Urban Sustainability

Learn prevention techniques for West Nile Virus from Tarrant County Master Gardeners. $5. To register, contact Billie Hammack at blhammack@ag.tamu.edu or 817-884-1296.

The Tarrant County Master Gardener Association is hosting a “Spring Vegetable Gardening” class for families with children 5 years old and up. Learn how to select, tend and harvest warm season vegetables, create a square-foot garden and build a raised vegetable bed. $10/person; $15/parent and 1 child; $20/parent and two children. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Register by contacting Billie Hammack at blhammack@ag.tamu.edu or 817-884-1296.

Taught by Texas Discovery Gardens educators. Learn about metamorphosis through story and crafts. Free.

Learn about volunteer opportunities to help underserved kids explore the outdoors in this Sierra Club program. These mostly weekend activities include visits to local nature centers and state parks. Preregistration required: Liz Wheelan, 214-368-2306.

Learn the basics of backyard and vermi-composting to reduce the amount of waste sent to the landfill. Free. Register, Central Market info desk or city of Dallas: 214-670-4475.

Dallas Sierra Club is hosting this screening of the film "Mother, Caring for Seven Billion" about human population growth. Gayle Loeffler, member of the National Sierra Club’s Global Population and Environment Committee, will also give a presentation of the United Nations Conference on Population, Health and Environment, held in Ethiopia. Free. KirkMiller@DallasSierraClub.org.

Learn the basics of backyard and vermi-composting to reduce the amount of waste sent to the landfill. Free. Register, Central Market info desk or city of Dallas: 214-670-4475. CentralMarket.com.

Green Source DFW and the Memnosyne Foundation hosts our second annual award ceremony for outstanding volunteers, nonprofits, business leaders and entrepreneurs in the North Texas environmental community. Details to be announced.

Elizabeth Samudio, a certified permaculture designer, will show how this sustainable system combines ecology, ethics and organic design. Learn how permaculture design concepts save time, resources and money and add natural beauty to the landscape, garden or farm. Lunch and roundtable open Q&A session follows. $45/nonmember, $40/member. Pre-registration required.