The City of Beverly, Beverly Public Schools, and the Human Rights Committee invite community members to join us in recognizing Pride Month and honoring the history, contributions, and presence of our diverse LGBTQIA+ community.
This gathering reflects Beverly’s continued commitment to fostering a community where all residents feel seen, valued, and a sense of belonging.

Green Beverly will be there with a table!

Join us on Wednesday, June 10, for a special evening of mindfulness, nature, and gardening inspiration at our Grow Food for Good Grounding & Gardening Walk N' Talk.

The evening begins at 6:00 PM with grounding exercises led by Sarah Lesser Coaching, designed to help participants reconnect with themselves and the natural world. At 6:45 PM, Gray Sawyer of Gardening with Gray, will share regenerative gardening techniques used throughout the Grow Food for Good gardens.

Hosted at the home of Kinship Farm's Assistant Executive Director, this unique event includes a tour of vibrant raised-bed gardens that produce fresh vegetables for the Acord Food Pantry. Guests will also have the opportunity to meet six friendly foster chicks currently being raised through the Grow Food for Good program.

The event is free. Donations welcomed. Visit Kinship Farm 'Donate' tab to contribute to our mission to cultivate ideas and project related to spirituality, relationships, and the environment.

Space is limited, and this event is available by RSVP only. Please RSVP by Tuesday, June 9.

Whether you're interested in gardening, wellness, community, or simply spending a relaxing evening outdoors, we hope you'll join us!

Meet at the Forest River parking lot
SSCW will provide gloves, tools, and supplies
Bring a reusable water bottle and dress for the weather
Please RSVP to susan.marsh@salemsound.org or call 978/741-7900 in case the event needs to be rescheduled

Want to grow food with confidence? Whether you’re dreaming of starting a small farm or learning how to grow your own food sustainably, this hands-on course will give you the skills, practice, and support to make it happen.

This is immersive, 10-week, course takes place at New Entry's farm and office in Beverly. It is designed for anyone 17 years of age and up who is looking to explore small-scale vegetable production, get into farming, or strengthen their crop production skills – while offering the flexibility to do this as an extracurricular. 

Schedule Details:
June 2-August 4, 2026
Tuesdays from 5-9pm

Weekly schedule:
Hands-on fieldwork: 5–7 pm
Classroom instruction, guest lecturers and occasional local farm visits with farmers: 7–9 pm
Optional additional field sessions based on group availability

No previous experience required. Scholarships are available!

Event Cost: $800

Please join us for a cleanup at Ahearn Park / Goldway Playground. We will meet at the bottom of the Pleasant Street ramp at 1pm. We have trash bags, adult-sized gloves, and grabbers to share. We appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you there!

Help us save our favorite local hiking spot! Invasive plants threaten the delicate ecosystems within J.C. Phillips. A BioBlitz will help us show where the forest needs the most assistance. Join us for the kickoff! (Can't attend? You can still collect data all year long!)

A BioBlitz is an event where attendees take photos and record sounds to catalog the animals and plants living in an area. You don’t need experience, just the free iNaturalist app and a camera phone!

Please download the iNaturalist app before you come!

Date: Sunday, May 31, 12pm - 4pm (RAIN DATE: Sunday, June 7th, same time)

Group #1 from 12:00 - 2:00pm for approx. 30 people

(If we have more than 30 we will open up group #2 which will start at 2:00pm - 4:00pm)
Location: Check in table at Community Garden 779 Cabot St. Beverly
(Please do not park in the Community garden. Parking available on LP Henderson Road, walk over to the community garden. Check in at back of parking lot.)

Extra opportunity: Green Beverly is offering a free review of your electric and gas bill. Let Green Beverly try to help you lower your utility bills - bring your bills to the event for a "check up!"

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Please register yourself and those attending with you.
Link to register: https://forms.gle/5oALpDyv9xfsjaWU8

Waiver:
The waiver is part of this registration to ensure that all participants have agreed to the waiver and understand the risks. When you SUBMIT this form, you indicate your acceptance of this waiver for yourself and those attending with you.

Event sponsored by Green Beverly, Grow Native Massachusetts and Plant Magic.

Questions? Email shelley@greenbeverly.org
Thanks!

Please join us for a downtown litter cleanup, focusing on the side streets between Cabot & Rantoul Streets. We'll meet on Judson Street outside the Cabot Theatre at 10am. We have trash bags, adult-sized gloves, and grabbers to share. We appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you there!

The Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church and North Shore Nature Programs present "Saturday Strolls", a free, monthly nature walk guided by a naturalist from North Shore Nature Programs along marked trails. The theme for May is "Bird Adventure".
Walkers meet at the Choate Farm parking lot. All ages are welcome. To avoid scaring away wildlife, please do not bring pets. To receive weather updates, register by visiting the NSUU Home page and clicking on the RSVP for "Saturday Strolls".

