Walk: Useful Plants Among Us
Conservancy Events
Learn how to identify and use helpful plants that grow in the wild on a leisurely stroll along the Emerald Necklace with Pam Kristan, author and wild food practitioner.
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Valley Gates Parking Lot Boston, MA, United States
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Olmsted Now: Greater Boston’s Olmsted Bicentennial Community Open House
Partner EventsLearn more about Olmsted's public work and why, 200 years later, Greater Boston and other cities around the country will host initiatives that reanimate Olmsted's ideals.
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Arbor Week Tree Giveaway
James Michael Curley House 350 Jamaicaway, Boston, MA, United StatesConservancy EventsPlant a tree for Arbor Day! In celebration of Arbor Week, we are pleased to partner with Speak for the Trees to give away tree saplings at the Conservancy's Curley House offices. Stop by the parking lot, behind the Curley House, to pick up a White Oak, Bur Oak, Persimmon, Frasier Fir, or Sweetgum. Please […]
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Charlesgate Park Tour – Boston Design Week (1:00PM)
Conservancy EventsJoin the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for a tour of Charlesgate Park as part of Boston Design Week. 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 […]
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Charlesgate Park Tour – Boston Design Week (4:00PM)
Conservancy EventsJoin the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for a tour of Charlesgate Park as part of Boston Design Week. 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 […]
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ESSENTIAL: Public Health, Public Space, & the Design of Boston’s Big Parks
Partner EventsJoin leaders in landscape architecture & public health in a discussion about the past, present, and future of open space in Boston. Register for this event here. Now, more than ever, parks are essential infrastructure. Supporting physical and mental health, enhancing human and ecological resilience, offering places to protest and spaces to heal, parks have played […]
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2021 Annual Meeting
Conservancy EventsJoin us to learn about the Conservancy’s tree care program and why a healthy urban tree canopy is essential to our city. Conservancy President Karen Mauney-Brodek will share an update about our work over this past year. We'll dive a bit deeper into our tree and landscape work with Erica Holm, the Conservancy's Field Operations […]
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Introduction to Animal Tracking
Conservancy EventsCome and learn how to identify signs of different animal life, some of which we share our parks with! In this fun, virtual experience, we will look at animal tracks, scat, and other signs they leave behind, and learn how to identify which animal left them. This experience will be facilitated by Bob Metcalfe. Bob […]
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Volunteer Event: Ecological Restoration Work in the Back Bay Fens
Conservancy EventsJoin Emerald Necklace Conservancy staff and volunteers with ecological restoration work in the Emerald Necklace parks! We will be removing trash and clearing brush and debris from areas of the Back Bay Fens.
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Memorial Day
Conservancy EventsIn observation of the holiday, Conservancy offices at the Shattuck Visitor Center are closed.
