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  • Monday, February 15 – Sunday, February 21 – Oaxaca Garden Tour

    The Pacific Horticulture Society will travel to Mexico February 15 – 21, 2016. Visit Oaxaca, Mexico and you’ll quickly become entranced with its history and vibrant cultural traditions.

    The original inhabitants were known for textiles, ceramics, cuisine, and myriad plant use. In fact, corn and squash were first domesticated in this part of the Americas. A major destination on this tour is Jardin Etnobotanico de Oaxaca (pictured) — an ethnobotanical garden where you’ll experience breathtaking landscape design and also learn how plants have always interacted with the culture of this region.

    Your stay will be in Oaxaca’s Casa Antigua, a small, 19th-century traditional style hotel built around a courtyard and noted for their especially delicious breakfasts. It’s central location makes it the right location to explore this delightful town.

    A highlight of our visit will be a walking tour of the local food market to taste spices and regionally grown produce followed by a cooking class in the home of Susana Trilling, cookbook author and host of the PBS series Seasons of My Heart: A Culinary Journey through Oaxaca.

    You will be welcomed into the homes and studios of local artists and you’ll travel through the lush, fertile countryside to visit the village of San Martin Tilcajete, center for the delightful carved animals called “alebrjie.” You’ll also visit a ceramic workshop, a handmade paper factory, and a tinwork studio, another of Mexico’s colorful art forms created with precision and artistic flair.

    Immerse yourself in the world of colors, flavors, textures, landscapes, and plants on this trip to fascinating Oaxaca, Mexico. For complete details contact office@pacifichorticulture.org.

  • Sunday, August 9, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Planting the Seed for Our National Parks

    Planting the Seed for Our National Parks, The 150th Anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Yosemite Report, will be celebrated Sunday, August 9, 10:00–11:00am.
    Location: Outdoors, by a giant sequoia, Conifer Collection of the Arnold Arboretum, honoring the 150th anniversary of Olmsted’s Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865 and its vision for national parks

    Known to many for creating public parks in cities, Frederick Law Olmsted was also an important advocate for scenic preservation across America. In his 1865 report, Olmsted articulated – some say for the first time by anyone – the role of government in protecting and making accessible our nation’s scenic landscapes for the enjoyment of all people in a democracy. Join us in the landscape by a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) as we read aloud portions of the report with Olmsted’s eloquent and prescient prose on the actual anniversary of its first public reading by its author.

    Special guest reader: Dayton Duncan, Emmy Award-winning producer/writer of PBS’s The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Performers: Maliotis Chamber Players, flute ensemble; Diane Edgecomb & Margot Chamberlain, Celtic harp and spoken word.

    Parking: Park on Bussey Street. Enter the Arboretum through the Bussey Street or Walter Street Gates and follow signs for Conifer Path to the giant sequoia.

    Public Transportation: Take the T to Forest Hills. Exit the T station on the upper level. Cross Washington Street and enter the Arboretum through the Washington Street Gate. Follow Blackwell Foot Path to South Street. Cross South Street to reenter the Arboretum. Turn left at the intersection on Hemlock Hill Road and follow signs to the event.

    Note: bring a low chair or cushion to sit upon. Wear comfortable walking shoes as Conifer Path traverses a steep incline. For general information: www.nps.gov/frla, 617-566-1689

    For directions and parking information: www.arboretum.harvard.edu, 617-384-5209. Co-sponsored by Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. This program is made possible in part by generous support from the Friends of Fairsted.

  • Wednesday, May 6 – Farmers, Fables & Feasts

    The Food Project welcomes you to a lively evening of delicious food and inspiring stories from our youth at our third annual fundraiser, Farmers, Fables & Feasts, to be held Wednesday, May 6 at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, 100 West 2nd Street in South Boston. Join them as they celebrate the remarkable accomplishments they have achieved empowering youth, serving local communities, and stewarding over 70 acres of urban and suburban farmland in the Greater Boston and North Shore regions.

    The event will also pay tribute to Byron Hurt–filmmaker, writer, and activist–by honoring him with The Food Project’s 2015 Leadership Award. Mr. Hurt’s latest film, Soul Food Junkies, premiered on the PBS Emmy award-winning series, Independent Lens, and has been the recipient of a CNN documentary award.

    Please help support The Food Project’s work with youth, food and the community. The Channel Center Garage, located at 116 West 1st Street, is just a 2 minute walk from the EpiCenter and offers $8 parking after 6 pm. Purchase tickets at http://www.benefit.thefoodproject.org/purchase-tickets/

  • Thursday, February 26, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Frederick Law Olmsted and the Massachusetts Legacy

    Alan Banks of the National Park Service will be at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on Thursday, February 26, from 7 – 8:30, to present on the firm Frederick Law Olmsted founded over a century ago which was involved in over 1,200 landscape architecture projects throughout Massachusetts, ranging from expansive 500-acre public parks to intimate private gardens. One of its greatest achievements is a six-mile “emerald necklace” of ponds, parks, and parkways that winds its way through Boston. This one-hour slide lecture will sample this rich landscape legacy and explore the ideas that shaped some of the most treasured lands in Massachusetts – including the work of the firm for the Baltzell family at Elm Bank.

    Alan S. Banks oversees the historical interpretation of Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts. During the last 23 years he has researched and developed a variety of landscape walking tours, slide lectures and presentations on the Olmsteds and their work across the country. In 2010, he was an invited speaker at the Appalachian Institute at Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and later that year he traveled to Milwaukee to speak on Olmsted-designed, Lake Park. Last year he was the keynote speaker at the regional meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects in Atlanta. He also recently was seen on Olmsted and America’s Urban Parks, a documentary screened on PBS across the country featuring Kevin Kline and Kerry Washington.