Please join us on Friday, May 22nd @7 pm at Gentile Brewery for our May volunteer gathering. These monthly gatherings are a way for Green Beverly coaches, staff, volunteers, and friends to connect!

This is an interactive and fun introduction to Green Beverly's history, mission and opportunities to get involved. It is offered six times annually.

State Rep. Hannah Bowen's office is hosting a community conversation on Energy Affordability & Sustainability — and it's one worth showing up for.

The evening kicks off with presentations and Q&A featuring experts from the MA Department of Public Utilities, the MA Department of Energy Resources, and National Grid. From there, the conversation opens up into smaller breakout discussions where local experts and neighbors can dig in together.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions, their ideas, and a willingness to think creatively. The goal is to generate bold ideas for the legislature, spark new collaborations, and connect Beverly and Wenham residents with real opportunities to advance both affordability and clean energy. RSVP here.

-Tuesday, May 19

- 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

- Cove Community Center, 19 E Corning St, Beverly, MA

Your monthly sustainability meetup is back, and this one's a good one! This month, we're introducing participants to BioBlitz. In this fast-paced, community-science event, scientists and volunteers team up to identify as many species (plants, animals, fungi, and more!) as possible in a designated area over a short period.

Bring your curiosity, your questions, or just show up for the FREE coffee and friendly conversation. We'll be inside or on the back patio, so dress accordingly for the weather!

Mark your calendars, coffee lovers and sustainability enthusiasts!

This is part of Green Beverly's Office Hours Series, and here's the best part: everyone is welcome. Got burning sustainability questions? Brilliant green ideas? Just craving good conversation over great coffee? Pull up a chair. We'd love to see you!

What to expect:

• Free drip coffee on us (while it lasts!)

• Your favorite espresso drinks available for purchase

• Cozy indoor seating or breezy back patio vibes (dress for the weather—it's open air!)

• Genuine connections with neighbors who care about our community

Getting here: We'd love it if you could walk or bike over! Every small step counts.

Find us at beantrust coffeebar, and come as you are. Can't wait to share some coffee and conversation with you.

Huge thanks to Erik Modhal @beantrust.community for making this happen!

Please join us for a cleanup at Bartlett Gardens / Norman Gilbert Park. We will meet at the Wentzell Avenue entrance at 9:30am. We have trash bags, adult-sized gloves, and grabbers to share. We appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you there!

Look for spring migrants while walking the trails of the J.C. Phillips nature preserve with library volunteer, Greg Power. Our previous walk at this location yielded a nice selection of waterfowl, as well as song birds--we hope to repeat that this year! All bird sightings will be logged on iNaturalist in association with Green Beverly's Bioblitz journal for J.C. Phillips. A bioblitz is a short, intense event where volunteers work together to identify as many living species in an area that they can. This can provide valuable information about the health and the biodiversity of our local green spaces.

Part of the Keep Salem Beautiful's Great Salem Cleanup!
SSCW is hosting the Collins Cove Cleanup and will provide gloves, tools, and supplies
Bring a reusable water bottle and dress for the weather
Please register at the KSB website given above

Plant swap | coffee & snacks | garden experts | live band.

Come and join us for Beverly's fourth annual plant swap on Sat 16 May. This event is aimed at both experienced gardeners and those who are just getting started. Its mission is to create a vibrant, connected community in Beverly with more (native) flowers, fruit, and vegetables in all of our backyards.

How the swap works:

1. Bring healthy, pest-free plants to contribute - these can be seedlings, perennials that you've dug up and divided from your garden, house plants, and so on. Don’t worry if you don’t have anything. Come and start your garden adventure with us!

2. Label each plant. We find cut up yogurt pots work well as free labels.

3. Have fun! You don't need a plant to participate. Enjoy coffee from Beantrust, talk to gardening & sustainability experts (Green Beverly & Plant Magic), and hang with your Beverly neighbors!

Extra details:

- event starts at 9am. First 30 mins are drop-off only so that we can organize the plants and give people time to connect over a coffee

- event is rain or shine as the plants don’t care..!

- please consider bringing a reusable cup for coffee, though we will have compostable ones and a compost bag available

Mass Audubon is pleased to once again offer this series of free birdwatching walks made possible by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of the participating towns, as noted below.

Participants will learn about bird migration, breeding behavior, and field identification. Observe birds in their colorful spring plumage and learn how to identify birds by their songs.

The walks are free, but registration is required since each walk is limited to 20 participants.

Do you know how many weeds are actually amazing food and medicine? So many useful plants grow around us—cultivated, wild, native, introduced!

