Calendar
Join Urban Harvest for a series of fun and informative garden classes. Upcoming classes in the “Be Waterwise With Low Volume Irrigation Series” include:
Sat. June 9:Â Low Volume Irrigation (HMNS*)
Sat. June 16:Â Starting a Community or School Garden Workshop
Sat. July 21:Â Fall Vegetable Gardening (HMNS*)
Sat. Aug 11:Â Waste Not, Want Not – Bokashi and Vermicomposting
Times vary form workshop to workshop. Find more information and register here
WHO
- Educators: 6 – 8th, HS EE, Biology & Ag Science
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Volunteers:Â TX Master Naturalists or Gardeners, Private Biologist, Retired teachers, College Students
COST
$225 per person
Includes: Food, lodging for two nights, and materials
For more events by the Texas Wildlife Association (TWA), visit their Events page!
In this three-day workshop, Carol Burton, Kelly Karavias, Irene Nava, and Urban Harvest Garden Educators will provide classroom educators, parents and garden coordinators with hands-on experience that will help you use your Outdoor Classroom as an exciting educational tool! Explore lessons in gardening and basic cooking techniques that support TEKS objectives in earth science, social studies, health, nutrition, physical education and other core subjects. Use lessons in the garden to make learning memorable, and tasty too! The workshop cost includes transportation for a 4-hour field trip to other school gardens on the third day and lunch on Tues. and Weds.
Tuesday and Wednesday: 8am-3pm
Thursday: 8am-noon
$100 (A $375 value generously underwritten by Sysco)
Limited to 25 participants maximum. CPE credits: 15
Join us for the next CWI workshop to discuss Water Quality & Public Health on Wednesday, June 20, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at the Houston-Galveston Area Council Conference Rooms B and C (second floor).
Please join the Native Prairie Association of Texas for our Pollinator Workshop to enjoy the wildflowers and wildlife at Deer Park Prairie.  Come watch the sun set and see a land that looks much as it did in 1836, when the soldiers marched to San Jacinto.
Join Urban Harvest for a series of fun and informative garden classes. Upcoming classes in the “Be Waterwise With Low Volume Irrigation Series” include:
Sat. June 9:Â Low Volume Irrigation (HMNS*)
Sat. June 16:Â Starting a Community or School Garden Workshop
Sat. July 21:Â Fall Vegetable Gardening (HMNS*)
Sat. Aug 11:Â Waste Not, Want Not – Bokashi and Vermicomposting
Times vary form workshop to workshop. Find more information and register here
A workshop designed to teach novice learners about common invasive species of the coastal prairie and their management. This workshop will provide hands on identification and safe and effective removal techniques.
Wally Ward will present a program on native plant propagation. Cultivating plants successfully from seed is something like law practice:  many times cases turn on the facts. An experimental frame of mind and information from experts can bring success, especially with native plants. Occasional crop failures are also a learning tool,  he shall be blunt about what can go wrong, too. Many desirable natives are difficult to obtain as mature plants, so some expertise and success with seeds can festoon a garden with nectar and host plants for butterflies, bees, moths and beetles plus hummingbirds. He shall review topics relating to soils, seed storage, seed sprouting and care of seedlings.
This free, monthly workshop addresses the basics on how to install and operate a solar system. It covers topics such as solar array types, costs of equipment and labor, permitting, energy savings, and reliability. The instructor, Bill Swann, is an expert in solar energy and has built many of his own solar systems. This workshop is ideal for all people; Bill can answer the simplest and most technical of questions. If you want to learn more about solar, this is the workshop for you. For more information, contact Bill Swann at william.swann2@gmail.com.
