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  • Wednesday, October 21, 9:00 am – 10:00 am and 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Healthy Halloween Treats

    The Trustees, Massachusetts’ largest conservation and preservation organization, announced an exciting line up of culinary, health, and wellness programs being offered throughout the month of October in the KITCHEN at the Boston Public Market on Congress Street in Boston. As the programming partner for the state-of-the art KITCHEN space at the nation’s only all-locally sourced Market of its kind, The Trustees offers programs during Market opening hours designed to connect Boston residents, commuters, and visitors to local food and healthy, active living. Programs include a diverse selection of free and paid hands-on classes and workshops, demos, lectures and special events. For a full line up of currently scheduled program offerings and to register, visit: thetrustees.org/KITCHEN. For more information, email kitcheninfo@thetrustees.org or call 617.542.7696 x2117.

    Getting our kids to eat healthy is a challenge most days of the year – during holidays like Halloween it can be even more difficult with all of the candy and junk foods that are available. The Art of Healthy Eating is happy to team up with the Boston Public Market to offer its Healthy Halloween class for children and their caregivers – a fun, interactive, and festive way to expose kids to wholesome plant based foods in a community setting. We will touch on topics such as why eating the rainbow is important, as well as why eating local is beneficial to our health as well as the environment. During this class children will have a chance to create and then enjoy their own works of festive, edible art featuring local plant based ingredients. Recommended for children ages 3 and up and their caregivers. Fee: Trustees of Reservations Members: $20 per family; Nonmembers: $25 per family. Image from www.famlii.com

  • Saturday, September 12, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Late Summer Night’s Dream

    Revel in the last of summer’s warmth at an elegant garden party in one of Jamaica Plain’s hidden gems, the Minton Stable Community Garden on Williams Street and Dungarven Road. Enjoy garden-inspired cocktails, hors d’oeuvre and music on Saturday, September 12 from 7 – 10. Members of the Trustees of Reservations $25, nonmembers $30. Register at http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-20732.html or call 617-542-7696, x 2115.

  • Friday – Sunday, July 24 – 26, 2:00 pm – I Go Forth Into My Garden

    Experience the vegetable garden first planted for the Hawthornes in 1842 by neighbor Henry David Thoreau. On this guided walk, you’ll hear about 19th century gardens, the special meaning gardening held for the Hawthornes, and how today the Gaining Ground organization maintains the historic garden. Offered Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, at 2PM, or by advanced reservation. Call 978. 369. 3909. The garden is located at The Old Manse  on Monument Street in Concord, Massachusetts. For directions visit http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-2795.html?. Image from www.gardentoursnewengland.com.

  • Sunday, February 2, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Tarts, Three Ways

    On Sunday, February 2, from 1 – 4, Jackie King, co-owner of A&J King Artisan Bakers in Salem, will show you the basics of tart production and assembly using three distinct methods. Based on the recipes and techniques outlined in her new book, Baking by Hand, participants will create three tarts from start to finish—to bring home or eat right away! This class is perfect for the aspiring pastry chef, sweet lover, or home cook. Join us for this inspiring workshop, then stop by the Appleton Farms Dairy Store to pick up your own copy of Baking by Hand.

    This event is part of the Appleton Cooks! program at Appleton Farms in Ipswich. Cost – Trustees of Reservations members $75, nonmembers $85. To register, and for directions, visit http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/northeast-ma/ac-tarts-3-ways.html, or call 978-356-5728, x 12.

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  • Castle Hill Grand Allee Landscape Restoration Completed

    The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees)  announced the completion of a three-year, sustainable landscape restoration of the Crane Estate’s “Grand Allée” located on Castle Hill – a National Historic Landmark – in Ipswich. Thanks to the generosity and hard work of talented staff, community partners, donors, and volunteers, The Trustees were able to carefully remove and replant more than 700 deteriorating, overgrown trees; reinvigorate an underground, rainwater collection cistern for sustainable irrigation; and restore the beautiful, classical sculptures lining the undulating, half-mile-long, “front lawn” of the Crane Estate. Since 1949, when the Crane family gifted Castle Hill to The Trustees, the Allée has become a popular and impressive backdrop for open-air concerts, weddings, historic house and landscape tours, community events, a children’s summer camp, and other recreational activities held year-round at the Crane Estate. Now, this signature landscape feature once again sweeps to a panoramic view of Cape Ann and benefits from a healthier, more sustainably managed landscape.

    The Grand Allée is the only known, designed landscape of its size and kind still in existence in North America – and one of only a few remaining worldwide – combining grand scale with decorative arts. It is one of the largest landscape features created by renowned Boston landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff, who is best known for his design of Colonial Williamsburg and the Charles River Esplanade. Shurcliff modeled the dramatic design after the beautiful Italian and French gardens of Renaissance Europe.

    The restoration project was completed in memory of David Crockett, a former member of The Trustees of Reservations’ Board of Governors and Ipswich resident whose tireless efforts on behalf of Castle Hill and the Crane Estate were critical in preserving this property. His commitment to the care of the Crane family’s extraordinary gift to The Trustees set the standard by which the property has been – and will continue to be – privately managed for the public to enjoy. The photo below shows the area circa 1930.

    Caring for the 2,100-acre Crane Estate property is ongoing. Over the years, The Trustees have conducted extensive restoration of other interior and exterior features of the Great House and surrounding landscape features on Castle Hill, including the Bowling Green, which was awarded $50,000 from The National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express Partners in Preservation program. The Allée restoration effort, however, represents one of the broadest, most expansive restoration and fundraising efforts ever undertaken on the property. In 2010, The Trustees launched a $2 million dollar campaign to restore this historically significant feature and welcome additional donations to complete the project. All donations are being matched by a generous donor, making individual support go twice as far. To donate, please visit http://www.thetrustees.org/alleeproject.