Make your own spectacular holiday wreath! Create a fabulous holiday wreath for your door with locally-sourced fancy evergreens gathered from the Wakefield Estate. This session will begin with a short demonstration by Lisa Ahern from Cedar Grove Gardens, who will show how to embellish a plain balsam wreath and turn it into a  custom-made show stopper! The Wakefield Estate will provide a plain […]

The Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust is offering hand-crafted, locally-sourced holiday wreaths.  The wreaths are 18 inches in diameter and can be hung or used as a holiday centerpiece. The deadline to order a wreath is Wednesday, Dec 3; order by calling 617-333-0924 or send an email to: wakefieldtrust@dogwoodlanefarm.org. Wreathes will be available for pick up at the Wakefield Estate […]

The Wakefield Estate will be open for a special members only weekend on Saturday, Oct 18th and Sunday, Oct 19th with several visitation options. Come enjoy the early morning light and song birds over coffee, cider, and donuts, or take a late afternoon walk among the estate’s formal gardens and enjoy refreshments on the piazza. Families can enjoy a self-guided scavenger […]

Visitors to the estate can now pick up a copy a beautiful “Pocket Guide to the Wakefield Estate” at the kiosk located to the left of the lane near the entrance. The Pocket Guide is a wonderfully informative combo brochure/map, designed to read easily as it opens origami-style to reveal a helpful map inside. A larger color version of the […]

Join us for our fourth annual Autumnal  Fire, Friday, September 26th from 6:00-8:00 pm. Enjoy roasting a sausage or marshmallow while enjoying the garden and uplit trees with friends. This is an event that is enjoyed by all ages. This event is weather dependent. For more information, call us at 617-333-0924.

Check out the new labyrinth during our open hours! During their last week with us, the interns created something we think will have a lasting impact: a stunning naturalistic labyrinth (shown above). Inspired by the large pile of rocks unearthed by the archaeology program, the labyrinth will be used during school field trips for units relating to landforms, rocks, and […]

This year, the Wakefield Estate staff decided to keep its Summer Landscape Intern crew smaller than usual, with just five carefully chosen members. Our hope was to work more effectively and efficiently with a smaller group, focusing on skill development and building their knowledge base. This year’s crew has greatly exceeded our expectations, proving that indeed “less can be more.” […]

The Wakefield Charitable Trust recently hosted a “Visual Arts in Nature” field trip for eighteen students from Roxbury Tenants of Harvard’s Summer Enrichment Program which partners with the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts in Jamaica Plain to provide visual arts, fiber arts and woodworking classes for their students. During their visit, students and adults enjoyed a walk around the […]

Without a doubt, the summer is whizzing by fast. One significant indication of that is that we’ve already wrapped up this year’s Summer Archaeology Sessions. What a great year it was! Highlights included getting a terrific feature article in the Patriot Ledger along with an accompanying video (if you missed it, click here). Over 10,000 artifacts were “unearthed” and will be […]

We hope you join us today or an upcoming Wednesday afternoon to stroll about the beautiful grounds of the Wakefield Estate. The estate will have Open Hours for public visitation each Wednesday from 12:00 pm until 4:00 pm until September 3rd. You can stroll the grounds or just sit in the shade and enjoy the breeze. We hope to add additional […]