 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. I am very excited to be here at the Prairie Fest at Tandy Hills Natural Area and I am here with Don Young, the founder and director. And Don, I would love it if you could tell us how the Prairie Fest got started and what it's all about. Oh, we got started seven years ago. Right down the street here in my front yard, my wife Deborah and I wanted an event to draw attention to Tandy Hills because we loved it so much and it was such a special place for wildflowers and the native prairie in this area that we wanted the public to know about it. The event has evolved a bit over the years. We were successful at getting people to come here so now we're using that to raise funds to help the city pay for a master plan. The master plan will help restore this prairie which needs restoring because it's in the middle of a city. A natural prairie has fire that keeps invasive species out and other weeds but we have a fire department down the street that puts out the fires real fast so we have to mechanically remove a lot of invasive species here. So conservation is a big part of what we do here. The other part is bringing children here from the Fort Worth Independent School District and we help pay to bring the kids here and they spend a whole day field trip at the park so they can learn about science and nature and mathematics and writing, poetry, they do an all day program here. Can you tell us anything that's different about this year's best? Well in past years the festival went on from about 10 in the morning to 8 o'clock at night. Because it grew so big for the small band of volunteers that put this on we decided to cut back on the hours. So this year we're experimenting with a festival that starts at 4 o'clock in the evening and instead of having 150 vendors out here we just have food vendors and beverage and we also have the wildflower tours which is a major part of the festival in addition to the music here in the background. We have something very special this year we're fortunate to have a teacher from Collieville named Heather Foote who is a science earth educator. She has an organization called Prairie Keepers and she has designed some hikes called Discovery Hikes and kids from 6 to about 12 are able to participate in all kinds of really interesting nature science type hikes. It's really cool, I would have loved to do that as a kid. Awesome, so thank you so much for your time. You're welcome. This is great. So if you want to learn more information about the many prayer fest that are happening this year you can visit the Tandy Hills website.