Please be on the lookout for the Black Swallow-wort (BSW) vine. It’s a non-native invader now infesting Newton. It can be found in many of your yards, hiding in hedges and shrubs and climbing fences. It reduces biodiversity and degrades … Read More
Category Archives: Farm & Garden
Saturday, September 30 from 8am-12pm. Nahanton Park Community Gardens Nursery, Newton. The Newton Tree Conservancy will be giving away small sapling trees from its nursery in Nahantan Park’s Community Gardens. Also, come meet NTC Director Matt Border who will help … Read More
Thursday, September 28, 6:00-7:30pm. Urban Farming Institute (487 Norfolk St, Mattapan). Join the Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative for the interactive educational workshop on how food justice impacts our daily lives and health, and what climate change has to do with … Read More
Thursday, September 28 from 7:30-9pm. Online. The panel will highlight some of the technical/economic/political/practical challenges and opportunities that we need to honestly face in order to make nature-based climate-improving strategies actually work at scale. Our hope is to raise the … Read More
September 14-17. Online. The Center for Biological Diversity is hosting the fourth annual free virtual Food Justice Film Festival from Sept 14 to 17. Each featured film explores the links between food justice, farmworker rights, worker protections, food access and … Read More
Tuesday, October 3 from 4-6pm. In person, Location TBD. Beautiful spring gardens start in the fall. This Newton Community Education class will cover planting bulbs for spring, what (and what not) to prune, how to deal with leaf litter and … Read More
We are all thinking of cleaning up the garden this time of year, with a focus on removing dead plants and preventing weeds from invading in the spring. Another thing to consider is how our yearly winterizing activities might affect … Read More
Saturday, September 9 from 9 am – 11 am. Wellington Park, West Newton (entrances on Kilburn Rd. and Princess Rd.). Come and learn about local efforts to help the endangered Monarch butterfly at the Third Annual Newton Monarch Festival. which will … Read More
Sunday, September 10 from 1-4pm. Multiple locations in Newton. Join gardening enthusiasts in the first Newton Pollinator Garden Tour, a free tour of public and private pollinator gardens in Newton. Attendees can drop in at the gardens during the corresponding … Read More
Reuters has produced an eye catching and clever explanation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Food Recovery Hierarchy and how we can use it to reduce our food waste and greenhouse gas emissions by keeping food out of landfills. Americans waste … Read More
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