Max Grinnell strolled through the Fenway Victory Gardens this morning.
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Fenway Victory Gardens
By adamg - 9/15/17 - 11:55 am
Seems a colony of Italian Wall Lizards has established itself in the Fenway Victory Gardens. They normally couldn't survive our winters, but the gardens are full of warmth-supplying mulch.
Massachusetts hasn't had any lizards of the reptilian variety since the five-lined skink went extinct here.
Via Jef Taylor.
By adamg - 3/31/13 - 5:55 pm
The Berkeley Community Garden reports on a faucet theft sometime yesterday or early today:
The gates were found locked in the morning, so we're assuming someone hopped over the Alley fence to do the damage. Every tap except the two near tremont were removed - we assume visibility kept them from those taps. There wasn't much metal in the plumbing (minimal copper and brass), but scrap value is the only motive we can think of. This looks like more than just vandalism. Nothing else in the garden appears damaged.
By adamg - 10/3/12 - 1:56 pm
Missing burl. Boston Parks photo.Boston Police report arresting a man
who may be responsible for vandalizing trees in the Emerald Necklace in recent months - by sawing off burls, large bark protuberances that are popular among woodworkers and sculptors.
Police say Mike Scanlan's mistake this morning was wielding a chainsaw on a tree in the Fenway Victory Garden, where several witnesses saw and heard him - and then called police after they watched him walk over to an apartment building at 15 Park Drive.
When officers arrived at the gardens, they found "what appeared to be several pieces of freshly cut wood," police say.
By adamg - 3/7/12 - 5:53 pm
The city has installed a series of traps in parks to see if they can stop the destructive elm bark beetle:
The traps consist of 18.5"x 28" green plywood boxes mounted approximately 15 feet off the ground on trees located at least 150 feet away from any elms. Four have been placed on Boston Common, four in the Public Garden, three in the Fenway Victory Garden, and one in Copley Square.
By adamg - 12/5/10 - 12:57 pm
Mike Mennonno reports he was elected president of the group that oversees the Fenway Victory Gardens yesterday, after his rival for the position withdrew at the last minute when he realized he'd been too mean during the campaign. One of Mennonno's first acts: Setting up an official Tumblr site.
By adamg - 11/18/10 - 7:41 am
For president of the Fenway Garden Society, that is.
Mike Mennonno, running for the volunteer position, posts a copy of the e-mail his opponent sent out to members, which darkly warns the society will be destroyed and the Fenway Victory Gardens overrun by out-of-town gay thugs taking advantage of the free needles and condoms he charges Mennonno wants to distribute in the gardens:
By adamg - 11/7/10 - 5:36 pm
Mike Mennonno explains why he's running for president of the non-profit group that runs the Fenway Victory Gardens:
[I]t doesn't take long for derelict gardens to become favorites of overnight partiers, intravenous drug users, or squatters. Broken windows. And just like in neighborhoods with blight, it tends to spread. We find it harder to recruit and retain gardeners when the plots adjacent to theirs have become public toilets.
By adamg - 8/1/10 - 11:28 am
Mike Mennonno surveys the damage after some partiers decided the entire rest of the Fens was just too boring and so decided to use the Victory Gardens for some after-hours action early Saturday.
By adamg - 5/9/10 - 8:27 am
Fred is chronicling his efforts to grow vegetables in the Fenway Victory Gardens:
By adamg - 4/24/10 - 10:52 pm
Tbobtubb tweets a fire by the Fenway Victory Gardens around 10:30 p.m. was big enough to shut down Boylston between Charlesgate and Park Drive just as the Sox game was getting out - but nothing like the April 5 blaze.
By adamg - 4/10/10 - 10:22 pm
Mike Mennonno reports that, in addition to the unfurling fern fronds, the guy who likes to show off his junk is back at the Victory Gardens.
Tim, the President of the garden society, says he's an older guy, been doing it for years.
"Yeah," he shuddered. "And sometimes he wears a thong."
By adamg - 3/18/10 - 11:25 am
Really, actual douches. But Mike Mennonno reports the blooms make up for it (more).
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