Volunteers are needed for the Junius Heights Tree Planting Day, Oct 15.

Contact Matt Grubisich with the Texas Tree Foundation with any questions or to sign up.

Matt@texastreesfoundation.org or 214-273-6686.

Help make Junius Heights GREENER!

We are getting close to our trees losing all of their leaves and making it more difficult to identify these green machines. Join us for a short hike as we learn about the local trees around the Refuge and receive help identifying them. FREE (with admission)/MEMBERS FREE.

Current Admission fees:

$5 Adults (13-64)

$2 Children (3-12;under 3 FREE)

$3 Seniors (65+)

$1 Discount per person (with Military ID)

Movie night! We will furnish popcorn and drinks. If you want, bring you own favorite snacks.

Imagine that a storm blows across your garden and that now, without your knowledge or
consent, genetically modified seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished for
many years. A few days later, a multi-national corporation demands that you surrender your
vegetables -- and files a criminal complaint against you, resulting in a large fine for the illegal
use of genetically modified seeds. And the court rules in favor of the corporation!

David Versus Monsanto is a movie that tells how Monsanto terrorized innocent family
farmers, and how one farmer stood up to Monsanto. It raises the question: What responsibility
do biotech companies have to farmers whose fields they contaminate with genetically modified
organisms (GMOs)?

Everyone is welcome. You don't have to be a Sierra Club member.

Fall is the second great planting season, so come peruse our perennials
and native Texas plants. Browse our selection of decorative grasses,
shrubs and bulbs as well. Planting in the fall is a great opportunity to
give your plants a jump start on the Texas summers.

Choose from a wide assortment of trees, shrubs, grasses, ground covers,
perennials, vines, and spring-flowering bulbs. The sale features many
specialty plants grown at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. In addition,
rose, African violet, begonia, iris, daylily, cactus & succulent,
and daffodil societies will be selling their plants. Other vendors will
be selling garden-related merchandise as well.

Garden staff will be on
site to answer your plant questions. BYOW (Bring Your Own Wagon) for
loading plants! In “The Grove,” the wooded area west of the Trial
Garden and the Japanese Garden parking lot.

The Greater
Fort Worth Herb Society was founded in 1985 with the purpose of "sharing
knowledge of herbal folklore, planting, growing, propagating,
cultivating, harvesting and using herbs." A further goal is the
fostering of education and knowledge regarding herbs and other botanical
subjects.

Contact:

info@gfwhs.org

Meetings are held on the third Saturday. The social time starts at
9:30 a.m. and the meeting begins at 10 a.m. See website for meeting topic.

Collin County Hobby Beekeepers’ Association (CCHBA) meets on the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Heard Craig Center in McKinney, Texas. Click here for directions.

Collin County Hobby Beekeepers Association (CCHBA) is comprised
of men, women and youth interested in the art of beekeeping.

Our membership ranges across many professions. We
have members with several hundred to one to NO bee hives. We foster an
environment in which you can increase your knowledge and teach others.

The meeting starts at 7:30 PM, but generally most people come at 7:00 to
socialize and talk about ponds. Each month's meeting will feature a
different guest speaker and topic. Please see website for the latest topics.

Come join the Gleaning Network of Texas for sweet potato gleaning!
We will gather the sweet potatoes left in the field, bag them up, and
distribute them to a wide range of food assistance programs.
Look for more information as we get closer to this event!

The Gleaning Network of Texas is a nonprofit, grassroots organization
whose goal is to use our state’s existing surplus fresh produce
resources to help alleviate hunger and improve nutrition for
food-insecure Texans.

The Network brings together growers, volunteers, and service
agencies to provide food for the hungry from fruits and vegetables left
in the field after the harvest and other unutilized supplies.

Several distinguished speakers have agreed to present information on the supplies and delivery of water in our region and will answer questions from the audience. They include Lewis McMahan, a Director of the Texas Water Development Board, Tod Maurina of the North Texas Groundwater Conservation District, Denis Qualls of Dallas Water Utilities, and Tyson Broad of the Sierra Club. A talk on the basics of Texas water law will be given by Simone Kiel of Freese and Nichols, a consulting firm to the State of Texas.

10:30AM • Cool Season Herb Tour by Kay Nelson, NHG Garden Coach, Herb & Organic Expert

11AM • Get Your Herb Garden Started by Kay Nelson

1PM • Landscape with Herbs: Unusual Ways to Use Herbs in Your Garden by Carrie Dubberley, Dubberley Landscape