Archive of Past Events

Sawmill Brook Conservation Area is a lovely, long, natural trail connecting Newton to West Roxbury. It has garlic mustard and black swallow-wort infestations at its [...]

Learn about the life strategies of baby animals at Riverside Park by playing games focusing on camouflage, population dynamics, nurseries, and more. Open to children [...]

Join renowned expert Professor Doug Tallamy for a virtual talk that will reveal how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at preserving the plants [...]

Help tackle the garlic mustard, buckthorn, bittersweet, and japanese knotweed in our beautiful new park . Help keep these invaders out! Wear long pants tucked [...]

Help tackle the garlic mustard and black swallow-wort near the entrance of Houghton Garden where it borders the T Track crossing to Webster Woods. Help [...]

Upper Falls Greenway is one of Newton's newer parks;  it is a conversion of a former rail line.  The Greenway is a delightfully green and [...]

We will control garlic mustard, knotweed, and black swallow-wort infestations inside beautiful Hemlock Gorge, and the adjoining walking trail along the Charles River at Quinobequin [...]

Cold Spring Park is being invaded by garlic mustard, knotweed, buckthorn, and other species. We will keep the Cochituate Aqueduct walk under control after previous [...]

Newton Conservators will have a butterfly and pollinator themed table as part of the City of Newton Family FunFEST on Saturday, May 14.  We'll have [...]

Many native habitats, including the grassland Woodcock Meadow, home to threatened American Woodcock, and open woodland habitats, are threatened by invasive plants. They out-compete native [...]