Regional Environmental Council (REC)

11 DAYS UNTIL REC FARMERS MARKETS! 🎉

We are so excited to welcome back Fay Mountain Farm to the REC Farmers Markets for the 2026 season! Available at Beaver Brook Park on Fridays, University Park on Saturdays, & at the mobile farmers market locations all summer long.

Join us on the opening day of our summer’s farmers markets to visit Fay Mountain Farm as well as many other amazing vendors. Come support your community and promote food security by shopping for affordable, locally sourced products!

REC Farmers Markets accept SNAP, Cash, Card, WIC & Senior Coupons, and HIP (produce & food plants).

🎉Opening Day Information!

REC Farmers Market at Beaver Brook Park
⏰Friday, June 12th from 9am-12pm
📍306 Chandler St Worcester, MA

REC Farmers Market at University Park
⏰Saturday, June 13 from 9am-12pm
📍965 Main St Worcester, MA

Learn More about REC Farmers Markets: https://www.recworcester.org/farmers-markets
Learn More about Fay Mountain Farm: https://www.faymountainfarm.org/

We are so excited to have the Wooden Bakery returning to the REC Farmers Markets at Beaver Brook Park & University Park for the 2026 season! 🎉

Join us on the opening day of our summer’s farmers markets to visit Wooden Bakery as well as many other amazing vendors. Come support your community and promote food security by shopping for affordable, locally sourced products!

REC Farmers Markets accept SNAP, Cash, Card, WIC & Senior Coupons, and HIP (produce & food plants).

🎉Opening Day Information!

Beaver Brook Park
⏰Friday, June 12th from 9am-12pm
📍306 Chandler St Worcester, MA

University Park
⏰Saturday, June 13 from 9am-12pm
📍965 Main St Worcester, MA

Learn More about REC Farmers Markets: https://www.recworcester.org/farmers-markets
Learn More about Wooden Bakery: https://wooden.coop/wooden-bakery-worcester-ma/

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER for a chance to win TWO TICKETS to see Jack Johnson at the Xfinity Center on June 20, 2026! 🏄‍♂️

To enter our raffle, you must...
Like & Share a post promoting this raffle (this post, or the post from 4/9/26) = 1 entry. Send a direct message to us (Regional Environmental Council (REC)) with a screenshot of your share to confirm your entry!

Every $5 donated to our All At Once Donation Match Campaign = 1 raffle entry (click the link below next to 'Donate'). Every dollar you donate to this campaign will be matched—dollar for dollar—by the Johnson Ohana Foundation

Raffle winners will be selected June 1, 2026. Please email lily @ recworcester.org with any questions!

Learn More: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWE5eUC8r2I152bS9rl6H8HbLH8Y7oU3NDAZolvWNn0/edit?tab=t.0 =h.cn2a5tnywf9k
Donate: https://regionalenvironmentalcouncilinc-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1405873

In collaboration with our friends at the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association and the Indian Lake Community Association, we are offering two FREE garden workshops! 🌱

Join us at the Indian Lake Community Teaching Garden to learn all about growing your own food! Our friends from the Massachusetts Master Gardeners will be presenting on how to get started & best practices for growing vegetables in small spaces.

Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening
⏰June 17th, 6:30-7:30pm

Gardening Basics
⏰July 8th, 6:30-7:30pm

📍Across from 3 West Boylston Drive Worcester, MA

Register & Learn More: https://www.recworcester.org/gardening-workshops

Great things are growing at Flagg Street School! 🌱

Thank you to the Frank W. and Carl S. Adams Memorial Fund,
Bank of America, N.A., Trustee. , the Nathaniel Wheeler Trust ,
Bank of America, N.A., Trustee. , the Greater Worcester Community Foundation , AAA Northeast, & Farm Credit East, ACA for helping us create a more just food system! 💚

Together, we can continue to foster local resilience by empowering youth, providing nutritious food, and creating opportunities for people to grow their own food. Through this work, we will expand local resources & create sustainable pathways for positive change!

With the support of these generous organizations, we can build healthy, equitable communities in Worcester & beyond!

We are so excited to have the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts returning to the REC Farmers Markets at Beaver Brook Park and Mobile Farmers Markets for the 2026 season! 🎉

Join us on the opening day of our summer’s farmers markets to visit the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts as well as many other amazing vendors. Come support your community and promote food security by shopping for affordable, locally sourced products!

REC Farmers Markets accept SNAP, Cash, Card, WIC & Senior Coupons, and HIP (produce & food plants).

🎉Opening Day Information!

Beaver Brook Park
⏰Friday, June 12th from 9am-12pm
📍306 Chandler St Worcester, MA

University Park
⏰Saturday, June 13 from 9am-12pm
📍965 Main St Worcester, MA

Learn More about REC Farmers Markets: https://www.recworcester.org/farmers-markets
Learn More about SEACMA Mushrooms: https://www.seacma.org/mushroom-urban-farm-initiative

Today, we are celebrating 54 years of the Regional Environmental Council! 🎉

On this day in 1972, the Regional Environmental Council was established to fight the construction of a landfill in Green Hill Park. For the first 20 years, the REC was an all-volunteer effort to fight for clean air, clean water, and green spaces. Today, the REC employs over 20 staff members who work together with dozens of organizational partners, thousands of volunteers, and youth from across the city to create a just food system and to build healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities.

Thanks to the dedication & care of generations of change makers, our organization continues to foster community resilience here in Worcester. We look forward to continuing this tradition of collaboration, sustainability, and stewardship, together!

Grow with us🌱 : https://www.recworcester.org/annual-fy26?fbclid=IwY2xjawQlHQ1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF5V3pZTkYxM243YmVKbllZc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHp5c0vUl8WP0sm3bao8ay-cqsn6YrOuCMIJFvY8r8IIXoO5uGCvVYz0RSRG9_aem_2lnNUxEXCaGg7zjbLRZ3Tg

Don't miss out on your chance to win TWO TICKETS to see Jack Johnson at the Xfinity Center on June 20, 2026! 🏄‍♂️

To enter our raffle, you must...
- Like & Share a post promoting this raffle (this post, or the post from 4/9/26) = 1 entry. Send a direct message to us (Regional Environmental Council (REC)) with a screenshot of your share to confirm your entry!
- Every $5 donated to our All At Once Donation Match Campaign = 1 raffle entry (click the link below next to 'Donate'). Every dollar you donate to this campaign will be matched—dollar for dollar—by the Johnson Ohana Foundation

Raffle winners will be selected June 1, 2026. Please email [email protected] with any questions!

Learn More: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWE5eUC8r2I152bS9rl6H8HbLH8Y7oU3NDAZolvWNn0/edit?tab=t.0 =h.cn2a5tnywf9k

Donate: https://regionalenvironmentalcouncilinc-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1405873
All At Once