The Stamp Out Hunger Postal Food Drive takes place this Saturday, May 11, with local postal workers collecting items from residents to deliver to the Wellesley Food Pantry at Wellesley Hills Congregational Church. If you’re willing to take part, put items near your mailbox by 9am on Saturday. The food drive is collecting non-perishable items [...]
The Wellesley Farmers’ Market is back beginning on Thursday, May 9th from 2-6pm in the Whole Foods Market parking lot off Washington Street and will feature a new mix of local fruit/vegetable vendors as well as an on-line ordering system and delivery options. A community celebration will take place at the market the following Thursday, [...]
A Wellesley family earlier this month took the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) challenge, feeding themselves on $4 per person per day, to get a taste of what it’s like to go hungry and live in poverty. The challenge (one that everyone from politicians to reporters have taken as well) raised their awareness of how [...]
The sap collecting buckets are out at Dana Hall School (shown here) and elsewhere around Wellesley and surrounding communities, as Natick Organic Farm readies for maple syrup season.
Wellesley Girl Scouts will be selling cookies door-to-door and sponsoring booth sales thru March at locations such as the Wellesley RDF, Roche Bros., and Babson’s skating arena.
Metro West Wines, a business that we sniffed out on the outskirts of Wellesley in August, has opened its doors on the Natick line on Rte. 9 (same building as Nine East Wine Emporium) . But more importantly to potential customers, who might want wine, beer or liquor delivered to their home or business in [...]
This event has already taken place, but Babson College sent along a photo of entrepreneur-in-residence Andrew Zimmern and friends at the school’s Food Days program earlier this week. The program highlighted entrepreneurship in the food industry. Zimmern (shown in hat/bright red jacket), if you don’t know, hosts Travel Channel TV shows called Bizarre Foods and [...]
