Gatherings – Page 4 – Moving to Conservers

Moving to Conservers Members helping us create a food forest at the Cedar Mountain Canteen
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Moving to Conservers Members helping us create a food forest at the Cedar Mountain Canteen

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Moving to Conservers Members helping us create a food forest at the Cedar Mountain Canteen

Growing food organically and planting native plants and trees is one of our passions. John and I are now part owners of the Cedar Mountain Canteen and we want the community to enjoy locally grown food so we are busy planting. We have planted 2 peach trees, rhubarb, blueberry bushes, strawberries, and are planning on much more as the weather warms up. We have also planted 2 Red Bud trees and 1 Dogwood in the garden for shade. We planted bee balm, a native flower. Our dear friend Susan Sunflower brought us native Green and Golds and planted them at the base of our shade trees and also blessed us with a couple of Oconee Bells, a rare native flower. Michael Plauche of the Transylvania County Bird Club brought us 4 bird boxes for our food forest as well. We have found nesting birds are one of the greatest forms of natural pest control. We received some gorgeous hanging baskets from some of our neighbors for the garden [...]

By Kim Coram|2021-04-11T08:16:13-04:00April 11th, 2021|Categories: Composting, Eating Consciously, Food, Gatherings, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Use Food Scraps|

Want to help with a community trash clean up on March 13th?
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Want to help with a community trash clean up on March 13th?

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Want to help with a community trash clean up on March 13th?

We received this wonderful email and request from one of our members. Please let Yvette know if you can help! What a wonderful way to celebrate a holiday, working together and building community! Thanks Yvette for reaching out and organizing this! Hi there, I am part of your Moving to Conservers group. I am reaching out to you from my non-profits email today though because we are partnering with Brevard Rotary to do trash pick up on Wilson Rd on March 13th. Would you and some of your members be willing to join my team? I need 5+ people to join. Since it's close to St. Patrick's Day I'm going to have my team dress in garb to have fun and help us stand out more on the road. Thank you for your time. Yvette Brooks [email protected]

By Kim Coram|2021-03-01T12:30:19-05:00March 1st, 2021|Categories: Connecting with nature, Gatherings, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, The Gift of Time|

Gift of Time holiday pop-up will not happen this year
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Gift of Time holiday pop-up will not happen this year

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Gift of Time holiday pop-up will not happen this year

One of my favorite events we host is the annual Gift of Time Pop-up Coffee house. We gather for food in downtown Brevard, share conversation and focus on the gift of sharing our time instead of material items. It always warms my heart when strangers who are walking by join us and share. The day has filled my heart with gratitude and I will miss it dearly this year. We look forward to bringing the event back next year and hope everyone has a wonderful, safe and blessed holiday season. Our community is amazing and our love runs deep.

By Kim Coram|2020-11-23T08:57:33-05:00November 23rd, 2020|Categories: Food, Gatherings, Help a Neighbor, The Gift of Time|

Let’s talk about locally made plant-based meals this Thursday at 6 pm
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Let’s talk about locally made plant-based meals this Thursday at 6 pm

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Let’s talk about locally made plant-based meals this Thursday at 6 pm

Thanks to the many people who have shared their thoughts about a community conversation focused on locally prepared plant-based meals. We have had a fantastic response. Let's get together on a conference call this Thursday at 6 pm. We will dedicate an hour to the conversation and record it and share it as a podcast! About half of the responses to our survey were interested in an in-person socially distanced meeting and we hope to get to that in the future. John and I worked the polls on election day and may have contracted COVID. While we wait for our test results to get back we will be hosting the conversation virtually. In order to join the call dial (515) 604-9916 Access code: 523174# Instructions: At the scheduled date and time, dial into the conference. When prompted, enter the access code. We look forward to the conversation and working together in our community! Thanks so much. If you cannot make the call and have ideas and suggestions you [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-11-16T09:45:26-05:00November 16th, 2020|Categories: Eating Consciously, Food, Gatherings|

LoveEarth Festival – information shared by a member
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LoveEarth Festival – information shared by a member

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LoveEarth Festival – information shared by a member

One of our members sent this to share. We wanted to pass it along.

