Daily Archives: September 3, 2013

Thursday, September 5, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Community Garden – Get Involved!

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Thinking of joining a community garden? In this Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop, to be held this Thursday, September 5, from 7 – 8:30 at Elm Bank in Wellesley, explore the vast variety of community gardens in Boston from gardens on the rooftops to postage stamp size gardens tucked between residences. Learn how community gardens support cultural exchange, community building, sustainability and healthy lifestyles. Most importantly, we will discuss how to get involved in community gardening by starting, joining or volunteering at a garden in your community!

Caitlin Gilson is the Garden Educator at the Boston Natural Areas Network which coordinates activities related to all of the Boston area’s community and school gardens, involving over 10,000 individuals and families. Caitlin has created and managed school garden programs for over seven years. She has developed professional development workshops on gardening for the Green Education Foundation and the Northeast Organic Farming Association.

Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN), organized in 1977, works to preserve, expand and improve urban open space through community organizing, acquisition, ownership, programming, development and management of special kinds of urban land.

Cost – $10.00 for members, $15.00 for non-members.  Register on line at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e7r2np7ga3191b6b&llr=kzaorjcab.

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Sunday, September 15, 2:00 pm – Chasing Giraffes

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Giraffes are one of the world’s most fascinating animals, but also one of the least understood. In his new book, Giraffe Reflections, science and nature author Dale Peterson expands our appreciation for these gentle giants by offering a new perspective on their place in our world, and urges us to protect their diminishing numbers.

Hear the author speak, followed by a book signing, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge on Sunday, September 15, at 2 pm. Free with Museum admission.

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Wednesday, September 11, 7:00 pm – Willets at the Shore

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Join the Athol Bird & Nature Club on Wednesday, September 11 at 7 pm at the Millers River Environmental Center, 100 Main Street in Athol, for their regular meeting, when field biologist Ashley Green will describe her research into willets along the New Jersey shore, including the difficulty of recapturing banded birds, interpretations of the data, and other flora and fauna of a salt marsh. These remarkable birds nested along the entire Atlantic coast before 1800, but hunters and egg-gatherers reduced their numbers so drastically that by 1900 there were gone from Nova Scotia to New Jersey. Willets have made a come-back, however, and are again nesting along the New England coast.  Image from www.allaboutbirds.org. For more information visit www.atholbirdclub.org.

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