‘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 […]
Using “the Cloud” at the Greenway
Prior to her departure from the Greenway Conservancy for some time for travel and enter to attend graduate school, our Office Administrator / Staff Accountant Natalie helped document the steps that we’ve taken to reduce paper use and improve processes. Here’s what she wrote… 1. How is the Conservancy using “the cloud”? About two years […]
The Greenway’s Top 10 in 2013
The Greenway’s Top 10 in 2013 includes great accomplishments and fun recognition: In winter, we partnered with The Tiffany & Co. Foundation that completed the capital campaign for the Greenway Carousel and began construction. We opened Labor Day weekend, on-time and on-budget. The Carousel—the most accessible in New England—features animals native to Boston (cod, lobster, […]
Organic Turf Maintenance on the Greenway
Note: This article appeared in a recent issue of the Ecological Landscape Association newsletter and was written by Anthony Ruggiero, our Horticulture Foreman. The Greenway is a mile-and-a-half-long public park that stretches from Chinatown to the North End in downtown Boston. It is a linear series of small parks that sit above the I-93 tunnel […]
A School A Foodtruck Built
Our friends at Momogoose shared this great story with us – they were able to raise $4000 from customers at their location on the Greenway (Dewey Square Park at Congress St.) to rebuild a school badly damaged by the recent hurricane in the Philippines and we wanted to pass that story along. (Click the image […]
Cool weather brings brighter colors
This colorful close up of the nutlet, or seed cluster, of the Carpinus caroliniana, (American Hornbeam) shows even the smallest leaves will take up the challenge of remaining useful as the temperature drops. The oranges and golds, the carotenoids in the leaf structure, protect the leaves from sun and wind damage, and provide some nutrition […]
Evergreen Tree Planting in Fort Point Channel Park
On Tuesday, November 5th we planted five evergreen trees in the Fort Point Channel Park, between Congress and Pearl Streets.
Walk Your Bike and Use Bike Lanes Signage
This week, we began a pilot project to try out several new types of signage concerning bike riding on the Greenway. Sadly, bike riding is not permitting on the Greenway and is a posted rule on official Greenway signage. That said, with more people visiting the Greenway on a daily basis, we have seen and have heard about a number of accidents and near misses and we are working to get the word out.
Leather District Community Workshop Recap
Leather District Community Workshop Recap Greenway Conservancy Offices, 185 Kneeland Street Wednesday, October 9, 2013 7:00 -8:30 PM This post highlights the input and feedback that we received from attendees at our Leather District Community Workshop on Wednesday October 9, 2013. Thanks to all those who attended and gave us their thoughts… Download/View a copy […]
Stonework at North End Park Fountains
We started work on a number of projects, including resetting of the cap stones along the edge of the fountain in the North End park south of Hanover Street.
Autumn Color Coming our Way
Fothergilla is a show off, and we have some in almost every part of the park. Over the next few weeks it will start popping out from between the grasses, perennials and shrubs that are holding on to green, or going golden brown.
Little Free Libraries
Libraries have just been installed on the Greenway–that’s right, they’re Little Free Libraries. Perhaps you’ve seen one somewhere before, now you can find two on the Greenway! Just above North Street in the North End Parks (pictured) and on the lawn North of High Street and Rowe’s Wharf Plaza in the Wharf District Parks […]
National Public Lands Day on the Greenway
Our thanks to the seventy volunteers who came out and worked with us on Saturday, September 28th as part of the annual National Public Lands Day, which draws hundreds of thousands of volunteers to parks nationwide on the fourth Saturday in September each year.
What’s in Bloom in Late Summer
What’s in Bloom in Early September
Spuds on the Greenway
We did a very cool thing – we turned 1 pound of potatoes into 17 pounds of potatoes–all we had to do was a little research. We only watered a handful of times and mulched once. The sun and the spuds did the rest of the work. This afternoon we’ll divide the potatoes and […]
