All Blog Posts Tagged 'MA' (7)

Our Big Chance!  Help us buy this foreclosed riding stable so that we can create a shared use facility called North Country Sustainability Center, Inc.  Please visit the following website and contribute to our NCSC Jigsaw Campaign. We are a 501(c)(3) organization, founded in 2010.  We have been leasing a facility to start our programming, but the real needs are for a community commercial, micro-creamery, and gardens for education and community. Our users are a diverse lot, but we looked at…

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North Country Sustainability Center, Inc. just agreed to lease a retired elementary school in Ashburnham, MA as our temporary home base. This will allow us to start offering programs, make local food and art pieces available for sale, and build the long term goal of creating a very exciting project.

What does NCSC do for anyone else?  Well, to start with, we're a regional operation, so we are open to working with and helping anyone who has a dream to start a small business that…

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                With the news all full of frustration and anger, is it possible that a dream can still come true?

I hope so, because we have a unique chance to make it happen. But it will take a little help from a lot of people. 

                Since I started in the field of local food and environmental education I had an image of  reusing an old building to create a place where farms could sell their food, consumers could purchase high quality locally grown food and a…

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The North Country Sustainability Center, Inc. based in Ashburnham, MA was officially notified that we have been granted our 501c3 non profit status by the IRS!  Now we can start raising the money to purchase the old riding stable and furniture factory to build our sustainability center.

Lots of people thing this project is about "greening" the region, and to some aspect it is. I had a little girl tell me this spring that sustainability means "what we have to do to stay here."  I…

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NCSC, the North Country Sustainability Center is now an incorporated entity, one step away from formal tax exempt status. This is a very exciting time for all of us in MA and NH. Once we get this underway, we plan on buying the land and starting a commercial kitchen/arts center/ sustainable ag center with a whole lot more.

Please check out www.northcountrysustain.org, or check us out Facebook. We are a… Continue

There's a new regional sustainability center in development. Check out www.northcountrysustain.org and see some of the plans we have. We have a wonderful opportunity to purchase and old stable and mill complex to create a sustainable ag/farmer's market/art center as well as an exhibition facility. We need to know if we can help you, or you can help us. Please look through the site, and spread the word. It's exciting, but there's a lot to be done… Continue

To my neighbors in Cambridge, Somerville and Thereabouts,



I'm planning to head over here next Wed for some springtime inspiration. Perhaps I'll see you there.



Cheers,



Mina



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Wednesday 1 April 2009 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM



Longfellow School building, 2rd Floor, use Fayette Street Door

359 Broadway

Cambridge, MA



Come and browse through flower catalogues. Meet your neighbors and fellow

gardeners. Make your… Continue