News & Events
* UPCOMING *
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
Agricultural Hall
2026 CHICKS 2026
Agricultural Hall takes chick orders in spring. Check back here periodically for updates and news.
Chicks are sent from large hatcheries to my feed supplier in Acton, MA, and I grab them soon after they arrive and bring them into town.
There are other options available almost anytime all year:
1) Order chicks in spring from a mail-order supplier:
* Mt. Healthy Hatcheries (http://www.mthealthy.com/) ,
* Murray McMurray
(https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/index.html),
* Purely Poultry (https://www.purelypoultry.com/),
* Stromberg's (https://www.strombergschickens.com/).
There are other suppliers, too; just Google "buy chickens online."
2) Give me a call and I will try to locate juvenile or adult birds from local farms.