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 [...]
Plant-based locally prepared and commercially available food just got a few steps closer to being a reality
Last Thursday on our Moving to Conservers conference call, we enjoyed a conversation with 2 individuals interested in providing plant-based meals in our community. We talked about goals and obstacles towards reaching those goals. We talked about ways we could help each other and discussed what next steps would be and then we made plans to start those next steps. And the next day, Friday, we started. We are super excited to be a part of the conversation and to support those in our community who want to make plant-based meals easily available in our community. [...]
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 [...]
Want some vinyl campaign signs to re-purpose? How about trophies?
For me, one of the most interesting parts of moving to a zero-waste community is looking at the thought of waste differently. I often ask myself: When and why did it become OK to waste something? There are so many businesses we need in our community to support a move to zero-waste it is exciting. The first in my mind is a business that helps us divert food waste from the landfill. We received so many excellent ideas during our essay contest to solve that problem. We have put some in practice and need to continue [...]
Check out Transylvania Shares latest news
Check out Transylvania Shares latest newsletter by going here: https://mailchi.mp/6a909f42ee45/transylvania-shares-weve-got-new-stuff-to-share-we-have-a-loving-sharing-community?e=a3d336244e
LoveEarth Festival – information shared by a member
One of our members sent this to share. We wanted to pass it along.
A conversation about plant-based locally prepared meals
We have asked over the past couple of newsletters if folks are interested in having a conversation about creating locally prepared plant-based meals. A lot of folks have completed our little survey and we will be scheduling a conversation soon. We plan to wait until after the elections to organize the conversation. Thanks to everyone who has shared their thoughts. There is still time if you want to contribute. Visit our survey and let us know what you think: https://movingtoconservers.com/there-is-definitely-an-interest-in-our-community-for-prepared-plant-based-meals/
Cedar Mountain Canteen will be using glassware from Transylvania Shares
Since purchasing the Cedar Mountain Canteen with Greg and Stephanie Thomas, we have been busy getting ready to open in November. We are making a lot of changes. We are focused on being a zero-waste business and that means we will be serving in real glasses. Instead of purchasing an inventory of glassware, we have decided to borrow glassware from Transylvania Shares! We attended their board meeting last week and made our pitch and it was approved unanimously. How about that! Transylvania Shares helping a new business get off the ground while practicing reuse and sharing! [...]
Vegan Learning Library
Hello Moving to Conservers! As somebody dedicated to cultivating sustainability, I can say that I am massively impressed by this group. My favorite definition of sustainability is “the possibility that human and other life will flourish on the planet forever” (-Dr. John Ehrenfeld). I find that definition both aspirational and beautiful, and so it guides my work to make this world a better place. Moving to Conservers is working diligently to cultivate flourishing for all life on this planet, and I’m happy to be a part of the team. I’m particularly honored and excited to participate [...]
How would you re-purpose campaign signs? We are about to get a bunch. Help us find new uses for them!
Soon the elections will be over and all the campaign materials will go where? A couple of political parties in Transylvania county are interested in keeping their signs out of the landfill and we have offered to help. I ran for office in 2012 and served for 4 years. I decided not to seek another term so my stored campaign signs needed to find a new purpose. They have since helped prop up bean crops, provided backing for a bench a friend made, and been turned around and used for new signs. They are still with [...]