Urban Farms Blog

By Morgan Curran | January 9, 2025

Big Tex Urban Farms: How to Raise Mushrooms into Upstanding Citizens

I met with Angel, an Urban Farmer and the mastermind behind the mushroom production at Big Tex Urban Farms, in a small, green barn in Fair...

By Drew Demler | December 6, 2023

House Plants for the Holidays

The days are getting shorter and colder, which means the holiday season is approaching. This time of year, people begin spending more time...

By Drew Demler | November 14, 2023

Hydroponics at Home with Big Tex Urban Farms

If you visit the Errol McKoy Greenhouse on the Midway during the State Fair of Texas, you may notice something interesting tucked away...

Beat the Heat in Your Backyard and Plant These for a Fun Fall Harvest

A green bean slowly growing at the Big Tex Urban Farms. This has been a summer for the ages. I personally can’t remember a hotter and...

By Phillip Morales | April 12, 2022

The Fair’s “King” of the Farm: Drew Demler, director of horticulture

It takes a team of skilled growers, urban farmers, and landscape professionals to maintain the grounds during the Fair and keep up...

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By Drew Demler | January 11, 2022

Warm Up Your Green Thumb With These Winter Gardening Tips

I hope everyone is having a great and healthy start to the New Year! Even with January's short days and colder weather, there are plenty...

$Big Tex Urban Farm Update – While our #StateFairofTX teams are working from home, we’ve figured out a schedule for our greenhouse team to continue donating to our local partners. Keeping in mind healthy habits and better ways to send out the vegetables, we’ve donated 7,359 pounds and 91,361 servings of produce so far this year. For more info. about the Big Tex Urban Farms, check out our website. #BigTex #BTUF$

By Karissa Condoianis | January 19, 2021

Big Tex Urban Farms Donates More Than 295,000 Servings of Fresh Produce to Fair Park Community in 2020

The State Fair of Texas is proud to announce that in 2020, Big Tex Urban Farms harvested and donated more than 26,000 pounds of food, which...

By Phillip Morales | September 14, 2020

Tour the Big Tex Urban Farms

Big Tex Urban Farms is a mobile agriculture system in the heart of Fair Park that provides fresh produce to the surrounding South Dallas...

$Big Tex Urban Farms: The Huge Power of Microgreens | State Fair of Texas http://bit.ly/2Dtsyhz$

By Phillip Morales | April 2, 2020

Growing Microgreens at Home

Microgreens are the tiny superheroes of the edible plant world and they are extremely easy to grow right in your own home. In this...

By Phillip Morales | January 16, 2020

In 2019, Big Tex Urban Farms Grew and Grew

At the start of a new decade, Big Tex Urban Farms continues to plant new seeds of growth that give fruit to new avenues of food donation...

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