NB CARE Week 2025
1. Farmers Market Booth
Visit EOS Eco-Energy Staff at the Sackville Farmer’s Market to learn more about what we offer, buy merch, or donate clothing for our upcoming clothing swap!
Date and Time: Saturday, February 1st, 9 am – 12 pm
Location: 18 Lorne Street, Sackville, NB (Sackville Commons)
2. World Wetlands Day Event
February 2nd is World Wetlands Day! Did you know the wetlands in Tantramar are accredited as a United Nations Ramsar City Wetland Site? In partnership with the municipality of Tantramar, EOS is hosting a networking and social event to celebrate wetlands in Tantramar. Refreshments and food will be available.
Date and Time: Sunday, February 2nd, 1 – 3 pm
Location: 223 Main Street, Sackville, NB (Tantramar Wetlands Centre) ** Drive all the way around to the back of the high school
Date: February 1, 2025 Time: 9 am
3. Clothing Swap
Join us for a free clothing swap- bring some clothes to donate and or take some home with you!
Clothing swaps are a sustainable way to promote using second-hand items rather than buying things new. By participating in a clothing swap you are 1. Encouraging a circular economy where clothes are exchanged among peers, thus, fostering a sense of community, 2. Fostering mindful consumption habits and becoming more aware about sustainable fashion practices, 3. Reducing the need to produce new clothing items, which reduces air pollution, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and 4. Reducing waste! When clothing is donated to thrift stores, there is a risk that the unsold clothing will be discarded, ending up in a landfill. Clothing swaps ensure items are directly reused.
This event is being hosted in partnership with Catalyst MTA and the Geography and Environment Society.
You can drop clothes you’d like to donate for the clothing swap, to the EOS Eco-Energy office at 43D Main St, Sackville, NB. Any clothes that are not taken home from the clothing swap will be donated after.
Date and Time: Monday, February 3rd, 1- 3 pm
Location: 60 York Street, Sackville, NB (Tweedie Hall in the Wallace McCain Student Centre)
4. Energy Efficiency Workshop
This workshop is a CLOSED event, available only for Open Sky participants, to learn about EOS Eco-Energy’s energy efficiency kits.
Our energy efficiency kits are available to borrow for free at the Dorchester, Port Elgin, Sackville, and Dieppe libraries.
Date and Time: Tuesday, February 4th, 1-2:45 pm
Location: 12 Folkins Dr, Sackville, NB (Open Sky)
5. Pollinators and Perennials Webinar with Estelle Drisdelle
Join us for a Perennials for Pollinators webinar with Estelle Drisdelle!
Food, herbs, flowers, and even weeds offer benefits to the backyard ecosystem, including in the winter! In this workshop, you will learn how to design gardens to support and attract pollinators and provide beauty, food, and herbs for you as well. Pollinators need our support year-round, and many of our edible and medicinal perennials are perfect food and habitat for our flying friends. We will discuss useful edible and medicinal plants, how they create important habitat, and how to care for your gardens with beneficial insects in mind.
Estelle Drisdelle is a famer, permaculture designer, and owner of Understory Farm & Design. She grows 40 medicinal and edible herbs on the farm and offers consultation for edible landscaping and backyard garden design.
Date and Time: Tuesday, February 4th, 6 – 7:30
Location: This is a virtual event, with no cap on the number of attendees.
Link to attend, no registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87005119741?pwd=5KZabUiMbJYA9DaTw4F8VaTp7XCNlb.1
6. Canning Workshop
Join us for a FREE BEGINNERS canning and preserves class hosted by Emilie McBride. Participants will gain hands-on experience with water bath canning, and learn tips, tricks, and safety precautions while making their own preserves. Those taking part will make a vegetable pickle along with a fruit jam, and get to take their creations home!
While this workshop is provided free of charge, any amount of donation that you are able to offer is highly welcome and very much appreciated! All donations will go to the amazing programs that Station 8 has to offer so that workshops and events like this can continue!
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 5th, 6-8:30 pm
Location: 8 Station Rd, Dorchester, NB (Station 8- Greater Dorchester Moving Forward)
*This workshop has limited space, and all spots have been filled.
Reach out to us directly to join the waitlist:
EOS Eco-Energy:
(506) 536-4487
43D Main St, Sackville
greenspaces@eosecoenergy.com
7. Free Youth Workshop – Tantramar/Strait Shores Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Reconciliation (EDIR) Training Program
EOS and the Sackville Commons Cooperative are hosting a train-the-trainer program, offered by the Tamarack Institute (https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/). Rochelle Ignacio (Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) from the Tamarack Institute will be leading this program.
EDIR is something that should be taken into account when trying to push for climate change among communities. It’s usually those within equity deserving groups that are most affected by climate change. This workshop is a train-the-trainers program, so youth will learn how to actively address and teach about EDIR issues as they move forward with environmental causes.
Program Overview: This program seeks to empower high school and post-secondary students, leaders, and volunteers from community and non-profit sectors to facilitate workshops and lead initiatives around equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation (EDIR). This program is available to youth ages 14-30. This program consists of two interactive workshops aimed at developing changemakers who can find the language to activate their voice, take control of the narrative, and bring the learnings back to their communities.
Participants will learn how to handle difficult conversations and design inclusive policies for decision-making in their communities. Specific attention will be paid to the Tantramar and Strait Shores Municipality areas, with issues impacting the local communities and Amlamgog (Fort Folly) First Nation.
Program Structure: The program will be divided into two workshops over one weekend, with each session providing foundational knowledge, hands-on activities, and strategies for leading future EDIR initiatives.
Dates and Times:
Workshop 1: Bias, Social Location, Anti-Racism, and Indigenous Cultural Competency: Saturday, February 8, 12:30 – 5:00 pm (including 30 min break)
Workshop 2: Accessibility and 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion: Sunday, February 9, 12:30 – 5:00 pm (including 30 min break),
*Certificate available upon completion of both sessions (Saturday and Sunday).
Follow up virtual coaching call with Tamarack Institute: Thursday, February 27 from 5:30– 6:30 pm AST.
Location: Virtual Workshop (Zoom) – Local (Municipality of Tantramar) accommodations will be made available for those with limited computer/internet access.
Link to register: https://forms.gle/VjVgBnzQuUQn3ntD6