Drip irrigation is 90% efficient, promotes healthier plants, and is usually inexpensive and easy to install. Come and learn about types of drip irrigation and the basics of how to install it at this free class. Registration of 8 people is required in order to hold the class. 

Cost: FREE 

Registration required, to register please visit https://livegreeninplano.obsres.com/Info.aspx?EventID=3

Class meets at the Environmental Education Center, 4116 W, Plano Parkway, Plano 75093 

MON, July 23     7:00pm-8:00pm
MON, August 20     7:00pm-8:00pm

Are you watering wisely or irrigating irrationally? When you hear "soak cycle", do you think of your washing machine? Are you trying to figure out how to keep that sprinkler head from spraying your fence? Then this is the class for you! Learn how and when to water your plants, how to make simple sprinkler repairs, and where to go for help. 

Cost: FREE 

Registration required, to register please visit 

https://livegreeninplano.obsres.com/Info.aspx?EventID=3

Location: Environmental Education Center, 4116 W. Plano Parkway, Plano, TX 75093 

MON, July 2     7:00-8:00pm
MON, August 6     7:00-8:00pm 

 

We’ve heard about it – drip irrigation, but don’t always understand what it is and how to install it. Learn the benefits of drip irrigation. This class is designed for the do-it-yourselfer or for those wanting enough knowledge to select a drip irrigation method for a professional to install.

Thursday, July 12
6 to 8 p.m.
Senter East Building
228 Chamberlain St.

Speaker: Dotty Woodson, Texas AgriLife Extension Service

To register online click here

For more information, call the Office of Environmental Stewardship at (972) 742-2296.

Perhaps the final step in completing a backyard homestead is the addition of livestock, such as goats. This class will offer discussion about a variety of livestock—selection, care, feeding, benefits, and challenges—that would be included in an urban farm setting and discuss City of Irving codes related to keeping livestock – limitations and expectations.

*Part of Irving’s Urban Farming Lecture Series

Saturday, July 7
9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Irving Animal Care Campus
4140 Valley View Lane

Speakers:  
Fredi Sanderson, Animal Services Manager, City of Irving

To register online click here

For more information, call the Office of Environmental Stewardship at (972) 742-2296.

 
DFW Greenweavers is a power group of local, sustainable businesses that have been operating in the Metroplex as experts in their given Green fields.

We will be following our synergizing format that we did last time. When people arrive you will be broken into three groups:

1) Home and Buildings 

2) Food and Gardening

3) Health and Lifestyle 

The first part of the meeting will be spent socializing with the people in your industry. There has been a great response from people spending time with others that are in their given fields.

Prof. Fouad Jaber will speak on the *three most important aspects of water for an urban dweller*:

- Rainwater harvesting
- Treating rainwater to make it potable, and
- New Texas laws for recycling gray water

Dr. Jaber is Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Integrated Water Resources Management at the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.  His area of study is focused on best management practices to mitigate the harmful effects of urbanization on stormwater volume and water quality.  He tests the effectiveness of green infrastructure (GI) and low impact development (LID) practices such as porous pavement, bio-retention areas, green roofs, rainwater harvesting and wet detention ponds.  Dr. Jaber also conducts research in water reuse in urban settings including gray water and A/C condensate reuse.


For landowners interested in learning methods to preserve or rehabilitate habitat to increase wildlife

Friday, July 27, 2012
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Urban Solutions Center
17360 Coit Road
Dallas, TX 75252
 
To register for this event, please visit http://ntmn.org/LandOwnerWkshp/?page_id=65
 
Topics and Speakers
 
Dr. Dale Rollins, quail expert and founder of Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch in Abilene (funded in part by Boone Pickens and Park Cities Quail Club) and wildlife specialist at the AgriLife Extension & Research facility in San Angelo, will share his expertise on managing habitat for wildlife.

This event is free and open to the public. 

Please register for this and any “green” classes in Irving by visiting www.cityofirving.org/begreen, then click on “Educational Opportunities”.  For more information, call 972-742-2296

Fact: A bee travels an average of 1,600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to six miles per trip. To produce two pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to four times around the earth. This class will give students more insight into the life and important work of the honey bee as well as information about how to become a beekeeper including costs, equipment, setup, location, time commitment and resources. 

*Part of Irving’s Urban Farming Lecture Series

This event is free and open to the public. 

Please register for these and any “green” classes in Irving by visiting www.cityofirving.org/begreen, then click on “Educational Opportunities”.  For more information, call 972-742-2296

Oftentimes we get excited about solar, wind and geothermal installations as a possible solution to our energy consumption, but those types of energy solutions can be expensive. Start with baby steps. This class will teach students simple auditing techniques for detecting drafty areas in the home as well as inexpensive follow-up solutions to fixing those leaks.

Tuesday, June 5
6 to 7:30 p.m.
West Irving Library
4444 W. Rochelle Road

This event is free and open to the public. 

Please register for these and any “green” classes in Irving by visiting www.cityofirving.org/begreen, then click on “Educational Opportunities”.  For more information, call 972-742-2296

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