Workshops & Events
Old West Church Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the stewardship team of the Old West Church Food Forest for their regular Saturday Volunteer Workdays, held each Saturday from 10-12 pm (except for holiday weekends).
Projects may include tending to the annual crop beds, maintaining the pollinator garden, pruning fruits trees, planting, harvesting, and more.
All are welcome!
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP.
Email kspiller4@gmail.com to be added to the OWC email list.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Urban Soils and Lead: Exploring Best Practices
Join The Food Project, UMASS Urban Agriculture Extension, The Trustees, The Boston Food Forest Coalition, and Wellesley College for an evening of learning about best practices when growing food in urban soils, with a focus on lead in urban soil. There will be hands-on activities to demonstrate best practices and resources for testing your soil.
This is a free event open to the public as part of Massachusett’s Urban Agriculture Week.
Summer Bounty Party
Celebrate the summer with your neighbors and try homemade dishes made with produce from the garden.
On August 13th, instead of our usual work night, we're gathering in the garden for a potluck and party. Come as you are, bring a dish to share if you’d like, and try some dishes made by the ECO community. Anyone can bring a treat inspired by your garden, our garden, or any garden! All are welcome.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Old West Church Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the stewardship team of the Old West Church Food Forest for their regular Saturday Volunteer Workdays, held each Saturday from 10-12 pm (except for holiday weekends).
Projects may include tending to the annual crop beds, maintaining the pollinator garden, pruning fruits trees, planting, harvesting, and more.
All are welcome!
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP.
Email kspiller4@gmail.com to be added to the OWC email list.
Leland Cooperative Garden Work Party/Picnic
Join the Leland Garden stewardship team for their monthly work/picnic days on the third Saturday of each month throughout the growing season.
Work/picnic days 10:30AM-4PM with the potluck-style lunch around 1 or 1:30PM.
Projects for these work days may include planting, pruning, mulching, harvesting, and other garden projects/tasks as they arise. Feel free to come to the picnic only, work only, or both for as little or as long as you can.
No registration or experience required!
Email lelandgardeninfo@gmail.com to join their email list/newsletter audience.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Old West Church Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the stewardship team of the Old West Church Food Forest for their regular Saturday Volunteer Workdays, held each Saturday from 10-12 pm (except for holiday weekends).
Projects may include tending to the annual crop beds, maintaining the pollinator garden, pruning fruits trees, planting, harvesting, and more.
All are welcome!
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP.
Email kspiller4@gmail.com to be added to the OWC email list.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Ellington Street Food Forest Monthly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Ellington Street Community Food Forest? Join their monthly work day on the last Saturday of the month from 2-4pm! (Shifted one week earlier in August to account for Labor Day weekend.)
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Taste the Molecular Rainbow: What Color and Flavor Tell Us About Chemistry
Why do all alliums have that strong garlicky smell? How do I know if the dried herbs you’ve had in my cabinet for five years are still good?
In this class you will begin to practice using your senses to teach you about the chemical constituents in your foods and medicine. We will discuss the primary atoms that make up plant molecules, and some common forms that they take. You will get to see, smell, and taste different preparations of the same herbs to learn the flavors and mouthfeel of specific molecules, and to learn which preparations extract which constituents.
Bring your favorite mug and a pen and come join me where experiential and scientific knowledge meet!
This workshop will be led by Mo Katz-Cristy.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Egleston Community Orchard Monthly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Egleston Community Orchard in Jamaica Plain?
Join the stewards and neighbors of this food forest garden on the first Wednesday evening of each month at 6pm for community work nights. Each week we’ll work on projects together ranging from tree care to weeding to harvesting and more.
No registration is necessary! Just show up ready to work and socialize.
Reach out to alice@bostonfoodforest.org with questions.
BNC Food Forest: New Volunteer Orientation Day
Interested in volunteering at the Boston Nature Center Food Forest? Join the stewardship team for a new volunteer orientation session on the first Wednesday of every month at 6pm to sundown at the food forest.
The first 30 minutes of this session will include a tour of the site, introduction to how the stewardship team is organized, and ways to get involved. After that, we’ll get our hands dirty with some projects in the food forest. Projects may include wedding, watering, planting... and eating plants!
All supplies including gloves will be provided. Please bring water and some clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
All skill levels are welcome. No registration necessary!
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Ellington Street Food Forest Monthly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Ellington Street Community Food Forest? Join their monthly work day on the last Saturday of the month from 2-4pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
BNC Food Forest: New Volunteer Orientation Day
Interested in volunteering at the Boston Nature Center Food Forest? Join the stewardship team for a new volunteer orientation session on the first Wednesday of every month at 6pm to sundown at the food forest.
The first 30 minutes of this session will include a tour of the site, introduction to how the stewardship team is organized, and ways to get involved. After that, we’ll get our hands dirty with some projects in the food forest. Projects may include wedding, watering, planting... and eating plants!
All supplies including gloves will be provided. Please bring water and some clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
All skill levels are welcome. No registration necessary!
Egleston Community Orchard Monthly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Egleston Community Orchard in Jamaica Plain?
