Greetings!
Welcome to our first News Letter. Here you will find updates on what’s going on at the farm and what inspires us to do what we are doing.
The Garden
-Harvesting cucumber, beets, and carrots from the green house.
-Sowing Carrot Seeds in the Green House.
-Starting seedlings of kale and bunching onion.
-Sowing beet seeds outside.
-Weeding
Working Hours- Tuesday, Friday, Sunday 8:00am-11:00am/5:00pm-Sunset
(Tuesday 8/8 looks stormy as of now. Will not be working if there is lightning)
Let me know if you’d like to come by this week and help out. Home made baked goods, coffee, and chai offered in the morning. For dinner; Tuesday bean tacos, Friday Cheese Pizza, and Sunday soup and bread.
The Night Sky/Observatory
The Observation Deck is coming along. The telescope mount has been ordered and should be ready in September. Hopeful we start deck events in a month or so!
-August 9-10 Mercury will be farthest from the sun, it’s greater elongation. After the Sun sets, look to the west.
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August 12-13 Perseids Meteor Shower. Seen best durning the darkest part of the night. Look towards the constellation Perseus, which will be high in the sky.
Space Exploration News
-Today marks the anniversary of the Curiosity Rover touching down on Mars in 2012. (A project Phillip worked on in college.)
-August 6, Rocket Lab Electron rocket of New Zealand set to launch a Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Imaging Satellite.
-August 6, SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch Starlink satellites from Cape Canveral
-India’s space craft Chandrayaan-3 entered the Moons orbit this last week, hopefully landing August 23 or 24
Book Study
On Tuesday at 10:00am come read and do small activities coinciding with the literature.
This week 8/8, One Plastic Bag by Isatou Ceesay and The Recycling Women of the Gambia
-Bring an old t shirt for the project.
Hope you enjoyed our first newsletter!
-Gwendolyn