Page 6 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, July 8, 2022 Bikeeny Caffe hosts Natural Lawn Care for Healthy Soils Challenge B ikeeny Caff e hosted the Natural Lawn Care for Healthy Soils Challenge on June 29. In this challenge, people participated in a friendly competition with Medford to pledge to keep established lawns natural by forgoing the use of quick-release fertilizer, chemical pesticides and herbicides. Ocean RivLaw Offices of Terrence W. Kennedy 512 Broadway, Everett • Criminal Defense • Personal Injury • Medical Malpractice Tel: (617) 387-9809 Cell: (617) 308-8178 twkennedylaw@gmail.com Pictured at the Natural Lawn Care for Healthy Soils Challenge at Bikeeny Caff e in Malden are, from left, Ocean River Institute summer interns Aditi Mukhopadhyay, Ken Stephens, Anand Fedele and Zeke Cochin. er Institute (ORI) summer interns Aditi Mukhopadhyay, Ken Stephens, Anand Fedele and Zeke Cochin distributed natural lawn stickers featuring a worm and benefi cial springtail. They also invited people to tell their legislators to support An Act establishing Massachusetts Right Whale Day (H.3869) on April 24. According to the Bikeeny ~ Home of the Week ~ SAUGUS...Desirable six room, two bedroom, trilevel in established Iron Works neighborhood. This home offers easy access from the ground level to a fireplace living room with hardwoods and an updated eat-in kitchen with tile backsplash and stainless steel appliances. Second level offers two bedrooms, one with an adjacent office, a full bath and spacious family room addition with vaulted ceiling. The freshly finished lower level offers plenty of potential with access to the one car garage. The roomy backyard is a gardeners dream with a raised terrace, koi pond and charming children’s playhouse. Offered at $649,900 335 Central Street, Saugus, MA 01906 (781) 233-7300 View the interior of this home right on your smartphone. View all our listings at: CarpenitoRealEstate.com Caffe website, a bikeeny is a “European style pastry made of flaky dough with fillings such as fruit, nuts or cheese.” At Bikeeny Caffe, the Asiago cheese bikeeny tied with the Nutella bikeeny for favorite pastry, although further tasting research is warranted before narrowing the bikeeny fi eld. Malden residents can save money on lawn care while saving bees and the organisms that contribute to healthy soil and plants: worms, microbes, archaea, springtails, nematodes, rotifers and tardigrades. Grass plants are fed by fungi and bacteria as part of the vast mycorrhizae network called the “wood wide web.” Residential lawns that are not FAMILY | FROM PAGE 1 and lectures about the family. The following day attendees visited family graves at Woodlawn Cemetery and then enjoyed a picnic at historic Fellsmere Park. On Saturday evening family members enjoyed a barbeque at Pine Banks Park. The weekend wrapped up on Sunday with a memorial service at fertilized or watered have been found to have 36 species of plants between the grass blades and flowers for 94 species of bees when the lawns were cut every two weeks – fewer bee species when cut every three weeks. Apparently, more bees prefer the shorter grass. According to ORI: • Lawn grasses are the best plants at fighting climate change because with photosynthesis grasses push carbohydrates (liquid carbon) out of their root tips to build soil. • For every ton of root exudate, grasses pull four tons of carbon dioxide out of the air. • A natural lawn can build an inch of soil in a year. For an acre of lawn, that means removing 100 tons of carbon dioxide. • With more than 2,000 square miles of residential lawns in Massachusetts, much can be done lawn-by-lawn to reverse climate change. Bikeeny Caff e’s goal is for more natural lawns to provide refuge and natural corridors for more wildlife – more emerald bracelets for Malden. First Baptist Church. “I am grateful to all who participated in the organization of this reunion,” said Mayor Christenson. “I want to particularly thank Henry Kezer and the Bayrd Foundation for generously funding the eff ort and Library Director Dora St. Martin and the Historical Society for their hard work in ensuring the success of this memorable weekend.”
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