Category: Eco Events
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Florida Loquat Festival: Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit
The Florida Loquat Festival: Celebrating Florida’s Urban Fruit Inaugural Event April 5, 11:00 – 2:00 Market Off Main, New Port Richey Hosted by Market Off Main, Ecology Florida, and Friendship Farms & Fare The Inaugural Florida Loquat Festival is a learning and sharing event dedicated to expanding knowledge and appreciation of the Loquat Tree and…
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Join us for City of New Port Richey’s Third Annual Earth Day Extravaganza
Be sure to mark your calendars for Saturday, April 20. The City of New Port Richey’s Environmental Committee is hosting its third annual Earth Day event in the breezeway between City Hall and the Public Library. We will be there from 10 am to 2pm with information about living sustainably in our community. We will…
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USF Mini-Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New Religions
The Department of Religious Studies together with a number of co-sponsors is hosting a one-day min-conference on new Religious Movements on March 1, 2012. The conference features keynote addresses by three of the world’s most notable scholars of New religions, James R. Lewis, J. Gordon Melton and Bron Taylor. In addition to Melton, Taylor and…
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USF Food Day Soiree
October 30th from 6pm to 9pm in Marshall Center (MSC 2709) the Women’s Federation for World Peace USF and F.A.R.M. will be hosting a Food Day Soiree for all of the food interest/gardening groups to come together make our local food system more just and sustainable! Free dinner from Evos and the Loving Hut will…
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USF 2011 Fall Plant Festival October 8 and 9
University of South Florida presents the 2011 Fall Plant Festival October 8 & 9. Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 10am-3pm at the Botanical Gardens with over 50 Vendors! Still the Tampa Bay area’s largest fall plant sale, shoppers will find a wide variety of plants from edibles to ornamentals like crotons, aroids, gingers, orchids, begonias, bamboo, bonsai,…
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Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference 2011
The University of Florida’s (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) and Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Focus Team are pleased to announce that the third annual Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference will be held in Kissimmee, Florida July 15 – 17, 2011. Registration for the third annual…
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Growing Greener! A Sustainable Gardening Gathering
Growing Greener! Gulfport Organic Landscaping Days, a FREE family event, will be held Saturday, June 18th at the Gulfport Casino. Join us for a fun day of learning and activities. Lots of give-aways, live music and tasty fresh food. Growing Greener! is aiming for zero waste! Please bring your own eating utensils. Where: Gulfport Casino,…
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Telephone Town Call: Join the Planning Commission and Hillsborough County Residents
Editor’s Note: If you live in Hillsborough County and are interested in its future, mark May 17 on your calendar. This is an innovative program, and one EF fully supports. This planning event is a way for your voice to be heard. You can make a difference. It really is not too late. Via Hillsborough…
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First USF Farmers Market
Do you love fresh produce? Then come out to the 1st ever USF Farmers Market on Tuesday Apr 19th from 11-3. It will be on the lawn by the topiary bull. The produce line-up has not all been finalized with the farmers but will include some of the following listed below. The first one will…
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Learning Gate’s 2nd Annual EcoFest
Learning Gate will be having its annual EcoFest event on April 2nd. EcoFest is a family friendly community event organized by Learning Gate Community School to celebrate the many businesses, organizations, and individuals in the Tampa Bay area dedicated to the principles of sustainability –Ecology, Equity and Economy. EcoFest 2011 will be held on April…