Join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for a tour of Charlesgate Park! Charlesgate is the start of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace. We hope you’ll join us to learn about the park’s history, as well as present restoration efforts designed to repair park access issues, improve the water quality of Muddy River and create new park […]
In observation of the holiday, Conservancy offices at the Shattuck Visitor Center are closed.
Join Emerald Necklace Conservancy staff and volunteers with land stewardship and invasive species removal work in the Emerald Necklace parks on Saturday, June 11! We will be removing brush, debris, and invasive species from Olmsted Park. Registration is required in order to participate in this event. Those who register will automatically receive an email from Alyx Britton, […]
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 […]
To celebrate the US Open coming to Brookline, join Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site for a discussion on how Olmsted's principles have influenced golf course design. Register here Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's "Greensward Plan" for Central Park both inspired the American park movement and provided the catalyst for the establishment of landscape […]
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 […]
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 […]
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)
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 […]
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 […]
