Posts Tagged ‘Gardening’
By Bruce Felps Quick now, besides fried, boiled, and in gumbo name two recipes heavy on the okra. That challenge faces participants and tasters in this weekend’s okra-dish cook-off, part of Okra Fest at the Promise of Peace Community Garden. The festival takes place from noon-4 p.m., June 18, at the garden. Entry into the [...]
By Bruce Felps School’s out now, and families and family members probably need a little something to do together and apart. People with non-gangrenous green thumbs can compare notes on bountiful gardening from 9-10 a.m., tomorrow, at Promise of Peace Community Garden. Speaking of gardening, Dallas Water Utilities conducts its annual Water-Wise Landscape Tour from [...]
By Bruce Felps Promise of Peace Community Garden — which works as a nonprofit organization to help teens from the Woodrow community avoid gang life and pregnancies — teams up with Downing Hill Garden Studio tomorrow for a little informative yet informal discussion on … wait for it … gardening. The blooming and blossoming community conversations [...]
By Bruce Felps Organizers with the Comerica White Rock Lake Centennial Celebration offer up more than a few family activities during this coming Family Fun Weekend. The Water-Wise tour runs 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., June 4, starting from the White Rock Pump Station, but you knew that, right? A historic tour of the lake departs at [...]
By Bruce Felps Dallas Water Utilities this weekend presents the 17th annual Water-Wise Landscape Tour, which highlights 22 landscapes heavy on native Texas plants that go light on water use. The self-guided tour takes place from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., June 4. The water department will set up three base points — at which 30-minute “MicroTalks” on [...]
By Bruce Felps Representatives of the Texas A&M Agriculture Extension office come to the community this week to help local gardeners set up and maintain sustainable gardens. The Aggies will be on hand at 4:30 p.m., June 2, at the Promise of Peace Community Garden.
By Bruce Felps Promise of Peace Community Garden, a nonprofit group working to prevent gang involvement and teen pregnancy among East Dallas youth — finds itself on the receiving end of a benefit next week and on the hosting end a community meeting for gardeners. The benefit takes place from 11 a.m.-8 p.m., June 1, [...]
By Bruce Felps An overcast spring weekend on our hands and what is there to do? Plenty, I tell ya, plenty. Stonewall’s rescheduled A Peep at the Coops is back on tap for Sunday so East Dallas residents can get their funky chicken on. OK, yeah, sorry. Kids safety takes front and center Saturday during [...]
Community Contribution Stonewall Jackson Elementary School now has some great improvements thanks to the many hands from Fellowship Church Dallas on deck at Sunday’s workday. Stonewall parent Wendy Boots worked to coordinate 50 volunteers — adults and kids — from the church who came to the school as part of their outreach to Dallas neighbors. [...]
By Bruce Felps The White Rock East Garden Tour and Artisans through Casa Linda, Forest Hills, and Little Forest Hills courses through neighborhoods’ greenery this weekend. It takes place from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., May 22, at select gardens in the neighborhoods. Tickets cost $10, and kids 11 and younger tour free.
