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Join Heritage Museums & Gardens on Augusty 22 for the sixth annual Wampanoag Heritage Day, a fun-filled celebration of Wampanoag culture at Heritage featuring a variety of activities from 10 am-2 pm, including:

Join farmer, chef and educator Tracy Hayhurst for this Berkshire Botanical Garden farm-to-table cooking class on Sunday, August 30, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Participants will harvest from the BBG vegetable garden, then head into the kitchen with Hayhurst to make a multiple-course meal.

The Italian Summer Feast will be using the bounty of the garden in traditional I...

Climate change is affecting everything on the menu, making this topic relevant to everyone who eats! Not another doom-and-gloom story–this free Massachusetts Master Gardeners online talk on August 26 focuses on solutions to confront climate change and still keep our favorites on the menu. And coincidentally, help keep the planet livable.

Prof. Emeritus Mike Hoffmann...

Let’s reimagine the centuries-old Japanese art of bonsai, emphasizing individual expression beyond classical tradition. This approach embraces playful, lighthearted and sometimes humorous ways of working with miniature trees as an artistic form. In this Berkshire Botanical Garden workshop on Thursday, August 27, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., led by artist and horticultural therapist B...

A healthy landscape is more than a collection of plants.

Pollinators, birds, amphibians, and other wildlife depend on a range of resources that are often overlooked in conventional garden design. Bare soil may provide nesting habitat for native bees. Fallen leaves and plant stems may shelter insects through the winter. Water, dead wood, dense vegetation, and special...