Mission 4/1 Earth
Our congregation's story continues! Report your Earth Care hours, trees planted, and advocacy/petitions signed via a time card or email to greenteam@newiingtonucc.org
New Blog: This Mission 4/1 Earth blog has been created to provide ongoing detailed information and links.
It can be accessed directly at http://newingtonucc-mission-4-1-earth.blogspot.com/ or link from newingtonucc.org (Church home page or Green Church page).
The most recent blog entry provides info on the Church Recycling Collections.
CSA: There's still time to sign up for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and become a supporter of a local farm while getting weekly shares of local produce.
For a full list of farms offering CSAs and get an overview of how most CSAs work, visit http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Local farms with CSAs:
Fair Weather Acres, Rocky Hill - they will do a drop-off in Newington if there are 20 people signed up. Call 860-529-6755 or visit http://www.fairweatheracres.com
Urban Oaks Farm : summer CSA or Veggie Bucks. Call 860.223.6200 or visit http://www.blog.urbanoaks.org/
Eddy Farm -Pork shares CSA only. If enough people are interested, the share can be bought by one person and divided. Visit http://www.eddyfarm.org
Trees for Church Grounds: The Green Team continues to collect donations for two small flowering trees for the Church Grounds. The Church School will be dedicating the plantings later in the spring in honor of Earth Care and our new Sr. pastor.
Composting: Here's an easy way to get started in creating gorgeous rich compost! turn scraps into gardener's gold! ASP Project will be building a model Compost bin and taking orders for bins at the ASP tag sale on Sat. 6/1. A getting started brochure will be available.
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