Tree Tapping Workshops – Saturday, March 19th
2 Workshops to Choose From! 10:00 am to 12:00 pm 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm * Demonstration of tools and tricks in collection of sap * Slide show presentation and hands –...
Category: Arts & Traditional Skills
Rural Roots Schedule!! Oct. 24
Join us Oct 24 for a fun day of workshops on food dehydration, spoon carving, wool spinning, permaculture, preserving paper treasures, mushroom hunting, low impact forest management, garlic growing and much more. Check out...
RURAL ROOTS FESTIVAL – Oct. 24
This is a packed day of skill sharing workshops, demonstrations, great conversations, and delicious food on the beautiful Eastern Shore. Sessions range from wood carving with folk artist Barry Colpitts, and tool sharpening with...
Sealight Skylight Festival 2015
Celebrate the sparkly wonders of the Perseid Meteor Shower and ocean phosphorescence in Ship Harbour. Sealight Skylight is our annual festival of astronomy and phosphoresence. There are two evenings of fun for the family,...
Maple Tree Tapping Workshop Draws a Crowd
Everyone loves maple syrup, so it’s no surprise that our Maple Tree Tapping Workshop was such a success that we had to add on a second session! Participants took to the snowy woods with...
Deanery Days at School
On March 14th, The Deanery Project came to Duncan MacMillan School, where ten of our Resource Team members taught interactive workshops to students in grades 7-9.
Tree Pruning with Jim Turner, horticulturist
Learn about care and pruning of fruit trees and how to bring wild apple trees back into production with horticulturist, Jim Turner. If you enjoyed last year’s popular pruning workshop, then come on back for this year’s advanced class.
Lots of Skills Shared at Rural Roots
Last Saturday was one of the biggest events of the year at the Deanery Project: we hosted Rural Roots, a skill-sharing festival in which close to 100 people participated in sharing traditional rural skills...
Rural Roots Seasonal Skill Sharing – List of Presenters
We are still tweaking the schedule a bit, but it is coming together, and we just can’t wait to share all the exciting presenters with you. Here is the tentative schedule. If you’re hoping to...
What are Reskilling and Upskilling?
You may have heard of “reskilling,” “upskilling” or “skill-sharing” lately, particularly from folks in the Transition Town movement. In the corporate world, reskilling means improving the collective skill set of your team.
