Sunday, May 4, 9am-12pm. Woodcock Meadow in Nahanton Park. Green Newton invites you to be part of our clean-up crew for NewtonSERVES, an annual community service event. Join us at Woodcock Meadow in Nahanton Park to help protect native plants … Read More
No Mow May encourages people to leave their lawn undisturbed through the month of May to help bees and other pollinators that lack abundant food sources this time of year. This is one way to help provide a habitat for … Read More
Thursday, April 3, 7pm. Online. Experts Jennifer Forman-Orth and Doug Bidlack will talk with us about mosquito biology, the real science about what you can do to avoid getting mosquito bites, and how state mosquito control helps prevent exposure to … Read More
Saturday, April 26, 12-2. Charles River Esplanade (Storrow Dr, Boston). Newton South High School Key Club, a high school community service organization, is organizing a public clean-up of the Charles River to celebrate Earth Day. Individuals, families, and community groups … Read More
The Middlesex Conservation District is selling wildflowers, grasses, seeds, as well as fruits and other edible plants. All plants will come as plugs and tubelings. All of the native plant varieties are straight species, meaning that no cultivars will be … Read More
Spotted lanternfly (SLF) is an invasive sap-feeding insect from Asia that was first found in the United States in 2014, in Pennsylvania. While the main host plant of this pest is tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima), SLF attacks a variety of trees, … Read More
Saturday, April 12, 10am-12pm. Far southern end of Salisbury Beach (near Parking Lot 1), Salisbury, MA. The Surfrider Foundation is calling all volunteers for a spring beach cleanup. Come for an engaging day of toes in the sand with family, … Read More
Wednesday, January 22, 12-1pm. Online. The Dam Busters 201 series will start on January 22 with a webinar by Professor Noah Snyder of Boston College about his research on dam removal across New England. The series will continue on February … Read More
Tuesday, January 21, 6:30pm. In-person at the Newton Education Center, Conference Room 111, (100 Walnut St., Newton) and online. In a few months, the City of Newton will break ground on two green infrastructure projects to promote infiltration and reduce … Read More
Once the beauty of autumn trees has passed and the leaves have fallen to the ground, it is time to take action to keep leaves out of the water systems. Homeowners and communities can mulch, compost, bag and dispose, and … Read More
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