Our mission: To protect, restore, maintain and promote the landscape, waterways and
parkways of the Emerald Necklace park system as special places for people to visit and enjoy.
Please excuse the misalignment of our webpages as we work toward our redesign.
For a full list of events for Spring 2008 please see our
Emerald Necklace E-vents! (click here)
Some upcoming events:
Tuesdays with Roses Tuesday, June 3, 5:30-7:30 pm and every Tuesday
Beginning June 3 and each Tuesday throughout the summer.
The program gives volunteers a chance to learn rose care from
gardeners and rosarians while keeping the roses beautiful.
Volunteers will dead-head and prune roses and weed the rose beds.
Sounds and Scenes Festival Saturday, June 7, 10:00 am-1:00 pm
Come out for a free family festival featuring concerts and
a variety of participatory activities geared primarily to young children.
All of the activities will directly or indirectly involve music,
sound or nature. Please visit http://www.brooklineadulted.org
for more information.
Olmsted Park’s Woodlands Volunteer Events Saturday June 7
This Conservancy will host volunteer events the first Saturday of each month, with
a rain date of the second Saturday. The exception is July –we will gather on the 12th.
Tasks will include: pulling garlic mustard, uprooting bittersweet to save trees,
spreading limestone and minerals, path maintenance, picking up litter,
uprooting buckthorn, and planting appropriate, native and Olmsted-selected
plants in autumn. Please contact Don Eunson, deunson@emeraldnecklace.org
for more information.
