For the moment, forget crop circles and off-Earth aliens playing havoc with a farmer’s real estate!
Here’s a new and more down to Earth space-farm connection.
In collaboration with NASA, seven farms across the U.S. will invite the public to get lost in space this Fall.
Take for example the Liberty Ridge Farm in Schaghticoke, New York – it is the northeast representative for the Space Farm 7, pairing up with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to coordinate their leg of the program.
Liberty Ridge Farm will highlight achievements made during the 20 year NASA Hubble Space Telescope program with their out of this world 20th Anniversary Hubble Space Telescope Adventure Corn Maze.
Talk about your Hubble “Wide Field” Camera!
The Fall Season begins September 17th and runs through November 6th. The Farm is open to the public daily, and offers school educational field trips, weddings, company picnics and special events.
Other space farms are in Lehi, Utah; Lathrop, Calif.; Brookshire, Texas; The Rock, Georgia; Gretna, Nebraska and Fredericksburg, Virginia.
For more information, go to:
By the way, for you educators, go to:
Kindergarten & 1st Grade Lessons & Activities; 2nd & 3rd Grade Lessons & Activities; 4th & 5th Grade Lessons & Activities; and Coloring & Activity Sheets, all available at:
http://www.spacefarm7.com/school-curriculum.html
By Leonard David
Note: Coalition kudos go to NASA’s Kristen Erickson for pointing out this a “mazing” story.