Boxborough FreeBee Market to Celebrate Harvest Fair
BOXBOROUGH: What do you get when you combine a century-old agricultural fair with an innovative new community market where everything is free? The September FreeBee Market! On Saturday, September 18, Boxborough’s FreeBee Market is back for its seventh market day since launching earlier this year, this time celebrating one of Boxborough’s oldest traditions: Harvest Fair.
Alongside FreeBee’s usual offerings of gleaned and donated produce, meat, baked goods, and other items, visitors will also see the popular Harvest Fair apple cider-making station with hand-cranked cider press, as well as tractors from local farmers on the lawn for photo ops. FreeBee also invites folks to bring their animal friends along for the traditional Harvest Fair “Blessing of the Animals” by Rev. Cindy Worthington-Berry of UCC Boxborough. Music by the Nashoba Valley Concert Band will begin at 11am.
The FreeBee project started back in May, when Fleming and a group of friends and neighbors in Boxborough learned about the “gleaning” movement – collecting or “gleaning” from grocery stores the produce and other foods that are near the end of their shelf lives and would otherwise go to waste. The group was inspired to organize a community market to distribute food gleaned from the Acton Roche Brothers in order to combat local food insecurity and prevent waste. In just a few months, FreeBee has become a busy twice-monthly Market with gleaned produce and meat from local grocery stores and farms, as well as garden produce, baked goods, flowers, seedlings, books, and arts, crafts and party supplies. Everyone is welcome to give, take, or both – and everything is always free.
Celebrate Harvest Fair at the FreeBee Market Saturday, September 18 from 10:30am-12pm on the lawn at 30 Middle Road (across from Boxborough Town Hall). For more information, visit https://fb.me/e/1ivyHGDKh or https://sites.google.com/abuw.org/freebeemarket/faq .
Alongside FreeBee’s usual offerings of gleaned and donated produce, meat, baked goods, and other items, visitors will also see the popular Harvest Fair apple cider-making station with hand-cranked cider press, as well as tractors from local farmers on the lawn for photo ops. FreeBee also invites folks to bring their animal friends along for the traditional Harvest Fair “Blessing of the Animals” by Rev. Cindy Worthington-Berry of UCC Boxborough. Music by the Nashoba Valley Concert Band will begin at 11am.
The FreeBee project started back in May, when Fleming and a group of friends and neighbors in Boxborough learned about the “gleaning” movement – collecting or “gleaning” from grocery stores the produce and other foods that are near the end of their shelf lives and would otherwise go to waste. The group was inspired to organize a community market to distribute food gleaned from the Acton Roche Brothers in order to combat local food insecurity and prevent waste. In just a few months, FreeBee has become a busy twice-monthly Market with gleaned produce and meat from local grocery stores and farms, as well as garden produce, baked goods, flowers, seedlings, books, and arts, crafts and party supplies. Everyone is welcome to give, take, or both – and everything is always free.
Celebrate Harvest Fair at the FreeBee Market Saturday, September 18 from 10:30am-12pm on the lawn at 30 Middle Road (across from Boxborough Town Hall). For more information, visit https://fb.me/e/1ivyHGDKh or https://sites.google.com/abuw.org/freebeemarket/faq .