Daily Archives: April 20, 2016

Sunday, May 1, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Deepening Our Roots

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Please join the Boston Food Forest Coalition friends to share food gardens and giving, on Sunday, May 1, from 5 – 7 at the Boston Nature Center.

This young organization is fulfilling the needs of gardeners who have lost the resources of BNAN, the Boston Urban Forest Council, and other grassroots organizations that have disappeared or been incorporated into larger organizations. The BFFC offers free classes, workshops, gatherings to strengthen communities, and helps create food forests all over the city while remineralizing the soil. At their inaugural fund raiser, they will be sharing their goals, along with rare plants. The Beacon Hill Garden Club has funded a food forest garden and follows this organization with great interest.

Come and learn, bid on rare plants and sustainable auction items, such as an herb spiral, sheet mulch bed, oil infusion lesson, and more. Ticket prices range from $25 to $250, and you may purchase your tickets online at http://www.bostonfoodforest.org/spring-fundraiser-2016/

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Saturday, April 30, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Building and Running the Rock & Native Plant Gardens at The New York Botanical Garden

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Jody Payne of the New York Botanical Garden shares insights from her six years as curator, then director, of the New York Botanical Garden’s renowned Rock and Native Plant Gardens.  Jody will speak at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, April 30, from 11 – noon, co-sponsored by the New England Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society.  Free with admission to the garden, but pre-registration is requested at www.towerhillbg.org.

Sunday, May 1, 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Monday, May 2, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, and Thursday, May 5, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Understanding Scale in the Garden

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When it comes to scale in our environment, we know whether we’re feeling comfortable or not quite right. Yet in our own gardens, scale tends to be overlooked, even though relationships in the garden change as plants mature. In this hands-on design workshop at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, instructor Cheryl Salatino will explore how and why size matters in a successful landscape. This is a three session course to be held Sunday May 1 from 2:30 – 6:30, Monday May 2 from 6:30 – 9, and again on Thursday May 5 from 6:30 – 9. $135 for NEWFS members, $162 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.newfs.org/learn/our-programs/understanding-scale-in-the-garden.  Image from www.formandfoliage.wordpress.com.