In this newsletter:
Workday
Potlucks
Music Festival
Farm Update

Workday
Sunday, August 5th, from 8 to noon, we'll be having a workday on the farm. We'll likely be doing some watering, digging potatoes, and processing some garlic. Come, and bring a friend!

Potlucks
Here's the schedule:
8/3 Gleaning
8/10 The importance of soils to humans
8/17 Tar sands and fracking
8/24 Greenhorns movie
8/31 The ethics of hunting
9/7 To be anounced, and then we'll move to potlucks in town

Here's the time schedule for each potluck, which occur at Mustard Seed Community Farm, 366 W Ave, Ames, IA 50014
5PM: soccer
6PM: potluck
7PM: discussion on the topic mentioned above.

Feel free to come to all or just parts of any of the above. Bring a friend!

Music Festival
There will be a music festival on August 25, in the afternoon. it will be a potluck. Bring several friends!

Farm Update
Despite some recent rain, our farm, like most of the rest of the North America, is in a drought, which means lots of watering and lots of plants that are still alive, but have decided to save energy by not producing fruit, or very much fruit. This includes our green beans, peppers, tomatoes, okra, and many other crops-really, most everything is not doing great. Our garlic is not curing super awesome, and we'll see about our onions and leeks. Also, I think our beehives might be pretty diseased, maybe we'll burn them?

Nicholas