Jules Catering did a wonderful job as caterers for our event this year, providing an elaborate cheese and terrine table, along with passed hors d’oeuvres including maple infused scallops wrapped in bacon, beef tenderloin on potato pancakes, Peking duck horns, vegetable samosas with mango dipping sauce, and brie and pear tartlets.
Thursdays at the Hort will present Susan Hammond, Master Gardener at the Keeper Vegetable Garden, on Thursday, June 20, at 7 pm, at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Vegetable gardening is something everyone can enjoy, from the novice to the experienced gardener. It can be a way to bring fresh food to your table, teach children where food comes from, or even a way to beautify your yard! We’ll look at different types of vegetable gardens and discuss layout, variety choices, and growing techniques. $10 for Mass Hort members, $15 for non-members. Register on line at www.masshort.org. Image from www.meusprojeto.blogspot.com.
On Thursday, June 27, beginning at 6 pm at The Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge, Eric Scott will speak on The Shadow of the Quagga: What a Long-lost Zebra Reveals about Horses, Evolution, and Extinction. The quagga, a South African zebra, became extinct in the 1880s, but it still shapes our views on life and death in the animal kingdom. Paleontologist Eric Scott (San Bernardino County Museum) provides a brief history of the quagga—its discovery, exploitation, extinction, and potential rebirth—and reveals how these animals continue to inform us about paleontology, biology, and equine evolution. Free and open to the public.
