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Program
Eco Fest is located at Katherine Anne Porter School, in Wimberley, at 515 FM 2325, across the street from Linda Allen’s Fine Foods.
Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
10 a.m.
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.
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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 a.m.
Energy Conservation/Home Weatherizing, with a representative of Pedernales Electric Cooperative.
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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.
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Organic Gardening, with Malcolm Beck, long time author and international speaker on organic gardening, and founder of Garden-Ville.
1 p.m.
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 p.m.
Wildlife Management for Small Acreage Owners, with Bryan Davis, Bexar County (and formerly Hays County) AgriLife Extension Service.
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Flood Preparedness (speaker to be confirmed)
3 p.m.
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 a.m-2 p.m.: Several mini-seminars, and exhibits by Hays County Master Naturalists.
3 comments:
Hey, I'm looking forward to hearing AquaTexas and Wimberley Springs Partners speak at the Eco-Fest. I'm sure these stewards of the envirnment will have a lot of good stuff to say.
Let's see what you have to offer at the eco-fest? What part are you doing for the community?
Congratulations Hays CARD! This is exactly the kind of educational outreach our communities need. I hope this becomes an annual affair, and that you extend special invitations to our western county reps on the commissioners court, city councils, chambers and real estate leaders. Some of them could use a little enlightenment in the ways of sustainable growth. We are woefully behind and need some catching up to do if we are to preserve this wonderful western heritage of ours. Let's put "Conserve" back into Conservative, where is rightfully belongs.
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