News & Events
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Maple Sugaring Day
Saturday, February 28, 11am-3pm at MassAudubon's Boston Nature Center.
This family-friendly event is ideal for anyone wanting to learn how to tap locally, and also perfect if you simply want to get outside and stand in the sweet steam of boiling maple sap. Plenty of indoor kiddie activities, too. Come with questions. For more info and registration, click HERE.
Spring's coming!
Despite our wonderfully 'normal' winter, 2025 was the 2nd or 3rd warmest on record. Average global temperatures are flirting with or have surpassed 1.5° C (2.7° F) above pre-industrial levels. How do we stop the burn?
For other workshops and happenings, check the Workshops calendar here.
Agricultural Hall?
In 1818, the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture built the original Agricultural Hall on Dighton Street in Brighton. It served as the hub of the Brighton Fair and Cattle Show, one of the earliest and largest such fairs in the country. In 1829, "a 17-pound turnip, a 19-pound radish, and a bough on which pears hung like a cluster of grapes were among the outstanding exhibits of that year." In 1844 the building was moved to its present location at the corner of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Washington Street.
Dr. William P. Marchione &
The Bostonian Society
Agricultural Hall
!Chickens Rule!
If you already have a brood of hens, we have the food and other supplies you need to keep your girls fed, happy & healthy. If you don't already have chickens, give us a call or stop by and we'll try to answer any questions you have.
2017 chicks have come and gone. Agricultural Hall is taking orders for 2017 egg-layer chicks (no, the chicks don't lay eggs until they've grown up).
1) Green Mountain Feeds makes a great organic layer pellet at their family-owned grain mill in Bethel, VT. Ag Hall carries their 50lb stay-fresh bags in stock for $34.95 Price break; now $32.90 -- closer supplier means lower costs for you! Scratch as well, also sold in 50 lb. bags. Smaller quantities available (5 lb. min.).
2) Poulin conventional feed. Poulin isn't organic, but it's a good balanced feed that your chickens are sure to love.
FEED, TREETS & VITAMINS:
We buy small bulk quantities from our supplier in order to keep inventory fresh.
- Organic Green Mountain layer pellet
...... $37.500/50 lb. bag
- Poulin layer pellet
....... $25.00
- Organic scratch (via special order)
...... $1.25/lb. or $32/50lb bag
- Gran-I-Grit granite gizzard grit
...... $1.50/lb. or $5/5 lb.
- Also in stock: Calcium chips/oyster shell, Daily 72 Ionic Minerals, Durvet water-soluble vitamins & electrolytes, Save-a-chick electrolyte & vitamin supplememt: call for prices.
SUPPLIES:
- Waterer, metal two gallon $26.99
- Waterer, metal, three gallon $33.59
- Feeder, metal, 12 lb $18.99
- Feeder, plastic, 3 lb $9.39
- Waterer, plastic, 1.5 qt. $3.39
- Waterer, rubber, 2 qt. $5.69 (great for winter/icing)
- Feeder, glass/metal, 1 qt. $3.99
- Waterer, glass/metal, 1 qt. $2.29
- Feeder, glass/plastic, 1 qt $3.29
- Electric water heater (and toe warmer?), $? Call