Calendar of Events

This webinar will provide an overview of the USDA’s urban agriculture grants.  It will cover the Urban Agriculture and Innovation Production (UAIP) Competitive Grants Program’s purpose, project types, eligibility, and basic requirements for the submission...

This webinar will provide an overview of the USDA’s Cooperative Agreements for Community Compost and Food Waste Reduction. These agreements intend to solicit applications and fund pilot projects in no fewer than 10 states. The...

In this webinar, Xerces Society pollinator ecologist Dr. Ray Moranz will show you that attracting butterflies to your garden is easy and fun.  After briefly talking about relevant aspects of butterfly biology, he will present...

CANCELED: See this note from the organizers: “After much information gathering and deliberation among our staff at the Center for Engagement and Community Development, we have decided to cancel the face-to-face National Rural Grocery Summit...

What is a watershed and why is it important to protect it? As you look down at the ground, you are standing on a watershed. This is an area of land where all the rainfall,...

Join a diverse group of water quality, water management, conservation and education professionals in northeast Oklahoma for the Blue Thumb Riverology 101 training. This three-day workshop is designed for teachers and environmental educators who will...

Myriad Botanical Gardens’ annual Oklahoma Gardening School is the state’s premier annual horticultural symposium designed for home gardeners and professional horticulturists, garden designers and landscape architects. Each year the Oklahoma Gardening School showcases local and...

Bathtub Rocks is an incredible and unique natural freshwater stream formation at the J.T. Nickel Family Nature & Wildlife Preserve. The water flowing over the rocks is considered to be one of the state’s most...