Fresh "Ponding"

By Fresh Pond Reservation

We'll have the buckets, bins, nets, microscopes, magnifying glasses, and nature guides... you just need to show up and see what you can find living in these waters with the local Cambridge Rangers!

Children looking through pond muck enthusiastically

.: Thu, April 20 2023 11am – 2pm.

Drop-in any time during the span of this event!

Ages: 4 to Adults.

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Contact

Tim Puopolo
Cambridge Water Department
tpuopolo@cambridgema.gov
617-349-6489

No application or registration needed.

Free!

Location

  • In-person only.

Fresh Pond Reservation

250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Cambridge Highlands, Strawberry Hill, and West Cambridge

This program will be happening ON-SITE at an area of Fresh Pond Reservation known as Black's Nook (located along Concord Avenue).

Refer to our trail map here: https://bit.ly/2G1b3DE

Additional information

What is "ponding"? Ponding is the act of looking through a scoop of "pond muck" to find all the beautiful things living in it! Every square inch of a healthy pond should yield something alive. Tadpoles and turtles and nymphs, oh my!

Part of the Cambridge’s Earth Month celebrations, meet the Cambridge Rangers on-site at the boardwalk of Black's Nook (trail map here: https://bit.ly/2G1b3DE) at Fresh Pond Reservation. It's a (micro) jungle out there! 

Event continues to run during April vacation.