Wow…we have been asleep at the wheel…Bike Friendly Lakewood is officially up as well! It looks like their Facebook group is updated more frequently than the blog, so be sure to check in both places for events and news in the area.
We’ve been a little slow at our game, and somehow overlooked one of the latest members of the BF Family: Bike Friendly Arlington! Be sure to show them your support and check-up on all things happening at BFA if you happen to be in the mid-cities area.
This weekend, 36 children from North Oak Cliff elementary schools (Kahn, Peabody, Rosemont, Winnetka) set to work on multiple 24″x24″ art pieces that will be combined together for a single mural on the back of a local business along Seventh Street. Go Oak Cliff, a new area news and advocacy non-profit founded by BFOC’ers to […]
(From left to right: Jacob, Dallas, David, Nate, Alicia, Randall; not pictured, but also shot: Jon, Thomas, Tim, Viktor.) Starting tomorrow, some of our pals embark on the inaugural SXSFixed fixed-gear ride from Dallas to Austin for SXSW. Check out their site for a complete list of rider bios, photos (Randall’s cracks me up!), route […]
Google is now offering an option to note bicycle directions when requesting routes within Google Maps. It’s a good way to see a birds-eye view of our trail system, and will hopefully help when plans develop to complete the comprehensive bike/ped map for the city.
Community Gardens of Oak Cliff have an official web presence now. Go here to catch up on all of the latest details on the different gardens around the Cliff, and sign up to get involved.
(image from Oak Cliff People) Tomorrow at 1PM, Community Organizer Amy Cowan, OC Community Garden Founder Mariana Griggs, and BFOC Co-Founder/OCTA President Jason Roberts will be on NPR’s THINK on 90.1FM. Tune in to hear about all of the new activism occurring on the left banke of the river.
Article by OC Community Garden Advocate, Scott Griggs In gardening and biology, hybridization is the crossbreeding of two species to create a plant with some characteristics of each parent. We all remember high school botany and the stories of the great Gregor Mendel using hybridization in pea plants to discover that one inheritable trait would […]
(photo from Willard Farms) Many of you may know that BFOC has several community gardener’s as members, and currently we’re planning a group ride which takes you to visit several of the plots they currently have developed. With that in mind, Mariana Griggs, Founder of Oak Cliff Community Gardens sends out a note to all […]
We recently mentioned that BFOC is assisting with the Seventh Street Mural Project, which is being coordinated through the new non-proft Go Oak Cliff, and local artists Steve Cruz and Kevin Obregon. KXAS Channel 5 News wrote about the project last night, and we’ve received pledges of up to $7,000. Our total goal is $25,000 […]
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