Editor’s Note: The Gardeners’ Guide is a seasonal rundown of gardening related events. Listings are free. Email: features@recorder.com. Questions? Call 413-772-0261, ext. 276. Weather may cancel or force the rescheduling of some of these events. Additionally, space is often limited. Please contact organizers to ensure you can attend. This is particularly important if registration is required.
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Garden Volunteer Work Days: April 14 and 27, noon to 3 p.m. at 845 West St. in Amherst. The Hitchcock Center is looking for help to create its Colleen Kelley Discovery Yard and Teaching Gardens, which will include natural play structures, log balance beams, a play thicket, a StoryWalk path, and benches and picnic tables for visitors. Registration is appreciated at bit.ly/2HM8I38.
North Quabbin Garden Club
Talk with Henry Homeyer: Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m. at the Millers River Environmental Center, 100 Main St. in Athol. Homeyer, a lifetime Master Gardener in New Hampshire and author of four gardening books, will discuss the nuts and bolts of dehydrating, storing and freezing food from your garden so you will always have some of your own food to eat. He also offers a new weeding tool: the CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator.
