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Sustainable Berkeley Springs - A Transition Town
Sustainable Berkeley Springs - A Transition Town We are formerly the Local Economy Network. We became a Transition Town in 2012. For general information on Transition Towns, see http://transitionus.org/. We are working on our new website, sustainableberkeleysprings.org. In the meantime, we welcome you to this site where you can see where we've been and what we have done since 2008. We expect our new website to be up by June, 2012. Check out current happenings on our calendar by clicking on the Calendar button in the Main Menu.
Upcoming Events  
June 5, 2012 - Monthly Meeting at the MC School Board Offices in the Board Room - 10 am to noon.
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Mob Gardening April 2011
As I write, I am looking out of the upstairs window, rain anointing the newly amended garden bed that existed only in the imagination a week ago. On Saturday, April 9th, twelve people, several of whom I had not previously met, arrived at the site of the first Mob Garden event sponsored by the Local Economy Network. They arrived with garden spades and forks, rakes and high community spirit. Some also arrived with food to sustain us in our hard work, sandwich fixin’s, red pepper hummus dip, brownies, chips and salsa, and homemade yogi tea. The food was deposited on the porch and we walked over to where the land had been marked off for the proposed new garden, a bed four feet wide and as long as we could make it, considering that sod removal is very hard work. It had rained the day before and the day before that. We made the “crumble test”; the dampish ball of soil fell apart into a multitude of neat crumbs when the fist opened, informing us that the soil was not too wet to work, that we would not damage its structure with our digging. In fact, we were not digging very deep, only enough to remove the layer of sod- the grass and its roots. F.E.T.C.H. - Film Festival
Local Economy Network F.E.T.C.H. Film Festival Local Economy Network did its first Film Festival - F.E.T.C.H., which translates to Food, Energy, Training, Community, Health, the topics of the films being presented. Four films were shown during the course of the day on November 20, 2011. The films shown wee No Impact Man - about everything you can do to be Green, even in a NYC highrise. How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - about how to use less oil, make do, and how Cubans did it when they lost the major portion of their oil supply. Food Matters - about food as medicine, taking charge of your own health and how to use less medications. Blue Vinyl - about how Green building materials are much better than vinyl siding. Each film was followed by an open discussion period, lasting about 30 minutes.
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On April 7, 2011, the first ever LEN Mob Gardening event was held at the home of Belqis and Joseph, out on Fairfax Drive. Below is Belqis' experience of receiving this kind of community support.