WINCHENDON
The Forest Garden Sept. 2025
As always happens at this time of year, I look back and think of all the projects I wanted to accomplish in the forest garden over the summer.
I usually look back with a regret. This year not so much. It’s not that I accomplished all those projects, but I did accomplish some and I did a lot of gardening in comparison to previous years.
I think a part of my satisfaction this year, comes from the fact that we have actually used a lot of the produce from the forest garden. We have been making iced tea from this mint all summer in place of Kool-Aid.
The chickens have been keeping us in eggs as well.
For the first time ever, I had success with potatoes.
And the flowers this year, have been amazing.
Juggle-O-Rama
My newest role in the community is as a friend of the library. The friends sponsor programs at the library that promote its mission and vision. The first project I was privileged to be a part of was a juggling workshop for kids used to promote the library’s summer reading program.
The auditorium was packed with kids several from our church. I am so in love with this little town that provides so much for its citizens.
Here are some pics.
Manuel King, the director of the Beals Memorial Library opened the show with a push for the summer reading program.
ALL THE KIDS HAD A GREAT TIME.
SEVII WAS A LITTLE YOUNG FOR THE WORKSHOP. HE STILL HAD FUN PRETENDING THE THROWING SCARVES WERE SPIDERWEBS AND TRAPPING HIS FATHER IN THEM.
LET THE HARVESTING BEGIN!
I started picking this week here at the Vicarage. I gave the kids some kale yesterday and the peas will probably be ready by Friday.
Today I picked some black raspberries and….
POTATOES!
We ate these with our dinner tonight. I roasted them with salt, pepper and sage and mushroom infused olive oil I picked up at Not Just Produced .
FOUNDER’S DAY WINCHENDON 2025
IT DID END UP RAINING, BUT THE TOWN DID NOT LET ITSELF GET RAINED OUT! I AM VERY PROUD OF THE HARD WORK PEOPLE PUT IN TODAY ON BEHLAF OF THE TOWN!
TOWN MEETING
Monday night was Winchendon’s Spring town meeting. For those of you not familiar with town meeting…”A New England Town Meeting is an example of direct democracy. It’s a form of local government where residents directly participate in making decisions about their town’s affairs, such as local laws and budgets, without elected representatives. ” Ai Overview
This was the town meeting where the town had to appropriate the money for the town budget which would increase property taxes significantly or not appropriate the funds which would close the library, the senior center and the parks and rec department by June 30th.
It was a long meeting, four hours, and well attended.
In the end after a lot of discussion we passed the budget to a mixed reaction, but it passed. I have set a meeting with the heads of the Senior Center, the Parks and rec. department and the library to see how the church may become a more effective resource for the town.
A TASTE OF WINCHENDON 2025
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Easter Sunrise Service
Yesterday was Easter Sunday. Our congregation gathered with two other local congregations as part of the council of churches for an Easter sunrise service in the town’s old center.
It was cold and windy, but those were small prices to pay for the work of church unity.
Notes From the Vicarage 