April 25, 2015: 11am to Sunset

3400 View Street

Fort Worth, Texas 76103

10th Anniversary Year!

The 10th annual Prairie Fest is a free outdoor festival celebrating the natural world at the Best Place to see wildflowers in north Texas.

A FW Weekly Best Outdoor Cultural Event winner, the family-friendly, solar-powered event is Saturday, April 25, 11:00 am to sunset, rain or shine.

Along with arts, entertainment, and tasty local food and beverages you’ll find prairie wildflower tours, storytellers and nature-science hikes on rolling hills, spontaneous happenings inside the Prairie Circle of artists and green exhibitors.

Free & open to the public

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Better yet, ride your bike to the Festival! Bike Corral sponsored by ​Bicycles, Inc.

Trail Map

Live, local music on 2 solar-powered stages .

. A second stage will bring speakers and ideas. Line up to come!

Performances by trailside and tipi storytellers

Belly dancers! End of the day drum circle!

Scottish Pipes & Drums

Don't miss hearing Lon Burnham, our esteemed departing State Representative for Texas House District 90 and executive director of the Dallas Peace Center, give the Key Note address at 6pm

Main stage Lineup: 11-12pm: Everybody's Darling 12:30-1:15: Deanna Valone 1:15-1:30 Scottish pipes & drums 2-3pm: Taste of Herb 3:00-3:30 performing in front of main stage Studio 74 3:30-4:30: Animal Spirit 5-6pm: Brave Combo ( with Brazen Bellies dancing in accompaniment ) 6-6:30: Key Note address 6:30-8: End Of The World Parade Second Stage: 12-12:30pm: Speaker sessions 12:00-12:10 - Tina Lee Arons (North Texas Time Bank) 12:10-12:20 - John MacFarlane (Local Sierra Club's Reusable Bag Campaign)

12:20-12:30 - Stephonia Roberts (Mrs Jacks Body Food) 1:30-2pm: Darrin Kobetich 3-3:30: Speaker sessions 3:00-3:10 - Alejandro Hukill ( Cesar Chavez Legacy)

Cesar Chavez Legacy) 3:10-3:20 - Todd Sliger (Teaming with Wildlife)

3:20-3:30 - Tammy M. Gomez (poet) 4:30-5pm: The Ackermans

more Wildflower Hikes

Tandy Hills is known as The Best Place to See Wildflowers in North Texas and 2015 is shaping up to be awesome. Walking tours organized by the Google of Wildflowers, Suzanne Tuttle, of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge and led by Master Naturalist volunteers will entertain and surprise you.

Guided hikes begin as groups form, regularly from 11 am until 4 pm.

Explore the creations of local artists and craftspeople. 50 booths featuring everything from green products and services, vintage clothing, native plants and so much more. A local Boy Scout troop will have a rope bridge set up for the kiddos. You might also encounter impromptu kite-flyers, drummers, belly dancers and hula hoopers in the big circle.

Exhibitor List

The festival features a kids area with educational activities and discovery hikes by Prairie Keepers find out more

find out more DFW Makers will be there with Eggbots!

will be there with Eggbots! Don't miss the Boy Scout Monkey Bridge !

! Face Painting by Madame Strangelove

Make your own wildflower seedballs!

Giant Jenga

Telescope time with the Fort Worth Astronomical Society

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11 am BRIT Bella puppet story time for parents and pre K children

12:00 Bella's second pre K story time

1pm: Blackland Prairie Raptor Center Program

3 pm: Twice Upon a Time afternoon show in the east slope Outdoor Classroom

5:15 pm: Twice Upon a Time early evening tale

8:15: Ghost Stories by Twice Upon a Time

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Experience site-specific interactive art installations, plein air painters and “live artists”, creating art on site.

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Popsicles, food trucks, local beer and more!

A variety of food sellers for all tastes, and a beer and wine tent. Including...











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