Join the stewards and neighbors of this food forest garden on the first Wednesday evening of each month at 6pm for community work nights. Each week we’ll work on projects together ranging from tree care to weeding to harvesting and more.
No registration is necessary! Just show up ready to work and socialize.
Reach out to alice@bostonfoodforest.org with questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
BNC Food Forest: New Volunteer Orientation Day
Interested in volunteering at the Boston Nature Center Food Forest? Join the stewardship team for a new volunteer orientation session on the first Wednesday of every month at 6pm to sundown at the food forest.
The first 30 minutes of this session will include a tour of the site, introduction to how the stewardship team is organized, and ways to get involved. After that, we’ll get our hands dirty with some projects in the food forest. Projects may include wedding, watering, planting... and eating plants!
All supplies including gloves will be provided. Please bring water and some clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
All skill levels are welcome. No registration necessary!
Egleston Community Orchard Monthly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Egleston Community Orchard in Jamaica Plain?
Join the stewards and neighbors of this food forest garden on the first Wednesday evening of each month at 6pm for community work nights. Each week we’ll work on projects together ranging from tree care to weeding to harvesting and more.
No registration is necessary! Just show up ready to work and socialize.
Reach out to alice@bostonfoodforest.org with questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Tinctures Workshop
Learn to work with alcohol and glycerin to craft potent, plant-based medicine.
Workshop attendees will gain foundational knowledge of plant extraction, menstrum selection, and proper herbal preparation techniques. Open to all curious hearts and healing hands — come as you are. All materials provided!
This workshop will be lead by Bri Cross, an herbalist focusing on the art of herbalism using the folk method.
Herbalism Workshop & Garden Maintenance Day
Join the stewards of the Ellington Street Community Food Forest for a workshop-workday combo!
Instructor Lauren Almquist of Heartspace Herbals & Garden Design will show workshop participants how to make herb teas and vinegar infusions, as well as discuss best practices for growing herbs. She’ll also lead reflection time for what’s possible in the garden.
Stick around after the workshop for some lunch and lemonade in the garden.
Please email alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP or ask any questions.
Old West Church Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the stewardship team of the Old West Church Food Forest for their regular Saturday Volunteer Workdays, held each Saturday from 10-12 pm (except for holiday weekends).
Projects may include tending to the annual crop beds, maintaining the pollinator garden, pruning fruits trees, planting, harvesting, and more.
All are welcome!
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP.
Email kspiller4@gmail.com to be added to the OWC email list.
Summer Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest in a fruit tree care assessment and summer pruning workshop!
Learn the importance of summer fruit pruning, as well as the methods, approaches, considerations, and tools needed. This 2-hour workshop will be a mix of explanation, demonstration, and hands-on practice.
No experience is necessary. Just bring your pruning questions, and a pair of garden gloves if you have them!
This workshop will be led by Ben Crouch of Land of Plenty Organics. Ben has been teaching tree pruning with BFFC for years, and is an expert in fruit tree care and maintenance.
Hope Garden Lemonade Stand and Sign Painting Party
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
July 19th will be a special work day celebration. We'll have some fresh lemonade with homemade syrups from the garden, as well as some harvest baked goods and other treats. Stop by anytime to try some!
In addition to the lemonade stand, we'll also be doing some work in the garden like weeding, harvesting, and creating a new sign that will hang on site at Hope Garden. Bring some water, wear some clothes that you don't mind getting dirty, and get creative with us!
To RSVP or ask any questions, please email cassidy@bostonfoodforest.org
no rain date; if rain, postponing to the next Saturday
Leland Cooperative Garden Work Party/Picnic
Join the Leland Garden stewardship team for their monthly work/picnic days on the third Saturday of each month throughout the growing season.
Work/picnic days 10:30AM-4PM with the potluck-style lunch around 1 or 1:30PM.
Projects for these work days may include planting, pruning, mulching, harvesting, and other garden projects/tasks as they arise. Feel free to come to the picnic only, work only, or both for as little or as long as you can.
No registration or experience required!
Email lelandgardeninfo@gmail.com to join their email list/newsletter audience.
Old West Church Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the stewardship team of the Old West Church Food Forest for their regular Saturday Volunteer Workdays, held each Saturday from 10-12 pm (except for holiday weekends).
Projects may include tending to the annual crop beds, maintaining the pollinator garden, pruning fruits trees, planting, harvesting, and more.
All are welcome!
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP.
Email kspiller4@gmail.com to be added to the OWC email list.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Old West Church Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the stewardship team of the Old West Church Food Forest for their regular Saturday Volunteer Workdays, held each Saturday from 10-12 pm (except for holiday weekends).
Projects may include tending to the annual crop beds, maintaining the pollinator garden, pruning fruits trees, planting, harvesting, and more.
All are welcome!
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP.
Email kspiller4@gmail.com to be added to the OWC email list.
Postponed: Uphams Corner Food Forest Weekly Work Day
This event has been postponed—please join us on 7/12!
