This Week is Screen-Free Week!
Screen-Free Week continues until May 6th. This is a perfect time to unplug and reconnect with family, friends, and the outdoors.
Plus, Russell Library, HealingNatureCT, and the Middletown Public Schools are offering a series of seven great events for Screen-Free Week.
For the full list of programs,
visit our website.
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Register now for our 2018 Sustainable Seafood Soirée!
Join us for our second annual Sustainable Seafood Soir
ée on May 24th, starting at 5:30pm. There will be delicious food--including locally raised oysters and kelp (the food of the future!). As well as Grace & Darkness Oyster Stout and a selection of Connecticut grown wines.
We'll be
at the beautiful Brewer Pilots Point Marina in Westbrook, with picturesque views of the marina. And we'll hear from
JP Vellotti of East Coast Kelp Farms and Ram Island Oysters about their exciting effort to grow kelp sustainably in the Long Island Sound and transform it into delicious and innovative foods.
Tickets are $75/each or $250 for a party of four. All proceeds will go to support the Rockfall Foundation's Grantmaking and Educational programs. Tickets are limited so please register soon.
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Next Meet Your Greens: May 17th
Our guest this month will be Juliana Barrett of
Connecticut Sea Grant and
UConn Extension. Juliana will discuss impacts of our changing weather patterns on Connecticut and Long Island Sound and some of the steps being taken by communities and individuals to become more resilient.
We'll be meeting at The Griswold Inn (36 Main Street in Essex), starting at 5.30pm on May 17
th.
More details on our website.
Also, save the date for upcoming Meet Your Greens: 6/14, 7/19, and 8/16:
- On June 14th, we'll board the RiverQuest for our annual Connecticut River cruise Happy Hour.
- On July 19th, we'll be meeting at the Middletown 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.
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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Presentation on Local Trail and Bike Routes Projects: 5/23
The Jonah Center and The Rockfall Foundation invite the public to hear progress reports on a variety of recreational trails and bike routes being constructed, planned, or envisioned in the greater Middletown area. The program will take place on Wednesday, May 23, 7- 8:30 p.m. at the deKoven House, 27 Washington Street, in Middletown.
The main presenters are John Shafer and Kathy Herron, members of Portland's Air Line Trail Steering Committee and Complete Streets Group; Howard Reid, co-chair of Middletown's Complete Streets Committee; and John Hall. Citizens who want to support these projects are strongly encouraged to attend, share thoughts on strategy, and consider ways they can help.
Register here.
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June 2nd: Join us for 2018 Connecticut Trails Day
Saturday June 2nd, join us for a fun, family-friendly hike through a wooded trail and to a beautiful pond. We will look at the latest beaver activity and wind our way back through a lovely forest with interesting moss-covered boulders to climb on. We will spend time exploring whatever piques our interest and play a game or two. All ages are welcome, as long as they can walk 2 miles (or you have a backpack to carry them.) We will still hike in light rain but this event will be cancelled if conditions are deemed to be unsafe.
Lisa Liesener of Everyone Outside will be leading this hike, which is co-sponsored by Everyone Outside, the Middlesex Land Trust, and the Rockfall Foundation.
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Meet Our Grantees: Macdonough Elementary School
Commodore Macdonough Elementary School received a grant in 2018 to support the school's program "Macdonough Students Get into Nature."
Through collaboration with Everyone Outside, this program will provide opportunities for Macdonough students to learn about and be better connected with the natural world through a series of field trips for each grade, including field trips to Indian Hill Cemetery, Wadsworth Mansion, and the Middlesex Land Trust's Palmer-Taylor Preserve and Mica Ledges Preserve. In addition, Macdonough teachers will receive training to enable them to offer more lessons about nature and local ecosystems that incorporate the new Next Generation Science Standards as well as the common core curriculum.
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Tweet, Tweet
If you're not yet following The Rockfall Foundation on Facebook (
@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 recent 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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