What happens at the Field Station?Why does it matter?
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"This is not just a local issue. The preservation of the current condition of this station is important to the entirety of Eastern Massachusetts"
Senator Mike Barrett
From Councillor George Darcy on Waltham Patch: All good things in life are worth waiting for. I am happy to announce that today, Tuesday 3/1/2022 at 2:11pm, the City of Waltham closed in it acquisition of the 28-acre former University of Massachusetts Field Station farm located at 240 Beaver Street. While it took over 3…
At its meeting on November 12, 2019, Waltham City Council voted unanimously (W. Fowler absent, R. LeBlanc recused, Pres. Brasco not voting) to approve the Long Term Debt Committee’s recommendation to use $13,750,000 from CPA funds for the Field Station purchase. Thank you to every single person for each action you took to get to…
EXCITING NEWS! At its 7PM meeting on September 10, 2019, the City of Waltham Community Preservation Committee will consider an application to purchase the Waltham Field Station and Lawrence Meadow property. Representatives from several Waltham Field Station tenants, as well as other members of the public, plan to deliver testimony in support of the application.…
Before the land at the Waltham Field Station became a mosaic of community gardens, farming greenhouses, and cold storage units, there were hundreds of rows of research plots. The Waltham Field Station was a place of serious academic study from the 1920s to the mid-1990s—nearly 70…
If you look at the official map of the Western Greenway Trail, a trail running throughout Waltham, the first thing you will notice is how colorful it is. A key in the corner notes the differences between blue, yellow, pink and black stretches of path. The second thing you will see is the shape: when…
The Waltham Field Station is something of a secret garden. Nestled between two iconic local institutions–Bentley University and the Girl Scouts national museum at Camp Cedar Hill– the station also adds to Beaver Street’s immense cultural significance. All three institutions are built on land handed down from beloved local farmer and philanthropist Cornelia Warren, and…
Out of eight total, the oldest non-profit at the Waltham Field Station is none other than Mass Farmers Markets. At the time Mass Farmers Markets was originally established in the 1978, the station was still a functioning agricultural lab facility. Now, here at 240 Beaver Street, Mass Farmers Markets blends seamlessly into the station’s missions…
Every organization that calls the Waltham Field Station home began in the same way: identifying a need in the communities of Waltham, the Greater Boston Area, or Massachusetts, and developing some kind of response. Grow Native Massachusetts is no exception. Since 2010, Grow Native Massachusetts has taken a grassroots approach to native plant awareness, in…
The Waltham Field Station is known for its exceptional soil, which local growers have always shared. Historically, university demonstration plots were maintained alongside horticulturalists’ greenhouses and commercial fields. Now, non-profit farmers share the growing space with climate change scientists and community gardeners. This summer, Green Rows of Waltham, the community gardeners’ organization, celebrates its 25th…
Speaking with Dee Kricker, a Waltham community member to her very core, is a truly delightful experience. I was recently lucky enough to have such an opportunity, which I took in order to learn more about her involvement at the Waltham Field Station and the resulting award she received last June. Dee was recognized by…