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• Grow Native Massachusetts | An Experiment in Lawn to Meadow Conversion: Exceeding Expectations

  • When
    12 Mar 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Evenings With Experts is a free public lecture series by Grow Native Massachusetts. Read more about this event on their website and register here. 

  
  

  In April of 2022, Sara and Evan Cooper moved into a new home in suburban Philadelphia with a 5,000 sq. ft. front lawn. Eager to transition it into a native wildflower meadow, Sara also wanted to avoid herbicide, heavy physical labor, and unhappy feedback from neighbors. Leaving the turf in place, she began a conversion process that relied on actions that weakened the lawn grass while strengthening her newly planted meadow. After two growing seasons, the results have exceeded expectations enough to be featured in The New York Times in 2024. Learn the practical steps they took, their successes and challenges thus far, methods of maintaining neighborhood harmony, and their plans for guiding the meadow to maturity.

  
  

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• 2nd Annual Watertown-Cambridge Greenway Spring Cleanup

  • When
    15 Mar 2025
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    490 Arsenal Way, Watertown, MA 02472

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  Come and volunteer for some spring cleaning with WCG and Friends of the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway!

  Meets on-site at the trail intersection between Watertown Mall and 490 Arsenal Way (with bench and bike racks). From there, one crew will work westward toward the Watertown end, and the other will work eastward toward Fresh Pond.

  Disposable gloves and trash bags will be provided, close-toed shoes and long pants are recommended. Rain date is March 22th, same time, same place.

  You can register on the page for this event and other upcoming Greenway events here: https://watertowncommunitygardens.wildapricot.org/Greenway-Maintenance

  For more information, please contact: 

  info@watertowngardens.org

  
  

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• Pollinator Pathways Committee Meeting

  • When
    17 Mar 2025
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    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Please join us as we review pollinator-related activities going on in Watertown, brainstorm programs to host, plan volunteer events.

  Our meetings are held on Zoom.  Please review the agenda in the running notes before the meeting and come prepared to discuss.

  Click here to view the committee running notes

  Click here to join the Zoom meeting

  Zoom URL if the link doesn't work:

  https://zoom.us/j/99874443186?pwd=SW5VQy9uNWZVTHpqTUl0d2hvKzhDQT09

  
  

  
  

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• Grow Native Massachusetts | What We Sow in Cultivated Places

  • When
    9 Apr 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Evenings With Experts is a free public lecture series by Grow Native Massachusetts. Read more about this event on their website and register here. 

  
  

  Gardeners are powerful agents of change, and the landscapes we steward have a role to play in tackling a wide range of challenges— climate change, habitat loss, cultural polarization, communal wellbeing. Jennifer Jewell will explore the power of gardens through the lens of seeds: how they grow, where they grow, who grows them, and who sells (and controls) them. Drawing from her daily life, research, and decades of interviews with seed keepers, Jennifer will share how seeds can be both cautionary tales and guiding lights as we seek to effect positive change. You’ll be inspired to make bolder, braver, and more biodiverse choices in your garden.

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• Resilient Watertown Eco Fest - Hosted by City of Watertown

  • When
    10 May 2025
  • Location
    Commander's Mansion

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  This spring, the sustainability team is thrilled to be hosting the inaugural Resilient Watertown Eco Fest at the Commander’s Mansion Saturday, May 10. The event will include:

  • Tabling by community groups, City departments/committees, and vendors 
  • EV and e-bike showcases 
  • Speaker sessions 
  • Food and beverages  
  • Live DJ 
  • Recycled art display 
  • Other interactive/youth-focused activities 

  Registration is not required, but you may register through WCG to receive reminder emails leading up to the event.

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• 2025 Life-Friendly Garden Tour

  • When
    14 Sep 2025
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    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Locations Around Watertown

  Friends of Bees and Watertown Community Gardens are hosting the 28th Life-Friendly Garden Tour on Sunday, September 14.  (Rain date September 21).

  To receive event updates and reminders, make sure to register on this page.

  More details coming in the Summer!

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