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|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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|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...
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|One Million Servings Goal within Reach for the Big Tex Urban Farms
Big Tex Urban Farms has been growing fresh fruits and vegetables since 2016. In 2018, the Farms established a goal of providing one million...
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|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...
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|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...
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|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...
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|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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|Big Tex Urban Farms: How to create the perfect combination planter
When the weather is pleasant, nothing brights up your landscape like a combination planter. They are beautifully complex and while they can...
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|Feeding and Teaching: The Big Tex Urban Farms Develops a New Garden Project
Big Tex Urban Farms has helped start several gardens and urban farming-related projects across Dallas over the last few years and just last...
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