May 2011
30 posts
Learn Flower Arranging from the Pros at the Frog...
The World Association of Flower Arrangers is coming to Boston!
Learn flower arranging from a pro June 4th (Rain Date June 5), 10am – 2pm at the Frog Pond. Participants make their own bouquet and the flowers are free!
The Frog Pond will host a free flower arranging workshop for aspiring florists, brides-to-be, and all flower lovers who will have an opportunity to create their own arrangements...
How FGS Welcomes New Gardeners
FGS welcomed 16 new members in May. All had applied by the March 15th deadline, all were already active in the organization, having attended a Community Participation Day, and all completed an Applicant Information Session. They had not only expressed a real desire to garden, but a desire to garden with us. The board gets a pretty much constant stream of requests for gardens through the website...
FGS WINS $4000 GRANT FROM MHFNT FOR TEACHING...
FGS is honored to receive this generous contribution from MHFNT for constrcution of the FGS Teaching Garden (see plans here). MHFNT has been an invaluable partner over the years, and their continued moral and material support is vital to our growth as a community. We are also thrilled to announce our partnership in the Teaching Garden with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. The ENC Youth...
Forest Hills Educational Trust Seeks Volunteers!
Volunteers Needed Thursday, June 16 and Thursday, June 30,6-8:30 pm at the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain to Help Make Shades for the 13th annual Lantern Festival. If interested, contact j_clark@foresthillstrust.org.
Mass Audubon’s Moose Hill Nature Center Native...
Just in from Mass. Audubon Moose Hill Nature Center:
Enhance your garden with a variety of unique New England native plants at great prices. These plants are suited for full sun, deep shade or anything in between. We will have plants that attract hummingbirds and butterflies, and plants that are almost impossible to kill!
Native plants are the environmentally sound gardening choice since they...
BNAN Compost Coming Soon!
Many gardeners have been asking about our annual soil delivery. Some thought that the loam generously donated by Northeastern for the Accessible Garden was actually our annual “allotment” from Boston Natural Areas Network, and were disappointed to find it was not.
The fact is many gardeners I spoke to didn’t know where the rich compost we get every season came from! We get it from...
Thanks to All Who Came Out for Sunday's Community...
We had a strong turn-out for our second Community Participation Day yesterday, where we were joined by a crew from Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day, generous contributors to our Accessible Garden.
Around sixty volunteers from FGS, as well as crews from Northeastern and BU completed a number of important tasks, chief among them moving earth donated by the generous folks at NEU into the raised beds of...
Friends of Jamaica Pond →
The Call of the Loam
Had a great walkabout early this morning with Art Caputi, Landscape Supervisor for Northeastern and all-around good guy. Northeastern is donating the soil for our ADA-compliant Accessible Garden, which volunteers from FGS and Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day will be scooping up and filling the beds with at this Sunday’s Community Participation Day.
We’ll be there from 9-12 Sunday and...
Thanks to All Who Attended our First New Applicant...
Thanks to all for a great showing Sunday!
We had a strong group of Area Directors and Section Coordinators to show a big group of enthusiastic prospective new members around and give them a sense of what our community garden is all about.
Keep an eye on our homepage (www.fenwayvictorygardens.org) for future information sessions!
ALLocal Dinner with Boston Local Food!
Sign up for SBN’s 10th fabulous ALLocal Dinner at EVOO Restaurant in Kendall Square on Monday, June 13th.
Mark your calendar!
The 13th annual Lantern Festival! - Thursday, July 14th!
The naked Gardener on Radio Boston →
"The Olmsted Legacy: America's Urban Parks" at...
Check out this great documentary at the Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, Thursday, May 12, 7:00pm - 8:30pm.
The film will be followed by a Q & A with local luminaries featured in the film: Alan Banks, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Margaret Dyson, Boston Parks and Recreation Betsy Shure Gross, City Parks Alliance
Seating is limited! Get your tickets now!
April is a promise that May is bound to keep*..
The last weekend of April was a very busy one in the Victory Gardens and all along the Emerald Necklace Park System. For FGS the weekend kicked off with the arrival around 7 a.m. of a convoy of cherry-pickers from Maltby Arborists and a big crew of tree planters from City of Boston and Norfolk Aggie… A huge debt of gratitude to all of the above and the Massachusetts Arborists...
