|
WIMBERLEY GUIDES
|
| What's Happening |
Upcoming Events
The calendar for Wimberley area events |
|
| Featured Property |
Find it Here
Property & homes in Wimberley. Photos and more. |
|
| Shop Locally |
Area Market Days
Market Days year round...the guides. |
|
| Having an Event? |
Let Folks Know
Send in your Wimberley-area event. |
|
| Guides for Wimberley |
Find It Here
Area listings with information & links |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wimberley Eco Fest 2009 Is a Free Day of Entertainment and Ideas for Gardening, Wildlife Management, Rainwater Harvesting, Energy Conservation and More
|
|
|
Eco Fest will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at Katherine Anne Porter School, right in Wimberley, at 515 FM 2325.
Doors open at 9:30 AM Seminars begin at 10 AM and continue through the day, with the last seminar starting at 3 PM Two seminars start on each hour, except at 3 PM.
All events and parking are free. Food and snacks will be for sale by Katherine Anne Porter School.
|
|
|
ECO FEST SCHEDULE
10 AM
- Land Stewardship, with Jamie Kinscherff, land manager for Canyon Gorge, and Karen Archer of Argus EcoServices. How to care for your property and keep it healthy.
- Cedar: Wanted Dead & Alive, with Elizabeth McGreevy, landscape architect and permaculture designer. When to take out cedar, and when you need to keep it.
11 AM
- Energy Conservation/Home Weatherizing, with a representative of Pedernales Electric Cooperative.
- Rainwater Harvesting for Home Use, with Richard Heinichen, co-author of Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged, a long-time rainwater advocate, owner of Tank Town and bottler of Richard's Rainwater.
Noon
- Oak Wilt, with Eric Beckers, Texas Forest Service. Eric has 28 years dealing with oak wilt, and tells you ways to prevent it and get financial aid to fight it.
- Organic Gardening, with Malcolm Beck, long time author and international speaker on organic gardening, and founder of Garden-Ville.
1 PM
- Home Wildfire Prevention and Protection, with Jan Fulkerson of the Texas Forest Service. How to save your home.
- Understanding Your Aquifer, with Doug Wierman, General Manager, and Al Broun, District Geologist, of Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.
2 PM
- Wildlife Management for Small Acreage Owners, with Bryan Davis, Bexar County (and formerly Hays County) AgriLife Extension Service.
- Flood Preparedness, Heidi M. Carlin, CFM, Floodplain Management Coordinator, L.C.R.A.
3 PM
Special extended presentation
Green Building, with well-known Austin green architect Peter L. Pfeiffer, of Austin's Barley & Pfeiffer. You may have seen Peter featured recently giving a tour of his family's own beautiful but very energy-efficient home on the Discovery Channel's World's Greenest Homes. He's a very popular speaker and his talks are lively interactions with lots of sensible, cool and surprising ideas for building, remodeling or refitting.
Also: From 10 AM to 2 PM: Several mini-seminars, and exhibits by Hays County Master Naturalists.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Email this
Email this
Discuss
this