Transition Bay St Margarets – Entering our 15th Year
a reverse history of activities
Transition Bay St Margarets is entering our 15th year of programming in 2026! We are grateful to our volunteers and the many community members who have shown up to participate in our varied activities over the years. Scroll down for a list covering 2011 to 2025, or click here for a printable version. We look forward to seeing you in upcoming events in 2026, and beyond!
2025
Harvesting and Preparing Wild Staple Foods workshop
Cider Making and Fermented Beverages workshop
Home Share Thinktank
Vermicomposting – Making Gardener’s Gold workshop
Permiculture as a Gateway to Food Sovereignty workshop
Planting for Preservation workshop
Community Economic Resilience in Uncertain Times workshop
Rising to the Health Challenge of our Times with Herbal Medicine workshop
Seed Planning Party
Community Read and Discussion – the Service Berry
2024
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis – film and discussion
Kiss the Ground – film and discussion
Up!Skilling Festival: Feed | Build | Repair
Food Preservation workshop
From the Great Unraveling towards a Great Turning – film and discussion
HalifACT Human Library
Domestic Redundant Systems and Resilience for these Times workshop
2023
Innovative Affordable Housing – workshop
The International Transition Movement workshop
Gardening for Butterflies and other Pollinators workshop
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution – film and discussion
Off Grid workshop
The International Transition Movement, Earth Salon
2022
You, energy, and fossil fuels – a footnote to the end of the current era workshop
Did You Know You Can Eat That Workshop[
Dandelion Cuisine with Celebrity Chef David & Herbalist Deborah
Seed Planting and Microgreens Workshop
2021
Handmade Holidays Show and Tell
Best of Beekeeping – A World for Bees
Medicinal Herbs – Growing and Wild Harvesting
Good Gardens: Get Your Best Garden Yet
Solar Cookers and Rocket Stoves Workshop
Growing Under Cover
The Climate Action Simulation Game
2020
Find Your Roots – in the Root Cellar: All About Cold Storage
Adventures in Bubbles and Brine: Fermentation Gleanings from NS Masters
Seed Saving Start to Finish
Visions of Survival in a Climate Altered World – Salon Discussion – Postponed
Climate Victory Gardening
Prepare for your Future: Livestock in Suburbia
Off-Grid Living
Keeping a Level Head about Sea Level Rise
2019
Inner Transition: Truth, Courage, & Unfolding in a Time of Environmental Crisis
Training for Transition (Transition LAUNCH Workshop)
How Shall We Talk Together About the Climate Crisis? An Intergenerational Conversation
Climate Emergency! Solutions for Survival
Climate Change: Heading for Extinction (and What to Do About It)
Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden – Fall Harvest
Discover Solar PV 2019
The Clean Bin Project: Film Screening & Discussion
Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden – 2019 Spring Planting
Climate Emergency Preparedness
Re-localizing Prosperity in Rural Atlantic Canada
All About Off Grid
Fermented Foods Presentation
2018
Time Gifting Cards Launch
Handmade Holidays
Climate Change & the Human Prospect (film)
In Transition 2.0 (film)
Housing Outside the Box: Creative, Affordable Options for Healthy Housing Symposium
Planetary Overshoot: The Importance of Building Community Resilience to Global Challenges
Food Preservation Workshop
Transition Bay Steering Meeting — Pitch a Project!
Introduction to Analog (aka Film) Photography
Seedopolis: Everything you Need to Know About Seeds & Seed Libraries
The Climate Change Movement in Atlantic Canada
Film Screening of SEED: The Untold Story
All About Off Grid
2017
Handmade Holidays Presentation and Workshop
Building Decks and Domes: Learning By Doing
Up the Creek – With a Paddle
Learn a New Skill: Beekeeping
All About Off Grid
Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Sustainability 101
Eat Your Yard: Converting your lawn to food production
The Value Crisis – An Exploration of Today’s Value Systems
Transition Bay Meet-up
Repair Café
Food Fantastic Up!Skilling Workshop
Movie & Discussion Night: TOMORROW (Demain-LeFilm)
Your Compassionate Coastline: Sea-Level Rise in St. Margaret’s Bay & What We Can Do!
All About Off Grid
2016
Cultivating the Heart of Compassion: A One-Day Contemplative Workshop
Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse: Up!Skilling Festival & Expo
SMB Community Hub Vision Workshop
Zero-Mile Diet Workshop
Converting Your Vehicle to Run on Used Vegetable Oil
Voices of Transition Film
Compassion Training Workshop
“Gentle Dragons” and FarmWorks Information Session
Reweaving our Local Economy in a Volatile Century
Why do we treat our soils like dirt?
2015
Compassion – The Foundation That Binds Communities Together
Off Grid Housing Workshop
Food Preservation by Traditional Ways: 7 Fun Ways to Do It Yourself
Community Based Projects for Relocalization of Economies
Surveying for Permaculture Food Forest Workshop
Community Land Trust Workshop: Towards Housing Affordability & Ecological Sustainability
Affordable and Sustainable Housing Workshop
Local Prosperity – New Economics for Rural Canada Conference
Film Screening: The Economics of Happiness
Off Grid Housing Workshop
The Wisdom To Survive Film Night
2014
Up!Skilling Festival and Expo
The Global Transition Movement: The Importance of Building Community
Resilience to Global Challenges
Great Local Food – Great Local Ideas
What Kind of World Is Possible?
Raised Bed Workshop
What in the world is “Transition?” Presentation
Edible Landscaping workshop
Transition Gardening For Four Seasons: a Workshop
Cash & Karma: The Global Economy
St Margarets Bay One Forum
2013
The Global Transition Movement Workshop
Community Based Energy Workshop
Inner Narrative and Outer Journey to a Sustainable Future
Your Compassionate Coastline: Sea-Level Rise in SMB & What We Can Do!
Emergency Preparedness for the Suburban Home
Food Preservation Workshop: 7 Fun Ways to Do It Yourself
Do the Math / Face the Change Film Night
2012
Building the Local Economy
Planted Seeds: Lessons from Urban Agriculture in Havana
Permaculture for Transition
The Great Re-Skilling: Fair and Expo
Bay Bucks: Presentation to SMB Chamber
Scenario Planning Workshop
Inner Transition: the Heart and Soul of Living Resilience
The Great Unleashing: Building Resilience in Extraordinary Times
Training for Transition Workshop
Registered as Non-Profit – Feb 2012
2011
Why Not A Farmers Market?
Building Resilience at Home Workshop
Transition Gardening for Four Seasons Workshop
Initial Transition Bay Meeting – May 2011
PROJECTS OVER THE YEARS
SMB Food Bank Raised Bed Gardens
Time Gifting
Carats Local Currency / Bay Bucks
Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden
Edible Landscaping (St Lukes, Aspotogan Heritage Trust)
Neighbourhood Greenhouse Cooperative
Seed Library
Fruit and Nut Trees
Seabright Community Garden
Tantallon Farmers Market
Perma blitz
Meal Share