By Kim Coram|2020-11-16T09:46:46-05:00November 16th, 2020|Categories: Composting, Connecting with nature, Gatherings, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps|

NCEJN’s 22nd Annual Environmental Justice Summit (2020) registration open
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NCEJN’s 22nd Annual Environmental Justice Summit (2020) registration open

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NCEJN’s 22nd Annual Environmental Justice Summit (2020) registration open

Registration is open for the summit! Looks like a great event. John and I have enrolled and are looking forward to learning together. I took the following from their website: We Can’t Breathe: Policing, Pollution, Public Violence, and Pandemic This year, we are focusing our hearts and attention on the multiple crises that harm our communities – namely the public violence of policing, pollution, and the pandemic – and how our collective struggle can transform that harm into wellbeing for our communities. To promote the safety of our community members, we have planned for this year’s Summit to be held online for the month of October. We will be gathering via email, social media, on Zoom, and by word of mouth to continue to practice solidarity and prove that our strength in numbers is not changed by any force! In addition to the virtual events, for the month of October, we will be asking our members and others to join in completing weekly action challenges as well [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-09-22T11:57:30-04:00September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Connecting with nature, Eating Consciously, Food, Gatherings, Growing food, Help a Neighbor|

Solid Waste Workshop
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Solid Waste Workshop

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Solid Waste Workshop

Solid Waste Workshop The Transylvania County Board of Commissioners will hold a workshop on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 4:00 pm in Commissioners Chambers at the Transylvania County Administration Building, located at 101 S Broad St., Brevard. The purpose of the workshop is for the Board of Commissioners to receive a presentation from Transylvania County Solid Waste Director Kenn Webb on the status of the County Landfill and to discuss the future of Solid Waste Management. No action will be taken during the workshop. The workshop is open to the public in accordance with NC Open Meetings Law. The meeting can be viewed online (www.transylvaniacounty.org) and via Facebook Live. To protect the health and safety of others, Transylvania County will practice social distancing during their meetings. Staff has added a call-in option (audio only) for members of the public who may have trouble accessing the meeting online. Dial (712) 775-7270. Access code: 554381.

By Kim Coram|2020-08-30T14:44:06-04:00August 30th, 2020|Categories: Gatherings|

Free fermenting classes
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Free fermenting classes

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Free fermenting classes

This is something that is near and dear to my heart and I have discussed with the Shockey’s, my fermenting gurus and friends. So in spite of their world being turned upside down with COVID they are still walking the talk and trying to connect with those folks in most need. Scroll down to the bottom paragraphs and you will see what I mean. We hope this finds you well. For the last few months we have been working on getting two special fermentation classes up. One is a Master Class that includes 7 techniques, a number of videos and a full color workbook with recipes. This class has so much for both a seasoned fermenter as well as brand new fermenters. The other class is very basic fermentation and is 100% FREE. FREE? What you say? Why? Let us explain. Microbes are everywhere and key to nearly every natural process. They were on the Earth first, long before our farthest common ancestors existed, and they will likely be here [...]

By Noel Thurner|2020-08-24T11:07:15-04:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Eating Consciously, Food, Food preservation, Gatherings, Help a Neighbor, Use Food Scraps|

Davidson River School garden work day was inspiring
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Davidson River School garden work day was inspiring

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Davidson River School garden work day was inspiring

On Thursday, July 30th, a group of dedicated volunteers showed up to work after a downpour. It didn't rain a drop after we got started. Barbara Grimm, the principle of Davidson River School had a lot of projects ready for us to tackle. A new compost facility Thanks to a pallet donation from Sylvan Sport, we were able to create a compost facility at the school so students can turn their food scraps into dirt. Gabriel Covington, a student from Brevard College, helped us put the facility together. It is so great to spend time with Gabriel. He is always anxious to be part of a community project and he brings the energy of his youth. Thanks Gabriel for your help! Kathleen Hannigan, a local artist, helped us add a community art piece the facility, just as we did at Rise and Shine. Kathleen set up a table and got busy sawing wood planks for use in the compost tree we [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-08-10T10:46:27-04:00August 10th, 2020|Categories: Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Eating Consciously, Gatherings, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps|

Potting plants for the Hunger Coalition giveaway on August 23rd
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Potting plants for the Hunger Coalition giveaway on August 23rd

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Potting plants for the Hunger Coalition giveaway on August 23rd

This past spring, we worked with other community partners to prepare and give away plant starts at the Hunger Coalition's food distribution. The project was a great success and patrons at the distribution have continued to ask for plants. One person shared photos of her plants and they were stunning! Thanks, Shane for passing these on. Shane is on the Hunger Coalition's board and a member of our project, Eating Consciously. Because a large part of Moving to Conservers' work focuses on eliminating the thought that anything is disposable, we have updated our tag that goes with the plants asking for the return of pots and unused soil from the previous distribution. Thanks to John Lawson for creating and updating the tag for us! Reuse helps in so many ways. One of our greatest needs for continuing the plant give-away is high-quality soil Composting creates soil and soil is one of the things we need the most in order to support this [...]

By Kim Coram|2020-08-17T16:24:58-04:00August 10th, 2020|Categories: Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Eating Consciously, Gatherings, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Shane Bellinger, Use Food Scraps|