Bring plants to swap and share, get gardening advice, or bring your over-sized produce to enter in the Incredible Crop Olympics, at Boston Natural Areas Network’s Fall Harvest Festival and Perennial Divide, Saturday, September 26, from 10 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon, at BNAN’s City Natives Nursery, 30 Edgewater Drive in Mattapan. Admission is free.  Divide your crowded perennials and bring pre-divided plants to the free plant swap. Bring your own containers. Volunteers will answer plant care questions, and you may purchase fresh, local produce and native plants. Tour the vegetable display beds and visit the woodland garden.
Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN), organized in 1977, works to preserve, expand and improve urban open space through community organizing, acquisition, ownership, programming, development and management of special kinds of urban land –
In all of its endeavors, BNAN is guided by local citizens advocating for their open spaces and assisting them to preserve and shape their communities.
For more information, call 617-542-7696, or email info@bostonnatural.org.