Daily Archives: November 7, 2022

Thursday, November 17, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Second Annual Harvest Festival

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Please mark your calendars and plan to join your Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay neighbors at a special fundraiser party on November 17, 2022, 6pm to 9pm.

Once again, NABB is teaming with the Women’s Lunch Place (WLP), a women’s day shelter on Newbury Street, to produce their second Harvest Festival. In 2019 NABB and WLP held its first Harvest Festival, which garnered rave reviews from participants and the media and provided valuable support for NABB’s non-profit volunteer work and WLP’s shelter services. (Read the feature article on the event that appeared in The Boston Sun.)

This year’s joint benefit, which will feature music, a silent auction, cocktail reception and delicious dinner, will be held at the Women’s Lunch Place at 67 Newbury Street. The proceeds will support NABB’s civic work on homelessness, affordable housing, safety, and other civic issues, as well as WLP’s services for homeless and at-risk women. The Benefit Committee is planning a major publicity campaign to acknowledge sponsors and is now soliciting corporate and individual sponsorships. Individual tickets are $125 and sponsorships begin at $2,000. This is the only fundraiser of NABB since 2019. The Garden Club of the Back Bay is supporting the event with a donation of a holiday wreath certificate, so check it out!

Visit https://womenslunchplace.org/nabb) for more details, including sponsorships, suggested auction items to donate, and to purchase tickets.

Thursday, November 10, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – We Need to Talk About Honey Bees, Online

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To help ensure healthy ecosystems and successful harvests, pollinator conservation is essential. For many people, pollinator conservation is synonymous with the honey bee and beekeeping, but the story is bigger than that; much, much bigger than that. As we work to conserve pollinators, we need to ensure that our efforts are best directed where they are needed most, and not just at what is easiest to accomplish. While honey bees are important for our current agricultural systems, their role in our natural areas, and even in our urban and suburban areas, is more complicated. Join Xerces Society Senior Conservation Biologist Rich Hatfield on November 10 for an honest conversation about the unseen consequences that a focus on honey bees can have, and how we can focus our actions in ways that will create positive change, for all pollinators.

This webinar will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Closed Captioning will be available during this webinar.

Click here for more information and to register.

Friday & Saturday, November 11 & 12, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – CranFest – CANCELLED

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Massachusetts Cranberries and Plimoth Patuxet Museums are excited to present, in partnership—CranFest—a two-day festive celebration of the cranberry, its enduring history in the Commonwealth and role in the culture, livelihood, and culinary traditions of the region.Come enjoy all the fun seasonal activities that will take place on the grounds of Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Live music sets a festive mood all weekend long and each day has a different theme. Foodie Day on November 12 centers on lectures, culinary purveyors, food trucks, and local spirits tastings, highlighted by a Cranberry Recipe Competition. Established in 1888 to standardize the measure with which cranberries are sold, the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association is one of the country’s oldest farmers’ organizations. Today, the trade organization for Massachusetts Cranberries represents approximately 275 growers throughout Massachusetts. This unity has given growers both a single voice and collective strength in promoting the cranberry industry. NOTE: We have just learned the festival has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances but the museum hopes to be back with this event in 2023.