Fuller Craft Museum is partnering with Worcester Center for Craft to present the Craft Fair on June 13–14, 2026.
This two-day celebration of creativity will feature handcrafted work by nearly 50 talented artists from across the region, plus studio classes, live demonstrations, food trucks, and music. It’s a vibrant weekend designed to connect makers and the community through the power of craft. For more information visit https://worcestercraftcenter.org/events/american-craft-fair-at-the-fuller-craft-museum-429/
You are invited by the Lexington Field & Garden Club to visit private Lexington gardens on Saturday, June 13. Each garden presents the owners’ creativity and design. All the gardens on the tour are maintained by the owners.
Tickets are $30 presale, $35 day of the tour, payable by credit card or check. Pick up your tickets on the day of the tour at the Church of the Redeemer, 6 Meriam Street no earlier than 9:15 AM on June 13. Park carefully and do not block driveways. Register in advance HERE.
Rest room facilities can be found at the Visitors Center and Cary Memorial Library. If you have any questions, please contact us at lfgc024@gmail.com.
Lexington Field & Garden Club is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization as recognized by the Internal Revenue Service and is supported by memberships, contributions, endowment income, and many volunteers.
Stephen Orr has written about gardening for most of his decades-long career, and now, in The Gardener’s Mindset, he helps readers to understand not just how to garden but how to think about it. Inspired by the great tradition of twentieth-century garden essay collections by writers such as Vita Sackville-West, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Henry Mitchell, Orr delves into his personal gardening journey, culling from the various gardens he and his husband created over the past decades. He remembers his first garden on a New York City rooftop, where he followed beginner’s instinct to rearrange endlessly pots of old roses, herbs, perennials, and even trees. Later in Iowa, the challenge of anything interesting in his shade-filled backyard led Orr to discover the beautiful patterns and colors of leafy lungworts and epimediums. And he shares how his current garden in Cape Cod is a work in progress and serves as his trial-and-error lab, where he is learning how to cultivate plants that can stay resilient in the face of dry sandy soil, dramatic coastal storms, and climate change. Alongside gorgeous photographs and easy projects that range from cultivating a color scheme to building a wildlife habitat, The Gardener’s Mindset will delight anyone interested in the analog pleasures
The author talk on June 15 will take place at the Wellfleet Public Library, 55 West Main Street. Free, but seating is limited so please plan accordingly, For more information call 508-349-0310.
Join Historic Beverly on June 14 for a special Sunday Morning Book Talk with award-winning historian and bestselling author Andrea Wulf.
Discover the fascinating story behind Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation and learn how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison viewed gardening, agriculture, and nature as central to the creation of the United States.
Andrea Wulf brings history to life through an engaging exploration of plants, politics, and the Revolutionary generation. Wulf reveals how America’s founding fathers understood the natural world not simply as a backdrop to history, but as central to the creation of the nation itself. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison considered themselves first and foremost farmers, gardeners, and botanists. Their deep passion for agriculture, plants, and the landscape shaped both their personal lives and their political vision for the new republic.
Through vivid storytelling and rich historical detail, Andrea Wulf examines how nature became political in Revolutionary America, how native crops and species emerged as patriotic symbols, and why James Madison can be considered the forgotten father of American environmentalism. Blending politics, horticulture, and biography, Founding Gardeners offers a fresh and compelling perspective on the Revolutionary generation and the world they cultivated.
Andrea Wulf is an internationally celebrated historian and author whose works include Founding Gardeners and the bestselling The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, a New York Times bestseller published in 27 languages and winner of fifteen international literary awards, including the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Costa Biography Award. Her newest book, The Traveler, will be published in June 2026. Wulf is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.
Light brunch fare included in ticket price, $10 for Historic Beverly members, $15 for nonmembers. Book signing following the lecture Tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/4ecpz279
Funding provided by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism Massachusetts250 initiative.
Enjoy the unique flavors of fruits and vegetables collected from the food forest at the Charter School at the FARM Institute, 14 Aero Avenue in Edgartown. Let Cathy Walthers, local five-time cookbook author, and Roxanne Kapitan, garden creator, wow your taste buds with delicious nutrient-packed greens, grains, herbal mocktails, and more.
This program is free thanks to a grant from the Cedar Tree Foundation and the MV Agricultural Society.
Pre-registration is required for all Farm Institute cooking classes. Please contact thefarminstitute@thetrustees.org with any allergy or food restriction questions at or if you’d like to join as a member and receive discounted programming.
Consuming raw or undercooked meat, poultry seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food borne illness. If you would like to attend but are unable to pay, please reach out LBrown@thetrustees.org for more information.
Join The Harvard-Radcliffe Institute on June 17 at noon for a tour of Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks with the curator Erin LaBove, who will discuss each element of the exhibition. Cooking Up Change explores the history and cultural significance of community cookbooks drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s extensive collection, spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries. The collection, including more than 4,300 community cookbooks, showcases the efforts of women’s groups within a variety of organizations to raise funds for their religious, educational, and civic causes while also documenting the social and cultural history of their varied communities and culinary traditions. The exhibit is in the Lia and William Poorvu Gallery at the Library, 3 James Street in Cambridge. Free. Register at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-cooking-up-change-curator-led-tour-4
Each summer, more than 200 park supporters gather to celebrate summer in the city and our beautiful, historic parks at The Friends of the Public Garden’s Summer Party! This two-hour cocktail party gives our guests the opportunity to enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvre while raising funds for The Friends of the Public Garden’s continued maintenance of Boston’s #threeparks.
