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  • Olmsted Now Public Dialogue: WHO Has Public Greenspace Been For?

    District Hall Boston 75 Northern Ave, Boston, MA, United States
    Partner Events

    In collaboration with King Boston’s Embrace Ideas Festival, Olmsted Now’s coalition co-organizers’ Emerald Necklace Conservancy and Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site present a free dialogue with today’s foremost scholars thinking about Boston’s park system-designer Frederick Law Olmsted at the intersection of greenspace, abolition and racial justice. Join Stephen Gray and Ethan Carr as they […]

  • Tuesdays With Roses

    Kelleher Rose Garden Back Bay Fens, Boston, MA
    Conservancy Events

    Join Emerald Necklace Conservancy staff and volunteers in the Kelleher Rose Garden to deadhead and prune roses and to weed the rose beds and borders. Training and tools are provided. Registration is required in order to participate. Those who register will automatically receive an email with further details, including the necessary waiver to sign and specific information […]

  • New Trees and a Brighter Tomorrow for Charlesgate

    "The Grove" at Charlesgate Park 4 Charlesgate East, Boston, MA
    Conservancy Events

      Come celebrate the latest milestone achievements and a bright future for Charlesgate Park, including 15 newly planted, community-sponsored trees and recently proposed investments by the Commonwealth’s MassDOT for transformation along the Charles River and over the Mass Pike. (Rain Date: Wednesday, June 29 at 1:30PM)  

  • Tuesdays With Roses

    Kelleher Rose Garden Back Bay Fens, Boston, MA
    Conservancy Events

    Join Emerald Necklace Conservancy staff and volunteers in the Kelleher Rose Garden to deadhead and prune roses and to weed the rose beds and borders. Training and tools are provided. Registration is required in order to participate. Those who register will automatically receive an email with further details, including the necessary waiver to sign and specific information […]

  • Olmsted Summer Sundays with a Visiting Park Ranger

    Shattuck Visitor Center 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States
    Conservancy Events

    For Frederick Law Olmsted’s Bicentennial in 2022, park rangers from Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline are partnering with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy on a new interpretive program. Stop by the Shattuck Visitor Center from 10AM to 4PM each Sunday this summer to meet a park ranger and learn about Olmsted’s “most important […]

  • Tuesdays With Roses

    Kelleher Rose Garden Back Bay Fens, Boston, MA
    Conservancy Events

    Join Emerald Necklace Conservancy staff and volunteers in the Kelleher Rose Garden to deadhead and prune roses and to weed the rose beds and borders. Training and tools are provided. Registration is required in order to participate. Those who register will automatically receive an email with further details, including the necessary waiver to sign and specific information […]

  • Parks as Platform: Fenway Porchfest in the Back Bay Fens

    Back Bay Fens 100 Park Drive, Boston, MA, United States
    Partner Events

    For Olmsted Now, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy expands its annual free event series Summer on the Emerald Necklace into a shared resource for cross-neighborhood collaboration and community-generated public events from April through October 2022. Each month, the Conservancy will collaborate with a site partner to anchor programming with extra support: securing permits, coordinating volunteers and providing amenities like […]

  • Fenway Porchfest Tour: Historic Treasures of the Back Bay Fens

    Shattuck Visitor Center 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States
    Conservancy Events

    This tour is held as part of our July Parks as Platform event, in partnership with Fenway Porchfest. What do a 17th-century Japanese Temple Bell, a bridge made of Roxbury puddingstone, and a tree once thought extinct have in common? They all reside in the Back Bay Fens. Learn about these and other treasures on […]

  • Second Saturdays: Volunteer Stewardship in the Back Bay Fens

    Shattuck Visitor Center 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States
    Conservancy Events

    Join Emerald Necklace Conservancy staff and volunteers with land stewardship and invasive species removal work in the Emerald Necklace parks on Saturday, July 9! We will be removing brush, debris, and invasive species from the Back Bay Fens. Registration is required in order to participate in this event. Those who register will automatically receive an email from […]

  • Olmsted Summer Sundays with a Visiting Park Ranger

    Shattuck Visitor Center 125 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States
    Conservancy Events

    For Frederick Law Olmsted’s Bicentennial in 2022, park rangers from Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline are partnering with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy on a new interpretive program. Stop by the Shattuck Visitor Center from 10AM to 4PM each Sunday this summer to meet a park ranger and learn about Olmsted’s “most important […]



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