Boxford Village Garden Club

04/25/2026

04/24/2026

Crews working to beautify Boxford on one of the club's Civic Beautification days. Thanks to chair Linda Shea for the photos.

04/22/2026

Boxford Earth Day 2026 will be held this year on Saturday, May 2 in front of Town Hall, 7A Spofford Road. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This popular town event, co-hosted by the BVGC and Recycling Committee, offers opportunities for all ages to clean up our roadsides and woods, dispose of old unwanted textiles and drop off paper for shredding.

Those who collect trash from around town and bring it to the recycling center will be rewarded with a Benson's ice cream sundae. This is a good time to get rid of old linens, comforters, blankets, clothes and accessories such as belts, shoes, gloves, boots and jewelry. The donated items are picked up by Helpsy.

Each resident can dispose of one free box of paper for shredding (1' by 1' by 2') plus $5 for each additional box.

Several activities will be held throughout the day including gardening and conservation advice, service dog demos and kid-friendly activities such as face-painting and goats to pet. Learn about our native plants!

Why not join the fun while helping to reduce litter from our streets and textiles from our trash collections!

04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day! The Boxford Village Garden Club and the Boxford Recycling Committee encourage you to do your part. Here's how...

Boxford is celebrating Earth Day on Saturday, May 2, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

Pick up trash from your neighborhood, take it to the recycling center to drop it off, then join us at Town Hall for Benson's Ice Cream and other festivities.

Paper shredding (1 box free/resident; $5.00 per additional box); available until 2:00 PM.

Helpsy Textile Donations—bring your clothing and worn-out blankets, towels, shoes, etc., in a bag, and they will be recycled.

Goats and the service dogs will be back by popular demand, and there will be lots of activities for children.

04/22/2026

On Saturday, April 18, the Boxford Village Garden Club volunteers were at it again, picking up trash for our pre-Earth Day cleanup - this time on Pond Street. We walked up and down, filling about a dozen bags and harvesting many bottles and cans to recycle. Among the wealth of trash we also found a tire and two car batteries. Thank you to the Boxford Police Department for helping dispose of the batteries.

Thanks to Susie Papin, Vaughn Miller, Jayne Smallman, Suzie Arsenault, Linda Shea, Diane Spiliotis, Alex Scott, Kathy O’Brien, Carolyn Tanner, Paul Miller and Laura D**e. We'll see you next year on a messy street in town!

04/17/2026

At the April Boxford Village Garden Club meeting, Debra Dellanina Alvarez (savedbythegarden.org) walked attendees through time to discover the history of Victory Gardens and their inspiration that endures to this day.

04/17/2026

Members sharing their talent at the April Boxford Village Garden Club meeting: Kathy Kinney created a lovely arrangement that incorporated gorgeous flowers but also vegetables (relevant to the main speaker's topic). Judy McCarey dispensed horticultural wisdom; copresident Liz Minich is pictured to her right.

04/16/2026

One of the several teams participating in Dig & Divide activities in preparation for the Boxford Village Garden Club's annual plant sale, to be held Saturday, May 9, at the Center at 10 Elm.

04/14/2026

This Friday morning, April 17, Debra Dellanina-Alvarez of "Saved by the Garden" will give us a talk on Victory Gardens. Travel through time and discover the history of Victory Gardens and their inspiration. Virtually visit today's breathtaking gardens, their garden architecture, plans, plantings, some unique plant characteristics, and early used techniques and tips that you can use in your own garden today.

As always, the general public is welcome to sit in on any of our General Meetings. Find our calendar here, https://www.boxfordvillagegardenclub.org/calendar
Meetings begin at around 9:00 with coffee and light refreshments.

Our speakers generally begin around 10:30.
Check out Debra's website here https://savedbythegarden.org/

04/04/2026

The Boxford Village Garden Club awards an annual (one-time) $2,000 scholarship to a Boxford, MA, high school senior who plans to pursue a college major aligned with the Club’s Mission Statement.

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.boxfordvillagegardenclub.org/scholarship
Completed applications must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. The scholarship recipient will be announced by May 15, 2026.

03/25/2026

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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