Like so many of you, we see the need for compassion to play a more prominent role in our personal and professional lives, and in society altogether. Recent scientific research has confirmed that compassion training, using simple contemplative activities and practices, can deepen and broaden our ability to express, and act upon, the compassion that […]
Voices of Transition presents innovative, inspirational – and concrete – solutions to the food security challenges we humans are increasingly facing. It is a fully independent, 65 minute-long documentary that examines the danger posed to agricultural production by energy and resource scarcity. It depicts organic agricultural alternatives in France, the Transition Towns movement, and urbanized food production […]
This workshop focuses on a unique and innovative system never before offered in any public presentation. The system has brilliant features making it particularly useful in cold (or any) climate while being elegantly simplified. It is the result of 55 years of experience by a retired physics professor and has been perfected in a series […]
We are re-installing the Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden, following the fantastic landscaping that was done at the Crossroads last fall! Join us for this great community event. We will be re-installing raised beds, the educational kiosk and benches - all in preparation for spring planting in May. This event will happen rain or shine on […]
Most of us have heard of the 100-Mile Diet - where someone focuses their diet on only food produced within 100 miles of where they live. In these times of increasing food costs and decreasing food quality, more and more people are recognizing the benefits of making their home a productive asset which supplies […]
Join us for the fifth annual planting of the Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden! We will be planting those types of vegetables which are easy to grown and easy to store - potatoes, carrots, onions, rutabaga, parsnips, cabbage and beets. We will also plant nourishing and popular leafy greens - Swiss chard and kale. Saturday, May […]
Fifth annual Vision Workshop and Birthday Party, Sunday, June 19th from 1:00 to 4:00pm at the Acadian Maple Products meeting room. For this year's workshop, we will be discussing the potential for a SMB Community Hub. Our guest speaker and co-facilitator will be Laurie Cook, Director of the United Way Hubs Project (see: http://hubsproject.wix.com/unitedway). Laurie coordinates […]
Join us for the big Fall Harvest of the Crossroads Educational Vegetable Garden from 9:00am to 11:30am on Saturday, September 24th (rain or shine) - two weeks before Thanksgiving! Over the summer, garden volunteers have already harvested over 160 pounds of Swiss chard, kale, carrot and beets. We should have a bumper crop at this […]
We live in uncertain times. Who knows when the world as we know it well might take a dramatic shift. Without electricity how long can you and your family keep securely in terms of food, heat, and everything? What happens if the petrochemicals run out? Those old traditional skills our grandparents and their grandparents […]
The need for compassion in our personal, organizational and societal lives is increasingly evident. In the past several years training programs, based in ancient wisdom and modern science, have been developed that helps bring forth the compassion inherent in all human beings. “Imagine the profound transformation in society if our interactions with one another in […]