Boxborough FreeBee Network & Market

The FreeBee Network and Market was formed in the wake of the pandemic, and a large local apartment fire. These experiences emphasized the importance of a central, volunteer-driven team to connect neighbors to share access to food, resources, and services.

Announcing FreeBee 2025:

May 17 - Oct 18

10:30AM-12PM ᐧ 30 Middle Road, Boxborough

Held on the lawn of UCCB, across from town hall - look for the FreeBee flag!

Community Markets:

May 17, June 28, July 19, August 16,

September 13, Oct 18

with Produce, Bread, Crafts, Plants, Books, Community Info / Exhibits

PLUS **Starting in JULY**

Food Rescue Saturdays, every week.

All welcome! All free!

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Want to volunteer? We'd love for you to join us. Reach out here.

We are FreeBee because

we are from Boxborough – with a ‘B’!

About FreeBee

We’re so proud of how our Market - and the Network that makes it happen - continues to evolve and grow over time. Certainly, we have been ‘nimble’, and are still adapting to what we learn that the community needs and wants us to become.

Overall - We're a Volunteer-powered Food Rescue.

But our primary goals are to promote connections between neighbors, services, organizations, resources, and even local businesses.

We have started by sharing food to prevent waste, to fight food insecurity, and to promote local consumption - for all. As we grow, we have expanded into the sharing of plants, books, and also art/craft supplies.

Our hope is to fill a need while not ‘reinventing the wheel’, nor overlapping with existing organizations. Rather, we want to complement and amplify the impact of the many phenomenal groups who are already making our lives better - together.

"Bee" connected!

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Community Sharing

You know those 'give a penny / take a penny' dishes at store checkout counters? This is the FreeBee Market philosophy.

Maybe one week you have too much of *something* at home that you can share (hens laying too many eggs? garden producing too many zucchinis? did some baking* but don't want to eat it all yourself?), and another time you may find that someone else's excess is a perfect fit for your own household's needs.