Archive of Past Events

Summer Solstice Newton Pollinator Garden Tour Event Details Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025 Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM Rain Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025    NOTE: [...]

If you have been inspired  to incorporate more native plants in your own garden, don’t miss the Native Plant Pop-up Sale at the Cold Spring [...]

Follow intrepid naturalist and New Conservators’ director Katherine Howard as she walks through Sawmill Brook’s upland woods, wetlands, rock walls, and dramatic outcroppings of our [...]

POSTPONED TO SUNDAY JUNE 8 10:30 am  Due to the predicted cloudy and/or rainy weather Saturday, the Newton Conservators is rescheduling the Bioblitz at Edmands [...]

The Newton Conservators Invasives Team tackles garlic mustard, buckthorn, black swallow-wort, bittersweet, japanese knotweed, and other problems in many of Newton's open spaces.  Come join [...]

Tour Cold Spring Park, a woodland haven in the heart of Newton, and explore some of its natural and unnatural wonders, mysteries, threats, and possibilities [...]

Cheesecake Brook exemplifies the challenges facing urban streams. Today, the brook drains a watershed that is over 40% impervious. Stormwater runs off roofs, sidewalks, and [...]

Join nature enthusiast Katherine Howard of the Newton Conservators and Dr. John Mordes, President of the Friends of Hemlock Gorge, on a tour of this [...]

Nahanton Park offers a mix of woodlands, wetlands, edge habitat, and meadows along the Charles River, making it one of the best birding spots in [...]

Join Barbara Bates, Newton Conservators Director and retired Mass Audubon teacher/naturalist, for an easy ramble through Webster Woods. We’ll see what spring ephemeral flowers are [...]