Posted onJune 6, 2025|Comments Off on Sustainable Yard & Garden Tour – Sunday, 6/22, 3–5:30 pm
From Helen Dewey, of Medfield Environment Action –
Sustainable Yard and Garden Tour
Medfield Environment Action will be hosting another Sustainable Yard and Garden Tour on Sunday, June 22, from 3 – 5:30 pm. Attendees will travel to four different gardens in Medfield. The homeowners will walk attendees through the yard and provide an overview of their garden and what makes it sustainable. Homeowners will discuss what they have planted, how they maintain it and any equipment that they use. The garden on Pine St and the one on Stagecoach Rd. were featured in the last tour in September, 2024. Come see the gardens in full bloom in June! It will be set up like a crawl in which folks move from garden to garden, at specific times, providing their own transportation. Car-pooling is encouraged! There is no cost to attend, and all are welcome. Register ahead of time at tinyurl.com/SustainableGardenTour-2025 to receive more information about each garden and any weather related updates.
Why would one want to strive for a yard that has a low impact on the environment? Conventional yard care can be time consuming, is destructive to the eco-system and harmful to an entire food web. For example: poison the grubs, birds are harmed by eating the grubs, use chemicals to achieve green grass, storm water becomes contaminated, moreover turf offers nothing in the way of food for nature. In addition, children and pets can be harmed when exposed to grass and yards with a lot of chemicals.
The homeowners on the tour will show how a sustainable, low impact yard is a work in progress but the benefits include lower maintenance costs, cleaner air to breath, (no gas powered leaf blowers), improved visual appeal, no secondary poisoning through the food web, re-use or composting of leaf materials on-site, conserving water, supporting biodiversity, “the living earth”, precious time available to focus on other activities and a sense of helping rather than harming, everybody wins.
Whether you are an avid gardener interested in learning some sustainable practices that you can implement or just curious as to what it is all about, join us on Sunday, June 22 to take a walk around some beautiful, thoughtful and eco-friendly gardens in Medfield. The flyer with the addresses of the gardens is posted on the MEA website, meamedfield.org. Any questions please email meamedfield@gmail.com
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Posted onJune 4, 2025|Comments Off on Medfield TV Survey – corrected link
NB – Apologies for the fact that the prior post had an incorrect link to the Medfield TV Community Survey, which has now been corrected
From Katie Duval, Executive Director, Medfield TV –
We are hoping to get feedback from as many residents as possible. Please consider helping us by sending the survey to your friends, neighbors, and local networks. The more feedback we receive, the better we’ll be able to plan for Medfield TV’s future.
Posted onJune 4, 2025|Comments Off on Medfield TV Survey
From Katie Duval, Executive Director, Medfield TV –
We are hoping to get feedback from as many residents as possible. Please consider helping us by sending the survey to your friends, neighbors, and local networks. The more feedback we receive, the better we’ll be able to plan for Medfield TV’s future.
Posted onJune 3, 2025|Comments Off on Past MCPE Trivia Fundraiser
From today’s photo memories my OneDrive shared –
Mike Sullivan and Mark Fisher being really good sports to both join me as the Town House Team at a MCPE trivia fundraiser, and to wear the fanciest team hats in the room. Despite my ringers’ vast knowledge about Medfield and our winning thinking hats, we lost.
Posted onMay 29, 2025|Comments Off on MCAP Seeking Focus Groups
From Viktorria Glissendorf at Medfield Outreach –
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Hi MCAP Members,
I’m attaching a flyer for our focus groups taking place next week, as well as a sample write-up you can use if you’d like. I’d really appreciate it if you could share this with your networks, especially those parents/guardians of high school/middle school students.
Information gathered will help influence our future coalition work, and is extremely valuable!
Posted onMay 29, 2025|Comments Off on Senate Budget #s – similar to House & Gov
The Senate released its cherry sheet budget numbers today, and the Senate’s money for Medfield tracks the House and Governor’s budget amounts fairly closely – meaning that the town will not likely see much increase in state aid next year.
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Memorial Address given by State Representative, Josh Tarsky (Photo by Colleen Sullivan)
Co-Chair, Memorial Day Committee: Michelle Doucette (Photo by Colleen Sullivan)
