Seedy Saturday

St. Luke's United Church Lower Hall 5374 St Margarets Bay Rd., Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Canada

Transition Bay has partnered with the St Margarets Bay Gardening Club on: Seedy Saturday  March 18, 11:00am to 4:00pm St Luke's United Church, Upper Tantallon Robert Cervelli, Transition Bay, will be speaking on Climate Victory Gardens at 12:45. 15 Vendors in the Lower Hall with lunch & snacks available for sale.

PLANET LOCAL: A Quiet Revolution

Tantallon Public Library 3646 Hammonds Plains Road, Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us for a screening of the short film PLANET LOCAL: A Quiet Revolution, followed by a community discussion. PLANET LOCAL is about a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide. As people work to protect and restore their local economies, their communities and the natural world, countless diverse initiatives are demonstrating a new path forward […]

Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden – Spring Soil Prep

St Margarets Bay Crossroads 5209 Saint Margarets Bay Road, Tantallon, Canada

Join us in preparing the soil for our 12th Season!  We will be adding compost, amendments and prepping the soil for spring planting.  We will be there rain or shine.  Each year, Transition Bay volunteers grow about 500 pounds of vegetables from these four raised beds for the St Margarets Bay Food Bank.  They greatly […]

Gardening for Butterflies and Other Pollinators

Tantallon Public Library 3646 Hammonds Plains Road, Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join Carter Feltham from the Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute (MTRI), who will talk about the institute, some of the projects they work on, pollinators, and in-depth about the endangered Monarch butterfly. Find out what butterflies and pollinators need to survive and how you can make your home a pollinator sanctuary. Also, learn more about MTRI’s […]

Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden – Spring Planting

St Margarets Bay Crossroads 5209 Saint Margarets Bay Road, Tantallon, Canada

Join us for Spring Planting! We will be planting Swiss chard, kale, beets, onions, parsnips, turnips, cabbage, potatoes and carrots - all fairly easy to grow and store into the cold season. Each year, Transition Bay volunteers grow about 500 pounds of vegetables from these four raised beds for the St Margarets Bay Food Bank. […]

The International Transition Movement

Virtual Everywhere, Canada

The Transition Movement is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world in the face of the world’s huge challenges (climate change, social inequality, economic decline, resource depletion and so on). Transition started in England in 2005 and rapidly spread worldwide to over 48 countries, 23 Transition Hubs and thousands of […]

Off-Grid Living

Tantallon Public Library 3646 Hammonds Plains Road, Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Canada

Back by popular demand !  We are thrilled to present this lively and informative workshop with Cam Farnell.  Are you wondering what it’s like to live without a connection to the electric grid and with no electric bill?  Then this 2-hour presentation and discussion is for you. Some of the topics that will be covered: […]

Housing Outside the Box Solutions:

Estabrooks Community Hall 4408 St Margarets Bay Rd, Lewis Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada

Auxiliary Housing, Backyard Suites, & Co-Living for Community Health Exciting things are happening in St. Margarets Bay this fall! Transition Bay St Margarets is hosting a one-day housing symposium on November 4th, building on our successful 2018 Housing Outside the Box event. Our focus for this program will be home sharing: the benefits and hurdles, […]

Why Home Sharing Really Matters: An Open House

Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Why Home Sharing Really Matters: An Open House Thursday, November 9, 2:00 - 4:00 pm | Paul O'Regan Hall, Floor 1, Central Library         Join us at Halifax Central Library on Thursday, November 9th from 2:00 - 4:00 pm for an open house and discussion on home sharing: the benefits and hurdles, building […]

Someone Lives Here Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Someone Lives Here Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Home Sharing as an Immediate Solution to the Housing Crisis Thursday, November 9, 6:00 - 8:45 pm | Paul O'Regan Hall, Floor 1, Central Library Join us for a screening of the film Someone Lives Here followed by a panel discussion and Q&A regarding shared housing. Learn how shared housing […]