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• Seed Packing Party - Hosted by Watertown Free Public Library

  • When
    25 Jan 2025
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    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Watertown Free Public Library, Watertown Savings Bank Room

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  Help us get the WFPL Seed Library ready to open!

  We’ll be getting packets of seeds prepared for our gardeners to borrow when the seed library opens for the season on February 10.

  No registration required.  But you can RSVP here to receive email reminders before the event.

  Original posting from WFPL posted here.

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• Eat Well Watertown: Warm Winter Meals

  • When
    29 Jan 2025
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    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Watertown Free Public Library (WFPL)

  Join WFPL and Eat Well Watertown for their annual winter program, featuring seasonal soups, stews, and other warming meals! This year's program will be in collaboration with members of Watertown Community Gardens' new Kitchen Gardens Committee.

  
  

  The Eat Well Watertown program inspires people to explore and prepare a variety of multi-cultural dishes that include health enhancing and local ingredients. Program facilitators encourage participant conversation about food, cultural traditions, and community building. Nutrition education is included, and samples are provided.

  
  

  Registration is required. Register HERE. 

  
  

  Sponsored by Live Well Watertown.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Plan Your Garden with WCG - Hosted by Watertown Free Public Library

  • When
    15 Feb 2025
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    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Watertown Free Public Library

  

  Attendees can expect to learn basic information on planning for sunlight and soil moisture conditions of their yards, starting plants from seeds with multiple methods, growing in raised beds and containers, and tips for protecting plants from common pests. This class will be focused on plants that grow well outdoors in Massachusetts.  Corey Barr and Linda Relson, members of the WCG Board and Pollinator Pathways Committee, will be presenting.

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• How to Plant and Design Bump-outs and Planting Strips

  • When
    19 Feb 2025
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    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church St, Watertown, MA 02472
  • Spaces left
    23

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  Come in person to a free event.  Gather ideas for planting a low maintenance garden in the bump-out (curb extensions) or planting strip in front of your home. With a few feet of planted green space, you can offer food sources, water, shelter, and places to raise young for our native pollinators, the bees, butterflies, insects and birds.

  The focus is on native plants and perennials that thrive in typically dry, neglected areas.

  This event will include an informational presentation followed by a design activity with small breakout groups. Participants under 12 years old are welcome with a parent or guardian, but the presentation and activity are written for adults.

  Melinda Dennis, Marilyn Salvas, and other members of WCG will present the workshop.

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