Daily Archives: May 10, 2020

The Greater Boston Food Bank

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Volunteers at The Greater Boston Food Bank play a critical role in helping to end hunger in Eastern Massachusetts, and their role is even more critical now given the COVID-19 crisis. Our group and Families for Impact volunteering opportunities are temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 crisis and public health recommendations related to large gatherings of people. Please check back each week for information about these programs. Volunteer shifts will be limited to groups of 10 individuals, and all volunteers will be provided with disposable gloves. Shift and sign up information are available at www.gbfb.org. You may also consider a donation helping to feed those in need right now.

Saturday, May 16, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Identify Your Landscape Plants – Cancelled

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On May 15 at 10 am, join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at the Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, for a botany and plant morphology review, and walk the grounds to learn how to identify common plants in your landscape.

This seminar will be a fast paced review focusing on the identification and placement of ornamental landscape plants & natives, to encourage sustainable landscape design practices. This offering will introduce species of the common native and non-native ornamental plants used in landscape architecture, horticulture, and urban forestry in New England. This seminar will approach plant identification from a horticultural perspective, covering basic plant morphology and botany to aid in the understanding of plant identification, also touching on the horticultural, cultural, and environmental requirements of each plant in relation to practical application.

Instructed by Nicole Forsyth, Norfolk County Agricultural High School Plant Science Instructor & Alumni. Workshop fee is $60 for Mass Hort members, $80 General Admission. Register online at www.masshort.org. In view of the continuing Covid-19 situation, please check the Mass Hort website for updated cancellation information before going.