Dallas Blooms is the largest annual floral festival in the Southwest. Presented by Veritex Community Bank, Dallas Blooms will feature larger-than-life peacock topiaries along with more than 500,000 spring blooming bulbs to create the largest and most colorful floral display in the Southwest. An explosion of spring flowers comes from 100 varieties of spring bulbs, thousands of azaleas and hundreds of Japanese cherry trees.
Mar 26 2022
Dallas Arboretum: Dallas Blooms - Dallas (Feb. 19-April 10)
Feb 19 2022 - 9:00am to Apr 10 2022 - 5:00pm
Dallas Arboretum
8525 Garland Road
Dallas
, TX
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Slow Food DFW: Growing Grants - Deadline March 31
Mar 1 2022 - 7:00am to Mar 31 2022 - 5:00pm
Each year, Slow Food DFW awards 10 $500 Growing Grants to deserving schools, organizations and community gardens and farms. The awards are given to groups who show dedication and passion for growing food, building communities and understanding how to cultivate and provide good, clean, fair food for all.
The Slow Food DFW Growing Grants program was created to fill gaps in traditional funding sources for local food-related projects. Priority for funding is given to Black, Indigenous, LatinX, People of Color, women and/or veteran lead, use of local skills and resources and availability of locally grown food.
Application deadline: March 31. See website link below for application.
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Fort Worth Botanic Garden/BRIT: Butterflies in the Garden - Fort Worth
Mar 4 2022 - 10:00am to Apr 10 2022 - 4:00pm
Fort Worth Botanic Garden
3220 Botanic Garden Blvd
Fort Worth
, TX
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The Fort Worth Botanic Garden hosts the largest exhibit of live, exotic butterflies in north central Texas with the Butterflies in the Garden exhibit in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden’s Rainforest Conservatory.
Cost: Tickets for timed entrance are currently for sale online. Admission is $12 for ages 16-64; $10 for seniors (65+); $8 for ages 6-15; and free for children under five.
For those who want to visit both the Garden and the butterfly exhibit, the price is $18 for adults and seniors and $10 for children.
School groups of 20 or more may purchase tickets in advance for $8 per person. FWBG|BRIT members receive a discounted price of $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, and $6 for children.
Keep Fort Worth Beautiful: Cowtown Great American Cleanup - Fort Worth
Mar 26 2022 - 8:00am to 11:00am
Fort Worth
, TX
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Join Keep Fort Worth Beautiful (KFWB) and thousands of volunteers across the city for the 37th Annual Cowtown Great American Cleanup, our largest annual litter cleanup and beautification event. Every year, schools, churches, businesses and individuals pick up litter from parks, streets, creeks and other public areas. KFWB provides all volunteers with gloves and trash bags. T-shirts are provided to the first 5,000 registrants. We request that all participants adhere to COVID-19 safety guidelines - keep your volunteer groups small, wear masks and social distance!
See website link below for more info.
Native Prairies Association of Texas: Rocky Creek Prairie Field Trip - Crowley
Mar 26 2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Rocky Creek Park
5900 Rocky Creek Park Road
Crowley
, TX
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Explore a gorgeous Fort Worth Prairie remnant above Lake Benbrook’s Rocky Creek Park with Corps of Engineers staff and FW-NPAT volunteers. A few slots have opened up so there are still some limited opportunities to register. Register here for the hike!
Explore a little-known remnant of Fort Worth Prairie perched on a limestone ridge above Rocky Creek Park on Benbrook Lake. This lovely grassland adjoins parkland newly purchased by the City of Fort Worth.
Your guides will be US Army Corps of Engineers natural resource staff and volunteers from the Fort Worth Chapter of the Native Prairies Association of Texas. Bring your cameras and phones as observations for iNaturalist are encouraged.
Participants should come prepared for a moderately strenuous hike over uneven terrain. Weather-appropriate clothing, sunscreen and water are all recommended.
Trinity Coalition: Ned and Genie Fritz Texas Buckeye Trail Volunteer Work Day - Dallas
Mar 26 2022 - 10:00am to 12:30pm
7000 Bexar Street
Under pavilion
Dallas
, TX
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Please join us in re-establishing this beautiful Great Trinity Forest trail to the lovely grove of Texas Buckeyes! Third Saturday of the month Feb 2022 thru Aug 2022.
This event is co-sponsored by: Trinity Coalition, North Texas Master Naturalists (NTMN), Bonton Neighborhood Association, Bonton Farms and Boy Scouts of America Troop #914.
Sign-up not required, but will help us notify you of trail/weather conditions dictate: https://volunteersignup.org/KRDLE
Optional lunch at the Marker at Bonton Farms after.
Following direction from Dallas Parks & Recreation (DPR) and the Trinity Coalition Beautification Agreement:
Reestablish and maintain three segments of the Texas Buckeye trail soft surface loop. The trail is to be three feet wide to eliminate overgrowth on the trail.
Read more here: https://public.ntmn.org/ned-and-genie-fritz-trail
Questions: text 214-676-5580
PETA: Vegan McDonald's Burger Giveaway - Fort Worth
Mar 26 2022 - 2:30pm
Fort Worth Stockyards
131 E. Exchange Ave.
Fort Worth
, TX
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PETA’s days of protesting outside McDonald’s locations may soon be over if the chain rolls out its vegan McPlant Burger nationwide, and to encourage that move—and introduce would-be meat-buyers to the delicious, animal-friendly new option—the group will be passing out the meat-free burgers ahead of the rodeo and in between “cattle drives” this weekend at the Fort Worth Stockyards.
Look for a Green Source DFW article about the rollout of the new McPlant burger coming soon.
