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Art/Rich Poetry Roundtable: Tuesday, 4 p.m., Library.
CoreSyn with Trent: Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 8 a.m. at Fiske Field basketball courts. In bad weather, at the Legion Hall.
English as a second language: Thursdays, 7 p.m. with Teri Piccozzi, Library.
Functional Fitness with Susan on Zoom: Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m. Email [email protected] to sign up and receive zoom link.
Intermediate French Conversation: Thursdays, 4 p.m., Library, Zoom.
Music Trivia & Light Movement: Mondays, 11-11:45 a.m., Senior Center via Zoom, [email protected].
Out of school fun zone for grades pre-K to 4: Shelter Island Youth Center, from 2:45-5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, $10 per child, per day. 631-749-0309.
SYLVESTER MANOR FARM PHOTO
Seedlings hold the promise of spring. (Credit:Sylvester Farm )
Just when it seems like the gray bleakness of winter will never end, we only have to look as far as Sylvester Manor’s Educational Farm for evidence of the next season of renewal.
The Farm reported recently that the first seeds of 2021 will be planted in their greenhouse this week. The Farm’s 2020 team of apprentices Delaney Sondag, Alex Kuctha and Evan Feliciano are all returning, and Eva Nelson is joining them this year. The crew is already hard at work and expecting one more apprentice later this month.
Tractor turned windrows at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm’s compost site. (Credit: Cristina Consentino)
The Nature Conservancy’s Mashomack Preserve and Sylvester Manor Educational Farm are working together to establish a closed loop system of carbon cycling on Shelter Island.
This partnership will optimize the use of the Preserve’s supply of carbon-rich materials (leaves and wood chips) by turning them into compost at Sylvester Manor.
Sylvester Manor currently cultivates three acres of vegetables and plans to expand their crop production by an additional three acres in 2021. Under the direction of Director of Farm Operations Cristina Cosentino, the farm will transition towards regenerative vegetable production and reduced tillage, a farming practice that seeks to disturb soil as little as possible.