The Tantallon Public Library featured an all-‐day workshop on Transition Gardening for Four Seasons recently on Saturday, October 22nd, conducted by Transition Bay St Margarets. The event filled the library meeting room with over 75 people to hear local gardening experts. Bob Cervelli introduced the mission of Transition Bay St Margarets and MC-‐ed the event. Jayme Melrose spoke about the basic themes of Permaculture design for the garden and surrounding areas, Niki Jabbour spoke on four season gardening and Phil Warman spoke on soil amendments and composting. The day was highlighted by an incredible lunch catered by Chris and Melissa Velden of Flying Apron Cookery, which used locally grown vegetables and featured a squash and kale soup, a vegetable curry and meat vegetable wraps. Our day completed with tours of three lovely sites demonstrating successful Four Seasons Gardening. Even the weather blessed us with glorious sunny warmth. “We spent a wonderful day learning about year-‐round vegetable gardening and touring fabulous gardens in St. Margarets Bay. Its inspiring to be engaged with so many with this wonderful Transition Gardening movement,” enthused workshop participant Alan Chilton, in one of numerous such comments. The theme of transition gardening is to inspire and educate area residents about the value of having a vegetable garden, and also how to extend to all four seasons to include winter harvests! The workshop recognized that the vast majority of the food consumed in Nova Scotia is imported over long distances, and that producing food locally increases community resilience to any disruptions of those food import supply chains. The workshop was conducted as part of Transition Bay’s goal of educating residents about various ways the community can buildresilience to potentially significant changes in the global economy, energy supplies and environment. We wish to warmly thank every person who participated. Together we made a memorable event.
