Groton Local is a non-profit organization working to reduce energy consumption, promote local food & economy, and to ensure sustainability for future generations by becoming locally self reliant. Groton Local is located in Groton, MA. U.S.A
Farmer's Market -- Donations for Loaves & Fishes
Shopping at the Williams Barn Farmers Market in Groton (Chicopee Row) on Friday afternoons?
Have an over-abundance of your own home-grown produce?
Wondering how to get fresh, nutritious food to people who need it most?
Groton Local and Loaves & Fishes (www.devenspantry.org) invite you to stop by and make a veggie (or fruit) donation!
Annual Meeting & Celebration, Aug. 8th, 2010

July August Upcoming events
Below is a list of events sponsored by other organizations. More details at the links provided below.
Solar Day event: June 12th 9am - 1pm
Submitted by root on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 17:04
Movie: Fresh: June 16th
Submitted by root on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 11:10
Bolton Town Wide Yard Sale - Your chance to buy recycled Goods !!! (May 22nd)
Submitted by root on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 06:13Bolton Town Wide Yard Sale
This Saturday!
May 22
9-3
Over 50 families, 46 different locations
The Town Wide Yard Sale map is available at BoltonLocal.org!
PLEASE NOTE: It prints on legal size paper (8 ½ x 14) and there are two pages.
One page has a map with the locations indicated and the other
COOKS NEEDED May 28 Groton Community Dinners
Landscape Sustainability 101 -- Free Seminar, May 11th
Submitted by root on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 16:58Landscape Sustainability 101
Tuesday, May 11, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., NRWA River Resource Center, 592 Main
Street (Rt. 119), Groton, MA
The NRWA is sponsoring a free workshop on sustainable landscaping with Ed
Coykendall. This workshop will give homeowners an environmentally
sensible and cost effective foundation for creating and maintaining their
home landscapes. Topics to be discussed include the creation of energy
SUSTAINABILITY CAFE(S) Invite Citizen Input
Submitted by root on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 13:45SUSTAINABILITY CAFE(S) Invite Citizen Input
Two opportunies are coming up -- SOON -- to voice and "pen" your input to
four questions posed by the Town of Groton's Sustainability Commission in
order to guide the Community Master Plan currently undergoing revision.
Please come to either (or both) events:
Friday, April 30, First Parish Church of Groton -- following the monthly
Groton Community Dinner -- probably around 7 p.m. -- in the Parish House
April 24th: The Screening Room, upstairs, in Historic Grange Hall presents: "Food, Inc."
Submitted by root on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 09:49 The Screening Room, upstairs, in Historic Grange Hall presents
"Food, Inc."
Saturday, April 24, 2010
7:30 PM One showing only
Director Robert Kenner's documentary explores the food industry's
detrimental effects on our health and environment. Kenner spotlights the
men and women who are working to reform an industry rife with monopolies,
questionable interpretations of laws and subsidies, political ties and