Transylvania Shares Coop planning is moving along!
Transylvania Shares is moving along swiftly, thanks to Ed’s guidance. Thank you Ed! There is a lot to plan before opening our Sharing cooperative and we are getting close. We are very excited. Interested in getting involved? Let us know. WE would love your help.
Gift of Time Pop-up Potluck
It is hard to believe but next month is our Gift of Time Pop-up event. It will be held on December 14th, from 12 – 3 pm in the plaza beside Quixote's and across from Rocky’s. We joined with Project Empathy to plan the event this year and as a result, we have a new location. In the past, we have been at the gazebo on Main Street. We ran out of space last year. We are grateful for the use of this space. It is a wonderful and large space. We will convert it to [...]
Available Soon – Brevard Bottles: locally made, ceramic
Beautiful, functional and made here. Thanks to Will for working with us on developing a locally made water bottle. By creating prototypes for us to use and share we were able to share your comments and come up with the current design. Thanks so much. This is our first production run and supplies are limited. Would you like to reserve one/some? Email us at [email protected] and let us know. We will share a picture of the new design and a price as soon as we get those. How exciting!
My gosh we are rockin’ it!
Woo hoo! Moving to Conservers. We are doing amazing things through study, conversation, and local action! As I made my list of topics to cover in the upcoming newsletter, I was stunned by what we have going on! So many of you are bringing zero-waste suggestions to other groups. Many of you are modeling the behavior and aiding the group as they move to a zero-waste practice. Thank you. I wish I could share the joy I receive in emails and on phone conversations when guiding someone in our community who wants to incorporate zero-waste practices [...]
Our Second Anniversary celebration was wonderful
Thank you Rob and Su for opening your home to us for our second anniversary gathering. What a wonderful, relaxing celebration. The food was amazing, as always. It was a special evening and we are grateful the company.
Interested in presenting on our behalf at the Food Waste Solutions Summit?
We received the following email and wanted to share. If you are interested in submitting a proposal to present about our work, let us know. The deadline is October 20th to submit a proposal. Hi John, I have been following your zero waste group from afar and would like to connect. I am on the board of the NC composting council and we are hosting a happy hour social at Sierra Nevada Oct 25th with the goal of bringing together the composting and zero waste community of WNC. We would love for you to spread word [...]
Not everything should be convenient
A friend recently mentioned a book she read, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I have made a goal to read more so I went to the library and checked it out. Robin is a scientist, a Distinguished Teaching Professional of Environmental Biology and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The book compares the scientific communities views on biology to those of her nation. It talks about the community between plants and humans and how they have evolved. It talks about the honor and gratitude they have for each other. She talks about going out [...]
Transylvania Shares planning notes from October 2, 2019
Hello All, We had our most recent Coop Committee meeting last Wednesday, October 2, at Oskar Blues. We covered marketing topics. In attendance: James, Kim, Gail, John, Kathleen and Ed. We covered marketing and related topics. Here is a summary of the meeting: Firstly, Kim wanted to add a new Principle to our List of Principles: 'We will prioritize purchasing used equipment over new' This was discussed and agreed upon by the group. The first question that we discussed was 'Who can Join the Coop'. The answer is any resident of Transylvania County, upon making application. The [...]
Rise and Shine hiking club
Connecting children to nature has been proven to improve their health and quality of life. The first time I heard universities were doing studies to see if children benefited from being in nature I was floored. I was in a meeting once with a group of MD’s who were reviewing the study. I told them I had been doing that study for years by taking children into the woods and such. The impact was obvious immediately to me. John and I spend a lot of time outside and we absolutely love sharing those experiences with youth. [...]
Sharing sharing sharing…
My gosh have we been busy sharing dishes and such with members of our community who are working to reduce waste. It is fantastic how many people have spread the word about our wares and services. Julia Kennerly and Su Slover have been amazing advocates. They have shared the word and stepped up to personally make events they are involved in zero-waste. Julia shared that her first event only created ½ a grocery plastic bag of trash and most of that was brought in from attendees (disposable coffee cups and such.) Wendy shared word about our [...]