August Happenings
Upcoming events
All of our events are free and open to the public.
At garden meetings, you can meet other garden members, learn how to get involved, and become a member. At garden workdays, all are welcome, no experience necessary. Tasks include pruning, weeding, composting, and repairs.
- Sunday August 2, 11am-12pm: Garden meeting.
- Sunday August 2, 12pm-2pm: Garden workday.
- Wednesday August 5, 5pm-8pm: Community Mending Night: Clothes & Wooden Furniture. Bring your clothes or textiles or wooden furniture in need of repair. We'll have hand sewing tools, sewing machines, mending books, woodworking tools and supplies. Learn how to perform repairs together! Rainy weather: at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (155 Ave C).
- Saturday August 8, 4pm-8pm: Rhythm and Truth! Community Jam Session. This intimate community jam will celebrate the music and art that means the most to us. Creatives of all skill levels will be invited to connect through song, movement, poetry, and storytelling, over warm meals. By Tiany B.
- Sunday August 9, 11:30am-12pm: Buoy the Brooklyn Mermaid Storytime. Buoy the Brooklyn Mermaid is an operatic singing siren bringing music and magic to dry land. With soaring vocals, oceanic whimsy, and a love for the fintastic, Buoy invites audiences of all ages to dive into adventures where opera meets imagination. Created and performed by Brooklyn artist Samantha Nahra, Buoy blends classical singing with storytelling to make opera fun!
- Friday August 14, 5pm-8pm: All Voices Heard Hip-Hop Concert. BBQ, food, potluck. Four hip-hop artists live on stage. Featuring: Dada2much, lizmati, call me Billy, guest artist.
- Sunday August 16, 11am-12pm: Garden meeting.
- Sunday August 16, 12pm-2pm: Garden workday.
- Sunday August 23, 11:30am-12pm: Buoy the Brooklyn Mermaid Storytime.
Some things we worked on last month
- Building a workbench for our new woodworking and textile repair shop.
- Clearing out bamboo and overgrown vines from behind the stage.
- Installing a mosquito net and fan for the gazebo.
- Inviting a student muralist to paint our toolshed.
At the Garden
Dragonfly spotted by our pond. Dragonflies spend most of their lives in the water during the nymph phase of their lifecycle. From the Missouri Department of Conservation: Nymph gills are located inside their rectum. They breathe by drawing water in and out of their hind end. By forcefully expelling this water, the animal can move quickly in a form of jet propulsion.
Unlike some other winged insects like butterflies or bees, they don't pupate. Because dragonflies spend time in both the air and water, and rely on clean, well-oxygenated water to survive, they are important indicator species of ecological wellbeing. A healthy population of dragonflies signals a healthy ecosystem.
See you at the garden,
Catherine