This group is for folks looking for a re-connection with the truly holistic healing practices of our parents, grandparents, and ancestors. "The People's Medicine" is a tradition practiced in the home, often with use of amulets, herbs, talismans, or ritual.Traditional healing practitioners make no distinction between the body and the soul and so tend to the health of both to improve the vitality of the whole person. Our meet up is in based Austin, Texas - but webinars and other distance learning …

Are you following or aspiring to follow a plant-based diet or know anyone that is?  Have you struggled to lose weight or maintain this lifestyle in a world that typically follows the Standard American Diet?  In this professionally facilitated group, we will get a chance to meet each other, talk a little bit about the benefits of this lifestyle and discuss some of the topics that will be addressed in coming in upcoming meetings.  Expect to gain support, motivation and new plant-based friends!  Ho …

This group is dedicated to identifying persons and families in the Austin/Travis County area who want to organize the planting of a Reformed Presbyterian Church of the United States. Please join the meetup to help in that effort.

The purpose of the Heart O' Texas Orchid Society, a non-profit, educational organization, shall be to stimulate an interest in Orchids, relative to their propagation, conservation growth, cultural methods, nomenclature, and their exhibition. The Heart O' Texas Orchid Society is an active member of the Austin Area Garden Council, The American Orchid Society , Southwest Regional Orchid Growers Association (SWROGA) and Orchid Digest, with member representatives attending affiliation meetings and ev …

This is the Austin Pond Society's 19th annual pond tour. This year the tour will be hosted at twenty-one private gardens in Austin and the surrounding area. (9:00-5:00 PM each day) There will also be a night tour from 8:00 to 10:00 on Saturday, June 8. Tickets for all three events are $15 in advance and $20 at each pond during the tour. Tickets can also be purchased at Hill Country Water Gardens, Shoal Creek Nursery, Emerald Garden, The Great Outdoors and McIntire's Garden Center. Tickets can be …

To meet, inspire and discuss the latest in nutritional news, encourage each other with reviews of research, individual examples of methods used to follow a plan, share nutritarian recipes, and more. You may be vegetarian, vegan, raw foodist, or just considering improving your diet, but the focus will be nutritarian.

Are you tired of Religion!? So are we!! Let's step out of Religion & Step into a RELATIONSHIP with Jesus and with each other. Church Of Open Doors is a non-denominational church where ALL people can experience God. We are a non-traditional, non-judgmental, welcoming, Christ centered church, and love based. Our goal is to create a place of worship that regardless of your background you can feel welcome, loved, and free to celebrate what God is doing in your life. Let's begin my having frequent me …

We are warriors, Bards, and Mystics of all heritages and traditions that come together to not only study and continue on the road of perfection for our craft, but to apply it to our everyday dealings. This group is about action. It is about reclaiming the Earth from those that have done Her harm for far to long, and the reestablishing our proper place in our ecosystem. We accomplish this by creating sustainable communities, grow our own food, and raise and hunt for our meat. We keep the sacred i …

Austin, Texas, is home to about 170 species of butterflies. It is also the home of the Austin Butterfly Forum, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to butterfly conservation and to enriching people's lives through butterflies. The Austin Butterfly Forum is a butterfly club that holds field trips, conducts butterfly counts, promotes butterfly gardening, performs conservation activities, and meets monthly for an educational presentation. We are a community of butterfly enthusiasts who also en …

Hello Austin Gardeners - We're here to change the world, one small garden at a time. Feed the world - plus reduce CO2 gases with Terra Preta soil.Terra Preta is ancient manmade soil found in the Amazon Basin in South America. It is 800% more productive than surrounding jungles soils and has been found to be the missing link - enabling the jungle to be able to support the huge populations reported by the first Europeans to land there. Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virt …

An herbalist is a person who studies herbal medicine, the healing properties of plants, as practiced in traditional cultures. In written records, the study of herbs dates back over 5,000 years to the earliest civilizations of the world. Traditional practices of herbalism remain in modern societies. With all the ills of today, people are seeking a kinder, gentler ways to heal, which is why there is a movement towards alternative methods of treating diseases and conditions. One of the most popular …

This group was created to encourage awareness of and access to the Balcones Canyonland Preserve (BCP). Through the promotion of public educational opportunities, our members will be in the loop of special access hikes and lectures. The BCP is not one single tract of land but a system of preserves located in Travis County that exists as a multi-agency conservation effort operating under a regional 10(a) permit issued under the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFW). In …

The official meetup group of Travis Audubon, the Austin-area Audubon Society. We promote the enjoyment, understanding, and conservation of native birds and their habitats, and strive to inspire conservation through birding. We host a variety of events throughout the year, including weekly field trips, adult education classes and workshops, youth education programs, monthly membership meetings, special birding events, and more! Visit our website at travisaudubon.org for more information.

Welcome! You have entered a safe joyous heart space where The Singing Tree grows. It is a gathering place for people to come together and share love, music, art, dance, nature, birth, family, and healing. We meet once a month to share and explore the natural and spiritual aspects of the birth experience. We welcome parents, doulas, pregnant moms, new moms, childcare professionals, grandparents, couples trying to conceive, healing practitioners, artists, sound healers, herbalists, plant lovers, m …

The purpose of this meetup is to have a source of information and classes relating to skills needed to survive in a sustainable manner.  In other words, "survival" in the sense of - "survival of the human species."  The Austin and San Antonio area are great for learning primitive survival and sustainable skills. The subjects you will see here range from primitive skills (primitive hunting and fishing, friction fires, shelter, etc) and tracking, to plant medicine, (herbology) sustainable homestea …

Gardeners from Pflugerville and the surrounding area learn about gardening, water conservation, sharing plants and ideas, enjoy Garden Parties, volunteering in the Community Garden as well as Beautifying Pflugerville projects associated with the City of Pflugerville Parks and Library. Come join, learn, teach, share, laugh and enjoy the life of a Gardener :-)