    Lecture Fee: Mass Hort Members $10, Non-Members $15. The lecture will take place in the Parkman Room of the Elm Bank Education Building, Washington Street in Wellesley. Register online at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/140/422|427|430|433/frederick-law-olmsted-the-massachusetts-legacy?filter_reset=1.

  • Tuesday, November 13, 10:00 am – Immortal Garden

    Gloria Lieberman, world-renowned expert on antique jewelry, will trace the different ways that floral motifs are incorporated into jewelry designs. She will cover all different periods and some of the more prominent retailers’ designs. Lieberman’s many television appearances include the BBC’s The Great Antiques Hunt, the PBS series The Antiques Roadshow, and the Boston-based series Chronicle. The program is presented at the South Church Fellowship Hall, 41 Central Street, Andover, on Tuesday, November 13, beginning at 10 am, and is sponsored by the Andover Garden Club.  Free for members of the Andover Garden Club, non-members $10.

  • Tuesday, June 26, 7:00 pm – Natural History of the Chicken

    The Harvard Museum of Natural History will present a free film screening of Natural History of the Chicken on Tuesday, June 26, beginning at 7 pm.  This is a PBS documentary that examines the unique natural and cultural history of the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) from its life cycle to the modern-day poultry industry.  The Museum is located at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, and you may visit the website, www.hmnh.harvard.edu, for directions and parking information.

  • Tuesday, February 28, 6:45 pm – Grow What You Eat

    The Norwood Evening Garden Club will host biologist, gardener, writer, and entertaining storyteller, Roger Swain, on Tuesday February 28, at 6:45 p.m. at the Carriage House behind the First Baptist Church, 71 Bond Street, Norwood. The public is invited to attend. A $10.00 donation is requested.

    Recognized by millions of people as the man with the red suspenders, Mr. Swain is the former host of the popular PBS-TV horticulture show, The Victory Garden, and long-time science editor of Horticulture magazine. He will speak on his favorite topic, vegetable gardening, encouraging listeners to Grow What You Eat. Mr. Swain has penned four books on gardening for which he received the American Horticultural Society’s award for writing. He is also the recipient of a Massachusetts Horticultural Society gold medal for his power to inspire others.

    When he is not writing, lecturing or being filmed for television, Mr. Swain can be happily found working in his own gardens, either at his home outside Boston or at his farm in southern New Hampshire. For information about the Norwood Evening Garden Cub, contact Susan Pearson at 508-668-4039 or visit www.NorwoodEveningGardenClub.com.

  • Saturday, July 16, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Gilmanton Year-Round Library Garden Tour

    Tour Patty Humphrey’s gardens, featured in New Hampshire Home magazine, and listen to Roger Swain, former host of PBS’s The Victory Garden, for a $35 donation that includes a box lunch, on Saturday, July 16, from 10 – 3, in support of the Gilmanton Year-Round Library, 1385 Route 140, Gilmanton, New Hampshire.  The event will take place at 78 Garvin Hill Road in Chichester, New Hampshire.  For tickets and information, contact Susan Barr at susan.barr75@gmail.com, or call 603-267-1905.

  • Wednesday, March 30, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Working with Stone: Creating a Connection with the Spirit of Place

    Rescheduled from February 1 due to snow. The gardener’s perspective is the perfect loci for seeking inward and reaching outward, for ordering the experience of time and space, and observing higher orders.  Dan Snow is a designer of outdoor spaces in stone, and an art maker specializing is dry stone constructions.  He is the author of In the Company of Stone and Listening to Stone—Hardy Structures, Perilous Follies, and Other Tangles with Nature and the subject of the PBS documentary Stone Rising.  Working solo to build garden walls and dry stone features, Master Craftsman Dan Snow finds that the most successful designs are born of an intimate relationship with the landscape and knowledge and understanding of the materials at hand. Dan’s presentation will examine the many uses of stone in the garden; how stone can support a garden design, or simply be the garden itself. Illustrated with images of his work, the presentation will also explore the “give and take” experience of working in nature, and the connection to spirit expressed through stone.  Book-signing to follow. Co-sponsored by Trinity Church and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

    The lecture and reception will now take place Wednesday, March 30, beginning at 7 pm. Tickets $20 member, $25 non member, available at The Shop at Trinity (206 Clarendon Street, lower level), by phone (617.536.0944 x225) or online arboretum.harvard.edu. Questions: Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann, 617.536.0944 x217 or kacerbobachmann@trinitychurchboston.org.  The beautiful photo below of Dan Snow’s work in Vermont is by Peter Mauss.

  • Thursday, June 24, 10:00 am – Toad Cottages and Shooting Stars Workshop

    On Thursday, June 24, beginning at 10 am at Highfield Hall in Falmouth, join Sharon Lovejoy and Page Edmunds for a Green Parents and Grandparents Workshop entitled “Toad Cottages and Shooting Stars Workshop: Child-Friendly Activities for Green Parents.”

    Sharon Lovejoy is an author, illustrator, lecturer, teacher and children’s garden adviser to the American Horticultural Society. She has been a guest on Today at NBC, PBS’s Victory Garden, and the Discovery Channel. She has four grandchildren, and divides her time between San Luis Obispo, California, and South Bristol, Maine. Sharon and Page Edmunds of Workman Publishing will lead workshop participants through a variety of activities that will help you to turn an hour, a day, a weekend into a lifelong memory. Sharon’s book contains 130 hands-on activities that connect grandparents and grandchildren through nature – in the kitchen, the garden and the art room. Participants will receive a book and activity kit (included in the registration fee), and will preview some of the hands-on activities that can be done with children. [This is a workshop for adults only.] Please register online now at www.highfieldhall.org or call 508-495-1878, ext. 313 to reserve your place. $15 per person includes the book and activity kit.

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