{"id":458321,"date":"2026-10-06T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458321\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:26:11","slug":"twelve-hills-nature-center-to-host-free-prairie-festival-oct-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458321\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Hills Nature Center to host free Prairie Festival Oct. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photography by Lauren Allen.<\/p>\n

Twelve Hills Nature Center will host Prairie Festival on Sunday, Oct. 11, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

Twelve Hills Nature Center<\/a> is a volunteer led organization that aims to preserve and celebrate the native prairie and green spaces of our neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPrairie Festival is our favorite day of the year,\u201d said Marcie Haley, president of Twelve Hills Nature Center, in a press release. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance for neighbors to connect with each other and with the natural world right outside their doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The free, family-friendly festival programming includes a native plant pop-up shop from North Haven Gardens,<\/a> reptile encounters from the University of Texas at Arlington,<\/a> live raptor demonstrations from Window to the Wild,<\/a> storytime with Whose Books<\/a> and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Twelve Hills Nature Center is located at 817 Mary Cliff Road.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVictoria Hernandez is the Oak Cliff editor for Advocate Media. Prior to joining the Advocate, she wrote for Walton Insights, KUAF 91.3 and UARK Student Media. Victoria studied at the University of Arkansas, earning a B.A. in English\/Journalism with minors in history and gender studies and a M.A. in Journalism with a Graduate Certificate in African and African American Studies. She can be reached by email at vhernandez@advocatemag.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photography by Lauren Allen. Twelve Hills Nature Center will host Prairie Festival on Sunday, Oct. 11, from 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,156821,156822,156823,156824,156825,6098,149275,156826],"class_list":["post-458321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-marcie-haley","tag-native-prairie","tag-north-haven-gardens","tag-prairie-festival","tag-twelve-hills-nature-center","tag-university-of-texas-at-arlington","tag-whose-books","tag-window-to-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}