Boston Flora

Tag: Community Initiative

  • Friday and Saturday, August 21 & 22 – Boston GreenFest 2009

    Boston GreenFest 2009 will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 21 and 22, at Boston City Hall Plaza.  Global warming affects not only our planet, but our personal lives.  What does this mean for us?  How can we work together in our neighborhoods to change the future now?  Come have fun!  Learn and share new technologies and ideas that can immediately change our daily lives and help our planet at the same time.  Bring the family, friends and neighbors to the FREE Boston GreenFest 2009.  Wear green.

    There will be the One Gallon Challenge – a race from Greenfield to GreenFest.  On display will be a group of cars you’ve never seen before.  On Thursday, August 20, they will have “raced” 100 miles from Greenfield, MA to the festival on the energy of one gallon of gas.  The Museum of Science is offering reduced rates to visit the Museum for everyone who attends Boston GreenFest.  There will be Solar Energy Workshops, kids activities, the Boston Community Choir, the Nathan Hale Elementary School Choir, Ruff Ruffman from WGBH’s FETCH, Project Recycled Runway featuring Sam Mendoza and Sparklle (sic) Thames.  Meet Miss Earth Massachusetts (and not the former Miss California!), hear Jeff Wolfe, groSolar talk about the future of solar energy, and see a Kung Fu and Tai Chi demo by Yang’s Martial Arts Academy of Boston.  Walk through the amazing Time Tunnel, join a community greentable discussion, attend a Green Business Breakfast, attend Green Training Seminars, and see the Inconvenient Truth Slideshow Presentations in Spanish and English.  Play GEO (Green Earth Olympics), and enjoy Valet Bike Parking.  There will be Green Roofs and Living Walls, Organic Gardens, retrofit seminars, community initiative information, compost lessons, and much, much more.  For additional information log on to www.bostongreenfest.org.

  • Saturday, June 20, 9 – 12 – Community Garden Volunteer Day

    Come down to the Westport Town Farm on Saturday, June 20, from 9 am – noon,  to learn about The Trustees of Reservations’ new community initiative to grow and harvest food that will be donated to local social service agencies.  At Westport Town Farm, livestock graze on open fields that boast an expansive view of the Westport River.  An antique farmhouse, dairy barn, corn crib, and stone walls dating back to Colonial times complete the picture of this working farm that served as a “poor farm” and infirmary for more than 100 years.

    With its 10-acre working hayfield, extensive salt marsh, and broad tidal river, Westport Town Farm is not only scenic, but of historic and ecological value.  The farm’s dual legacy of nurturing those in need and raising vegetables and livestock weave together at this remarkable coastal landscape, where you’ll see ospreys, gulls, and the occasional bald eagle soar overhead.Learn about gardening and help grow the food! Volunteers welcome. For more information, call 508-636-5780, or email bioreserve@ttor.org. Free to all.