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  • Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Taste of the Back Bay

    The 23rd Annual Taste of the Back Bay will take place Wednesday, April 25 from 6:30 – 9:30 at the Prudential Skywalk. This year a portion of the proceeds will benefit The Women’s Lunch Place. Musical entertainment provided by the Berklee College of Music. The Taste of the Back Bay is an annual sampling of the finest food and drink the Back Bay has to offer. For a lineup of participating restaurants visit http://www.nabbonline.com/event/taste_back_bay, where you can also buy tickets ($125 NABB members, $135 non-members, $150 at the door), No one under 21 years of age admitted. Premier Gold Sponsor is The Improper Bostonian, Silver Underwriter is The Boston Guardian, and Underwriters are Boston Duck Tours, Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, Boston Properties, Danker & Donohue Garage, The Druker Company, Ltd., Eversource, Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty, and UrbanMeritage.

  • Friday, April 21, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, and Saturday, April 22, 8:00 am – 11:45 am – UMass Earth Day & Arbor Day Celebration with Dr. Michael Dirr

    Join UMass Amherst Extension Landscape, Nursery & Urban Forestry Program for an Earth Day and Arbor Day Celebration with Dr. Michael Dirr. For most people who work with trees, Dr. Michael Dirr needs no introduction. He is the author of numerous books on woody plants that have become staples on our desks. He also has some New England roots, as he earned his PhD from UMass. His fingers are always on the pulse of the nursery industry, scouting for new introductions, and having himself introduced 15 trees into commerce.

    Michael Dirr is the author of seven books, including Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture and Propagation and Uses, a widely used and best-selling reference text, Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs, Hydrangeas for the American Gardener, and Viburnums: Flowering Shrubs for Every Season. A Mercer scholar, Dirr is considered one of the green industry’s most celebrated plant experts. An Emeritus Professor of Horticulture at the University of Georgia, his teaching, lectures, seminars, garden study tours and plant introduction programs have contributed greatly to industry awareness.

    He has established several arboreta, consults on tree selection, and has penned tree guides for many campuses. The green industry has tremendously benefited from his keen interest in evaluating trees and his enthusiasm to share it with us.

    Sponsored by: UMass Extension, the UMass Waugh Arboretum, and Eversource. Friday, April 21, 2017 – 2:00pm to 3:30pm, Saturday, April 22, 2017 – 8:00am to 11:45pm at UMass Amherst, 551 North Pleasant Street in Amherst. To register ($50), and for complete itinerary of events, visit http://ag.umass.edu/landscape/events/umass-earth-day-arbor-day-celebration-with-dr-michael-dirr

  • Tuesday, March 7, 8:00 am – 3:30 pm – 38th Annual UMass Community Tree Conference

    We are a tree club, and urban tree activists will be pleased to know about the 38th Annual UMass Community Tree Conference – Utilities, Communities, and Urban Trees: Partnerships in Practice, especially those of us who have been active in the fight to prevent methane leaks from destroying our trees and our environment. One of the featured speakers will be Calvin Layton (pictured) of Eversource speaking on Utilities & Communities in Partnership: Enhancing Public Safety & Protecting Trees from the Community Perspective. This one-day conference, to be held Tuesday, March 7 from 8 – 3:30 at Stockbridge Hall at UMass Amherst, is designed for tree care professionals, volunteers, and enthusiasts including arborists, tree wardens/municipal tree care specialists, foresters, landscape architects and shade tree committee members.

    The theme of this year’s conference will pertain to utilities and community trees. Topics will include: Design Solutions for Tree and Overhead Utility Conflicts, Utility Storm Resiliency, Communities and Utilities in Partnership for Urban Trees, and Updates from the UMass Diagnostic Lab.

    Sponsored by UMass Extension in cooperation with the UMass Dept. of Environmental Conservation, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and the USDA Forest Service Urban Natural Resources Institute. Registration is $90 for a single participant, and $75 for each additional registration from the same organization. For complete agenda visit www.ag.umass.edu.