The Bedford Chamber of Commerce sponsored their annual Trunk of Treat event in the Whole Foods parking lot last Friday. We had plenty of wrapped candy for the sweet tooth’s in the crowd. The kids were all decked out in a variety of costumes and eagerly scooped up on the sweet offerings. We also had a pair of “full sized Bees” from our club in the mix. We handed out 400 Milk Weed seed packages which, if planted and nurtured, will produce some beautiful flowers for the real Bees next summer. The kids were delighted to get them and left with some grand ideas of how to go about turning their seeds into plants and enough sugar to drive their parents nuts.
Our first order of business was to prepare the garden bed. The DPW mowed the area close to the ground and provided wood chips for our use. We had planned on starting work on Saturday, but the remnants of Hurricane Ian pushed our work into Monday afternoon. We smothered the entire area with cardboard and covered the cardboard with woodchips. This is a way of killing weeds without using chemicals. The cardboard will remain on the ground until next fall (or towards the end of the summer) in order to effectively kill weeds. 
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Bedford, MA 01730
United States of America