Greenhouse Rebuilding

Unnamed Venue St Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

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 […]

Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden – 2018 Spring Planting

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

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 […]

Introduction to Analog (aka Film) Photography **Registration Required**

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

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 […]

Transition Bay Steering Meeting — Pitch a Project!

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

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!  […]

Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden – Fall Harvest

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

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 […]

Housing Outside the Box: Creative, Affordable Options for Healthy Housing Symposium

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

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 […]

$20

In Transition 2.0 (film)

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

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 & the Human Prospect (film)

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

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 […]

Handmade Holidays

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

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 […]

BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal? the movie expose of biomass burning

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

BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?  The movie exposé of biomass burning.  NS suffers terribly from this! “This film elicited a powerful and passionate response from our audience this year with many saying they had no idea about this issue and its devastating impacts. BURNED reveals the shocking destruction of our forests for fuel and the resultant rise […]

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