Join the Groveland Garden Club for Gardening Basics with Massachusetts Master Gardener Gretel Anspach, at 7:30 pm in the Little Red Schoolhouse, 26 Broad Street in Groveland. Learn about basic needs of your plants and find out how you can most easily meet the needs of your botanical companions for years of happiness in the garden. For more information on the Groveland Garden Club visit https://www.grovelandgarden.club/. Open to the public.
Join The Trustees for the World’s End Sunset Gala on Friday, September 18, 2026, and experience one of the South Shore’s most spectacular nights.
Enjoy an elegant dinner atop Planter’s Hill, breathtaking views of Boston Harbor, dancing under the evening sky, and a silent auction, all while supporting the care and stewardship of World’s End and The Trustees’ Southeast properties.
Every ticket helps protect the landscapes, trails, shorelines, and community spaces that connect people to nature and make this region so special. Tickets ($350) are available at https://thetrustees.org/program/we-dinner/
The Esplanade Association, in partnership with 2026 EA Annual Meeting Speaker and Naturalist and Garden Club of the Back Bay member Stephanie Fletcher, will lead two guided nature and photography walks through the park. We will walk around 1 mile, identifying species that call Esplanade home and learning how to photograph them. All ages and experience levels are welcome!
Bring your phones or professional cameras, binoculars, hand microscopes, or simply walk and listen along.
★ Tuesday, September 15 — 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
★ Thursday, October 8 — 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Please meet 10 minutes before the start time. The tour will start exactly at that time.
★ Starting: Union Boat Club Boathouse
★ Ending: Fairfield Footbridge (Approximately 1 mile walking distance)
The Urban Garden Project is holding a free webinar on Zoom on September 10 at 11 Eastern with Omar Brownson of the Los Angeles Community Garden Council.
How do community gardens remain self-governing while still receiving meaningful support? The Los Angeles Community Garden Council operates with one full-time staff member supporting nearly 2,000 gardeners across 40 volunteer-led gardens. This constraint has forced a design question that many garden networks now face: what systems are necessary—and which ones to let go of to support better local autonomy?
This workshop shares how LACGC experiments with lightweight systems of support—including peer learning, a self-guided Community Garden Manager Certificate (hosted on Mighty Networks) and a separate Garden AI prototype— to strengthen leadership, continuity, and shared standards without centralizing control. Participants will explore how different governance contexts (all-volunteer gardens vs. gardens supported by nonprofits or government agencies) call for different system designs—and how right-sized tools can support self-governance rather than replace it.
To register visit https://theurbangardenproject.world/connect-%26-learn-1
Join farmer, chef and educator Tracy Hayhurst for this farm-to-table class on Preserving on Sunday, September 20, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The participants will harvest from the BBG vegetable garden, then head into the kitchen with Hayhurst to make a multiple-course meal or in this case, preserved produce.
September is peak harvest time, and with fall around the corner, we want to save all the season’s goodness. We’ll cover several different preserving techniques, including fermentation and water-bath canning.
Tracy Hayhurst began her culinary training in the late 1990s, attending Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland. In 2002, she co-founded Chubby Bunny Farm in Falls Village, Conn. In 2015, she returned to the kitchen in her dual role as chef and community outreach director at Plantin’ Seeds, connecting farmers and the community through meals that highlighted the best of the season. Her passion for sharing both farming and cooking has led her to Husky Meadows Farm, first as farm manager and now as culinary director for Husky Meadows’ Seed and Spoon Culinary Farm Stay programming.
BBG members $90, nonmembers $110. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/farm-table-lunch-series-tracy-hayhurst-september-20. Image from Roger’s Gardens.
Tickets are now on sale on Eventbrite for our Evening with Author Robin Wall Kimmerer, generously sponsored by a Friend of Coastal Foodshed, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, Rockland Trust Bank, and Peabody Properties. Dr. Kimmerer will give a talk highlighting the importance of local food systems. She will also sign books afterwards – bring your own copy or purchase a copy at the event
The event takes place at Weatherlow Farms in Westport, Massachusetts. Tickets are on a Sliding Scale: $45 – $125. Click HERE.
We are hosting this event in partnership with @dnrt_ and Westport Land Conservation Trust and all proceeds will go to support stronger, more resilient local food systems.
