Fresh Pond Celebrates Saturday in Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Fresh Pond Reservation is Cambridge's green gem - an urban wild that protects Fresh Pond, Cambridge's in-city drinking water reservoir. Fresh Pond Day is the Cambridge Water Department's annual tribute to this unique reservation that is a vital natural resource, an invaluable sanctuary for wildlife, and a beloved recreational escape in the city.

So on Saturday

Fresh Pond gets its own celebration and the jubilation and love it deserves. Cambridge officials are inviting the public to live wildlife presentations, a wildlife and bike parade, live music, facepainting, truck climb-aboards, tours and more will abound, and - it's free and open to all.

Fresh Pod Day is Saturday, June 11, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Water Purification Facility at Fresh Pond Reservation, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge.

Schedule Highlights:
11:00am to 1pm - Stiltwalking with Open Air Circus
11:30am - Nature stories with Doria Hughes @ the Kid Zone
11:30am - Wildflower Walkabout - meets at the New England Wildflower Society table
12:30pm - WILDLIFE PARADE! Feel free to bring a costume - sign and mask-making will be offered
1:00 - 2:00pm Live wildlife demonstration with Mass Audubon
1:00 - Water Purification Facility tour (open house all day!)
1:30 - Beehive Talk and Tour at Lusitania Meadow
1:30 - Native Plant Identification session @ NEWFS Table
2:00 - BIKE PARADE! Decorate your bike with flair all morning! Kicks off in Parking Lot.
2:00 - Nature Drawing workshop!

Live music by local bands: Do Mi Soul, Spooky Ghosts, TromBoston, and Trail Mix!

All-Day Festivities
Story Walk, book giveaways, tap-water taste-test, recycle toss, seedling giveaway, Fix-a-Leak, Touch-a-Truck, birdhouse decorating, beehive talk & tour, water purification facility tour, wildflower walk, human-nature dictionary activity, face-painting, bike repairs, helmet giveaways, a bicycle-powered lightbulb, pedicab rides, and more!