

Updates from the Garden Team
Despite the rainy summer we’re experiencing, the Garden Team at the Growing Center is keeping very busy! Our Garden Team plants, weeds...


Growing Center Kicks Off Climate Arts Convening on June 17
This past Earth Day, the Growing Center hosted a kick-off and awareness raising event for the Climate Arts Convening, a summer series...


Welcoming Our Newest Board Members!
Welcoming our Newest Board Members! Join us in welcoming the Friends of the Community Growing Center’s newest members of our Board of...


We Are Hiring for the Summer!
Position available - Summer 2023 Assistant Garden Educator for Summer in the Garden field trips at the Somerville Community Growing...


In Gratitude for the Earth
Creatively Celebrating the Earth in Our Community On the afternoon of Saturday, April 22, more than two hundred people stopped by the...


Artist Working to Capture Bud-to-bloom Images in Garden
Somerville artist Kerrie Kemperman recently installed a pinhole camera in the Growing Center's weeping crabapple tree in an attempt to...


It’s Spring in our Not-so-Secret Garden - Come Explore!
He began to walk about, looking up in the trees and at the walls and bushes with a thoughtful expression. “I wouldn’t want to make it...


Spring Has Sprung!
The tulips, daffodils and crocuses are blooming, pollinators and bugs are waking up, and volunteers are back working in the garden!...


The Growing Center Advances its Strategic Planning Initiative
It’s an exciting time for the Growing Center with its Strategic Planning process underway and its 30th anniversary approaching next fall!...


The Somerville Maple Boil Down: Back on Tap, Back on Track!
The Somerville Maple Boil Down: Back on Tap, Back on Track! By Hildi Gabel Growing Center Writing Team In typical late New England winter...