rugroden1@tx.rr.com.

Edible Dallas & Fort Worth presents the Chipotle Food Film Series. The featured movie on April 30 is "Grow." A minimum $2 donation for local charities accepted at door. All attendees receive a buy one/get one item free coupon from Chipotle. See movie trailer. A panel discussion will follow. Panelists: Chef Graham Dodds of Central 214, Charles Plummer with the Youth Village, Andrea Bithell with Oak Cliff Organics and Paul Quinn College from the North Texas Food Bank, with moderator Susie Marshall of GROW North Texas.

 Also see listings May 14 and May 28.

This interactive workshop is geared to local governments interested in learning about solar development. It will provide actionable information on creating a local-level solar program, including overview of solar technology and why it's a viable option for our region; streamlining permitting processes; and innovative financing options. Presented by the SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership. Info: solar@icma.org.

Gecko Hardware, an eco-friendly True Value store, is hosting its grand opening with demonstrations and workshops, including an appearance by organic gardening guru Howard Garrett. See Green Source DFW story.

Network and learn about green living and green businesses in DFW with environmentally conscious folk. $1.