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It's time for Friday Fauna & Flora with Aurora! 🎉 Featuring special guest contributors Cjet, Alex & Tricia (Environmental Educators)! Message us YOUR photos 📷 to be featured next week! 💚

It feels like fall but our flowers remain in full bloom here at CG! 🌼Aurora spotted Lauren carrying beautiful bouquets from the farm, and Cjet saw a whole rainbow of flowers walking to her car! 💐🌈 Alex and his Nature Year students found a colorful swallowtail caterpillar! And, they found a Giant Eastern Crane Fly that lived up to its name - so huge! Not to worry, they don’t bite - they eat nectar.

Alex also saw a woodland box turtle in our forest! 🐢Tricia and her students found an adorable little snapping turtle in the wetland. Aurora came across a frog there that was twice as big as the baby turtle! 🐸She also found an Eastern Carpenter bee resting on golden rod, and her first fall leaf of the season, a bright yellow poplar. 🐝🍂 Most leaves are still green on the trees and were soaking up the September sun (and rain) this week.

Come see CG’s flowers, insects, wetland creatures and more for yourself! Join us for Open Farm Day 10am-2pm every Saturday through November. 🎉

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It's time for Friday Fauna & Flora with Aurora! 🎉 Featuring special guest contributors Schandra (Compost Coordinator) & Crystal (Green Jobs Director)! Message us YOUR photos 📷 to be featured next week! You can make a gift to help us reach our Feast goal & sustain CG’s fauna & flora all year round at the link in our bio. 🥰

This week, Schandra noticed that fellow farm team member Kathleen dressed in green - matching the greens she harvested! 💚 She also spotted a monarch caterpillar starting a chrysalis! Crystal saw a grown up monarch butterfly perched on the farm fence, and admired some gorgeous phlox flowers. 🦋 Aurora saw a painted lady butterfly and bees busily pollinating aster flowers. She enjoyed eating CG cucumbers & tomatoes in our school's salad bar - lunch from our cafeteria is always gorgeous and tasty! Plus she discovered a beautiful cucumber flower growing on the farm, and a passionflower and it's cute vine growing in the edible children's garden.

🌦It may rain tomorrow but we host Open Farm Day whatever the weather 10am-2pm every Saturday through November! Join us to see CG’s fauna & flora for yourself! 🥳

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We Are More Powerful Together

Interested in becoming a student? Learn more about open houses, our lottery, and what it's like to be part of the Common Ground family.

Visit Us!

Learn about programs for children, families, and adults.

See Our Impact

Greater than 90% graduation and college acceptance rates 15,000 community program participants 10,000 pounds of healthy, local produce

Common Ground is a Safe Space.

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