Event: FensFest 2011 9/10/11

Fenway Victory Garden's Annual FensFest is this Saturday - September 10th from 11-3 rain or shine.  Check out the great "simply stated" event postcard created by Emily Harris! For more information visit http://www.fenwayvictorygardens.com/

Event: Cambridge Urban Ag-Fair 9/18/2011

While in Harvard Square running errands and picking up fresh summer rolls from Le's (yum!) I noticed the below poster:

On Sunday, September 18th the Third Annual Urban Ag-Fair returns to Harvard Square. I remember hearing about it last year, but was unable to attend.  It looks like a great event, celebrating everything local. Unfortunately, this is the same day as another great event I plan on attending in NH - the Fidelity Jumper Classic.  Hopefully I can somehow attend both!

The "judged competition - enter your own home-grown flowers, vegetables, fruit, eggs & pickles" also caught my eye.  After all, I already grew a prize-winning cabbage!  I am not sure what I will have left growing in my garden by the 18th, but I would love to enter something.  Changes are it would be an eggplant considering I really only have eggplant, tomatillos and tomatoes left. 


For more information check out: http://www.urbanagfair.com/

Event : Garden Party & Flower Arranging at Frog Pond

Venture down to Frog Pond in the Boston Common on Saturday, June 4th from 10am-2pm for a free flower-arranging demonstration and workshop. Pre-registration is encouraged and can be done here.

In anticipation of Boston’s hosting the World Association of Flower Arrangers (WAFA), the Frog Pond will host a free flower-arranging workshop taught by a designer from the Cass School of Flower Design in Watertown. Create your own beautiful flower arrangement at no charge.

It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day - cool but sunny, and there should be plenty of baby ducklings and geese to see!

Gearing up for Farmers Markets

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for Mass Farmers Markets (MFM) 2011 Events:

• Tues, May 17th: OPENING DAY at the COPLEY SQ MARKET!

• Mon, May 23rd: OPENING DAY at the CENTRAL SQ MARKET!


• Wed, May 25th: OPENING DAY for the DAVIS SQ MARKET,and BENEFIT NIGHT for MFM at Flatbread at Sacco's Bowl Haven in Somerville


• June 10th through July 3rd: The 4th annual Strawberry Dessert Festival


• Wed. TBD in Aug or Sept: Redbones BBQ grills fresh+local veggies at the Davis Sq. Market. All proceeds to Mass Farmers Markets.


• Sept 16 - Oct 2: The Big E, West Springfield. Mass Farmers Markets provides healthy food and ag info at the country's 5th largest agricultural fair!


• Thurs or Fri in Oct or Nov: 4th Annual Urban Barn Dance in Kendall Square, Cambridge: a fun-filled celebration of the harvest with a locally sourced buffet meal, live music, and contra dancing!

for additional information or to find your nearest market, check out www.massfarmersmarkets.org

Haymarket, Boston

Events: Upcoming Events, Workshops, Classes & Volunteer Opps

I love that there are so many workshops, community events and seminars happening around Boston. Many events are free, so tune in to your town or even search boston.com. I tried to put together a list of a few that I found. I will definitely will not be able to catch all events, but will try to keep this list as comprehensive as possible!

• BNAN Seed, Sow & Grow Program Series (events now through October), free
  
• Every Saturday (April-October) - 11am-3pm: Lessons at the FVG Teaching Gardens, free
  
• NEW - May 14, 2011 - 12-6pm: Bikeride and screening of "Greenhorns;" Somerville; bikeride-free, movie screening $5
  
• May 14-15, 2011: The Gardener's Weekend; An overnight gardening experience at the MIT Endicott House; $199 per person.
  
• May 22, 2011 - 9am-noon: FVG Community Participation Day, volunteer opportunity
• May 22, 2011 - 9am-4pm: 27th Annual MA Horticultural Society Plant Sale & Tomatomania
• June 25, 3011 - 9am-noon: FVG Community Participation Day, volunteer opportunity
• June 28, 2011 - 9am: Help the Somerville Growing Center; volunteer opportunity
• June 1, 2011 - 6:30pm: Nibbling on Natives in Your Backyard and Beyond, Cambridge Public Library; Free.
• September 10, 2011: FVG Fensfest, Boston, free
  
• September 24, 2011 - 9am-noon: FVG Community Participation Day, volunteer opportunity
• October 23, 2011 - 9am-noon: FVG Community Participation Day, volunteer opportunity

Event: Gardeners Gathering

It is time once again for the...

36th BNAN Annual Gardeners Gathering
Saturday, March 26th
11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Curry Student Center
Northeastern University, Boston
Free, walk-in registration

Kick off the gardening season by joining over 300 community and residential gardeners for plenary sessions, workshops, community gardener awards, information gallery, door prizes, and much more. Click here for more information INCLUDING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE.

At noon Mayor Menino will welcome the gardeners and present this year's community gardener awards. Be sure to be there! Bring your gardening friends, free event, all are welcome.

I have attended this event for the past two years and always have learned lots of tips and techniques. I am excited to attend the sessions about canning, composting and bee keeping!

Success at FensFest!

The Fenway Garden Society made the right call when deciding to postpone the FensFest until Sunday. We received 3 inches of rain between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening! Thanks to my new rain gauge I will now know how much rain we get!

We had a gorgeous day to celebrate FensFest! With steel drums playing in the background, the grill was hot, the 'white elephant' table was stocked with used treasures, and everyone had the chance to win fabulous raffle prizes! Gardeners, families, friends and passers-by stopped by to wander through the gardens and enjoy the festivities.

I entered one of my Savoy Ace green cabbages in the produce contest! It won "Best Vegetable"!

Success! I was thrilled to win "Best New Gardener" for my section.

Thanks to everyone that came out! I loved showing you around!

Come to FensFest 2009!

To anyone in the Boston area, the Fenway Victory Garden Society invites you to the FensFest on Sunday, September 13th* from 11:00am-3:00pm.

Activities:
~ Listen to live music
~ Enjoy the free cookout
~ Get a bargain at our White Elephant Sale
~ Buy chances for great raffle prizes
~ Bring your children to get their faces painted
~ Watch the Garden Awards
~ Have a fun day in the Park!

Map

FensFest is open to the public and is hosted by the Fenway Garden Society in cooperation with the Boston Parks Department, and funded through a generous grant from the National Land Trust Foundation.