Tower Hill’s vegetable garden for 2015 highlights hot colors and flavors. Tour the garden on Wednesday, July 15 from 5 – 6. Free with admission. For more information visit www.towerhillbg.org.
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Sunday, August 17, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Fifth Annual Winchester Vegetable Garden Tour
The Fifth Annual Winchester Vegetable Garden Tour, a free self-guided tour of 11 home and community gardens, will occur Sunday August 17, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. See how home owners can raise their own produce in large and small plots, containers, raised beds, with all different ways to thwart critters (an electric fence) and irrigate (solar-powered well, rain-capturing system). Children’s Scavenger Hunt included: find garden objects, collect a prize at Soluna Herb, Spice and Tea Emporium. You too can practice seed to table gardening! Sponsored by the Winchester Farmers Market and Sustainable Winchester. Phone Number: 781-729-7552 for address information. Image from the Winchester Patch.
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Saturday, May 15, 2:00 pm – Vegetable Garden Preview at Tower Hill
The Vegetable Garden at Tower Hill is one of the Garden highlights of the summer season. For the past ten years, horticulturist Dawn Davies has been the force behind the plant selections and arrangements for this charming garden, and she has taken the displays to new and inspiring heights. Join Dawn on Saturday, May 15 at 2 pm for a sneak preview of the Vegetable Garden Healthy Harvest theme for 2010. Dawn shares tips and techniques for growing a bountiful, healthy and beautiful vegetable garden. Photo below of the Vegetable Garden at Tower Hill by Maria von Brincken, Landscape Designer. The tour is free with admission to Tower Hill. For more information, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.
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Saturday, September 26, 10 am – 2 pm – Fall Harvest Festival and Perennial Swap
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.