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As you approach Lexington from the east, you’ll notice some new additions at the Center Streetscape staging area… Trees! Fall is the best time for planting these welcome additions to the new Lexington Center Streetscape.

There is another thing that is needed, Shoppers! The makeover of the Center has been tough on all the businesses in the area, with some going out of business. It’s more important than ever to Shop Local. Healthy town centers with a wide diversity of shops create a more resilient town.Walk, bike or bus downtown and check out our new bookstore Maxima, shop for less wasteful resources at the new Center Goods store, eat at our local restaurants, and buy gifts at Crafty Yankee and Signature Stationers, to name just a few.

Due to travel, this newsletter is being produced a little early - sorry to miss any of your events. If I did miss anything you may still be informed by subscribing to our Sustainability and Resilience Officer, Maggie Peard’s, SustainbLex Newsletter. While you’re at it sign up for general news and alerts from the Town’s Link to Lexington. A well-informed citizenry also creates resilience.

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See you in the Center!

In This Issue – October 2022:

  • LexFarm "Harvest Festival", 10/2
  • LexCAN Discusses New State and Federal Climate Bills, 10/11
  • Lex Living Landscapes Conversation About Lawns, 10/12
  • MIT's Donald Sadoway on "Renewable Energy Storage", 10/13
  • Supply Bulk Foods Now Delivering to Lexington
  • Citizens for Lex Conservation Offer Wonderful Fall Walks
  • Save the Date for Lex Farmers' Market "Thanksgiving FEASTival", 11/22

Lexington Community Farm (LexFarm)

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LexFarm Harvest Festival

Sunday, October 2, 2022, 10:00AM-1:00PM
52 Lowell St., Lexington
Harvest Festival
Plan to join us as we come together to enjoy and celebrate the farm win many different ways!
  • Children’s activities: run by our educators
  • Food vendors: Del Sur Empanadas, Tubb’s Doughnuts and Rancatore’s ice cream highlighting LexFarm produce, finger food in the farmstand
  • Live music: Local band Backpocket, who play blues, soul, funk and rock
  • Create flower bracelets
  • Info Tables: how to support your local food system - info on sustainable farming, gardening, FoodLink, farm education sampler
  • Scavenger hunt: 2 different age groups with prizes!
  • Shop in the farm store
  • Visit Silk Fields Farm: open for guests to view their chickens, goats, and alpacas.
Pay at the door with cash or credit card:
  • $15/household (non-member)
  • $10/LexFarm member household (Sign up here to become a LexFarm member household!)
Guidelines for Visiting LexFarm:
  • Overflow parking: Park on one side only of Lillian St., Haskell St. or Litchfield St.
  • Unfortunately, we cannot allow dogs on the farm, so it’s best to leave your four-legged friends at home.
  • Please note that masks are suggested, but not required, inside the farm stand.
High Schoolers: if you want to volunteer to help us run this event, here’s the sign-up form.

Lexington Climate Action Network

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State and Federal Climate Bills: What Do They Mean for Me and My Community?

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 7:00-8:30PM
Zoom Link
The Massachusetts State Climate Bill — an act driving clean energy and offshore wind — and the Federal Inflation Reduction Act are two opportunities for real climate action. Resources, incentives, rebates and clean energy tax credits will be available.

In this online meeting, we will talk about these bills and how individuals and municipalities will be able to take advantage of these opportunities.

Lexington Living Landscapes

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A Community Conversation About Lawns

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 7:00-8:15PM
Register here to receive Zoom Link

More than ever, homeowners are rethinking their lawns. Is a beautiful green carpet of grass worth the time, money, and environmental impact it entails? A monoculture of non-native turf grasses – the centerpiece of suburban landscapes for decades – offers little benefit to wildlife, and the water, fertilizers, and pesticides applied to lawns come with a significant environmental cost.

Homeowners throughout Lexington are exploring options, whether it be more environmentally friendly methods of tending traditional lawns, to converting them to native groundcovers, to ripping them up and putting in more complex, native plant landscapes.

Are you thinking of doing something with your lawn? Have you already? Come join us for a community conversation about lawns. What have you done? How has it worked? Is there anything that would help you and/or other homeowners be more successful? What can we do as a community to change the culture of the picture-perfect suburban lot as one dominated by a thirsty, fertilizer- and pesticide-hungry monoculture?

Cary Library

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HYBRID (in-person/online) - Science Café presents: Solving the "Unsolvable" Problem of Renewable Energy Storage

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:30-8:30PM
Large Meeting Room, Cary Memorial Library
To attend by Zoom, register here to receive link

Science Café is pleased to welcome MIT Professor Donald Sadoway, winner of the highly prestigious 2022 European Inventor Award for his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term storage of renewable energy. In 2010, with a patent for his invention and support from Bill Gates, Sadoway co-founded Ambri, based in Marlborough just outside Boston, to develop a commercial product. The company will soon install a unit on a 3,700-acre development for a data center in Nevada. This battery will store energy from a reported 500 megawatts of on-site renewable generation, the same output as a natural gas power plant.

Join us for a conversation with Donald Sadoway to learn how he is leading a wave of innovation with extreme electrochemistry and building the technology to get to carbon zero.
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Donald R. Sadoway is Professor of Materials Chemistry Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and Ph.D. in Chemical Metallurgy are from the University of Toronto.
He joined the MIT faculty in 1978. The author of over 180 scientific papers and inventor on 35 U.S. patents, his research is directed towards batteries for grid-scale storage and electric vehicles and towards environmentally sound metals recovery technologies. His accomplishments include the invention of the liquid metal battery for large-scale stationary storage and the invention of molten oxide electrolysis for carbon-free metals production. He is the founder of six companies, Ambri, Boston Metal, Lunar Resources, Avanti Battery, Pure Lithium, and Sadoway Labs. Online videos of his chemistry lectures hosted by MIT OpenCourseWare extend his impact on engineering education far beyond the lecture hall. Viewed more than 2,400,000 times, his TED talk is as much about inventing inventors as it is about inventing technology. In 2012 he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

This is a HYBRID program. To attend via Zoom, please register to receive the Zoom link. In-person attendance is on a first come basis.

