Free Bee Photos
October 21 was a drizzly Saturday, but the wet weather did not dampen the spirits of the final Free Bee Market of the 2023 season.
The morning started with volunteers gleaning foods from surrounding markets and farms and sorting in the UCC Boxborough church lobby.
At 10:30 a.m. market guests were welcomed to fill their bags with produce and bread, including this giant Hubbard squash that needed just the right home.
Inside, the Community Center was filled with free Halloween costumes, Fifer’s Day t-shirts, and crafts. Laura Welch shared the final bounty of her craft collecting season from the corner, as UCC member Kellie Senghas shared pollinator seeds from Boxborough church.
Families and neighbors hunted for costume treasures.
High school members of the Proscenium Circus singers entertained those in food distribution lines as they made their way into the Community Center. The players sang and shared details of their upcoming Music Man musical and more https://www.abdrama.org/.
Karen Johnson, a new Boxborough resident and Free Bee Market’s “welcomer,” sums up the market this way: "If 'it takes a village,’ this is certainly a wonderful way of providing support for our local communities.”
Returning home, a Free Bee Market shopper arranged and shared their "bounty."