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• End-of-Season Greenway Volunteer Celebration

  • When
    13 Oct 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    191 Grove St, Watertown, MA 02472
  • Spaces left
    13

  Join us as we celebrate a successful 2024 season of invasive plant removal and habitat restoration on the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway.  We could not do this without the support of our volunteers!

  Please sign up using this signup sheet:  Pot Luck Signup Sheet

  

  Location Details:

  We will gather under the covered picnic tables, near the children’s splash pad, and bathroom building at the center of Filippello Park.

  Parking Details:

  We recommend parking in the parking lot at Filippello Park, accessed from Grove Street, or on the east side of the park, along Arlington Street.

  NOTE: Both parking locations are a short walk from the gardens; Arlington St is about a 400-foot walk, the parking lot is about a 700-foot walk.

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• Watertown Miyawaki Forest Planting Day Festival

  • When
    26 Oct 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Corner of Orchard St and George St Watertown

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  Watertown Miyawaki Forest Planting Day Festival
  

  
  

  In five hours we'll plant 900 trees in 2000 square feet in the corner of this Watertown schoolyard to create a Tiny Forest (aka Mini-Forest, Miyawaki Forest) featuring an outdoor classroom. A unique collaboration of community, school, city, garden and tree groups is hosting a Planting Day Festival with all the tools, trees, instruction and refreshments needed for planting a seedling forest. You are invited to join. Please sign up (or simply show up). – Forests for Watertown

  
  

  
  

  Thank you!

  Anita

  
  

  ardobbs@gmail.com

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• Watertown-Cambridge Greenway Maintenance

  • When
    27 Oct 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Watertown-Cambridge Greenway. Meet at the Cottage St intersection

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  Help keep the Greenway green!

  The tentative plan is to plant baby native shrubs!

  We are addressing the massive invasive plant problem that has infested the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway. Exact tasks will be defined the day of the event.  

  Our goal is to remove invasive plants, replace them with ecologically-beneficial native plants, and restore wildlife habitat.

  This event is co-hosted by Friends of the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway.

  Details:

  • Please bring: Drinking water, garden gloves, pruners/clippers, and trowel if you have them. Please wear long pants and close toed/sturdy footwear
  • We will provide trash bags, trowels, gardening gloves and other tools as needed for the day's activities
  • All participants will be asked to sign a waiver upon arrival
  • Any participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult
  • Starting point will be at the intersection of the Greenway and Cottage St

  
  

  Questions?

  Contact Watertown Community Gardens at info@watertowngardens.org

  Contact Friends of the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway at WCGreenway.friends@gmail.com

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• Annual Meeting 2024

  • When
    12 Nov 2024
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    First Parish Church

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  Details coming soon!

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