CT Trails Day is Tomorrow!
Join us for a fun, family-friendly hike through a wooded trail and to a beautiful pond, tomorrow, June 2nd! We will look explore beaver activity, hike, and play. Rain or shine (unless conditions are deemed to be unsafe).
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Next Meet Your Greens: June 14th
This month we'll be taking our annual Connecticut River cruise on the RiverQuest. Join us for a beautiful cruise along the river with our guides Captain Mark and Mindy Yuknat of CT River Expeditions.
There is a suggested donation of $5 per person to help defray fuel costs. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite drinks and snacks. Eco-friendly cups, napkins, and utensils will be provided. As well as beer from Half Full Brewery. Please arrive by 5pm as the cruise departs at 5:15 pm sharp from Eagle Landing State Park, Haddam. Reservations are required and space limited so sign up soon.
Also, save the date for upcoming Meet Your Greens: 7/19, 8/16, and 9/20:
- On July 19th, we'll be meeting at the cidery Spoke + Spy to discuss local apples with permaculture expert, Tom Christopher.
- On August 16th, we'll be touring Smith Farm, a farm offering meaningful work to people with developmental disabilities, and providing food to the Brian House group home and the local community.
- On September 20th, Jane Harris of the Middletown Garden Club will be discussing rooftop gardening on the Community Health Center's rooftop.
For those of you not familiar with
Meet Your Greens: Middletown Green Drinks, this monthly event provides networking opportunities for anyone who is interested in making connections and exchanging news about emerging environmental issues to help keep Lower Connecticut River Valley communities green and growing. An official location of Green Drinks International, this informal monthly gathering of people drawn from the community, nonprofit groups and the business world offers time to brainstorm ideas and plant seeds for collaboration. All are welcome and there is no admission fee, unless otherwise noted. For more information, please visit our website.
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Thanks for joining Rockfall's Sustainable Seafood Soirée!
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JP Velotti discusses oyster and kelp farming. |
We had a great time at our Sustainable Seafood Soir
ée last week. The presentation by JP Vellotti of East Coast Kelp Farms was fascinating--the future for kelp farming seems bright!
And the beer, wine, oysters, and kelp appetizers were all delicious. Thanks to the more than 50 friends of Rockfall who could join in our celebration and help raise funds for Rockfall's grantmaking and educational programs! And thanks so much to our sponsors (below), who helped make our soiree a great success!
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All Things Green: Talking Farm to Table Camp with Valley Shore YMCA
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Valley Shore YMCA Community Planting Day volunteers |
This month, in his monthly radio program All Things Green, Rockfall executive director Tony Marino will be talking with the Valley Shore YMCA executive director, Chris Pallatto. They'll be talking about the Y's Farm to Table Camp, supported for the second year by the Rockfall Foundation.
This camp teaches children the essential life skills of gardening, cooking, and environmental sustainability. Listen live on June 14th at 4pm on iCRV Radio. Or stream it any time afterward.
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Meet our Grantees: CT Audubon Society, Center at Glastonbury
Supported by a 2018
Rockfall Foundation grant, the Connecticut Audubon Society is working to increase environmental literacy for more than 250 students in Middletown and Chester through the organization's Schoolyard Science in Nature program.
This grant is providing tuition to students who would otherwise be unable to participate in the program due to budgetary constraints, provide professional development workshops for 11 participating teachers, and update older equipment for the program at the Center at Glastonbury. The focus of the modules for this project is the Connecticut River Watershed.
And if you haven't listened to Tony talking with Michelle Eckman and Heather Cordula of CT Audubon about this project on his radio show All Things Green, you can listen to the archived program here.
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Resilience Workshop for Connecticut Journalists: 6/30-7/1
On June 30th and July 1st, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Rockfall Foundation are organizing a resilience workshop for Connecticut journalists. The Saturday will consist of presentations and panels of resilience experts and Connecticut officials. Sunday, we will head on a field trip, exploring resilience challenges along the coast of Connecticut. If you are a journalist (or student journalist), you can learn more or RSVP by emailing
Erik Assadourian. There is no cost to this program.
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@rockfallfoundation) and Twitter (
@RockfallCT), please do. Here we'll share relevant events--ours and other great events in Connecticut--plus a mix of local, regional, and global environmental news.
Please follow along. And remember, with Facebook's changes, click on the arrow under following and click "see first" in your news feed so that our updates aren't lost.
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