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Triple Play This Saturday, Get Outdoors in Nature, Yay!
Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA | Get Directions »
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September 15th - What a Day, Triple Play!
All events end by 1pm so you have the rest of the afternoon for more!
visit the Union Square Farmer's Market and climb a tractor, eat some maple cotton candy, walk to the Somerville Community Growing Center, climb a tree and stay for a special story-time at 10am... then head on over to Davis Sq and buy some perennials from the Somerville Garden Club!
Somerville Community Growing Center, open garden from 9-12pm
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10am storytime Children's picture book author Margaret Muirhead will come and read from her book. "Mabel One and Only". Mabel lives in the city, she wants to play and everyone is busy...what will she do? Come and find out! Margaret will also have her book available to purchase. Event hosted by the Children in Nature Initiative/SCGC Many thanks to Margaret for donating her time. www.thegrowingcenter.org
Union Square Farmer's Market Fair Day-9am-1pm
Come join Fair Day at the Union Square Farmers' Market! Climb on hay bales, check out the tractor, enjoy some local maple cotton candy, and enter our contests! Represent REALLY local agriculture with your home grown flowers or produce, or bring something from your kitchen for the baked goods or preserved foods categories. Judging at 12:30. Music all day! See you on the plaza! 9am-1pm
Somerville Garden Club Plant Sale 9am-1pmThe Somerville Garden Club holds one of the best plant sales in the Boston area. Club members divide and donate time-tested favorites as well as plants they have just discovered.http://www.somervillegardenclub.org/plant-sale/
Event Details
| Where | Somerville Community Growing Center 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA 02143 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 9:00 am–1:00 pm |
| Price | $0 |
More About Somerville Community Growing Center
This educational garden and performance space takes the idea of compact gardening to a whole new level. On just over ¼-acre of sloping ground, the garden packs in an orchard, vegetable gardens, a grape arbor, a pond and stream, a labyrinth, an amphitheater, a solar-powered fountain and—safely in the back—a beehive. The event schedule is just as jam-packed. All of it is the work of a horde of volunteers that created the center in 1994 with the support of the City.
All are welcome to help garden or simply sit here. Meanwhile, numerous hands-on, after-school and vacation programs teach youths about science and nature. Special events also bring farm life to the city with activities such as maple syrup making and apple pressing. A busy arts calendar features concerts, dance, art shows, theater, storytelling and the occasional fanciful event like Fairy Night, where children don wings and flit about the greenery. If a volunteer can think of it, the garden will likely host it.
Others come to calm their minds at meditation groups or labyrinth walks. One thing we should all contemplate while there: this space was once just a steep sand pit on the former site of Southern Junior High. But once a few residents planted the seed—and rolled up their sleeves to tend it—it grew into a significant community resource.