Join the Uphams Corner Food Forest stewards and neighbors for their weekly community work days, which will take place every Saturday throughout July and August this summer.
Weekly projects may include tree care, weeding, planting, harvesting, and much more.
No registration or experience required — just show up ready to get your hands in the soil and meet some new friends.
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org with any questions.
Egleston Community Orchard Monthly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Egleston Community Orchard in Jamaica Plain?
Join the stewards and neighbors of this food forest garden on the first Wednesday evening of each month at 6pm for community work nights. Each week we’ll work on projects together ranging from tree care to weeding to harvesting and more.
No registration is necessary! Just show up ready to work and socialize.
Reach out to alice@bostonfoodforest.org with questions.
BNC Food Forest: New Volunteer Orientation Day
Interested in volunteering with the Boston Nature Center Food Forest team? Join the stewardship team for a new volunteer orientation session on the first Wednesday of every month at 6pm to sundown at the food forest.
The first 30 minutes of this session will include a tour of the site, introduction to how the stewardship team is organized, and ways to get involved. After that, we’ll get our hands dirty with some projects in the food forest. Projects may include wedding, watering, planting... and eating plants!
All supplies including gloves will be provided. Please bring water and some clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
All skill levels are welcome. No registration necessary!
Ellington Street Food Forest Monthly Work Night & Dinner
Come together in community at the Ellington Street Community Food Forest!
Eat dinner with your neighbors and do some gardening as we celebrate with food and drinks made from the fruit available at the garden.
This is an excellent opportunity to meet the team at the Ellington Street Food Forest and get involved with their efforts this season.
RSVP to cassidy@bostonfoodforest.org.
GRAND OPENING: Maple Street Food Forest
Join us as we celebrate the grand opening of the Maple Street Food Forest, a new public edible park in Grove Hall, Dorchester, on June 28th, 2025! This special event is a collaboration between Boston Food Forest Coalition, Sonoma Maple Schuyler Tenants Association, and Project R.I.G.H.T.
Come enjoy a day of connection, delicious food, and hands-on activities! We’ll kick things off with a welcoming ceremony, followed by interactive workshops (Soil and Composting with Eru Kyeyune-Nyombi and Herbalism and Wild Foods with Alex Klein). There will be plenty of opportunities to meet your neighbors and to get involved with the food forest as it grows.
Bring your friends, family, and neighbors, and let's celebrate this new food forest!
To RSVP, email Mark at mark@bostonfoodforest.org.
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Old West Church Food Forest Weekly Work Day
Join the stewardship team of the Old West Church Food Forest for their regular Saturday Volunteer Workdays, held each Saturday from 10-12 pm (except for holiday weekends).
Projects may include tending to the annual crop beds, maintaining the pollinator garden, pruning fruits trees, planting, harvesting, and more.
All are welcome!
Email Alice at alice@bostonfoodforest.org to RSVP.
Email kspiller4@gmail.com to be added to the OWC email list.
Edgewater Food Forest Monthly Work Day
Interested in learning more about the Edgewater Food Forest? Join the stewardship team for a new volunteer orientation session on the third Saturday of each month from May-October.
Each session will include a tour of the site, introduction to how the stewardship team is organized, and ways to get involved. After that, we’ll get our hands dirty with some projects in the food forest. Projects may include wedding, watering, planting, and eating plants!
All supplies including gloves will be provided. Please bring water and some clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
All skill levels are welcome. No registration necessary!
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Leland Cooperative Garden Work Party/Picnic
Join the Leland Garden stewardship team for their monthly work/picnic days on the third Saturday of each month throughout the growing season.
Work/picnic days 10:30AM-4PM with the potluck-style lunch around 1 or 1:30PM.
Projects for these work days may include planting, pruning, mulching, harvesting, and other garden projects/tasks as they arise. Feel free to come to the picnic only, work only, or both for as little or as long as you can.
No registration or experience required!
Email lelandgardeninfo@gmail.com to join their email list/newsletter audience.
Uphams Corner Food Forest Season Opener
Celebrate the start of the summer growing season with your neighbors at the Uphams Corner Food Forest!
Stop by to tour the food forest, meet the stewards, and get involved in this community green space this season. We’ll enjoy some drinks flavored with berries from the park, as well as live music, arts and crafts, and more.
The event will go from 6-8pm. All are welcome — we hope to see you there!
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.
Plant Walk Workshop
Join local herbalist and lover of botany Alex Klein for a workshop focused on plant identification. We'll walk around the food forest at the Boston Nature Center identifying various plant species, their reproductive structures and modes of dispersal, as well as potential uses in the landscape, kitchen, and medicine cabinet.
This workshop will be a sort of Botany 101 from the perspective of an herbalist/avid forager/gardener. Bring a magnifying glass/loupe if you got one!
Hope Garden Weekly Work Day
Interested in getting involved with the Hope Garden Food Forest? Join their weekly work days every Saturday from 11am-1pm!
No registration or experience is required. Just show up ready to work on a variety of tasks like weeding, harvesting, tree care, and more!
Email alice@bostonfoodforest.org if you have any questions.