This year’s Summer Party will be held on Wednesday, June 17 at the Garden at King’s Chapel Parish from 6-8 PM. Entrance is at 55 Branch Street. Support your parks as we usher in the summer season in a plush outdoor hidden garden. Come dressed in your best Garden Chic attire! Register for the event at https://secure.qgiv.com/event/summerparty/ Individual tickets $100.
Use your journal to capture the delicate beauty of early June at a Hollister House workshop on June 6 from 10 – 3:30. Combining pen and watercolor, we will create impressions of the beautiful flowering trees and shrubs abundant in the Hollister House gardens. We’ll start with a lesson in the barn on journaling tips and techniques, followed by a slow meander through the gardens to observe and note different buds and flowers, adding to our journals along the way. Your instructor will provide plenty of drawing and watercolor tips, both inside the barn and outside in this beautiful garden setting. All skill levels are welcome, and beginners are encouraged to join!
Bring a bag lunch. Water and snacks provided.
Required Materials: Journal and pen. You may bring your own or purchase a set for $35 when you register. We suggest a Micron 01 or 02 pen. Please click on the registration page for details and a full list of recommended materials.
Betsy Rogers-Knox is a botanical artist with a fascination for the full lifecycle of plants and the ecosystems they inhabit. She holds a Certificate in Botanical Illustration from The New York Botanical Garden and her work has been exhibited widely across the U.S. and internationally, including the ASBA International Exhibitions, NYBG Triennials, and the RHS Botanical Art Exhibit in London, where her paintings of Beckley Bog earned the Judges’ Special Award for their educational and ecological value. Betsy’s illustrations are held in the permanent collections of the RHS Lindley Library and the Hunt Institute.
In this three-day Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop on June 9, 11, & 12 from 10 – 2 with award-winning botanical artist, Alice Rosa, students will learn how to approach botanical subjects using colored pencils. We will begin with observation and drawing, focusing on how to study a plant and translate its structure onto paper. From there, we will work through the process of adding color, studying color layering and building it gradually while paying attention to subtle shifts in tone and hue. The course is designed to be an accessible introduction, allowing students to experiment, slow down, and become familiar with the medium. Some experience with drawing and the basics of botanical art will be helpful, though no prior experience with colored pencil is required.
Alice Rosa is a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists in London and a Professional Member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA. She graduated with distinction from the Distance Learning Diploma Course of the Society of Botanical Artists. She is a studio artist at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, MA.
Alice was born and raised in Italy. She has a degree in foreign languages and literature from the University of Verona. She also holds a degree in art conservation from IVBC in Venice, where she specialized in the restoration of polychrome wood sculptures and paintings on panel. She currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Four beautiful gardens in the Mondadnock Region of New Hampshire will be on display Sunday, June 7 from 10 – 4 courtesy of The Garden Conservancy. Preregistration is required. Admission to each garden is $5 for Conservancy members, $10 for nonmembers.
The May Place gardens of Bill and Eileen Elliott are in Hancock, New Hampshire. Two compulsive plant collectors have been making gardens on a wooded hillside clearing for forty-five years. They continue to do all of the planning, landscaping, planting and maintenance themselves.
Gardening offers ample challenges and satisfaction as the garden continues to expand, change, die back, thrive, disappoint, and exhilarate. Within the green wall of mature woodland is a two-acre clearing which contains a mix of trees, shrubs, perennials, biennials, annuals, herbs and vegetables. (Picture below courtesy of Yankee Magazine)
A 200-yard path through the woods leads to shade and container gardens near the house.
Also in Hancock is Skatutakee Farm. The gardens surround Hancock’s first house, built in 1778 by the town clerk, Jonathan Bennett. The farmhouse plantings are informal and blend into surrounding fields and woods.
On each side of the old front door are beds reminiscent of Colonial gardens, flanked by plantings of old roses and nepeta. Behind the 1970 kitchen wing is a 48-foot-long
koi pond designed by landscape architect Diane McGuire and planted with lotuses, irises, and water lilies.
McGuire also laid out the perennial bed and woodland border planted with witch hazel, azaleas, snakeroot, and Rodgersia.
The AIA-award-winning screened porch was designed by Dan Scully. A pair of 200-year-old granite Korean rams graze on the back lawn.
Walking beyond the borders, one comes to a bog garden surrounded by marsh marigolds, skunk cabbage, and sedges. A trail of cardinal flowers brightens the wetland beyond. In the field below the terraced potager are two beds planted heavily in pollinators for late arrival of Monarch butterflies.
In Peterborough is the garden of Betsy and Michael Gordon. This small garden in the village was designed by a plantsman to be an extension of the house. The house and garden are situated on a hill and the garden is terraced on three levels. The upper level was designed to be enjoyed from the street. The middle level is laid out formally using yew hedges and a century-old granite wall foundation to create a garden room. The lowest level, an informal woodland garden, has both eastern North American and eastern Asian shade-loving plants. The garden was planted with a mixture of unusual trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, annuals, and bulbs. Plants were selected primarily for interesting form, foliage, and texture. The garden is chronicled on Instagram @thegardenerseye. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/garden-directory/open-days/garden-of-michael-betsy-gordon
Continuing on to Dublin is the Japanese Garden. The Japanese garden project began after the owner had worked for over 15 years to build a small traditional Japanese house on property in Dublin. The garden and pond were added so that visitors could experience that same quiet feeling outside the house as they did inside.
