Hill Country Alliance

Recovering Your Land: Riparian Restoration Workshop - Kerrville, TX
2025-11-14 09:00 - 14:00 UTC
Are you a landowner who was affected by the July floods? Please join us for one of our three upcoming Riparian Restoration workshops, designed for landowners ready to take an active role in restoring their creek or riverbanks.
Choose the date and location that works best for you:

Hunt, TX – Sunday, Nov. 9
Kerrville, TX – Friday, Nov. 14
Center Point, TX – Sunday, Nov. 16

During these in-depth workshops, you can expect the following:

Practical guidance on stewarding streamside (riparian) areas
Free native seeds and potted plants to help jumpstart the restoration of your property
Learn from local professionals about how to become an active steward during restoration
Opportunities to connect with neighbors, local experts, and landowner resources

Each workshop includes lunch for attendees and registration is required to attend. Space and plant materials are limited—register soon to reserve your spot!

Workshop: Soil Health in Raised Beds
2025-11-15 09:00 - 12:00 | Labor Serena Community Garden, 1246 Chalmers Ave, San Antonio, Texas, 78211
Join us for a volunteer day at Labor Serena Community Garden!
We’ll begin with a discussion on the importance of soil health in raised garden beds. Good soil, with amendments like mulch and compost, is vital for conserving water and supporting healthy plant growth.
Then we’ll dive right in with some hands-on work! Together, we’ll be revamping several raised beds from the ground up. We’ll build a new foundation so the beds retain more soil during watering. Then we’ll fill the beds with soil and fresh compost, before topping them off with a protective layer of mulch.
This is a great opportunity to build practical gardening skills, connect with others, and ensure that this community garden has a solid foundation for its spring growing season.
No prior experience is needed! The staff of Labor Serena will be providing food and beverages – Just bring your energy and get ready to get your hands in the soil.

SAVE THE HIDDEN HEART OF TEXAS: GEAA’s 2025 GALA
2025-11-15 16:00 - 22:00 | Twin Sisters Dance Hall, 6720 Hwy 281 South Blanco, Blanco, TX, 78606, United States
More than just a great night of music—-this event is your chance to help protect the land and water that make the Hill Country so special. Proceeds benefit the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance, working hard to safeguard the Edwards and Trinity aquifers, the lifeblood of Central Texas. Every two-step and every ticket helps keep our water clean and wild spaces thriving.

Recovering Your Land: Riparian Restoration Workshop - Center Point, TX
2025-11-16 12:00 - 17:00 | Center Point, TX

2026 Water Wonks Hour Lecture Series #1
2026-01-28 15:30 - 16:30 | zoom
In 2022, the Natural Resource Conservation Service began sampling soils in San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas to measure soil organic carbon. This project was started in conjunction with the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance and the City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department. Travis Waiser will cover the sampling technique, where samples were taken, and summarize the data collected from the project. At the end of the talk Travis will cover some management strategies that can be implemented to build soil carbon in your soils.

2026 Water Wonks Hour Lecture Series #2: Building a Grassroots Movement to Protect Urban Waterways in San Antonio
2026-02-25 15:30 - 16:30 | zoom
Brendan Gibbons will discuss River Aid San Antonio’s (RASA’s) efforts to raise an army of volunteer stewards to help keep the San Antonio River and its tributaries clean and thriving. RASA hosts multiple watershed cleanup events per month where volunteers remove thousands of pounds of litter from streams. Since the group’s founding, RASA volunteers have removed more than 600,000 pounds of waste from the San Antonio River and its tributaries. RASA has also accepted the leadership baton for Basura Bash, the largest single-day trash cleanup event in Texas, an event that drew 2,130 volunteers in 2025, its 30th year. Gibbons will also discuss RASA’s small but growing network of water quality monitoring sites via Texas Stream Team, which trains citizen scientists to conduct monthly water quality monitoring of local waterways. Gibbons will also detail RASA’s partnership with GEAA on a water quality retrofit on HOA property at Lorence Creek, which helps improve the quality of stormwater flowing into the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone.

Water Wonks Hour Lecture Series #3: How water utilities can protect the water supply
2026-03-25 15:30 - 16:30 | zoom
Some of the tools Municipal and Private Water Utilities use to protect the water supply are very similar while other methodologies seem very different. Suzanne will talk about what Texas Water Company, a private water utility company, has done to protect the water supply and how various tools can be modified and utilized throughout the public and private water systems.
