Greater Dallas area residents utilizing a portion of their back yard for vegetable gardening. Grocery store vegetables are often shipped from all over the world and grown using chemicals and pesticides which are harmful to us and the environment. With a little effort we can feed our families healthier food and have a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle.
Meet other local people who are making their lives more sustainable--whether in leaps or tiny steps. We are interested in many areas of sustainable living: organic gardening, permaculture, starting a green community, homesteading, lobbying our political leaders to create a more sustainable environment, climate change, peak 0il, and preparedness. Most of us are urban or exurban dwellers who are trying to create a positive impact on our environment and develop varied degrees of self sufficiency. …
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This group was created to help spread the knowledge of aquaponics, which is the combination of aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil). By raising food this way, gardeners can produce the highest quality herbs and vegetables with the lowest inputs of labor, water, and fertilizer. The efficiency and productivity of the system and its ease of operation make it the perfect urban garden. The group will meet to discuss aquaponics, to go see existing aquaponic facilit …
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… Bookmark this page and check back often to see what's happening at the magical Hackberry Farm - we host many events throughout the seasons on everything from food preparation & preservation to organic gardening to "plant once & and harvest forever" methods to wild food identification, and so much more. We look forward to seeing you soon! ~~~ Check us out on Facebook!
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Aquaponics is a closed-loop nutrient recycling system. Simply put, it is a combination of traditional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil). Using this method can dramatically increase the levels of production in a smaller space footprint. Even better, the produce and fish are of the absolutely highest quality! Aquaponics is a method of growing edible plants and fish in a single system that is extremely well suited for the urban environment. Addition …
This group will serve as a general discussion forum for those interested in survivalist/off the grid related topics ranging from a wide variety of topics from planting a simple vegetable garden to building your survival bunker for 2012.This group is also now a part of Preppers of East Texas-POETs. I need a co-organizer. Please send me an e-mail if you would like to help with the direction of this group.
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Within in the Higher Ground Spiritual Garden Meetup Group, participants acquire knowledge concerning, and experience into wisdom their knowledge of the universal father, their fellow creatures, and themselves from a subjective point of view, toward a more objective point of view.
Permaculture draws together ideas, skills and a style of living that allows us to create a sustainable culture no matter what the future brings. Everyone can benefit from knowing Permaculture. We will have meetings and classes that build on the Permaculture principles and hope you will join us. In addition, we will bring at least one Permaculture Design Certification teacher to Dallas or DFW area each year.
We are creating Spaces of Love where families can thrive, children can be full of joy, and we can remember our true reason for being, for conjoint creation and joy for all from its contemplation! A Space of Love is a home, on a plot of land which is each family or individuals own corner of paradise, a space for each person to create in accordance with their own heart, their eternal garden. It is a space which nourishes, provides food specifically for it's creator, a comfortable home, pure air …
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If you are interested in living more sustainably in your own local area east of Dallas, please join us as we learn the way of green and simple. We will network with each other; we will have outside talks on sustainable living from Solar to Rainwater Harvesting, from Permaculture to Organic Gardening/Farming, and from green remodeling to energy-efficient new building; we will invite local officials to our meetings in order to make our towns more sustainable and resilient. If you reside (or want t …
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This is a meetup group to promote "The Spiritual Garden," a sacred space silent witnessing support and life study group. If you have a life, and want to deepen your experience of it and try to make more sense of it, this is the place for you. In an atmosphere of privacy and non-judgment, we each explore our own feelings and experiences on an ongoing basis, to move from where we are to where we want to be, using spiritual law as we understand it, and other principles, including boundaries. …
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For the last 4 years The NYC Business Networking Group (NYCBNG) has been a leader in hosting business networking events. We have earned the stellar reputation of the premier networking group and we're bring out signature events to Dallas. Each month we host free and paid business networking events to introduce you to the most dynamic business professionals. Membership to our group is free so join us. Group members are Dallas' most influential, successful business professionals and executives i …
Slow Food Dallas Meetup is a place that reconnects people with the food they eat. Our educational initiatives, social activities, fundraising events, and community volunteer projects inspire respect for where food comes from and awakens true pleasure in eating. We believe that the pleasures of the table should be combined with efforts to save and protect traditional foods that are disappearing. First and foremost we are all about food. We celebrate the farm to fork experience and want to make th …
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Describing New York City's first cohousing project, a New York Times article said cohousing speaks to people who want to own a home but not feel lost in an impersonal city. That's how we feel. And we want to live sustainably, with a smaller carbon footprint. To know our neighbors, grow some of our own food and use our united buying power to support local farmers and dairies. We want to model a more resilient way of life for the DFW metroplex. We want to live in a diverse community, with old an …
This group is focused on the growth and proliferation of Sustainable Business in the Tarrant County portion of the Metroplex. Though we will be open to anyone, we are primarily a business to business platform, in which we can introduce ourselves, and our concepts to each other so that we can help to cross pollinate the industry throughout the DFW Market. We also want to serve as an introduction point for anyone that wants to know more about the sustainable culture, how they may participate, grow …
DFW Greenweavers was established for the purpose of networking those professionals and companies who are either green-minded, eco-friendly or wishing to become more so. We welcome those entrepreneurs, inventors, contractors, local food growers and similar synergistic partners helping us "grow" a better green business environment in the DFW area.
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Welcome and Thank You for your interest in the Uptown Designers Studio group! My name is Jena Apgar. I am a Dallas based Interior Designer and Image Consultant. Crafting is a way of life for me and can be seen through out my home and wardrobe. This is a DIY group for all aspects of life: from fashion, home decor, wall art, to the mosaic wall tile behind the garden tub. What better way to meet and interact with new friends and old than across the project table! This group is not limited to adults …
The Dallas Backyard Poultry Meetup Group is for people who have small backyard flocks of chickens for pets, eggs, and meat. You just might be suprised at how many people living in your neighborhood have pet chickens! There is nothing quite like walking outside in the morning to gather fresh organic eggs for your breakfast! We welcome everyone that has a small backyard flock of chickens, and those that are interested in getting started raising a small backyard flock of chickens. We ge …
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… We can know it through gardening, playing with the kids, walking on the beach or making love. Even as children we may have had experiences of it. Meditation is a natural state and one that you have almost certainly tasted, although perhaps without knowing the name of the flavor.
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Learn techniques for saving energy both in your home and your travels. All aspects of green living is included. Homes, cars, house hold goods, etc. Bob McCranie and Warren Sippel are green enthusiasts in Carrollton Texas. Together they teach green techniques at festivals and fairs. In their residence in Carrollton, they have saved 41% on electric usage simply by improving their home in Carrollton, TX. They have added 1200 gallons of rain water retention to property and installed solar water …
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