Boston Flora

Tag: Urban Gardens

  • Thursday, March 26, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Eastern – Urban Gardening, Online

    Explore how to design an urban garden with an ecological mindset. This Native Plant Trust online session on March 26 from 5 – 6:30 will be led by landscape designer Shoma Haque. Students will learn the basics of gardening, plant choices, and design while keeping biodiversity and resource conservation in mind. New and experienced gardeners will learn how their gardening practices can have a positive impact on biodiversity even in small(er) urban spaces. $30. Register at https://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/hor2116-urban-gardening/

  • Thursday, March 16, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – We’re in a Tight Spot

    Join Amy Nyman at Garden in the Woods on Hemenway Street in Framingham on Thursday, March 16 at 11 am for this one-hour lecture to learn about native plants and design techniques that can be used to beautify small urban spaces. $13 for NEWFS members, $15 for nonmembers. Register online at www.newfs.org. Image from www.i.shelterness.com.

  • Saturday, March 18, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – 42nd Annual Gardeners’ Gathering

    The Trustees and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh present the 42nd Annual Gardeners’ Gathering on Saturday, March 18 from 11 – 4 at Northeaster University’s Shillman Hall.  Free and open to all, The Gardeners’ Gathering brings together over 400 gardeners to kick off Boston’s gardening season. The Gardeners’ Gathering is the city’s largest educational forum for urban gardeners, and an opportunity for people to share ideas, network, and learn.

    **Special guest speaker LaDonna Redmond, food justice activist**

    **Over 2 dozen skill building and community organizing workshops**

    **Boston environmental, agricultural, and community exhibitors**

    The Gardeners’ Gathering offers more than two-dozen skill-building workshops for both vegetable and ornamental gardeners, with an emphasis on healthy practices for urban gardens. Topics range from seed starting, composting, fermentation, and urban beekeeping to community and youth organizing. Attendees will also be able to interact with exhibitors from Boston-area agriculture, gardening, and environmental organizations.

    Special guest speaker LaDonna Redmond will address “Food and Justice–feeding ourselves in uncertain times” during the noon plenary and will participate in a roundtable discussion during the workshop sessions about food justice as a movement toward liberation, and ending oppression in our food system and beyond.

    For more information visit http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-29688.html

  • Saturday, September 17, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon – Urban Gardening Series: Planting Basics

    On Saturday, September 17 beginning at 10:30 pm, find out which plants thrive in an urban environment and which do not. Learn how to choose the healthiest plants at the nursery and then how to plant those trees, shrubs, and herbaceous species so that they will thrive for years.

    This New England Wild Flower Society class is part of our Urban Gardening Series a set of classes designed to help city dwellers grow healthy, sustainable, and beautiful urban gardens. Led by New England Wild Flower Society staff in partnership with the Cambridge Conservation Commission, these free classes take place in and around the Cambridge Public Main Library, Cambridge, MA. Mark Richardson, Director of Horticulture at NEWFS, will instruct. You may register at www.newfs.org. Fabulous urban gourd garden from www.4decorideas.com.

  • February 18 – March 2 – Explore Cuba: Environment, Botanical Gardens & National Parks

    Katherine Greenberg, Past President, Pacific Horticultural Foundation, will escort a tour to Cuba February 18 – March 2, 2010, under the auspices of Pacific Horticulture Magazine.

    Join like minded plant lovers for a long-awaited study tour of Cuba, where you  will visit the highly successful urban gardens of historic Havana, as well as the country’s national parks, important repositories of the island’s native flora. Cuba is the largest, most diverse, and species-rich island in the Caribbean. You’ll also enjoy the country’s cuisine, music, and culture. Meetings with Cubans will highlight the tour. All tour members must qualify to participate.

    Pacific Horticulture staff are working with a humanitarian organization, Global Exchange, to provide opportunities for those of you who work in the areas of horticulture, botanic gardens, or the environment to travel to Cuba as members of this information-gathering delegation. You must be a full-time or part-time professional or volunteer professional to qualify. Please contact them to receive an application to be a part of this exciting opportunity.  Global Exchange is a registered Travel Service Provider for Cuba with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department. This trip operates under their General License.

    Tour highlights will include visits to the Havana Botanic Garden, the La Terrazas reforestation project and the Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve for orchids at the Orquidarium Soroa (pictured below), a trip to Zapata, recognized as the finest wetland in the Caribbean with extraordinary plantlife and wildlife, Cinfuegos, a city on the south coast, the Sierra del Cambray Mountains, the colonial city of Trinidad, and more.  For a detailed itinerary, contact 510-849-1627, or email office@pacifichorticulture.org.