Adopt-a-Block
is a program run by the city of Nacogdoches to encourage neighborhood cleanup and litter abatement for Nacogdoches neighborhood streets by volunteers. Once a commitment is made by volunteers for a specific street or neighborhood, city staff will post an adoption sign free of charge. Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful assists by providing volunteers with trash bags, gloves and safety vests. Individuals or groups interested in participating in the program can contact Tommy Wheeler, city environmental health manager, at 559-2556 or via e-mail
Texas Tree Planting Guide from the Texas Forest Service
http://texastreeplanting.tamu.edu/ViewAllTrees.aspx
Nac Blooms - KNB requests donations of heirloom bulbs during the annual fundraising sale. KNB volunteers plant the donated bulbs at the airport and parks and other locations throughout the county on Make A Difference Day each year.
Xeriscaping or Using Native Plants.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/xeriscape/xeriscape.html
Waste in Place Curriculum
Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful volunteers have assembled two traveling education trunks that we lend to educators or community groups in order to promote the KTB Waste in Place curriculum. The trunks have supplies and instructions for making:
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Recycled Paper including a blender, seeds and cookie cutters
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Garbage Pizza including the pizza rounds, colored glue and "garbage"
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Books about litter, recycling and composting
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Edible Compost including cups & layers of compost
Contact the KNB office to check these out.
*18th Annual NAC BLOOMS
Order deadline: Monday, October 5th
Order heirloom bulbs to beautify the Nacogdoches community and support KNB!
Nacogdoches Blooms
Beginning in 1998, Nacogdoches Blooms began the mass planting of clusters of jonquils and other heirloom bulbs throughout Nacogdoches. Through annual planting of donated bulbs the program has grown to more than 750,000 blooms, with the bulbs naturally doubling every year.
Trail development (map of Jonquil trail) began with the assistance of volunteers planting clusters of jonquils and other heirloom bulbs underneath 13 city park signs, in the public gardens around the Convention & Visitors Bureau, Sterne-Hoya Park, and Millards Crossing Historic Village. Since then clusters of bulbs have been added behind City Hall, the downtown parking lot at the corner of Mound and Main streets, Festival Plaza, the airport, along with several locations around the Loop 224. Jonquils have also been planted underneath trees in the historic downtown area.
Click here to see the benefits of Heirloom Bulbs
*Texas Arbor Day Tree Planting Celebration
Join us Saturday October 3, 2015
(See "Donate, Membership, and Merchandise" tab for more info)
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Don't Mess with Texas Trash-off
A Keep Texas Beautiful program that takes place the first Saturday in April. Nacogdoches citizens are encouraged to pick-up trash in their city and county.
KNB Annual
Education Grants
are available to any Pre-K - Grade 12 classroom or campus in Nacogdoches County
(public or private)
deadline for submittal - November 5, 2015
Winners will be announced Thursday, November 20, 2014
click here for 2015-2016 application
*KNB Annual Education Grants
Grants are available to any PreK - Grade 12 classroom or campus group (public or private school) in Nacogdoches County; Applications due Thursday, November 5, 2015 (5 p.m.).
Click for more information & application