Boston Flora

Category: Volunteer Opportunity

  • Saturday, September 28, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – Urban Agriculture and Climate Justice Fair

    Join The City of Boston, The Trustees, and Grow Boston on September 28 at Nightingale Park for a day of celebrating and learning about urban agriculture and climate justice work across Boston. This fair will have climate justice related activities and games and hands-on demos, like apple cider pressing and pickling. Enjoy food from Fresh Food Generation, music by Tjovi Ginen and fresh produce sold from local urban farms. Submit your most impressive harvests to our urban vegetable competition and win a prize! Fun and learning for all ages. Free & Welcome to all.

    Co-hosted by a coalition of organizations including: Mothers out Front, Save the Harbor Save the Bay, The Food Project, Bowdoin St Health Center, Resonant Energy, Grow Boston, Extinction Rebellion, Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp, ABCD, Dorchester Food Coop, Agriculture Hall, Boston Area Beekeepers, and more. 

    Harvest Competition Details:

    Please bring your submissions by 10:30 a.m.

    Bring produce from community gardens, urban home gardens, and urban farms to the fair this fall! Win prizes in each category listed below.

    Fruits and Berries

    Preserved Foods (canned, fermented and pickled foods)

    Flowers and Herbs (bouquet)

    Honey

    Oddly Shaped Vegetable

    General Produce

    Junior Category

    Registration Page: Urban Agriculture & Climate Fair – The Trustees of Reservations

    Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/share/CukekH5Z5mEFykYW/

  • Thursday, July 25, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Grassroots Advocacy for Climate Change, Online

    Join a free online session on July 25 at 7 pm to learn about Mass Audubon’s grassroots advocacy program, Climate and Nature Champions, that mobilizes individuals across Massachusetts to speak with one voice on the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Whether you have been an advocate before or are new to this work, you can help Mass Audubon fight for land and wildlife protections and climate & nature policies by engaging in our current advocacy campaigns to advance smart solar siting, restore horseshoe crabs, and rescue raptors from rodenticide.

    Levels of participation vary from emailing your representative on a priority issue to organizing a local community around a specific campaign. Join us to learn more and get involved! Register at www.massaudubon.org

  • Wednesday, July 17, 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm, & Tuesday, July 23, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Eastern – Biodiversity: Conservation Goals for the Commonwealth, Online

    Help shape a transformative, whole-of-government approach to biodiversity conservation in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Fish & Game will share a brief update on their progress and turn it over to you to hear your thoughts, ideas, and priorities. Free. Register at https://mass.gov/biodiversity Two sessions, afternoon and evening, for you to choose from. Links will be sent to registrants.

  • Thursday, June 20, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm – Daylight Hour

    Daylight Hour (@daylight_hour) is a global campaign by the Building Energy Exchange (@beex_ny) that saves energy, decreases carbon emissions, and improves well being by turning off the lights and letting daylight in. On June 20, participants from all over the world will turn off their office lights for one hour (12 – 1pm local time).

    The fun and simple action recognizes our collective power to improve sustainability and well being in our built environment. This year, the initiative aims to save 40 Empire State Buildings’ worth of energy in one hour!

  • Tuesday, June 11, 11:00 am – Public Launch of the Henry Lee Fund for Boston Parks

    The Friends of the Public Garden invite you to the public launch of the Henry Lee Fund for Boston Parks, on Tuesday, June 11 at 11 am at the Parkman Bandstand in the Public Garden. Learn more at https://friendsofthepublicgarden.org/leefund/

    The Henry Lee Fund for Boston Parks will provide small grants for tree and sculpture care and support special projects in public greenspaces in underserved neighborhoods throughout Boston.  At the heart of the Lee Fund is a commitment to equity in the quality of our public greenspaces. Henry led the charge to ensure that the Public Garden, the Boston Common, and the Commonwealth Avenue Mall are healthy and vibrant public spaces. Yet beyond these greenspaces, his civic vision of the health of all of Boston’s parks will inspire our outreach to community groups, advocates, and other nonprofit organizations to ensure that Lee Fund grants will spread his impact to the citizens and neighborhoods that need it most. 

  • Saturday, June 1, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm – Spring Fest

    Join the Brookline DPW at Brookline’s third-annual Spring Fest on Saturday, June 1st at Fisher Hill Reservoir Park from 11 AM to 2 PM. Spring Fest 2024 is a call for environmental action and we urge you to join us as we “BEE the change you want to see in Brookline!” Learn about how you can contribute to protecting our pollinators, and the exciting community work that’s being done by our partners such as Brookline GreenSpace Alliance, Brookline Mothers Out Front, Brookline Rotary Club, and many others. The event will include environmental education activities, yard games, crafting stations, a tree ID walk, food, and music. Free.

  • Sunday, May 19, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Let’s Go Bugging

    Do you enjoy the wildflowers of urban parks or your own garden? Ever wonder which types of pollinators also enjoy them? Join participatory scientists from Earthwise Aware (EwA) and Ranger Tim at Lusitania Meadow, 615 Concord Avenue in Cambridge, to learn how you can help document arthropod activity around Fresh Pond and in your neighborhood. Spend part of your afternoon with us in the meadow, learning how to identify arthropods and their host plants. Discover how to document their activity, length, abundance, and developmental stage. The program is on May 19 beginning at 1 pm.

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  • Friday, May 10 – Saturday, May 11 – Mass Audubon’s Bird-a-thon

    For 40 years, Bird-a-thon has brought birders, nature-lovers, and families together to celebrate nature and raise funds that provide essential year-round support for Mass Audubon’s conservation, nature education, and advocacy work. This year’s event will take place May 10 – May 11.

    No matter if you join for the fun of it or for the thrill of competition (or both!), every team member has the opportunity to enjoy birds while raising or donating essential funds for Mass Audubon.

    This year, we’re making it easier than ever to participate in Bird-a-thon! You can join one of 11 teams to take part in a series of birding competitions, you can fundraise for your team, you can donate to your favorite team, you can join a Bird-a-thon program, or all of the above!

    Be sure to check out the latest guidelines and awards to see what’s new this year. Visit www.massaudubon.org

  • Now through noon, April 17 – Vote the Charles River Esplanade the Best Riverwalk of 2024

  • Wednesday, April 3, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Eastern – Herring Count Training Session, Online

    ATTEND THE CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION’S HERRING COUNT TRAINING SESSION ON APRIL 3.

    Want to participate in the 2024 herring count? Join this free training session to learn about the Charles River herring and how to be a fish monitoring volunteer.

    We’ll hear from John Sheppard from the MA Division of Marine Fisheries and CRWA Senior Restoration Program Manager Lisa Kumpf on the importance of volunteer herring counting and a “Fish Monitoring 101” outline on everything you need to know about becoming a volunteer fish counter. To register, visit https://www.crwa.org/events/herring-count-training-session