The Community Garden Club of Duxbury will hold a Holiday House Tour from 10:00 am – 3:30 pm on Thursday, December 10 throughout Duxbury. For more information contact Mariette Wooden at 781-934-7860, or log on to www.communitygardenclubofduxbury.org.
Harvard biologist Andrew Knoll hasn’t actually been to Mars, but he has spent a lot of time examining its rocks, including four-billion-year-old salt deposits investigated by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
On Thursday, December 10, beginning at 6 pm, Knoll will reflect on six years of NASA Mars Rover exploration; what the evidence tells us about the history of water and its implication for life on the ancient surface of the Red Planet.
Location:
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge , MA 02138
Cost: Free and open to the public
Phone: 617-495-3045
Email: hmnhpr@oeb.harvard.edu
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu
When herbaceous plants have died back and look “disenchanted,” it is still possible to identify some of them by closely examining their dried leaves, stems, and persistent fruits and seeds.
Join Frances Clark on Saturday, December 5, beginning at 10 am, for a classroom exploration to investigate 25-30 weeds and native herbaceous species growing in disturbed habitats, fields, and woodland edges. Examine specimens close at hand to learn identification features and intriguing seed- dispersal mechanisms. (Naturalist photographer Nathan Cook took the image of arrow leaf plantain below)
Pre-registration is necessary, contact the registrar at 508-877-7630, ext. 3303. The program will take place at Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road in Framingham, and is co-sponsored by the New England Wild Flower Society and by Massachusetts Audubon, Drumlin Farm. The cost is $36 for members of NEWFS or Mass Audubon, and $42 for non members. You may also email registrar@newenglandwild.org, or log on to www.newenglandwild.org/learn.
