4th Annual Organic Plant Sale and Gardening Program
May 17 & 18 at Crown Point
Be sure to save May 17 & 18 for the 4th Annual Organic Plant Sale at Crown Point. It’s not to be missed. A large assortment of heirloom tomatoes and peppers will continue to be the focus of the plant sale, but there will also be an expanded selection of varieties of eggplant, summer squash, winter squash, melons, lettuce, brassicas, herbs, native flowers and more. All of the plants are organically grown at Crown Point without the use of synthetic fertilizers or toxic pesticides.

Patrons of the plant sale are invited to tours of Crown Point and five informative gardening presentations.

Summer Farm and Science School at Crown Point:
Lessons on the Land
Beginning in June and running through August, Crown Point Farm & Education Center in Bath, Ohio will once again offer The Summer Farm and Science School at Crown Point, a summer camp program for children ages 6-8 and 9-11 years. Children enrolled in this year’s summer program will examine the question: “Who makes a farm work?” In each session, participants will explore this topic as Crown Point Science Investigators. The “C.S.I. Team” will investigate the interactions of people, plants, and animals in a farm community while exploring the whole farm from fields to forest, barns, gardens, and wetland-pond. Members of the “C.S.I. Team” will participate in a variety of activities, including harvesting and preparing food grown in the Magdalyn E. Hausfeld Children’s Garden for daily snacks, playing team-building games, and learning how to set-up and run a farm market. See Summer Farm & Science School for full details.

Members’ Community Potluck on June 6 - Members, partners, friends and neighbors of Crown Point are invited to celebrate the beginning of the summer season on Friday, June 6 at the Annual Members’ Community Potluck. The dinner bell rings at 6:30pm. Come early, walk the labyrinth, see the diversity of vegetables and flowers in the gardens, take a walk through the woodland. Enjoy the landscape. The program for the evening includes recognition of the outstanding volunteer of the year, light music, and great conversation around the table with friends and neighbors of the Crown Point community.

Everyone, please bring a dish (serving 6) to share, the recipe, and your picnic gear – plates, knives and forks, cups, etc. Join the fun. Please RSVP by calling 330.668.8992 by June 4.

Solstice Concert, June 21at Crown Point - Crown Point is pleased to host song maker and acoustic guitarist Bob Franke for Solstice Concert on Saturday, June 21 beginning at 7pm in the historic 1910 barn. Bob’s song making is brimming with the wise and spiritually generous. Also, expect wrenchingly convincing topical songs sugared with the hilarious. His songs have the power to change the world when taken into the lives of people.

Considered classics, Bob’s songs are fueled by his deep faith and the real-life lessons taught him by his 30-odd years of playing everywhere from concert halls to street corners. As Tom Paxton says, "It's his integrity. I always think of Bob as if Emerson and Thoreau had picked up acoustic guitars and gotten into songwriting. There are touches of Mark Twain and Buddy.”
Bob will be in Bath especially to lead the Ramblin’ River Song Making Retreat held at Crown Point. His solstice concert is fundraiser for Crown Point. The Saturday concert will open with Carolyn Rames, vocalist / guitarist & Michael Grady, song maker / guitarist. Both are principals of Ramblin’ River Retreats and often perform at venues around Northeast Ohio.

Tickets are $12 per person. To purchase tickets in advance, please send payment, including address, phone number and email address to Crown Point.

Crown Point Gift Certificates are available for gift giving. Certificates can be used for children to participate in the 2008 Summer Farm & Science School or for purchases at the 2008 Organic Plant Sale. To purchase gift certificates, please call Delle at Crown Point, 330.668.8992 x106.

Saundra Franseconi was acknowledged as the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year at the Annual Meeting-Community Picnic on June 15th. Sondra was selected for her “consistency, quality of work, and duration of engagement at Crown Point.” As a volunteer, she works closely with Tim Knorr, Farm Manager, on propagation, cultivation, and harvesting. Sondra has been an active participant in the Mission for 16 years.  

Thank you Dominion East, Cohen & Company, and All State Insurance Group for volunteering community service hours at Crown Point this past summer and fall. Crown Point looks better due to all of your time and energy. We couldn’t have completed all the projects you accomplished while you were here.

The results are from the BioBlitz that was conducted at Crown Point on July 7, is available online at www. bsbo.org. Among some of the findings are the mysterious 5-legged toad, the rare red dragonfly and the possibility of a state endangered sedge. A biodiversity blitz is a one-day biological survey that provides a baseline of the flora and fauna of an area and is conducted by a qualified team of naturalists/scientists. Thank you, Delores Cole for organizing the event and everyone who participated.

Water for the Journey and Food for the Journey
CDs produced by the Dominican Alliance EcoJustice Committee, 2006 are available at Crown Point Store. Please contact Sr. Mariellen at Crown Point for additional information.


Justice and Peace: Our Faith in Action, published by Harcourt Religion Publishers, 2007, features Crown Point in the chapter “Nurturing Nature, Our Home.”