Garden From the Stars - Columbia Mission
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 . . . .  Harvesting seeds from the New England tea plant requires patience



Students from the Fretto/Moehle sixth grade team visited with Dr. Alan Fiero's science class at Farnsworth Middle School to "harvest" seeds from six varieties of plants grown in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.  After the seeds were packed in vials provided by NASA, they were mailed to Wallops Flight Facility.  The seeds were then prepared for flight.  Students involved in the SEM project were able to talk to the Wallops engineers through a teleconference, arranged with the technical assistance of Sal DeAngelo from Project VIEW.
 

. . . . Dr. Fiero gets down to the finer points of getting-the-job done with the New Jersey tea seeds.

Seeds from the Dogbane plant resemble milkweed seeds and float through the air . . . in spite of students' efforts to catch them.