In celebration of 2015 International Year of Soils, Phil Warman, PhD, PAg, will present a lecture and discussion on the importance of building and maintaining good soil health for home, garden, and farm. With the participation of the audience and the use of a few props, Phil will describe the fundamental differences between soil and […]

Food Producers - if you're looking to start, grow or promote your food related business, the Dragons would like to hear from you!  Gentle Dragons is a popular event and venue to pitch your plan, get great feedback, and enjoy local food and conversation.  Transition Bay is proud to co-sponsor this event with FarmWorks (www.farmworks.ca), […]

Like so many of you, we see the need for compassion to play a more prominent role in our personal and professional lives, and in society altogether. Recent scientific research has confirmed that compassion training, using simple contemplative activities and practices, can deepen and broaden our ability to express, and act upon, the compassion that […]

Voices of Transition presents innovative, inspirational – and concrete – solutions to the food security challenges we humans are increasingly facing.  It is a fully independent, 65 minute-long documentary that examines the danger posed to agricultural production by energy and resource scarcity. It depicts organic agricultural alternatives in France, the Transition Towns movement, and urbanized food production […]

This workshop focuses on a unique and innovative system never before offered in any public presentation. The system has brilliant features making it particularly useful in cold (or any) climate while being elegantly simplified. It is the result of 55 years of experience by a retired physics professor and has been perfected in a series […]

  Most of us have heard of the 100-Mile Diet - where someone focuses their diet on only food produced within 100 miles of where they live.  In these times of increasing food costs and decreasing food quality, more and more people are recognizing the benefits of making their home a productive asset which supplies […]

Fifth annual Vision Workshop and Birthday Party, Sunday, June 19th from 1:00 to 4:00pm at the Acadian Maple Products meeting room. For this year's workshop, we will be discussing the potential for a SMB Community Hub.  Our guest speaker and co-facilitator will be Laurie Cook, Director of the United Way Hubs Project (see: http://hubsproject.wix.com/unitedway).  Laurie coordinates […]