Announcing DEHC Free Saturday Workshop Series
DEHC’s workshop series runs most Saturday mornings in the Community Room, 450 Washington Street (Healthworks at Codman building.)
The Landless Garden workshop was a great success, thank you to everyone who came. We still have some kits available, please get in touch to find out when we are offering this popular workshop again!
The next green event is Saturday June 4th – the garden plot assignments are happening at Nightingale Community Garden, which is a few steps down Park Street from the 450 Washington offices. Call 617-474-1478, or email us for more information.
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These workshops are intended to be quick and inspirational, to help you connect with easy ways to green your life. Please email us if you have an idea for a workshop! We’re still brainstorming, below are some of the ideas we’re thinking about:
- How to build a garden bed
- How to fix a flat tire/ patch a tube for a bike
- How to compost (indoors/outdoors)
- How to be more energy efficient (and save money…)
- Making art/gifts/useful items out of recyclables
- Movie Screenings
- Field Trips
List of Workshops To Date:
April 30: Pruning Trees & Shrubs; May 7: Landless Garden; May 14: Nightingale Garden planning; May 21: Biking Local; May 28: Memorial Day weekend – No Workshop; June 4: Nightingale Garden Plot assignment – visit the new garden and get your plot (or wish you had signed up for one sooner!); June 11: Dot Bike workshop
Asian Longhorned Beetle Infestation Near Franklin Park
From the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources:
“6 red maples infested by the Asian Long-Horned Beetles were discovered on the property of the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain. The trees have already been removed by the US Dept. of Agriculture and the State team. Everyone is hopeful that this was an isolated infestation but USDA, MADA, DCR and others will be surveying areas within a 1 1/2 mile radius of the infestation. This means that officials will want to survey trees on both public and private property over the next months. USDA will provide photo ID’s to all tree personnel.”
What you can do:
- Inform yourself. See this site for how to recognize and report the beetle. It is very important to be as informed as possible now that the beetle has been found on the Faulkner Hospital grounds, next to the Arnold Arboretum and not far from Franklin Park and Forest Hills Cemetery.
- Attend public meetings like the one at the Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm to discuss strategies with the Parks Department and the USDA so you can pass all necessary information on to your friends and neighbors.
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More from the Mass. Deprtment of Conservation & Recreation, 7/16/2010:
FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL OFFICIALS HOLDING ADDITIONAL PUBLIC MEETINGS TO DISCUSS ASIAN LONGHORNED BEETLE PRESENCE IN BOSTON
WHAT: Officials from the US Department of Agriculture, the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation, the MA Department of Agricultural Resources, the town of Brookline, and the city of Boston have scheduled two public meetings in Brookline and one in Boston this month to discuss the recent discovery of Asian longhorned beetles (ALB) in Jamaica Plain and the eradication efforts, which began immediately.
Over the July 4th weekend, six trees on the grounds of Faulkner Hospital were found to be infested by ALB. The trees were removed on Tuesday morning, July 6, and ALB project workers immediately began surveying trees within a 1.5-mile radius of the infested trees to look for evidence of additional beetles. Since then, no further infestation has been found in Boston.
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Information materials on the ALB are available at the following Boston and Brookline public library branches:
Boston -
West Roxbury Library, 1961 Centre Street, West Roxbury
Connolly Branch Library, 433 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
Roslindale Library, 4238 Washington St., Roslindale,
Egleston Square Branch Library, 2044 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury
Jamaica Plain Library, 12 Sedgwick Street, Jamaica Plain
Brookline – Putterham Branch Library 959 West Roxbury Parkway
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PUBLIC MEETINGS:
Brookline
WHEN: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 and Thursday, July 29, 2010
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. each night
WHERE: Brookline Public Library
Hunneman Hall, 361 Washington St., Brookline
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Boston
WHEN: Saturday, July 31, 2010
10 a.m.-Noon
WHERE: Curtis Hall Community Center, 20 South Street, 2nd floor, Jamaica Plain
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