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Open Farm Day invites visitors to enjoy campus every Saturday from 10 AM - 2 PM. Open Farm Day is free and self guided, come explore the farm and forest!

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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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It's time for Friday Fauna & Flora with Aurora! 🎉Featuring special guest contributors Tricia & Cjet (Environmental Educators), Carla (School Operations Manager) and Crystal (Green Jobs Director)! Message us YOUR 📷 photos to be featured next week! 💚

It's harvest season! Aurora saw farm share members harvesting basil before it gets pulled to make room for fall crops. 🌿 Nature Year is back in action, and Tricia and her students harvested (and ate!) a rainbow of crops from our edible children's garden. 🌈😍 Cjet saw fellow Environmental Educator Keilly and her students pick/ing their garden harvest. 🥒🥕 Cjet also saw a gorgeous saddleback caterpillar - watch out, their bright coloration is a warning, they have a painful sting! 🐛

Carla spotted a beautiful female yellow garden spider. 🕷 Despite their bright yellow color, they are harmless to humans. The reason for their unique zipper web is unknown but it may be to prevent birds from flying into it. 🕸 Speaking of which, Carla also saw Mark (our amazing Facilities Manager) helping a small bird recover after flying into the window of Springside. 🥰 And, she saw a snowberry clearwing - it's not a bee, bird, or plane, it's a hummingbird moth (one of Aurora's favorite insects)! Crystal saw not one but TWO types of butterflies - a monarch and a swallowtail. 🦋

🍃 Come enjoy the cooler temperatures and see CG's fauna & flora for yourself at Open Farm Day 10am-2pm tomorrow (and every Saturday through November)! 🥳

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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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Greater than 90% graduation and college acceptance rates

15,000 community program participants

10,000 pounds of healthy, local produce