New “spring greens” CSA offered by The Food Project To get a jump-start on the growing and distribution season, The Food Project has launched a brand new “Spring Greens” community-supported agriculture (CSA) share. For $200, you get five weeks of cooking and salad greens (4 pounds a week on average) grown in our high tunnel greenhouses…
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Farm shares shares now on sale
Dietician talks about healthy meals for kids tonight
Tired of the same old meal plan, or maybe no plan at all? Struggling with picky eaters? Looking for easy ways to add variety and more nutrition to your meals that your kids will happily eat? Join First Connections and Drumlin Farm Preschool on Tuesday, Feb. 25 from 7-8:30 p.m. at Drumlin Farm to hear author and registered dietician Liz…
Church members serve lunch at homeless center
A multigenerational group of First Parish Church parishioners prepared and served lunch to guests on January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) at the Community Day Center in Waltham, which serves homeless people in Waltham and several other western suburbs. The center also received a donation of $6,559 gathered from the annual Christmas offering organized…
February activities sponsored by Council on Aging
Coming up in Lincoln
Film about Lincoln architect Henry B. Hoover – Oct. 25 At its members’ appreciation event on Friday, October 25 at 7 p.m. at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln (FoMA) will hold a premier screening of the film Breaking Ground: The Architecture of Henry B. Hoover. Commissioned by Hoover’s children, Harry…
Coming up in Lincoln
“Taking on Invasives: Invasive Forest Beetles” — October 17 Join Jennifer Forman-Orth, Ph.D., state plant pest survey coordinator, on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Thoreau Institute (44 Baker Farm Rd., Lincoln) for a discussion on the Asian longhorned beetle and the emerald ash borer. Wine and cheese reception supported by The Cheese…
India comes to Lincoln in October
News acorns from the Lincoln Squirrel
Strawberry Day rescheduled for June 22
Celebrate the strawberry harvest by heading out to Drumlin Farm on June 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Strawberry Day (originally scheduled for June 15). Dig in the dirt with our farm staff, meet some berry-loving animals, and pick your own strawberries to take home. Drumlin’s strawberries, like all of its produce, are grown without the use…