Help a Neighbor – Page 3 – Moving to Conservers

Let’s get together for a meal and enjoy each other’s company
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Let’s get together for a meal and enjoy each other’s company

Eating Consciously, Food, Gatherings, Help a Neighbor

Let’s get together for a meal and enjoy each other’s company

This Thursday we are hosting a zero-waste potluck at the Cedar Mountain Canteen on June 24th at 6 pm. This will be a low-key gathering. We will enjoy a potluck and bring back our zero-waste tips clothesline. What is that? Folks have shared their ideas about how to move to zero waste by creating a flag that we hang on a clothesline. You can read suggestions from others and create your own flag to add to the line. We provide the material scraps and the markers. It is a fun way to share. All are welcome. Please bring a covered dished to share if you are able. If not, please join us. We would love to feed you. Please bring your own non-disposable place setting too. Plant-based meals are encouraged. All food is welcome. We have had so many delicious plant-based meals. It is an amazing meal. Looking forward to sharing a meal together.

By Kim Coram|2021-06-22T08:19:38-04:00June 22nd, 2021|Categories: Eating Consciously, Food, Gatherings, Help a Neighbor|

Help Wanted: $20 an hour. Compost service demand is exceeding our ability!
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Help Wanted: $20 an hour. Compost service demand is exceeding our ability!

Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Connecting with nature, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps

Help Wanted: $20 an hour. Compost service demand is exceeding our ability!

We need help! We have more demand for composting services than we can handle. We are looking for someone to help us increase composting in the county. We have about 6 - 8 hours of work a week, some flexible hours. We can provide all the training. If you are interested, please let us know. We would love to help someone start their own company and help provide services we can't keep up with. You can email us at [email protected] or call at 304-482-3062. Thanks! Kim & John

By Kim Coram|2021-06-14T10:43:58-04:00June 14th, 2021|Categories: Compost Drop-off Location, Composting, Connecting with nature, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps|

SEED libraries (especially Natives), another great way to share, to support our ecology

Seed Library - another great way of sharing and saving our environment What is this? You may have seen some of these little free library boxes around that people use to share books. The idea behind these seed libraries is similar in that people can share seeds. We hope this works well so we share seed, ESPECIALLY NATIVES! Have you spotted one in T Cty yet? Who wants to build one for your neighborhood? Expect to see them soon, at the Canteen, St. Paul's Episcopal, at the RR Native Plant Garden in Brevard ... and/or .....? How do I use it? As with the lil' book libraries, put and take. And this is the beginning of the native plant seed season ... Small envelopes needed - ordinary postal ones would do Small trays to hold them on an up slant (so seeds don't fall out). Those take-out food ones might do. On each envelope (print small): name (scientific is GOOD, common works), special planting notes (shade/sun) There is [...]

By Susan Sunflower|2021-04-18T11:10:45-04:00April 18th, 2021|Categories: Connecting with nature, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Conservers, Moving to Zero-waste, Sharing Club|

The Sharing House needs help with composting and they have reached out to us. Can you help?
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The Sharing House needs help with composting and they have reached out to us. Can you help?

Composting, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps

The Sharing House needs help with composting and they have reached out to us. Can you help?

We received an email this week from the Sharing House asking if we could help them learn to manage the compost bins built for them. I told them absolutely, yes. Are you interested in helping? Please let us know. Creating soil is one of the greatest things we can do for the earth as so much is being turned into dirt, void of life. Let's help the Sharing House! Send an email to [email protected] if you are interested in helping. Thanks and thanks Sharing House for asking!

By Kim Coram|2021-04-11T08:37:25-04:00April 11th, 2021|Categories: Composting, Help a Neighbor, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps|

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|

Seeds and plants available for our seed swap
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Seeds and plants available for our seed swap

Growing food, Help a Neighbor

Seeds and plants available for our seed swap

Many thanks to Noel for putting together our virtual seed swap this year. Unfortunately, she is unable to participate further at this time. She is a great motivator and organizer and we are grateful for her energy and attention. Here is a list of seeds and plants we have available. You don't need to provide seeds to get seeds. These are free to anyone who can use them. Thanks for sharing and for helping keep seed diversity alive. Dakota Black Popcorn Little Blue Popcorn Bloody Butcher Corn (Dent) Oaxaca Green Corn (Dent) Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn Hidatsa Shield Figure Bean Greasy Cut Short Bean Jacob's Cattle Bean The following seeds are available from Tory Nergert. Please email Torry at [email protected] if you would like any of the seeds below. If you are interested in any of the items below, please contact Kim or John at [email protected] Iris - we have a mat of them. They need divided and you are welcome to as many as [...]

By Kim Coram|2021-03-08T11:21:28-05:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Growing food, Help a Neighbor|

Transylvania Shares needs board members and volunteers
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Transylvania Shares needs board members and volunteers

Help a Neighbor, Sharing Club

Transylvania Shares needs board members and volunteers

Transylvania Shares is looking for volunteers and board members. We have received amazing donations like an electric lawnmower and tiller, power tools, a case of white tablecloths and on and on. We need help getting our inventory updated, getting more members, you name it. If you are interested in helping Transylvania Shares, contact them at [email protected]

By Kim Coram|2021-03-01T10:24:34-05:00March 1st, 2021|Categories: Help a Neighbor, Sharing Club|

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|

Noel talks about the upcoming seed swap
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Noel talks about the upcoming seed swap

Food, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Noel Thurner

Noel talks about the upcoming seed swap

Hello Gardeners, I am sure you all enjoyed the short string of sunshine we were gifted as of late. I bet you noticed as well the day length was longer, at dawn and dusk. Time to think gardening! Since humans have been growing food, the challenges have been numerous. With this endeavor came the saving of seeds from the tastiest and most adaptable plants. People today still are making crosses, trying to achieve variety and hardiness. There are many facets to gardening and seed saving is one of the many. It is a challenge and every plant has its own protocol for ensuring next year’s seeds will be viable and delicious. But we have the luxury of thousands of varieties of seeds offered to us through garden centers and seed catalogues. Many of you most likely have packets from last year or even earlier. Check out the seed viability charts and learn what seeds are still useful. It is these you can plant this season AND share! https://www.highmowingseeds.co [...]

By Kim Coram|2021-03-01T08:47:01-05:00March 1st, 2021|Categories: Food, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Noel Thurner|

It is time for our annual seed swap! We are doing this one remotely.
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It is time for our annual seed swap! We are doing this one remotely.

Eating Consciously, Food, Food preservation, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Noel Thurner

It is time for our annual seed swap! We are doing this one remotely.

Our last gathering before the lock down of the pandemic was our annual seed swap. I enjoyed growing some of those seeds last year. I always enjoy shared seeds and plants. They have a story and I smile when I tend to the plants and remember the soul who shared them. We have beautiful Cardinal flowers and Green and Golds given to us by friends and they warm my heart every time I see them. It is like they are in our garden, beautifying it. Noel of our Eating Consciously team, sent me some seeds out of the blue last year and we have been enjoying the Arugula and Collards since. It was so nice to receive a surprise in the mail with a handwritten loving note. Noel and I were recently discussing seed swapping and we both were thinking of how to do it during a pandemic and she suggested using the US Mail. I loved it! I think hand-written letters sent in the mail are a [...]

By Kim Coram|2021-02-15T09:10:19-05:00February 15th, 2021|Categories: Eating Consciously, Food, Food preservation, Growing food, Help a Neighbor, Noel Thurner|