Join Green Cambridge for a week of free educational walks in the Alewife Brook Reservation, April 20 – 24. Learn about invasive plant species, local history, native biodiversity, and how to participate in the City Nature Challenge bioblitz on Friday, April 24. For complete information visit https://www.greencambridge.org
What can the presence (or absence) of greenery teach about the layered history of a place? Together, we walk and analyze the changing landscape, guided by evidence from significant trees in the neighborhood. The discussion addresses local inhabitants’ relationship to native plants over generations. This Native Plant Trust outdoor session with Courtney Allen takes place Wednesday, September 30 from 1:30 – 3:30. $30 for NPT members, $36 for nonmembers. Masks required. Meeting location will be shared following registration at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/tracing-landscape-history-cambridge/
What can the presence (or absence) of greenery teach about the layered history of a place? Together with Courtney Allen of the Native Plant Trust, we walk and analyze the changing landscape, guided by evidence from significant trees in the neighborhood. The discussion addresses local inhabitants’ relationship to native plants over generations. Wear walking shoes and dress for the weather. The class takes place June 28 from 1 – 3, is $24 for NPT members, $28 for nonmembers, and you’ll receive information on the starting address upon registration. http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/tracing-landscape-history-cambridge/
Please save the date, November 4, 2011 for The Esplanade Association’s 10th Anniversary Party with the TEA Council’s Night Owls, the young members group of The Esplanade Association. This will be one part of an organization-wide celebration happening that night at The Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, Massachusett.
More details on tickets, times, transportation, after party, and the committee are to come but get ready to celebrate The Charles River Esplanade on November 4th! Visit www.esplanadeassociation.org.
Entomologist, photographer, and intrepid world-traveler Mark Moffett explores the parallel between ant colonies and human societies in his latest book, Adventures with the Ants. From his travels to the Amazon, the Congo, Borneo, Australia, California and elsewhere, Moffett provides fascinating details on how ants live and dominate their ecosystems through strikingly human behaviors: hunting, fighting, building, recycling, and even creating marketplaces. Mark Moffett — “Dr. Bugs†— grew up in Beloit and graduated from Beloit College in 1979. His explorations of tropical forests and ecology have taken him around the world, from the top of the world’s tallest tree to deep in unexplored caves. He has discovered new plant and animal species while risking life and limb to find stories that make people fall in love with the unexpected in nature.
Moffett captivates audiences with first-hand stories of tropical ecology, treetop exploration, teamwork and goal accomplishment under extreme conditions, adventures under a rock (wonderful and weird stories of ants and spiders), and the love of nature and conservation. Television’s Stephen Colbert calls him “Ant-Man†and Conan O’Brien calls him a “frog-licker,†but Moffett calls himself a storyteller.
The lecture, followed by a book signing, will take place Tuesday, May 11, at 7 pm, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information you may call 617-495-3045, or email hmnhpr@oeb.harvard.edu.
The transition from hunting and gathering to food production was a seismic shift in human history. With it, we transformed the world. But how and when did this happen, and why is it important to understanding our current human condition? Bruce Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, will discuss his current research on agricultural origins — and how the story is more complicated than you’d expect. This free lecture will take place at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge, on Thursday, February 11, from 6:00 – 7:00 pm. For more information, log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu.
The First Parish Church, 3 Church Street in Cambridge will host an Earth Dinner potluck on Saturday, February 6, from 5 – 9 pm, which will feature local foods, with a Slow Foods Boston representative, local farmers, and food producers discussing the local food movement. For more information, log on to www.slowfoodboston.com, or call the church at 617-876-7772.
The Garden Club of the Back Bay is an institutional member of The College Club of Boston, and we are pleased to announce that the Club will hold A Fall Fashion Event featuring OKW of the South End (presenting women’s fashions) and Drinkwater’s of Cambridge presenting gentlemen’s fashions on Sunday, October 4, from 3 pm to 6 pm . There will also be a live auction including fashion items, fine jewelry and art work. Chef Jesse will be creating a fresh elegant tea menu for the occasion. Proceeds will benefit the Building Fund. For reservations and price information call The College Club 617 536-9510, or log on to www.thecollegeclubofboston.com.
On Monday, August 31, come to a fabulous collaboration between Bay End Farm in Buzzards Bay and The Blue Room in Cambridge. Know your roots! Go back to the “farm to table” movement – the Bay End Farm is putting one long table back in the middle of the farm. Join them amidst the beautiful farm of organic vegetables. You will be sitting anywhere from just a few feet to a few miles from where your dinner will be sourced and only yards from where it will be prepared. The hosts will be setting up the table out in the field and under the sun on a gorgeous late afternoon to feast on what the earth has offered. A farm tour begins at 3 pm, and the four course menu paired with organic wines dinner begins at 4. Cost is $75 per person ($65 if a Bay End Farm CSA member), and please note this is a bring your own plate event. The Blue Room chef Jorge Lopes will present his best work, and all proceeds from the dinner will facilitate Bay End Farm’s efforts to build their farm stand kitchen.
Click here to make RESERVATIONS online. You will be directed to the Blue Room’s reservation page – book for 3 PM. Or you may call 617-494-9034 for directions and to reserve.
