Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: L. E. R. Schimelpfenig Library (5024 Custer Road, Plano, Texas, 75023)
Website: http://www.wfaa.com/projectgreen/calendar/
Phone: (972) 769-4200
Cost: FREE
Please contact the Schimelpfenig Library for more details.
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Texas Discovery Gardens (3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75210)
Website: http://www.texasdiscoverygardens.org/upcoming_events.shtml
Cost: $20.00 for garden members, $25.00 for non-members.
Registration is required. Please call (214) 428-7476 ext. 240, or visit https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=9640 to register for this event.
Join a growing trend and learn how to create a bountiful organic community or backyard vegetable garden. We cover hands-on seasonal topics in each class.
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Texas Discovery Gardens (3601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75210)
Website: http://www.texasdiscoverygardens.org/upcoming_events.shtml
Cost: free to attend. Plants are not free.
Our 2008 Fall Plant Sale proved so popular we’re making it an annual affair! Enjoy a selection of perennials and annuals at a reduced price as we clear out the greenhouse for the winter. Plants go quickly, so line up early for the best deals. Before the sale…enjoy our annual garden walk on native trees. The walk will end right in time for you to shop! There is no member’s discount in this sale due to already reduced prices.
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Location: Texas Discovery Gardens (3601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75210)
Website: http://www.texasdiscoverygardens.org/upcoming_events.shtml
Cost: FREE
Join staff horticulturist Randy Johnson on this annual tour of native trees. Learn proper planting and care techniques. You’ll finish the tour just in time to go to the Fall Plant Sale! Program appropriate for ages 8 and up.
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: GISD Special Events Center (Garland, Texas)
Website: http://www.garlandgoesgreen.org/Home/Garland+Goes+Green/gg201_landing.htm
Cost: FREE
Learn how to improve your personal health and the health of the environment all in one event: Healthy Living Expo 2009 – Healthy You, Healthy Earth: Rx for a Better World.
The City of Garland, Garland ISD, Baylor Medical Center at Garland and (more…)
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Mountain View College Performance Hall (4849 West Illinois Avenue, Dallas, Texas, 75211). Call (214) 860-8680 for directions.
Website: http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/forms/water_conservation_seminar.html
Registration: Please go to the above website to register.
Cost: FREE
Learn how to save water and money. The seminars will be held in the Performance Hall.
Landscape designer and author Bonnie Reese will be the speaker at both sessions. The first 50 attendees at each session will receive a (more…)
Time: Friday 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Market Square (Fredericksburg, Texas)
Website: http://theroundup.org/
Cost: $10.00 for Friday, $12.00 for Saturday, and $10.00 for Sunday. Or $20.00 for a three-day pass. Children under 12 are free. General admission tickets sold at the gate only.
Over the past 10 years, this community and family oriented Green Living Fair has grown to be the largest “green show” in the South. It occurs at the end of September, every year, in historic Fredericksburg, Texas. You can see the latest (more…)
Head down to Dallas Farmers Market (DFM) instead of to the grocery store any day of the week! Farmers come to DFM from within a 150-mile radius of Dallas, so this is your chance to buy local produce and meat. You can also find specialty and prepared foods at the market, as well as flowers, shrubbery, and trees.
Buying from local farmers is beneficial and green for a number of reasons:
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Texas Discovery Gardens (3601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75210)
Phone and Email: (214) 428-7476. tdg@texasdiscoverygardens.org
Website: http://www.texasdiscoverygardens.org/upcoming_events.shtml
Reservations: bgollman@phytopia.com
Cost: FREE
Come out for this annual day-long series of classes brought to you by (more…)