Join us for an afternoon of learning all about seeds! We will talk about everything to do with seeds, including the magic of seeds, seed types, diversity and life span, international seed libraries, seed anatomy, storing and using seeds, how to perform germination tests, methods of planting seeds, buying seeds, hybrid vs. heirloom seeds, when […]

Oh dear - the wind blew the plastic off the greenhouse during a January storm!!  The winter spinach crop survived because we put row cover over it for protection. Join us for a half-day workshop to rebuild this 20'x24' greenhouse.  We will rebuild the gable ends and doors and put on new plastic.  Learn all […]

Join us for starting the 7th successful year of the Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden!  We will be doing soil prep in the raised beds, and planting beets, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, onion, chard, kale and rutabaga.    Last year, we harvested a total of 665 pounds of vegetables for the St Margarets Bay Food Bank. Learn […]

Before there was digital photography there was analog - film - photography. For 160 years analog photography looked after the photographic needs of the world. Although most photography is now digital, there are still practitioners of analog photography, and it still has some distinct advantages over it's digital cousin. This presentation is an introduction to […]

Are you interested in learning more about our upcoming programs? Would you like to get more involved with Transition Bay and help bring some of our projects to life? Join us for our next steering meeting! We are also inviting anyone with ideas for new Transition Bay programs to come out and pitch a project!  […]

Join us for the 2018 seventh-season's main harvest of the Crossroads Educational Vegetable Harvest.  We have already harvested 103 pounds of kale, chard and carrots.  During this main harvest, we will pull the carrots, beets, rutabaga and onions - they all look huge!  Also, we will harvest more kale and chard. All vegetables go to […]

The Housing Outside the Box Symposium will bring community members together to discuss the opportunities that exist for creative solutions for affordable, appropriate housing in our community. With a focus on sustainable, people-friendly solutions, we will hear from a variety of speakers sharing their knowledge and expertise, and have plenty of opportunity to learn and share ideas […]

In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion into the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localizing their economies and setting up community power stations. It’s an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding […]

Climate Change and the Human Prospect documents the vision created at the Climate Change and the Human Prospect: A Thinkers Retreat held at Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. On the 60th Anniversary of the Inaugural Pugwash Conference on Nuclear Disarmament held in 1957, twenty-four global and regional Thinkers, armed with the conviction that local […]

Are you interested in learning more about how to create simple, beautiful, hand made gifts for the holidays? Would you like ideas on how to use recycled materials and every day items to create useful presents and memorable keepsakes? Join us for a presentation and "show and tell" featuring an assortment of hand made gift […]