The best organic food is what’s grown closest to you. Use www.localhaarvest.org to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and other goodies. There is a fabulous catalog, links to CSA’s, restaurants, farms and grocery stores, and links to some very entertaining blogs.
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Saturday, March 14, 1 pm – Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd: Our Life in Gardens
Join renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd for an entertaining, fascinating, and highly personal account of over 30 years of experience in the making of North Hill, which garden historian Mac Griswold has called one of the ten best private gardens in North America. This lecture is both a biography of a mature garden and the autobiography of a relationship, but it also includes valuable information on garden design and on the cultivation of rare and unusual plants. The lecture will be followed by a book signing of their third and unexpectedly moving latest book written together, Our Life in Gardens, which contains much sound information about plants and garden design. There are sections about particular plants – roses and lilacs, snowdrops and cyclamen, and vegetables. There are also chapters on the development of their garden over time and the dark issue that weighs more and more on the authors: its eventual decline and demise. Tower Hill Members $9, Non-Members $10. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.
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Tuesday, March 10, 6-7 pm – Spice It Up!
Spice up your life with an A to Z tour of spices that explore the history, folklore and medicinal benefits of common culinary spices. RN/herbalist Bonnie Kavanagh will guide you in the creation of a healthy spice blend to bring home, along with the knowledge to improve your health with every meal. Workshop will meet in the Carriage House of Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum, 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island. $20 members of Blithewold, $25 nonmembers. For more information call 401-253-2707, or log on to www.blithewold.org.
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Thursday, April 2, 6:30 – 9:30 pm – Taste of the Back Bay
The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay invites you to the 14th Annual Taste of the Back Bay, Prudential Skywalk, from 6:30 – 9:30 pm. Benefit for NABB’s many community programs, with a portion of the proceeds this year donated to Horizons for Homeless Children. The Taste offers a sampling of the finest food and drink available in Back Bay and the surrounding area, including signature dishes, fine wine, and micro-brewed beer. Reservations are $75 for NABB members, $85 for nonmembers, and $100 day of the event, if available. Reservations can be made online through www.nabbonline.com, or by calling 617-247-3961.
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Saturday, March 14, 6-8 pm – Blooms Benefit Cocktail Party
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society invites you to the Blooms Benefit Cocktail Party at the Intercontinental Hotel, 510 Atlantic Avenue. Enjoy tapas and the music of the Bo Winiker Orchestra. Tickets are $75 each, and benefit the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, which is attempting to bring back the New England Spring Flower Show in 2010. Cocktail attire. Call 617-933-4995 to order tickets, or you may order online at www.masshort.org.
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Saturday, March 8 – 11 a.m. – Trips to Yunnan: Chinese Plants and How To Grow Them
Ted Elliman, who works at Garden in the Woods, is a very good botonist on New England flora, and also has travelled in Yunnan Province in China. This meeting will be held at Garden in the Woods in Framingham and is the monthly meeting of the New England Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society. Membership is $10 per year for members of NARGS. For more information, log on to www.nargs.org
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Saturday, February 28, 11-3 – New England Rose Society Meeting
Master rosarian Clarence Rhodes will present a program entitled “Anything About Roses”, and if you have ever had the privilege of hearing Clarence talk, you know he can talk about Anything and Everything! Clarence will regale listeners with tales of his adventures at Weeks Rose Nursery in California, and will be happy to answer all rose related questions. He always has some new gardening implement inventions on his drawing board, so preview what is coming up next. Coffee and pastries will be served. Reading Public Library, 64 Middlesex Avenue, Reading, Massachusetts. Enter the library from the rear of the building. Handicapped accessible. The meeting will be held on the second floor.
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March 12 – 22 – Blooms at Copley Place
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has announced the extension of “Blooms” to three Simon Malls venues, Copley Place, The Mall at Chestnut Hill, and the Atrium Mall, where the public is welcome to experience a variety of landscape and garden exhibits in common areas throughout the malls. Free and open to the public during regular mall hours. For more information, log on to www.masshort.org.
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Thursday, February 26, 7 pm – Flower & Patio Show Preview Night
Come to the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts for the Flower & Patio Show Charity and Preview Night. Some items to be auctioned include a rain water harvesting system, a 400 square foot patio, a pondless waterfall, irrigation system, plus cruises, tickets to sporting events, and gift certificates. All proceeds benefit Juvenile Diabetes and the Sterling Community Park. Live and Silent Auction begins at 7 pm. Tickets $20. Call 978-422-0071 to order tickets, or log on to www.sterlinggreenery.com/Events for charity.html