Regional News

Support Broadmoor's education and conservation programs and feed the birds all winter by buying your bird seed from us this year! Order by October 30.

© Lisa Moore

Guided by a visiting teacher naturalist in the classroom, students will use bird puppets to experience how natural selection works as they try to survive with their adaptations in the island environments available to them.

Trail, October © Janet DeLonga

In this exhibit celebrating the DCR's 125th Anniversary, 14 artists present works in a variety of mediums that celebrate the DCR's 125th Anniversary. Join us on October 24 for a free Artists' Reception! On display September 8–November 28. 

© Kent Harnois

Looking for a few items to spruce up your nest? There’s no telling what you can find at our annual yard sale! Join us this Columbus Day weekend to shop for furniture, housewares, toys, books, and more.

American Kestrel (Photo: Norman Smith)

Trailside wants to release art, imagination, and creativity from their usual boundaries for one weekend in autumn. And you're invited to contribute to this collaborative art project by creating your own feather out of found materials! Submissions are due by October 1.

BNC has been selected as one of 100 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 each through Cummings Foundation’s $100K for 100 program. The grant will support the wildlife sanctuary’s “Pathways to Nature Preschool Outreach Program” for a three-year period, from 2014-2017.

Plan for delicious meals throughout the holiday season with Drumlin’s CSA program. Get freshly-harvested, sustainably-grown produce from September through November! Fall CSA started September 12—prorated still shares available.

Ever try to get your kids to eat carrots? It’s not always easy. But for students in grades K–5 at Somerville public schools, eating carrots is part of the afterschool curriculum thanks to a partnership with Drumlin Farm.

© Gillian Frazier

This month's exhibit, which features paintings by Gillian Frazier, is on display at the Habitat Gallery from September 1-30.

Habitat is excited to announce that we have a new Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station now open for public use at the sanctuary! 

Join our teacher naturalists every Friday this month for a free 1-hour hike around The Bog at Patriot Place in Foxboro! This 32-acre cranberry wetland system and wooded area supports a variety of wildlife including Great Blue Herons, Wood Ducks, deer, foxes, and turtles.

With the support of a recently awarded grant, Moose Hill is working to increase upland habitat diversity and improve early successional habitat for plants and wildlife. Work on the project began in mid-February and will be completed by the end of June. Updated June 15.

Cover image: Black-bellied Plover by Melvin G. Lawrence (1870-1932)

Many of the most important birds in the history of decoy-making were made in Massachusetts. In this new, lavishly produced art book, thirty-six never-before-published historical photographs are combined with important, new historical material.