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Greetings!
Transformation is afoot with cover cropping gardens, reflecting on our own journeys and taking time to sniff the crisp breeze of an autumn evening. Please join us in our events as we welcome Fall.
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
~Albert Camus
Peace & Understanding, Kim Walsh ~ Executive Director |
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8th Annual Fall Harvest Celebration Rescheduled
Sunday, October 23rd (10:00 AM to 4:30 PM)
Locations: Greenbelt, MD~Roosevelt Center, Community Center, & Three Sisters Gardens
Local Musicians Present Live Music Throughout the Day~Prairie Rehab, the Gliders, Raincrow, Hot Noodles, Scrub Pines and Smokey Mountain Hilton.
Crafts for Sale~Lovely handmade nature inspired crafts on sale.
The Greenbelt Glass Guild~(1 PM-3 PM) will be demonstrating glass mosaics artistry and all are invited to try your hands on mosaics.
Create a Fairy House Village Community Craft Project~(11 AM-3 PM). Bring fall's bounty items found on the ground in your yard, from your garden, or along the paths you walk to make a village of fall-winter fairy houses to place in the Community Center Garden.
Square Foot Garden Box building demonstration~(12 PM - 2 PM). Help build a box for the Springhill Lake Garden and learn how to build a box for your own yard.
Solar Cooking Demonstration~Weather permitting, solar cooking demo!
Three Sisters Fall Native & Edible Plant Sale~(12 PM-2 PM). Purchase local, native and edible plants for fall planting! All proceeds will go to support the Three Sisters Garden project-we're trying to raise funds for handicapped friendly garden tables to be placed in each of the three gardens.
Putting the Garden to Rest with the Fairies~Around 3:30 PM. Garden Clean Up and Celebration at the Community Center Three Sisters Garden--- (Sheet mulching, cover crop planting, placing our Fairy House Village creations nested in the mulched garden beds!)
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Cover Cropping Gardens for the Winter!
 October 2011 Schedule
Greenbelt East Garden: Schrom Hills Park Garden (6915 Hanover Parkway, Greenbelt MD 20770)
Saturday, October 15 (1:30 Potluck followed by garden time)
Volunteers of the 2011 season are all encouraged to return for a grand finale work-and-play session at the Schrom Hills Park garden on Saturday October 15. Many extra visitors will be at the park that day from 2-6 pm for the annual Greenbelt Fall Fest. Look for us near our vine-topped trellises downhill from the playground. Come at 1:30 pm for a potluck meal celebration with fellow gardeners. Then please plan to spend a part of the afternoon helping with end-of-season jobs (expanding the perennial herbs area, one more sowing of cover crop seeds) and especially inviting Fall Fest visitors to join in some easy garden activities, friendly to children of all ages. Contact: Lucy Duff at lucyduff@earthlink.net or call cell # 202-549-5574.
Greenbelt West Garden: Springhill Lake Recreation Center (6101 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt MD 20770)
Greenbelt Center Garden: Greenbelt Community Center (15 Crescent Rd, Greenbelt MD 20770)
Sunday, October 23 (12-4 PM). Activities are connected to the Fall Harvest Festival with descriptions above.
The Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens is a project of the nonprofit organization, CHEARS. CHEARS thanks the Greenbelt Community Foundation and the City of Greenbelt for its support. The project is approved as one for which Prince George's County Master Gardeners can receive volunteer work hour credits.
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This month, GCAN will be hosting or participating in the following events:
Oct. 12 (7:00-9:15 PM) ~ Next meeting of GCAN, Room 114, Greenbelt Community Center. The topic will be an Introduction/ Overview of the Common Security Club/Resilience Circle. Those of you joining the circle on Oct 26th are requested to attend. The evening will also be open to the public, for those interested in learning more about the Resilience Circles movement. http://localcircles.org/what-is-a-resilience-circle/
Nov. 9 (6:00-9:00 PM) ~ In place of the November GCAN Meeting, you are all invited to join the CCAN Town Hall Meeting on Offshore Wind Energy, Hillcrest Heights Community Center, 2300 Oxon Run Drive, Temple Hills, MD 20748.
More details about carpooling from Greenbelt will be available next month. This is the culmination of all the weekends GCAN members spent this summer collecting signatures throughout Prince George's County. A planning committee will meet in October to plan out topics for the rest of the year. Please contact Lore if you would like to suggest a topic or attend this twice-a-year planning meeting.
