April 1, 10am – 12pm, Our 2017 Season Opens!

Caregivers and people with memory loss, living North of Boston, enjoy outdoor respite and recreation in our wheelchair-accessible gardens, April 1 – October 31, on special event days we name “Memory Café” and “Sunday Stroll.” If rainy or cold, we host these events in the Caretaker’s Cottage. Please e-mail or call to learn more or register. Small groups are welcome; please review our Recommendations for Small Group Leaders hand-out and schedule an on-site visit prior to bringing a group.
This year, 2017, we continue to offer a once-a-month Sunday Stroll for wheelchair-users and care partners. April 9, 11am – 2pm, is the first Sunday Stroll of the season. Bring a picnic. Enjoy Bird Tales, Fish Tales, Drums & Dancing & a Flower Fun craft project. Learn more about our Sunday Strolls >
We are expanding our Memory Café program this year beyond a once-a-month offering (previously offered together with the Sunday Stroll), to a weekly offering during the growing season, most Saturdays, 10am – 12pm. We invite friends with memory loss and care partners to stop by our growing garden on these Saturdays to see what’s happening. Bring a picnic. Enjoy Bird Tales, Fish Tales, Drums & Dancing & a Flower Fun craft project. Learn more about our Memory Café >
Volunteers, age 14+, are welcome to join us with hosting our friends with disabilities, and/or helping with horticulture/trail maintenance. Contact me to learn more about volunteering.
Please confirm event dates:
Use our new online calendar
View/Download our 2017 Rest.Stop.Ranch Programs Brochure and Calendar (inside)
2017 Rest.Stop.Ranch Programs Brochure (outside)
Please call or e-mail us with any questions.
Our season opens this coming Saturday, April 1, 10am – 12pm. Join us in our garden as we clean-up winter debris and ready the gardens for spring planting!
If these sidewalk signs are out by our information kiosk, then we are hosting either a Memory Café or a Sunday Stroll. These signs and others are part of our 2017 raising awareness campaign for our Memory Café, funded by MA DDS.

Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary
P.S. We’ve picked up our pansies for planting soon in our outdoor boxes. It’s almost safe to plant them outside.