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Program Updates

BNAN Signature Event
Winter Lights Along the Greenway

Saturday, December 6, 4:00 p.m..
Rain/Snow Date: Sunday, December 7, 4:00 p.m.
East Boston Greenway Caboose near South Bremen and Marginal Streets

Enjoy the East Boston Greenway lit up with festive luminarias and a holiday sing-along with local performers and carolers. Hot chocolate and cookies will keep you warm. Contact BNAN at 617-542-7696 or info@bostonnatural.org

The Friends of East Boston Greenway and Boston Natural Areas Network need help for this new BNAN event from community groups, businesses, and individuals. Here’s how you might help:

  • Make batches of 50 luminarias. Materials to make luminarias will be provided and delivered to your worksite or other location– bags, sand, and candles.  Or if you’d rather, volunteers from your group or business can attend a group luminaria-making session (Date and time TBA). Your sponsorship will be recognized by a sign on the Greenway.
  • Be a “Monitor” the night of the event – watch over a section and to light any candles that go out.
  • Donate food or refreshments.
  • Hang event flyers or posters at your location.

With the support of East Boston residents, community groups and businesses, we hope to make at least 350 – 400 luminarias that will light up the East Boston Greenway that night! To participate, please contact Candice Cook at 617-542-7696 or candice@bostonnatural.org Thank you for your support!

Boston Community Garden Council Event
Discussion-Genetic Modification

WORKSHOP AND MEETING CANCELLED. Wednesday, December 10, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
BNAN Office, 62 Summer Street, near Downtown Crossing

Workshop and meeting cancelled. Contact BNAN at 617-542-7696 or info@bostonnatural.org   

Boston Community Garden Council
Monthly Meeting

MEETING CANCELLED Thursday, December 11, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
BNAN Office, 62 Summer Street, near Downtown Crossing

Monthly meeting has been cancelled. Contact Marlo Pedroso at BNAN at 617-542-7696 or marlo@boston natural.org

Fall Community Garden Updates

Community garden coordinators and gardeners check here to view the fall mailing which contains news and information for community gardeners.

BNAN Job Announcements Posted on the Web

Click here for job description, qualification requirements, and application instructions.

Apply Now for Master Urban Gardener, Class of 2009

The MUG course serves to prepare community gardeners to garden and successfully work together in community gardens. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about gardening and get more involved in the leadership of your community garden.

Entering its thirteenth year, the forty-hour Master Urban Gardener program will be held on Saturdays, January through March. The course is an intense introduction to key information to help gardeners succeed. Class graduates give back forty hours of service as volunteers who share useful garden information at their community gardens and at BNAN’s garden events.

For more information and MUG application click here.

MUGatHOME

BNAN announces the launch of the MUGatHOME program. The new program is for backyard gardeners and will train participants in sustainable residential gardening techniques suitable for urban spaces. The new MUGatHOME program uses the same elements as the MUG program – forty (40) hours of landscape training at no cost and forty (40) hours of volunteer service to assist other backyard gardeners. The first class begins in Fall 2008. Click here to learn more and to download application.

Students Learning through Urban Gardening (SLUG)

BNAN has recently launched the Students Learning through Urban Gardening (SLUG) program.

The SLUG program includes: indoor vegetable gardening, outdoor vegetable gardening, vermiculture (indoor composting with worm bins) and outdoor composting. Three schools will be participating in the pilot this fall. If you are a classroom teacher and would like to implement the SLUG program in the future, please contact BNAN.

To sign up for an upcoming SLUG Teacher Training (PDPs provided), use the SLUG Program Site Agreement form to register.

Urban & Green Newsletter

The fall 2008 issue of BNAN's Urban & Green Newsletter is available online. Included in the newsletter are BNAN Fall Events and Programs. Read it and find out what's happening in Boston's Community Gardens, Urban Wilds and along the Neponset and East Boston Greenways. Click here for current and past newsletters.

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