Sanctuary Serves as Business Model at Seven Arrows Farm

More than thirty years in business for owners Michel and Judy Marcellot.

“See, there’s one there…and over there. This one just came up today,” says Linda Haczynski to a customer.  The two of them are standing in front of a large plate glass window in the tea room at Seven Arrows Farm where Haczynski is the manager. They’re looking out over a bamboo grove where freshly sprung sprouts stand over a foot tall at less than one-day-old.  Among many other things, Seven Arrows Farm is known for bamboo. They sell more than twenty varieties of the plant, which is regarded as a symbol of longevity in China. It’s an appropriate backdrop for a business more than 30 years in the making.  Married owners Judy and Michel Marcellot have worked side by side since the inception of Seven Arrows Farm. Judy had been working in social…

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Making Green Out of Waste; DPW Aims to Sell Compost

With space shrinking at Seekonk's transfer and recycling facility, the town may market its compost to local businesses.

The town may reap benefits from its unwanted refuse. The Department of Public Works will petition Board of Selectmen members on Wednesday to allow for the advertising and sale of compost the town has built up at its Transfer and Recycling Facility (TARF). "We're running out of room over there, we should see if we can use [the compost]," said Public Works Superintendent Bob Lamoureux. Lamoureux said he was approached by one contractor who offered to take the compost for free, giving the town more room and relieving it of the burden of hauling it somewhere. While the total amount of compost in the TARF has not been measured in some time, it is considerable.  Lamoureux says it is approximately 12 years of yard waste from citizens. The town …

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Saving Water One Barrel at a Time

Here's why I'm in love with my rain barrel.

Now that winter is coming, I've been looking around my backyard, taking note of chores to do before the first snow flies. There are toys and furniture to store in the cellar, and a small garden bed to cut down and compost. And this year, I realize, there's a new task on the list, one I haven't done before. I have to empty and put away my new rain barrel before a deep freeze settles in and cracks the sky-blue plastic 55-gallon tank that saved so much water for us over the blistering hot summer of 2010. It's a task I'll embrace, because, well, I'm in love with my rain barrel. I've been giddy about that rain barrel since we bought it during the Attleboro Recycling Program's annual spring recycling event at the Compost Center off Pond Street. …

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