Carlisle Center Park
Free Garden Classes
Every Tuesday from April 7
through October 27 Click here for a short video
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Open to all
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Volunteer Master Gardeners answer your gardening questions
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Center Park used as a Living Classroom
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Registration encouraged with Recreation Dept or Council on Aging and Human Services, but not required
Upcoming Events at Center Park
Free Pruning Workshop
Sat March 28 1pm - 3pm
Master Gardeners will teach pruning techniques using shrubs at Center Park to demonstrate best practices. Bring your questions. Feel free to help prune using our tools and under our guidance. Hands-on learning!
Free Twiggy Workshop
...ongoing at the same time using grape vine and pussy willow whips to make whimsical and practical garden structures from the pruned and found branches.
Center Park clean-up
Saturday April 4 9am to noon
In conjunction with the Mosquito Trash Party, we will teach landscape clean-up techniques and offer park tours.
Event Ideas from Kim Selig. Can you help make them a reality?
Some of the ideas I have for drawing visitors to the garden would be:
(1) Regular evening music series during the warmer months with food. You could rope off the parking area for extra seating (disperse parking to other lots in town). Prior to the event you could have a pizza vendor or maybe some of Clark Farm’s vendors (local small businesses) offer their foodstuffs and beverages.
(2) Outdoor community exercise classes such as yoga, Pilates, etc. Participants have to bring their own mats. The grass won’t be that disturbed. I go to something like this in VT and there’s no damage to the town green. You could even have a series which features a different instructor each week from one of the many area yoga/pilates studios. I’m quite sure they would love the opportunity to promote the uniqueness of their businesses in the process.
(3) Center Garden Monthly Book Club which invites authors to talk about their book(s) which focus on Gardening/Natural world. You could tie it into the offerings at the local library and/or Concord Bookshop. A nice coffee/tea could accompany the event.
(4) Consider having the local Scout troop(s) build a small stage* or “performance garden bridge” upon which different musicians/speakers could play/speak.
(5) Have different seasonal special exhibits/series. For example, during the summer you could have “Create your own fairy/magical garden” for the kids. You could work with a local garden center like New England nurseries which carry these types of materials and to secure someone who could guide the kids on how to create such a garden. You could “display” them around the garden. And of course, have a storytime/film tie-in with the Gleason library. (6) Most public gardens have a changing/seasonal display garden focused on a theme. This could easily be a way to get more people to participate. For example you could have a container garden display. The containers would be created by area gardeners and then placed artfully around the garden. A contest could be part of it, where people could vote online/through the Carlisle Mosquito and “win” a gift certificate to a participating garden center, etc.
(7) A similar theme would be to create a monthly small exhibit garden whereby a local garden landscape designer creates their vision and gives a talk about garden design or a seasonal related topic.