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  • Saturday, August 26 & Sunday, August 27, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Bee Weekend

    On August 26 and 27, enjoy exhibits, demonstrations, honey tastings, hands-on activities, games and much more as visitors to Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, learn about the fascinating world of bees and why they are important for our gardens. Free with admission. Interactive Displays feature:

    Pollinate New England, NE Wildflower Society: Learn to plant diverse, systemic pesticide-free native plants that support a wide variety of pollinators throughout their life cycles.
    Master Gardeners from the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association: Get answers to your gardening questions and tips for bee and pollinator friendly gardening.
    Blossoms by Bees: Learn about their mission to revitalize and protect the native flora population for pollinators through educational events and habitat conservation.
    Worcester County Beekeepers: The Worcester County Beekeepers Association has been a leader in beekeeping education for over one hundred years. They are the oldest county beekeeping organization in the United States, with members from all over New England. Through their beekeeping school, quarterly newsletters, monthly meetings and outreach activities, the club provides ongoing education for our members. Get more information at their Educational table.
    Brilliant Botany: Geared toward kids and families. Brilliant Botany is a resource for anyone interested in plants, and a means for building community. Brilliant Botany’s web content has been used by teachers, professors, and the general public to build knowledge about the amazing natural world that surrounds us. https://www.brilliantbotany.com/about/
    Crafts/Games: Enjoy bee-themed crafts and games about pollination in the garden.
    Scavenger Hunt: Children and visitors of all ages can enjoy exploring our grounds with a pollination-themed scavenger hunt.
    Collaborative Art Project: Each visitor will be able to add to our growing beehive! Decorate your own honeycomb cell to see what we can create together.
    Photo Booth
    Honey Tasting

    There will be lectures on pollinator-friendly gardening along with workshops on late summer containers and seed saving, plus extraction demos and a Bee Parade. Photo by jsmcelvery. For complete information visit www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Monday, May 16, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Bee Keeping Panel

    On Monday, May 16, beginning at 6 pm in the Boston Public Library Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, hear a Bee Keeping Panel with Joseph Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carrill, authors of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees, and Thomas Seeley, author of Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting.

    In The Bees in Your Backyard, Joseph Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril provide an engaging introduction to the roughly four thousand different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field. In Following the Wild Bees, world honeybee authority Thomas Seeley reintroduces readers to the lost pastime of bee hunting, explaining not only the “how-to” but the “how-come” of the sport. Requiring no costly equipment or prior experience, bee hunting offers anyone—whether beekeeper, naturalist, layman, adult, or child—a way to understand nature on a deeper level through an outdoor craft that many people once knew but few practice today.  Free admission.

  • Monday, September 24 – Monday, October 22, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – What’s the Buzz? An Urban Beekeeping Primer

    This Cambridge Center for Adult Education five session class with Mel Gadd (below) on Mondays, September 24 – October 22 from 6 – 8 will give an overview of urban beekeeping, covering a brief history of beekeeping, bee biology, and getting started in urban beekeeping. We will go over the basics of beekeeping, types of bee hives, equipment needed to get started, locating the hive, options for getting bees, starting the hive, first-year activities of the beekeeper, products of the hive, and resources available to new beekeepers, with the ultimate goal of participants being able to start keeping bees on their own next spring. Limited to 12. $138 tuition.  Register at www.ccae.org.  The class takes place at 42 Brattle Street in Cambridge.

  • Tuesday, September 20, 6:30 pm – Honey Harvest Dinner

    The InterContinental Hotel’s fifth floor roof deck apiary houses 100,000 plus bees, pollinating a four to five mile radius of the hotel, which radius includes the Rose Kennedy Greenway.  In honor of September being National Honey Month, Miel at the InterContinental will be hosting a Honey Harvest Dinner.  The evening includes a cocktail reception, a tutorial on bees, urban bee keeping, and an overview on honey.  Dinner is $75 per person and includes the cocktail reception and wine pairings.  Reservations can be made by calling Miel directly at 617-217-5151.

  • Saturday, April 9, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Hive Installation and Spring Management

    This introductory workshop on Saturday, April 9,  from 4:30 – 6 pm at the Boston Nature Center, 500 Walk Hill Street in Mattapan, will cover honeybee hive installation as well as springtime management for a newly installed hive. There will be a live demonstation of installing a package of honeybees. Feeding, life cycle of the colony, hive expansion will also be covered. Cost: $25 NOFA members/ $30 Non-members. *PLEASE NOTE: To provide participants with a live hive installation demonstration, the workshop date might change depending on hive package delivery. Because of flexible date, payment will be collected at the event. Pre-registration still required.  Also please be aware that this event was also listed as taking place from 12:30 – 2 pm, so checking again with nnacamuli@gmail.com is highly recommended.   And we couldn’t resist Amy Winehouse’s beehive hairdo.  Thank you www.dailymail.co.uk.

  • Sunday, July 25, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – The Incredible Edible Gardens of Somerville

    Somerville celebrates the talents and traditions of its urban farmers, with this 31-site tour of public and private edible gardens on Sunday, July 25, from 11 – 5. Gardening techniques will be demonstrated on composting, rain catching, bee keeping,and other topics throughout the day. The self-guided tour is sponsored by the Somerville Garden Club.  You may also email swilkins@mit.edu for more information.

    The Somerville Garden Club was founded in 1994 by a group of Somerville residents to promote home gardening as well as the horticultural possibilities of Somerville’s public spaces. Of the club’s over 200 members, some are experienced gardeners, some are beginners; some are residents of Somerville, and about a third come from surrounding communities. All gardening enthusiasts are welcome to participate in their activities.

    Tickets ($10) available July 1-24 at:
    ~Pemberton Garden Center, 2225 Mass Ave., Cambridge
    ~Sherman Cafe 257 Washington St., Somerville
    ~True Grounds, 717 Broadway, Somerville

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  • Saturday, May 15, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Spring Spectacular!

    Come to Natick Community Organic Farm on Saturday, May 15, from 10 – 3, rain or shine, for an old fashioned fair for the whole family, and seedling sale.  Enjoy live music by an all-youth line up of talented local performers, hayrides, nature based crafts, petting pasture, three-legged races, and other old fashioned games.  There will be wind-up boat races, talks, demonstrations, and workshops throughout the day on keeping chickens in your own backyard, organic bee keeping, composting with worms, and much more.  All this good food and outdoor fun will cost Natick Community GTarden members $6 for adults, $5 for children over 3, and nothing for children under 3. Prices for non members are equally modest: $10, $5 and $3, respectively.  For more information and directions call 508-655-2204, or email ncorganic@verizon.net.