Come on a walk at Moraine Farm with local herbalist and foraging instructor Iris Weaver to meet the plants in our gardens and yards that have food, medicinal, or other uses. We’ll talk about how to recognize and use them, safe and sustainable foraging practices, and where to find resources. It’s a wonderful way to connect with the environment and feel kinship with the land. Bring a notebook, camera/phone, and a friend. A handout is included.

Join us for our annual Gnome 5K and Mushroom Mile trail race through Moraine Farm! This is an exclusive opportunity to run on this private property, thanks to our Moraine Farm partners at the Trustees of the Reservation and Project Adventure.

The race will start and end at Waldorf School at Moraine Farm. Prizes for the winners!

Race day registration opens at 8:00 AM. The 5K race through the woods kicks off at 8:30 AM and the 1 Mile at 8:45... so be ready to run (or walk).

Join us after the run for our Pancake Breakfast! Breakfast tickets are $9 per person. You don't need to be a runner to enjoy the pancakes!

Event Cost: $25

Join us to celebrate Earth Day at our first cleanup of the season. We are planning to clean up Story Ave and surrounding areas. More details coming soon, check back for updated info

Details:
Parking: best parking is along Colon St by the senior center, some parking will also be available along story Ave and Dearborn St. some spots on Story Ave belong to the housing residents, please avoid those if possible.

Meeting point: plan to meet at the intersection of Dearborn St and Story Ave. Rubber gloves, grabbers, and trash bags will be provided. Feel free to bring more durable gloves and a few rakes, in case the need is there.

Facilities: there are no bathrooms or water stations available, please bring your own reusable water bottle and plan ahead for bathroom needs

We plan to meet at noon, and work for at least 2 hours, come for all or drop in when you can! Any help is appreciated

A fun community event where people bring their broken items and work with coaches fix them: small appliances, lamps, computers, smart phones, bikes, damaged clothes, etc.

Please join us on Friday, April 24th @6:30 pm at Kitchen Table for our April volunteer gathering! These monthly gatherings are a way for Green Beverly coaches, staff, volunteers, and friends to connect and meet each other. They’re always a fun time to catch up with old GB friends and to meet new ones- hope to see you there!

Hear from our local green experts! Cheryl Rafuse of Plant Magic Gardens to learn about ecological gardening, Ani Sarkisian from Grow Native to learn about bioblitzes and their importance, and Green Beverly to learn about opportunities to volunteer.

Extra opportunity: Green Beverly is offering a free review of your electric and gas bill.

Let us try to help you lower your utility bills by bringing your bills to the event! Questions? Contact ggoss@noblenet.org

Join us at the Cabot Theatre this Earth Day 2026 for a FREE screening of Plastic People! Green Beverly is proud to sponsor this special event.

Plastic People is an award-winning feature documentary that chronicles humanity’s fraught relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health.

Following the film there will be short presentations and Q&A with panelists:

• Andrea Lacroix, Beyond Plastics

• Andrew Brousseau, Black Earth Compost

• Patrick Belmonte, Change is Simple

• Dean Berg, Green Beverly

• Sabrina Auclair, Unpacked Living

Register here: https://thecabot.org/event/plastic-people-free-screening/

Green Beverly 101  has been deferred until May in order to allow attendees to see Green Beverly’s 7:00 pm showing of Plastic People at the Cabot Theater.  

The new date for GB 101 will be forthcoming. For more information contact volunteer@greenbeverly.org. We apologize for any inconvenience. Hope to see you at the  Cabot. 

This is an interactive and fun introduction to Green Beverly's history, mission and opportunities to get involved. It is offered six times annually.

Sign up to join our Earth Day 5K Clean-Up Run/Walk on April 22 at 5:30 PM! We’ll meet at our Beverly (135 Cabot St) and Danvers (199 Newbury St) RECK locations before heading out on a planned 5K route (run or walk) to help clean up local parks and beaches along the way.

T-shirts, gloves, and trash bags will be provided.

SSCW will provide gloves, tools, and supplies
Bring a reusable water bottle and dress for the weather
Please RSVP to Susan.marsh@salemsound.org or call 978/741-7900 in case the event needs to be rescheduled

On Saturday, April 18, from 12–3 PM, Beverly Local Food Collaborative is hosting Roots & Revelry, the official spring fundraiser for the Beverly Farmers Market, at Backbeat Brewing. This event is a chance for the community to come together ahead of the market season—guests can purchase vegetable, herb, and flower seedlings, meet local farmers, and get a first look at our 2026 vendor lineup.

The Beverly Local Food Collaborative is committed to strengthening our regional food system—expanding equitable access to fresh, locally grown food, supporting small farms, and championing sustainable practices.