The Sugar Shack: The Maple Season is almost over! Come taste the sweetness - Go

The Sugar Shack, located behind the Weston Middle School, is an ideal setting for teaching kids of all ages about our natural resources. Staff and Volunteers give tours and demonstrations to school groups.

You Dig? Green Power Summer Program:

Education from the Ground Up

Land's Sake produce donations is an integral part of the Green Power Summer Program and a unique teaching opportunity. Much of our produce is donated to local food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters. While connecting the middle school kids to the land and teaching them about agriculture, we also teach them about community service and outreach.

Green Power is an agriculturally- and environmentally-based summer program for Middle Schoolers. Now in its 25th year, the Green Power program connects kids to the land and the food they eat in a uniquely hands-on way. The program focuses on:

• Our environment
• Where our food comes from
• Natural resources
• Community service
• Natural sciences
• Fostering relationships with nature and their community
• Providing opportunities for each child’s natural curiosity and thirst for learning to be expressed
• Getting kids out into the fascinating Natural world

On the farm, Green Power kids help raise over 20,000 pounds of fresh produce for Boston area food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens. Program participants receive a modest stipend of $20/week. The Green Power experience also includes field trips, games and natural history.

Registration: Enrollment is by-the-week (at $150/week) and the Green Power day goes from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. For more information, please call 781.893.1162 .For registration forms and more information, please visit http://www.landssake.org/greenpower/ .

Registration deadline is June 26th.

Helping Hands is just one of the many food pantries and produce distribution centers we donate produce through.

Green Power kids help plant, weed, tend and harvest the produce on the farm

Participation is limited to 25 students per week. Register early! We also ask that a consent and participation form be submitted.

Child to Teacher ratio = approximately 7:1

Land's Sake Expeditions
2005 Brings an Exciting New Dimension to Land's Sake!

We're not just down on the farm anymore: we're taking sustainability to the highway! With the Land Saker Mobile, our 15-passenger bio-diesel van, Land's Sake is going to take hearty and adventurous souls into the hinterland on educational and fun-filled excursions. Each trip will be led by a talkative naturalist and volunteers from the Land's Sake community. Grey Lee, Naturalist, Environmentalist, Educator, long-time supporter, participant and volunteer with Land's Sake, will be organizing these excursions.

Excursions are open to all - families are especially encouraged to sign up. Accommodations are car-camping style; participants will get more details as they sign up.

We'll be driving using bio-diesel fuel, so your trip will be towards sustainability, not just towards the country. Join us in 2005 for any of the following trips:

• 16-17 April - Sustainability in the Taconic Mountains of Vermont: The Merck Forest and Farmland Center
• 14-15 May - Journey to the Coast: Horseneck Beach State Park (Westport, Mass.)
• 18-19 June - The White Mountains of New Hampshire. Trip to Franconia Notch: Mt. Lafayette and Mt. Lincoln
• 16-17 July - The Catskills of New York: Woodland Valley State Park
• 20-21 August - The Green Mountains of Vermont: Gifford Woods State Park
• 17-18 September - Camping in Maine! Camden Hills State Park
• 8-9 October - Apples and Leaves in the Berkshires of Massachusetts - Mt. Greylock

You pay $40 for transportation, food, and entrance fees where applicable! The money helps defray the cost of the van which we use for other educational purposes throughout the year. Bring the whole family! For more information contact expeditions@landssake.org .

Land's Sake Classifieds

Wanted: Refrigerator, washer and dryer and long dining table or conference table for Melone House (Land's Sake farmers residence and Land's Sake Office). Please call 781-893-1162 if you have any of the above items to donate.

Wanted: Wood Burning Stove for Sugar Shack . Any size logs, but larger preferred. This will be used for making candy and cider in the shack.

For Trade: Have something you want to trade? Let us know.

For sale: Have something to sell? Let us know.

Opportunities: See the Land's Sake joblistings page at http://www.landssake.org/joblistings/

If you have something you want to get rid of but wish it could be re-used, or something you want to trade or just want to share information with other Land's Sake
e-newletter subscribers, then post something here by sending your notice to newsletter@landssake.org

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