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Plain View Farm
Plain View Farm wants to SOCK IT TO YOU in a good way! Located on 130 Gardner Road in Hubbardston, the farm raises Alpacas and sells its own wooly goods online including popular $24 Survival socks. Alpacas are sheered in May yearly and a Massachusetts based mill processes the fleece.Continue Reading
Trash Talk
Greater Gardner MA Trash Talk Solutions for trash and recycling after making all those Small Business and Holiday purchases. What do you do with the old TV, mattress, furniture, or tires? Complete information, CLICK HEREContinue Reading
Vegetables
Honoring Vegetables Sometimes we forget about them. We have been encouraged to eat them since a very young age. Gardner Magazine has chosen to honor vegetables. CLICK HERE for complete article.Continue Reading
Event Machine
Greater Gardner MA Event Machine This time of year there are many events. We want to remind our readers that our Greater Gardner MA Event Machine automatically pulls up google searches of events occurring in area towns. Just click on your town and events will appear! ASHBURNHAM – ASHBY –Continue Reading
No Zapping, please!
Against Shock Collars I’m an anti-zapper. Are you? We thought it would be helpful to write an editorial against aversive training methods and electric shock collars as occasionally we encounter postings from animal trainers advocating those methods. We say, Luv em, don’t Zap em. Every single animal organization we canContinue Reading
Westminster Event
The Westminster Cracker Festival Mark your calendars for October 16, 2021 for 10am to 5pm rain or shine. Held in the village center of downtown Westminster, MA, this celebration has food, fun, crafts, kids activities, and music. For more information, visit the Westminster Cracker Festival site.Continue Reading
The Lost Murals
The Lost Murals of Main Street Artists in the Greater Gardner MA area are amazing. And so are the Lost Murals of Main Street. View these amazing works of art on this special page.Continue Reading
Making you Hungry!
Eating out in Gardner MA Are you thinking about eating out in the Greater Gardner, Massachusetts area tonight? Well, we thought we’d make you hungry by showing some of your favorite dishes. View them all on our “Making You Hungry” page. And enjoy your night out! We salute all theContinue Reading
Gardner Yard Sale
Gardner City Wide Yard Sale The City of Gardner will be home to yard sale shoppers this Saturday for the Gardner City Wide Yard Sale Saturday, October 2, 2021. Taking place beginning at 8am, the sale has more than 75 listed homes. Google Map of participants.Continue Reading
Live Work and Play, or Visit
Spread the word by printing a poster and displaying it. Thank you for living or visiting Gardner MA! Gardner Magazine will soon be releasing an HD video produced at our Route 101.3 Studios from footage gathered over the last few months. Come back for details. Gardner MA – Live, Work,Continue Reading
Vinyl?
What Happened to Vinyl So what happened to vinyl, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, and Hard Drives? Well, vinyl is still around, albeit sought after by certain collectors. CDS and DVDs are not even selling well at the flea market. Hard Drives are increasingly being replaced by Solid State Drives which haveContinue Reading
The Biggest Chair
Gardner’s First Big Chair Read the complete article History of the “Big Chair” The history of the big Gardner Chair dates back over a hundred years, before Gardner MA became a city. At one time Gardner was home to a dozen furniture companies making more than a million chairs a yearContinue Reading
Unemployment Rate
Return to the Gardner MA Work Force Gardner residents continue to return to the work force. While the Gardner – Fitchburg – Leominster unemployment rate is hovering at 7% and is 3.2% higher than the March 30, 2020 rate of 3.8%, it is much lower than the pandemic high ofContinue Reading