Celebrate your mother with us, as we celebrate our “mothers” – Mother Earth, mama llamas, and others at our annual celebration of spring and Mother’s Day Tea, this year on Saturday, May 11th. Reservations are not needed if your family just wants to enjoy a stroll or visit with the animals during Open Hours which will be 1:00-4:00 but are requested if […]

In conjunction with Artweek Milton’s May 1 lecture “Bird Art: Audubon’s Royal Octavo and the Democratization of Natural History,” theWakefield Estate will host an exhibition of its Royal Octavo collection, a set of hand-colored litho-graphs from the 1840s, recently discovered among the book collection at the estate. The exhibition will be held in the Davenport Mansion at the Wakefield Estate, 1465 […]

Earth Celebration Day!Join the Wakefield Estate and the Milton Shade Tree Advisory Committee for a celebration of the earth and nature at the 3rd Annual Earth Day Celebration on Friday, April 19th, 10:00am-1:00pm  Enjoy outdoor activities for the whole family, includingFamily Yoga in the sheep meadow (bring your yoga mat!) ATTENTION! Garden Yoga is postponed until Celebrate Spring, Mothers, and Gardens event on May 11 at 11. Hope you’ll join us.Worm […]

Please note: This event will be held at Cunningham Park Hall, 75  Edgehill Road, Milton, MA. Drawing from the Wakefield Estate’s own octavo edition of Audubon’s work, Audubon researcher Jess Clay will discuss the creation and distribution of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, and its subsequent impact on the United States and 19th-century natural history. The lecture complements and […]

Registration open for 2019 Summer Archaeology Institute The Wakefield Estate’s Summer Archaeology Institute is a hands-on archaeological excavation at the historic Wakefield Estate in Milton, MA. It is one of only a few programs of its type in the country. The institute is specifically designed for high school and college students interested in learning about local history and archaeology. Participants will work […]

March Stone Soup and Speaker event: Sharing Anecdotes from Family History March 27, 6:00 – 7:30 pm in the Isaac Davenport mansion house. Continuing with this year’s Stone Soup and Speakers Series, A Look Deeper, and our new quarterly journal’s deeper exploration into the different aspects and angles of our work here at the WakefieldEstate, our March talk will feature Mark Smith on the […]

The Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust is proud to be a collaborator for a special event sharing the personal legacies of extraordinary women influencing New England landscape design at the turn of the century.  This seminar will illuminate the lives of Mary (Polly) Wakefield, Eleanor Cabot Bradley, Martha Brooks Hutcheson, Marian Roby Case, and Marjorie Russell Sedgwick, who designed […]

Take home your own gourmet mushroom log for years of mushroom harvesting!Don’t miss the Wakefield Estate’s annual mushroom growing workshop on Saturday, March 30th from 9:00-11:30 am! After an introduction of different mushroom growing methods, we will teach you how to inoculate logs with mushroom spawn and send you home with your own “seeded” log which can provide mushrooms for […]

Become a backyard orchardist and grow your own fruit! Even with a small yard, you can enjoy fruit from your own trees with minimal effort and cost. This step-by-step workshop, to be held March 16 frrom 9:00-11:00 am, will teach you all you need to know to plan and create a compact orchard for years of enjoyment. Participants will spend […]

Continuing with this year’s Stone Soup and Speakers Series, A Look Deeper, and our new quarterly journal’s deeper exploration into the different aspects and angles of our work here at the Wakefield Estate, our February talk will feature Deb Merriam on the subject of the ongoing horticultural research. Donations welcome; please rsvp as space is limited. The program starts at […]