Event Information



Event Type: Featured Event

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Event Hours:
1 p.m.

Dallas Heritage Village
Pilot Grove Church

Tickets:
Adults $7.00
Seniors $5.00
Lunch & Water $8.00

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Event Description


A Stake in the Prairie: Dallas' Link to the Past

Randy Johnson, Director of Horticulture at Texas Discovery Gardens, discusses how Dallas County was once dominated by the blackland prairie, a vast 12 million acre ecosystem now reduced to less than 5,000 original acres. Learn interesting facts about the soil, climate, flora and fauna of the prairie as well as the pioneer settlers who changed it forever.

ABOUT RANDY JOHNSON
Randy Johnson has been Texas Discovery Garden's Director of Horticulture since 2007. Randy's primary responsibility is the maintenance of the 7.5 acre botanical garden located at Fair Park. The garden includes several water features and a greenhouse where native and adapted plants are grown to be used in the botanical gardens, sold at two annual plant sales and also sent to Dallas City Parks, schools and other non-profit gardens. Randy has a degree in Wildlife Management from Texas A&M University as well as many years of experience in estate gardening and studying native plants, insects and animals inhabiting the blackland prairie ecosystem in North Central Texas.

ADMISSION
Museum admission is $7 adults, $5 seniors. Dallas Heritage Village members are free. Boxed lunch and bottled water for an additional $8. (Lunch must be pre-ordered by Friday, February 26.) To RSVP, order lunch or for additional information, please call 214-421-8458 or email mleopando@dallasheritagevillage.org.

PARKING
There is ample free parking available at Dallas Heritage Village.

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