Annual eco-festival featuring green vendors, children's activities, food and entertainment. Free.

Voted Best Outdoor Cultural Event by Fort Worth Weekly. 

[ibimage==6767==original_size==none==self==ibimage_left]Held in the picturesque Tandy Hills Natural Area, this popular down-home festival includes wildflower tours, nature hikes, green vendors, storytellers, plein air painters, live music and food.

Brave Combo performs at 6:30 pm.

Free.

Brought to you by the Trinity River Audubon Center: Learn about these amazing and mysterious birds of the night. Learn to call owls. Dissect an owl pellet. Learn ways to attract owls to your yard and make your community more owl-friendly. Learn about the owls that call Dallas home and study owl anatomy, hunting techniques and their amazing powers of sight and hearing.

Learn how to identify frogs and other species, gather ecological data, participate in Citizen Science. Be prepared for a night hike. Register: Lisa Cole, 972-219-3930 or LisaCole@UNT.edu.

Sign up to participate in the annual citywide cleanup from 8-11 am. From 11 am to 2pm, celebrate the earth at environmental education event, featuring green vendors, music, activities in downtown Fort Worth.

Volunteers are invited to help restore this native prairie. Come help make seed balls, remove invasive plant species, plant native grasses and more. Activity will be cancelled if raining. Info: DanaWilson59@yahoo.com. 

UPDATE: CANCELLED

Learn how to care for orphaned, ill or injured squirrels. Class fee of $25 includes instruction, manual and hands-on experience. To register, contact Belen at 817-676-6079 or email sra.ardilla@yahoo.com.

UNTHSC is converting an unused piece of land into the campus' first community garden. You can help establish the garden on Feb. 15 by building the plots, regardless of whether you plan to get a plot of your own.

Build Day will be a group work-and-fun event. With guidance from experts, we'll build frames, fill them with soil, mulch pathways and share gardening wisdom. Weather permitting, if you've registered for a plot in the garden, you also could start your cold-season crop.

We especially need people with carpentry skills, but all hands will be appreciated.

At the site, a light breakfast will be provided as well as a Garden Ergonomics info session by Mike Richardson, PT, DPT, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy. You'll also receive a goodie bag with small gifts.

An information/orientation session will be at 12 noon Tuesday, Feb. 11 in Everett 524. All who are interested in the garden - Build Day volunteers, plot registrants and "undecideds" - are urged to attend. You may bring your lunch.

The only thing Molly likes more that chocolate cake is to see a gigantic pile of privet, so let's give her her wish. You may come and go, work or goof off; you decide. Lunch and cake at Mijo's at 12:30 pm. 

What to Bring - If you have loppers, bring them. What to Wear - Long sleeves and pants, gloves, hat and a smile.

Kim Mote, assistant director of code compliance for the city of Fort Worth and a past president of the Texas Product Stewardship Council, will give an overview of product recycling and take-back efforts in the state and a peek at the environmental quality chapter of the city's soon-to-be-unveiled 2014 Comprehensive Plan.