Don’t Forget…Spring Planting in less than 2 weeks

The Green Neighbors Education Committee, Inc. and the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. present:

Spring Planting 2013

Saturday, March 9, 2013, 1:30 PM until 5:30 PM at First Parish Church, 10 Parish Street in the Meeting House Hill section of Dorchester.

Learn to grow food at your own home, in your yard, on your porch, inside your house.

This is a free event to help people learn how they can fight the world food crisis by learning to grow your own fresh, healthy nutritious foods.

Our co-sponsors include:

First Parish Church in Dorchester

Boston Natural Areas Network

The Family Nurturing Center of Dorchester

College Bound Dorchester

Bowdoin Street Health Center >> Read More

Growing Indoors: Containers & Sprouts Workshop.

WHEN: Saturday, January 26, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Dudley Greenhouse, 11 Brook Ave, Roxbury, MA

To register for all workshops. email -

buildagarden@thefoodproject.org Or call 617-442-1322 x12

theMOVE is hosting an Urban Garden Workday with The Garden Girl on September 2. The event will help TV personality Patti Moreno of Garden Girl TV. It will take place at Fort Hill in Roxbury. The event will start at 10am, and go until 1pm. At 1pm, lunch will be served. The event costs $8 for non-members and $5 for members. There are 12 more spaces available as of 8/29! Sign up by clicking HERE. For more info, email liz@getoutma.org, call 617-863-6488 or visit http://getoutma.org/volunteer/

Boston Nature Center will be hosting a Boston Compost Visioning Meeting on Thursday, March 29, at 3:00 p.m. Come together with others interested in working together to improve and expand composting in the City of Boston. Explore the history of composting in Boston, the status of current Boston leaf composting program, which will involve a viewing or tour of the site. At the meeting, the group will also work on determining what needs to be done to achieve their vision. Boston Nature Center is located at 500 Walk Hill Street in Mattapan, 02126. >> Read More

On February 7 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. attend the first Dot Grows Garden Council meeting of 2012! The February meeting will be held at 305 Talbot Ave. Dorchester (site of the Mt. Washington Bank Community Room located in Codman Square). Local gardeners and garden advocates will share updates on: renovations in Dorchester community gardens, Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market, Boston Is Growing Gardens, and the ongoing 2012 Master Urban Gardener series, among other items. Mathew Cahill of BNAN will be on hand to announce Grow Boston Greener, a competitive grant program that will provide funding for community tree plantings in the City of Boston. For more information, or if you would like to be added to the agenda, please feel free to contact Grantley at grantley@bostonnatural.org.