‘MAY THIS NEVER END’ receives Americans for the Arts’ Year in Review Award
The Greenway Conservancy is pleased to announce we have received our fourth prestigious annual award from the Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network Year in Review. Matthew Hoffman’s MAY THIS NEVER END, commissioned by the Conservancy and exhibited from January 2016 to April 2017, was recognized as among the best artworks in the country […]
A Year in Maintaining The Greenway
On any given day while walking through our parks, you are likely to encounter a member of our Maintenance team lending their expertise towards maintaining The Greenway. Our Maintenance team cares for seven water features, acres of specialty paving, complex lighting systems, and more. The Conservancy’s maintenance staff, under the leadership of Superintendent Bob Stigberg, handles repairs, fountain […]
Greenway Around the Globe
The Greenway Conservancy hosts over 300 free events a year, commissions amazing rotating exhibits of contemporary public art, and offers four-season organic horticulture throughout the 17-acre park. With all that hustle and bustle, it becomes easy to miss how far The Greenway has come since opening in 2008/2009. There was a time before all the […]
Eat & Drink Local: Greenway Herbs Showing Up On Local Menus!
A few years ago we told you about plans to develop a multi-faceted Demonstration Garden in our Dewey Square Park. At the time, our Senior Horticulturist and Designer, Darrah Cole, spoke to the Conservancy’s intent to create a raised edible garden and outdoor classroom for instruction: We want the garden to serve as a great example […]
Greenway Conservancy & Studio Echelman Announce Photography Contest
As If It Were Already Here Photo Contest Rules The Greenway and Studio Echelman are sponsoring a photography contest of As If It Were Already Here, Janet Echelman’s monumental aerial sculpture over The Greenway’s Fort Point Channel Park. Submit your photos according to the rules below and you could be eligible to win up to […]
Spring Lawn Aeration & Treatments Begin
Today, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, The Greenway Horticulture team continues the Spring time Lawn Aeration and fertilization process. Our Horticulture foreman, Anthony, is on the Greenway tractor using our fracking aerator (it’s a good thing) to loosen our lawns, while our Seasonal horticulture staff (Mike, Tori, Alaina and Gary) aerate the lawn in and around […]
Aerating Lawns at Armenian Heritage Park
Several times a year, we aerate our lawns using an amazing device that we attach to our tractor. Aeration helps keep our lawns from compacting and it’s part of our organic care program for the Greenway. To put it simply, aeration removes small cores of soil, opening holes in lawns, allowing air, water and other […]
Classifying Wonder: One Approach on Getting to Know the Greenway
I am not a biologist. I’m not a horticulturalist, a botanist, a dendrologist. I can only tell you so much about the pH levels in soil, or the bug crawling around in that soil, or the delicate relationship between the two. But I still really, really love Nature. Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of […]
New Plantings in the North End Parks
We’ve completed our planting of new plants, including evergreens and roses in the North End Park along the Pergola between Hanover and North St. This is the first of what we hope to be a number of planting bed improvements in the North End Parks as proposed in our community meeting held in the North […]
Volunteering in Spring
April is a time when everyone’s thoughts turn to spring. Here at the Greenway Conservancy, it is also a time when we get a lot of eager volunteers ready to get outside and lend their hands! Not only is April National Garden Month, it is also contains National Volunteer Week, National Environmental Education Week, Earth […]