Sponsored by the Cary Library Foundation.

Presented in partnership with the Town of Lexington’s Sustainability & Resilience Office, Lexington Climate Action Network (LexCAN), and Mothers Out Front.

Presented in collaboration with Ashland Public Library, Dedham Public Library, Randall Library (Stowe), Rowley Public Library, and Watertown Free Public Library.

Lexington Zero Waste Collaborative

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Supply Bulk Foods Now Delivering to Lexington

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For those looking for local options to purchase dry food goods, we are pleased to let you know that Supply Bulk Foods is now delivering orders to Center Goods on Waltham Street on the 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Orders need to be in by the previous Monday at noon and pickup times will be on Tuesday-Sunday at 10am-6pm. (The delivery fee to Lexington is $3.50.)
Alys Myers started Supply Bulk Foods a year ago in 2021 after learning that Massachusetts ranks third in the nation for food insecurity. Alys was inspired to focus on a company that served communities in Boston who do not have easy access to a grocery store by delivering dry bulk foods to them. Selling food in bulk is a great way to reduce the need for food packaging and plastic, and she wanted to sell it in the quantities that were needed, rather than the quantities that suit the manufacturers of packaged foods.

Stay in the Loop with LexZeroWaste!

Subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive occasional updates about what’s happening with LexZeroWaste and invitations to participate in upcoming programs.

Citizens for Lexington Conservation

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Fall Sparrows at Waltham St Fields

Saturday, October 1, 2022, 9:00-10:30AM
Meet at Clark School Tennis Courts
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Look for seasonal fall migrants including sparrows and perhaps raptors, in addition to a full array of our resident bird species in one of Lexington’s most reliable locations for open field bird watching.

Beginners and families welcome. More than light rain cancels. Meet at the parking area near the tennis courts at Clark Middle School, Brookside Avenue off Waltham St.
Leader: John Andrews ~ [email protected], 781-382-5658

Fall Goat Pasture Walk at Chiesa Farm

Saturday, October 8, 2022, 12:00-2:00PM
(Rain date Sunday, October 9,12:00-2:00PM)
Meet in Chiesa Farm pasture
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Come join the local Lexington goats for their daily pasture walk through the fields and woodland at Chiesa Farm. Each season provides them with diverse plant life. The goats are very specific as to what they need to eat depending on many factors. We will have 2 Lexington herds, totaling thirteen female dairy goats, including new goat kids born spring 2022. Learn how these goats are working to keep invasive plants from taking over.
All adults and children are welcome. No dogs please. Park at Diamond Middle School or Fiske Elementary School parking lots. Meet us in the pasture. Note rain date.

Goat Guides: Laurene Beaudette and Halé Sofia Schatz
Contact: Laurene Beaudette ~ [email protected]

Fall Lexpress Walk Series #1

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Meet in front of Crafty Yankee or Cary Library (depending on construction)
Lexpress
Let Lexpress continue to expand Lexington’s walking opportunities without relying on your car. This 2.5+ mile/2-hour walk will traverse parts of 3 Lexington Conservation areas including Dunback Meadow, Cotton Farm and Upper Vine Brook before joining the Minuteman Bikeway.
Meet your guide Keith Ohmart in time to board the 10 am Lexpress A2 bus in front of either Crafty Yankee or Cary Library, depending on Center construction activity. We will return to Lexington Center on foot at the end of our walk. Steady rain cancels.

Registration is required – Lexington Community Center, 781-698-4840.
Leader: Keith Ohmart ~ [email protected], 781-862-6216

Parker Meadow: New Accessible Trail Opening

Saturday, October 15, 2022, 3:00-4:00PM (NOTE CHANGE IN TIME)
At parking area at corner of Revere St. and Minuteman Bikeway
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Celebrate the grand opening of the upgraded universally accessible trail system at Parker Meadow. Join the thoughtful people who were inspirational and instrumental in making Parker Meadow’s new accessible trail and parking area a reality for refreshments and a tour of the new trail system.

The event will take place at the parking area for the property on Revere St. adjacent to the Minuteman Bikeway crossing. Expect to park on adjacent Ledgelawn.
Walk or ride a bike if possible. Please check CLC website closer to the date for more information. More than light rain will cancel.

Fall Lexpress Walk Series #2

Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 9:30-11:30AM
Meet at The Depot in Lexington Center
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This week’s 2.5 mile/2+ hour walk will explore Willards Woods, Chiesa Farm and the newly upgraded universally accessible trail system in Parker Meadow before returning to the Depot in Lexington Center via the Minuteman Bikeway.
Meet your guide, Keith Ohmart, at the Depot in time to catch the 9:30 am A1 Lexpress bus. Steady rain cancels.

Registration is required. Call the Community Center at 781-698-4840.
Leader: Keith Ohmart ~ [email protected], 781-862-6216

Lexington Farmers' Market

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Every Tuesday, 2:00-6:00PM

Through October 25th
Worthen Road Practice Field (near LHS Field House)



Farmers' Market

Save the Date for the "2022 Thanksgiving FEASTival"

Tuesday before Thanksgiving - November 22, 2022, 12:00-4:00PM
Worthen Road Practice Field (near LHS Field House)

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