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Join us on Appleton Way to get your fresh produce and check out the concert series. Last week approximately 250 folks braved the weather. This week, forecasts are sunny and nice!

• What time: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. next to City Hall
• What you’ll find: lettuce, summer squash, zucchini, peas, radishes, scallions, blue berries, eggs, baked goods
• Great prepared sandwiches, salads and fruit from Clock Tower Café

Live Lawrence! Farmers Market Concert Series Schedule
all concerts from 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

• July 15 - Burnin' Roots (reggae)
• July 22 - Kenjisaurus
• July 29 - Teresa Ines, Latin
• August 5 - Los Sugar Kings, Latin
• August 12 - Ryan Thomson, Fiddle
• August 19 - Jandee Lee Porter, Guitar & Vocals
• August 26 - Jeff Harrington Duo

Despite the heavy rains for the past month, the first CSA distribution was a grand success! The crates were filled with traditional early summer favorites like peas, lettuce, and radishes as well as some novelty items like garlic scapes! It was fun to see everyone's enthusiasm at picking up their vegetables. Edy, one of our distribution volunteers this year, remarked, "Now I believe it! People who eat vegetables really are happier!"

Thanks for keeping track of us here on the blog-we hope to keep it updated frequently but we are busy here at the office! We recently sent out our Spring Newsletter-if you missed it you can find it here. Today is the first day of our CSA delivery so we're very excited to be bringing another season of Farmer Dave's produce to Lawrence. Manchester Street Park is just nearly complete-check out our Flickr page for images. Also, our Green Team's first day of the summer season was yesterday. Say hi if you see them around town! By the end of this week they will have helped clean up Reviviendo Playground (needed some TLC), visited Lawrence Heritage State Park, visited the Union Crossing Site, cooked a healthy lunch from their CSA share, and weeded their plots in the community gardens. Also, don't forget that the Farmers Market kicks off its 15th season in Lawrence next week. If you're interested in supporting our work in Lawrence-please click here!

June 24 - 5% Day at Whole Foods in Andover

You can support Groundwork Lawrence by shopping at Whole Foods in Andover Wednesday June 24 all day.

5% of net sales will then be donated to GWL.

The Andover store is at 40 Railroad St in Andover-near the Commuter Rail Station off Rt. 28. See the map below:

Heather attended the National Vacant Properties Campaign Conference June 1-3 in Louisville, KY.

We have play equipment!

Lots of great work on site as we start to come into the home stretch. As you can see from this photo and tons more on Flickr the playground equipment is about fully installed. The safety surfacing still needs to be installed around it as well as the final coat of asphalt for the paved areas. The trees and landscaper could be on site very soon as well. The greatest news though is that the City of Lawrence received an additional commitment of funding from the EPA!

In addition to the colorful new park equipment and our turtle and bird friends, there are wild irises blooming along the pond edge as well as what may be marsh marigolds in the pond. What seemed to be a colorless sad site is really changing into something inviting, lush, and vibrant.

From AMC Outdoors

Check out our Green Team in the June issue of AMC Outdoors online and in print.

This month’s Lawrence Green Drinks- a social networking event for people interested in sustainability held the fourth Wednesday of each month- will be held at 50/60 Island St.

• Wednesday May 27th, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
• During this event there will be a tour of the Union Crossing buildings and site.

Movement City is having a Mini Flea Market

• Saturday, May 23rd from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Location: parking lot at 55 East Haverhill Street, Lawrence, MA
• For more information contact 978.996.6323
• Hosted by Movement City Residents

What a great week out at the park site. I have put a lot of pictures at our Flickr site today so check that out. This week we've seen initial paving for the parking area and playground, concrete work in the overlook, granite curbing, loam spreading, electrical wiring, and phone service installation(fingers crossed).
To the left there is the view today from the overlook back toward the bank. Those gentlemen are installing the wooden guide rails along the Spicket Greenway. The image at the bottom is "Jimmy B" who posed for the camera and hoped I was from the Eagle Tribune-sorry to disappoint but his concrete work is top notch.