Two Discussion Circles are starting in October:
- World on the Edge (Oct 5)
- Common Security Club/Resilience Circle (Oct 26)
A small group has decided to reconvene the Re-Skilling Workshops group. The first workshop will probably be on "Winterizing Your Windows". If you would like to help plan this and future reskilling topics, let us know.
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Reel N' Meal @ New Deal Cafe
Reel and Meal is a monthly film series at the New Deal Cafe exploring vital environmental and social justice issues. October's film is...
Project Happiness
The Greenbelt Utopia Film Festival is partnering with Reel & Meal to bring the October film (as they have done in past years). With the unspoken epidemic of stress and depression infiltrating every community, how can kids (of all ages) learn to generate their own happiness regardless of the situations they face? Follow three groups of high school students from three continents on a quest to understand the nature of lasting happiness. What they discover uncovers the potential for happiness that is in us all.
October 17 (7 PM) @ New Deal Cafe
FREE & Open to the Public
with optional vegan buffet at 6:30 PM ($13).
| | Admission to the film is always FREE! Organizations that co-sponsor the monthly film are Beaverdam Creek Watershed Watch Group, CHEARS-Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society, Prince George's Peace & Justice Coalition, and Vegan Networking. |
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Gather 'Round Chesapeake: Tom Wisner's Vision
When Tom Wisner, the Chesapeake Bay 'Bard' died in April 2010, he'd already given us living treasures: dozens of recorded Chesapeake songs, stories and radio shows. Now, Sara Ebenreck Leeland, co-founder and partner with Tom in the Chestory (Center for the Chesapeake Story) project, has published a book that collects Tom's written reflections on the powerful insights that guided his work. Gather 'round Chesapeake: Tom Wisner's Vision is a collection of Wisner's writing, from short celebratory poems to analysis of how our cultural ways of thinking about 'nature' results in the destruction of our waters-and what an alternative 'Come Full Circle' way of living might be like.
A few entries, like the 'Wade-in poem' are familiar to those who knew Tom Wisner, but Tom's writing about his own creative process, his sketching of a personal Chesapeake mythology, his reflections on connecting art to the sciences in education, his 4-page imagining of riding a blue heron's back on the journey from Texas to the Nanjemoy rookery, and over a hundred other pages of writing-are all new. Leeland searched 30 years of Wisner's journals and other notes, lengthy records of e-mail correspondence and other unpublished writing. The result is both visionary and simple.
"Thanks to water for its grace, For singing on the roof when it rains". "Spiritual learning comes backwards.
You begin mostly in the dark, choosing paths from impulse by following your heart. Then, much later, truths begin to emerge, ...and you learn why you did those things."
The book is available from Chestory, The Center for the Chesapeake Story and the following websites. www.amazon.com www.saraleelandbooks.net and selected Chesapeake bookstores.
In the works are:
- A songbook of Tom Wisner's songs for children.
- A songbook of additional Tom Wisner songs.
- A digital-archive of Wisner's regional stories & songs.
For more information, contact Joan Clement at Chestory@gmail.com
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Wild Meadows Farm
Harvest Work Day!
Saturday, October 22nd...
You are invited to join us on Saturday, October 22nd (Starting 10 AM and going throughout the day till evening). We will be processing apples to cook down into apple butter in a large kettle over an open fire. Bring your own jars to fill up if you want to take some home. Also, we have another bumper crop of black walnuts this year and will be collecting from trees, removing the hulls and then washing them before setting them out to dry in the sun. It takes about a month for the nutmeats to cure before they are ready for snacking, baking, and adding to other dishes.
Please RSVP to Kim at 814-839-4962 or kim@wildmeadowsfarm.com and if you are traveling from afar, you are welcome to camp out or spend the night in the farmhouse.
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CHEARS on FACEBOOK!
You can now become a fan of CHEARS on Facebook and receive updated information in a format that may best suit your networking preferences. We will continue to communicate via email and Twitter but are pleased to offer yet another method to share information about upcoming events, discussion boards, photo albums, and much more. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions as CHEARS moves into the social networking arena. |
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Follow CHEARS
on Twitter!
CHEARS is offering an exciting line-up of educational, musical, and community activities and events in 2011. Receive up-to-the-minute information by following CHEARS on Twitter-an information sharing network.
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Simply register at
http://twitter.com
- Add CHEARS as a friend and follow
- Choose how you wish to receive information (email, text message, rss feed)
- And never again miss any of CHEARS's exciting educational and community events!
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Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society4 Maplewood Court · Greenbelt, MD · 20770 www.chears.org
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