Join Backyard Growers to harvest, cook, and eat a delicious vegetarian meal inspired by the summer garden! Participants will be led by community gardeners and Backyard Growers staff and will leave with recipes, tips, and tricks to make seasonal menus at home. Not an experienced cook? No problem! We’ll go over the basics, so all levels of cooking experience are welcome.

At The Open Door, 28 Emerson Ave, Gloucester

Family Night – Bring the kids! August 1; 6-7:30 pm; Sign up here or email community@backyardgrowers.org to reserve your spot today!

Senior Night August 8; 6:30-8 pm; Sign up here or email community@backyardgrowers.org to reserve your spot today!

The Annual Meeting of The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery  will be held at the East Gloucester Community Church on Chapel Street, East Gloucester on Wednesday, July 26 at 6:30 pm.  All board members, lot owners,  and interested persons are encouraged to attend.  We are looking for new members for our Board and welcome anyone who is interested in helping our non-profit in any way.   We are looking to elect a new President and Treasurer.  

If you cannot make the meeting but are interested in helping out in the future, please contact me at khmelanso@comcast.net

It’s Thursday on Cape Ann and that means it’s time for the Cape Ann Farmers Market!

Join us at Stage Fort Park from 3:00-6:30 to get all your summer favorites (and maybe even the first peaches of the season!)

Food, music, crafts, and a gorgeous view! Come stock up for the weekend and enjoy all the market has to offer including free parking while you shop!

Sign up for our newsletter on capeannfarmersmarket.org so you’ll always know what’s new at the market!

This Thursday, join Backyard Growers and guest speaker Sophie Courser from Alprilla Farm for a workshop on organic pest and disease management! We will address common pest and disease concerns, as well as preventative garden care and other solutions to common garden woes.

Thursday, 7/20 at 6:00pm

Burnham’s Field Community Garden

FREE for Backyard Growers program participants,

$10 for Community Members

Tickets here!

At the July 14 meeting of the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club, 8:00 pm at the Lanesville Community Center, Phil Orbanes will reveal some indecorous truths about a dozen famous stars and their lifestyles, from Aldebaran to Sol, from the intemperate “live fast and die young” crowd to the more introspective and generally cool-headed class M red dwarves, whom, for example, you would be less likely to meet in a bar.

In a colorful presentation, and with a wink and a nod, Phil will let us know the ways in which astronomy’s HR diagram of stellar life cycles can be explained by the sidewalk outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater, and which star would show up where, from Barnard’s Star to the Dog Star.

Phil takes as his point of departure a passage from GAACster Bill Waller’s The Milky Way: An Insider’s Guide, where we learn that “[like] snowflakes — and people — each and every star has its own distinct appearance and behavior.”

Beginning from this simple premise, Phil paints a fascinating picture of the lives of an even dozen of the most famous stars, from nearby Proxima Centauri to distant, and decidedly less well-behaved, Sirius. We’ll even see that Hollywood and Gemini are not all that different: like Lassie, Castor is really a half-dozen stars.

This meeting will be a lot of fun. And like most GAAC meetings, you’ll leave knowing something really interesting that you didn’t know when you arrived. July 14, 8:00 – 9:30 pm, Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street.

The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets on the second Friday of the month at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street in Lanesville. More information on the club can be had on their website, http://gaac.us, the club Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/gaacpage, and on twitter, @GAACster.