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FOOD PRESERVATION & SAFETY FOR FOOD ENTREPRENEURS WORKSHOP

Posted on September 30, 2011 by editor

WHERE and WHEN? Cape Breton: Gaelic College (St. Ann’s): November 10, 2011 (8:30-4:30) Yarmouth: NSCC Burridge Campus: November 22, 2011 (8:30-4:30) DETAILS: This workshop will feature the fundamentals of food preservation and food safety. Topics include: Food safety concerns regarding … Continue reading →

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Food preservation & safety for food entrepreneurs workshop

Posted on September 30, 2011 by editor

Workshops are coming up in November at the following locations: Cape Breton: Gaelic College (St. Ann’s): November 10, 2011 (8:30-4:30) Yarmouth: NSCC Burridge Campus: November 22, 2011 (8:30-4:30) $30 per person, pre-registration required, lunch provided This workshop will feature the … Continue reading →

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Tree-planting and soil Workshop in Yarmouth Oct. 1

Posted on September 24, 2011 by editor

A tree-planting and Soil workshop is coming up next Saturday, October 1st at the Public Works Building, Pleasant Street, Yarmouth, from 10:00 A.M. – 2:00 . Jim Spencer from Spencer’s Garden Centre, Shelburne, Lise LeBlanc of LP Consutants, a soil … Continue reading →

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From the Bird Life International Newsletter

Posted on June 27, 2011 by editor

Thanks, Eric Ruff, for bringing this article to our attention.  Over the lives of long-term residents in the Yarmouth area, we have also seen changes.  Evening grosbeaks, grey jays, and boreal chickdees used to be common winter birds, but cardinals … Continue reading →

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June 22 monitoring trip to C. R. K. Allen Nature Reserve

Posted on June 27, 2011 by editor

TREPA owns the C. R. K. Allen Nature Reserve at the north end of Gilfillan Lake near East Quinan.  The Reserve includes a diversity of threatened Atlantic coastal plains flora, including a major plantation of the Plymouth Gentian along the … Continue reading →

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