The Kitchen Garden is dedicated to one of gardening’s oldest yet often overlooked forms of gardening. For over 12,000 years, humankind has domesticated and cultivated edible plants, yet the kitchen garden has long stood in the shadow of its ornamental counterparts. Recently, growing one’s own produce has seen a surge in popularity, propelled by renewed interest in organic food, self-sufficiency, and sustainable living, bringing this historic, practical, and increasingly influential garden type back into the spotlight. Toby Musgrave’s Garden Conservancy online presentation on September 22 at 2 pm Eastern will celebrate the art of the kitchen garden and provide attendees with inspiration and ideas for what to grow in gardens of all shapes and sizes. He will highlight the work of such renowned contemporary garden designers as Patrice Taravella of Babylonstoren in South Africa, Arne Maynard of Gordon Castle in the UK, Charles Dowding of Homeacres in the UK, and Charles Stick of Sleepy Cat Farm in the United States. He is an international authority on gardens and plant history, on which he has been widely published. His books for Phaidon include The Gardens: Elements and Styles and Green Escapes. He is also a garden designer, has presented on numerous television programs and is faculty lecturer at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. $5 Garden Conservancy members, $15 non members. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/events/web26-the-kitchen-garden-webinar-only
SPECIAL OFFER: If you’d like to purchase the book, The Kitchen Garden by Toby Musgrave, you will be provided with complimentary admission to the webinar. Price includes book, free shipping, and webinar admission. To take advantage of this offer, register here. $50.
September 12th & 13th, 2026 10:00 – 6:00PM, located at Long Plain Museum 1203 Main St. Acushnet, MA 02743
PARADE – Sunday Sept. 13th Departing from Pope Park at 10:00am and ending at the festival at 11:00am.
Visitors will be able to park in lots across from the fairgrounds off of Main St. There will also be free shuttle buses provided by the Festival, leaving from Acushnet Elementary School on Middle Rd. We highly recommend this option. The festival is free to the public, donations are always welcome.
Questions and all other inquiries: applepeachfest@gmail.com
The 28th Annual Garlic and Arts Festival will be held on September 26 and 27, from 10 – 5 each day, rain or shine, at Forster’s Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road in Orange, Massachusetts.
Here is what you will enjoy at the festival: Buy local, be local: support the bounty of over 100 booths featuring regional artists, farmers, and community organizations; strengthen communities by purchasing locally crafted and grown. Relax and celebrate life with great music, performance, spoken word, and dance on solar powered stages and throughout the rolling fields and forest. Learn and create through exhibitor demos, and new art and adventure activities for kids and families. Get silly with garlic games galore including the famous raw garlic-eating contest. Fill your belly with glorious, farm fresh and savory cuisine as you relax in the food courts overlooking the festivities. Energize your life with informative renewable energy and local living presentations, plus healing arts exhibitors. Orange is the New Green: trash free (well, only three bags for 10,000 people) with everything else recycled or transformed into fertile compost for gardens not garbage. Family friendly admission: $10.00 per day for adults, students $5.00, kids 12 and under free, free shuttle and parking too.
We love them but…remember, absolutely NO DOGs (other than service dogs) are allowed at the festival. Dogs cannot be left in cars for their safety- and it will be a warm weekend. And, Garlic Lovers are Hot but… No Smoking or Vaping in the shuttle bus lines or on the festival site.
Mission Statement: The North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival is a celebration of the artistic, agricultural and cultural bounty of the region. The purpose of the festival is to unite North Quabbin people whose livelihoods are connected to the land and the arts, and to invite both local residents and those who do not live in the region to experience the richness of an area that is often overlooked.
The festival emphasizes what is homegrown, handmade and high quality, as well as what helps preserve and support the environment and the community. Everyone involved – organizers, exhibitors, volunteers, performers, attendees, a supportive community – makes the festival what it is: an engaging, fun and educational celebration for all ages.
An all-volunteer committee composed of neighbors, artists, farmers, and community members meets year-round to organize The North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival. The Forster/ Stewart Family graciously hosts the festival at their beautiful, historic farm, and the festival is a non-profit event under the umbrella of Seeds of Solidarity Education Center. Over 200 volunteers the weekend of the event park, welcome, recycle, and support exhibitors; and exhibitors contribute time to raise tents, feed work crews, and more to help bring the festival to fruition. The festival admission is kept affordable to families, and is used to cover the costs of the festival, as well as support local projects that promote a vibrant North Quabbin region. For more information visit www.garlicandarts.org
Mark your calendars and join The Stone Living Lab for its fourth conference dedicated to nature-based approaches. The 2027 Stone Living Lab Conference will take place from April 28-30, 2027 at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Stay tuned for more information including the conference schedule, abstract submissions, speakers, breakout session topics, field trip options, and more! Visit https://stonelivinglab.org/
