Fresh from the Garden
26 Apr

Home Energy Savings

Keep Coppell Beautiful will offer a Home Energy Savings class on Saturday, May 18, from 10:30am-12:00pm at Fire Station 3 Training room, 133 Parkway Blvd.  The class will be taught by Larry Singleton, Director of Sustainability and Green Cleaning Specialist for Pollock Paper Distributors.  He trained with three of the original staff of the US Green Building Council, who helped produce the criteria for the LEED High Performance cleaning program.  Mr. Singleton has 20 years knowledge and expertise in the cleaning and maintenance of buildings that will help guide you and give you the knowledge you will need to get you started.  He practices green cleaning in his home.

Come learn about the environmental and health benefits of green cleaning in your home.

Free to the public and registration is not required.

                 Anna Clark

 

 
24 Apr

Million Tomato Compost Campaign

Coppell Community Garden was selected to be a part of the Million Tomato Compost Campaign.  Growing tomotoes to donate to the Metrocrest Social Services food pantry and using compost to build the tomato growing soil are both part of the fabric of the community gardens. What will be different this year is the BIG delivery of Texas Pure compost to Ground Delivery Garden and tracking the number of pounds of tomatoes grown in the compost and donated to families in need.   

 

 

 

 
01 Oct

Brunch Recipes Sept. 2012

The community gardens have brunches throughout the year where the gardeners gather after the harvest and bring something from their own kitchen to share.  Here is a collection of recipes from Ground Delivery Garden brunch in September 2012. 

 
20 Aug

Big Fuzzy Squash

You would have to see it to believe it!  This fuzzy squash was grown by Trudy White in her pepper bed at Ground Delivery Garden.  She didn't even know it was there hidden among her pepper plants when she found it on August 18, 2012.  It measured...

 
29 Apr

Keep Texas Beautiful Raffle

Enter to win an iPad mini, JetBlue tickets, a weekend in historic Grapevine, and a Troy-bilt Clean and Green package.  Support Keep Coppell Beautiful and Keep Texas Beautiful!  As an affiliate, Keep Coppell Beautiful is an integral member of the Keep Texas Beautiful family. With each community cleanup and beautification event you organize, you make Texas a better place to live, work and play.

We are asking for your support by participating in the 2013 Keep Texas Beautiful Raffle. 

You could win Jet Blue tickets, a weekend in historic Grapevine, TX, Troy-bilt Clean and Green Package or an iPad Mini!

 
**$10 per ticket/3 tickets for $25**