Daily Archives: June 11, 2018

Thursday, June 21, 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm – Summer Solstice Dock Party

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Celebrate the first day of summer under the stars with Charles River Watershed Association’s Friends of the Charles River! Join them on the docks of Community Boating along the Esplanade to officially welcome summer while enjoying a zesty BBQ dinner and refreshing drinks. All proceeds will go to CRWA to help support the law, science and advocacy work on the Charles River and 35 towns within its watershed.

Catered BBQ by Wildfire Catering

Crafted Samuel Adams Beer

Sparkling rose

Dancing on the docks of Community Boating

Great networking opportunity

Support CRWA’s work and environmental solutions to help the Greater Boston area

CRWA’s Friends of the Charles River is an environmental hub, connecting young professionals to individuals with environmental concerns and solutions we can work on together through networking and entrepreneurial events. Our goal is to foster a network of young Charles River advocates who become more involved and knowledgeable of the local community through increased engagement events. More information about Friends of the Charles can be found here.

Tickets are $75. Payments can be made via phone (781-788-0007) or mail (190 Park Road, Weston, MA 02493) to avoid processing fee. If you wish to purchase online, click HERE.

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TreeVersity

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Warm weather and sun are in the forecast, and after a long and dreary winter here in Boston, we’re finally seeing hints of green in the landscape. For researches at the Arnold Arboretum, this means fieldwork! As buds swell, cones open, and flowers bloom, a flurry of biological activity returns to the grounds–and our team of photographers are working tirelessly to document the action and share it with the public. Using ArbPIX, the Arboretum’s plant image search tool, researchers, educators, students and plant lovers worldwide can explore the Arboretum’s living collection and discover a stunning range of plant diversity from their own devices!

To improve the search function of this ever-growing database, we’re asking for your help! As a TreeVersity volunteer, your contributions will add valuable metadata to this database as you identify morphological and phenological features in plant images. Along the way, you’ll learn about plant biology and have a chance to interact with researchers and fellow volunteers on the project’s discussion forum. You can check out the TreeVersity Twitter feed, Facebook page and blog (https://treeversity.wordpress.com/), where the project team frequently posts updates, articles and fun plant facts.

We’ve had some terrific participation so far, but we need your help to finish classifying our current batch of nearly 10,000 images! We’ve just reached 50% of the required classifications thanks to the hard work of over 1,700 TreeVersity volunteers. We still have a ways to go, and every classification counts. If everyone reading this post classified 150 photos, we’d be done before lunch!

TreeVersity newcomers: if you’d love to see a magnolia flower up close, learn how plants attract insect defenders, or find out what a “pneumatophore” might be (hint, it’s a cypress tree’s “knee”), then join the TreeVersity community and help us fight plant blindness around the globe! To sign up, visit https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/friedmaw/treeversity

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Friday, June 22, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Dinner in the Barn at Wheelhouse Farm

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The Trustees invite you to a delicious multi-course farm dinner at Wheelhouse Farm situated in the William Cullen Bryant Homestead’s 19th century barn in Cummington, Massachusetts on Friday, June 22 from 5 – 7. Enjoy breathtaking views of the Westfield River Valley as you feast on locally grown produce and creative dishes inspired by Frances Bryant’s very own recipes from The Trustees’ historic collection. Prepared by the talented chef of Wheelhouse Farm, this event celebrates the local land that inspired Bryant’s nature poetry and the foods of New England summers. A rare and inspiring treat. $68 for Trustees members, $85 for nonmembers. Registration required by June 15th. Call 413-532-1631 x 3110, email acaluori@thetrustees.org, or purchase tickets online at http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/pioneer-valley/event-37986.html?srregion=&srrelated_property=&srevent_type=&dateType=srevent_start_date&srstartDate=06%2F15%2F2018&srendDate=07%2F31%2F2018&x=29&y=10

Diners are invited to enjoy a drink from our cash bar on the veranda and take a tour of the historic home before dinner is served. Please arrived at 5pm for drinks & tour.

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