Alewife Reservation
Learn about and help maintain this unique 160 acres of urban wild conveniently located at the Alewife T stop. Sign up your group for one of several sessions a year, or participate in our annual summer multi-week session through the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program. If you're interested in your group volunteering with us on the Alewife Reservation, email alewife@greencambridge.org.
The Alewife Reservation is a unique natural resource for the communities of Cambridge, Arlington, Belmont, Somerville, and Medford and is home to hundreds of species including hawks, coyotes, beavers, snapping turtles, wild turkeys, and muskrats!
Through our programming, we protect and restore this wild area and the surrounding district. We maintain paths for recreation and use the space as an outdoor classroom.
River Restore
Restoring a Landscape through Education
Learn More About River Restore
The banks of Little River are serving as an outdoor classroom for Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program participants and other volunteers.
In summer 2021, we kicked off the first of at least three year project to restore the riverbank between the Alewife Stormwater Wetland and the Little River. Partnering with Parterre Ecological to provide expertise in the field, and working in collaboration with Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Cambridge Conservation Commission, we're creating new native habitat by removing invasives and planting shrubs and trees.
Initiated in 2015 by the previous incarnation of Friends of Alewife Reservation, and funded in part through Ellen Mass, former FAR president, this 28,000 square foot site prone to flooding and dogged by pollution will be ameliorated via biodiversity plantings that builds on the native plantings of the Stormwater Wetland area.
Green Cambridge Mayors Summer Youth Program
If you are a current high schooler or a rising freshman looking for opportunities in nonprofit work and environmentalism, our Mayors Summer Youth Program is a great way to make connections and experience a professional environment.
