Home-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms
Shiitake mushrooms can be grown at home by anyone, with just a little bit of effort and time. I attended the May 10 Shiitake Mushroom Growing Workshop at Falls Brook Centre to learn more and to get a little hands-on practice on just how it’s done. David Boyle...
It’s Spring…Time to Plan Your Garden!
Stephanie Kelley Falls Brook Centre had a booth set up at the Women’s Day event where Emily Shapiro was demonstrating a really nifty method to recycle old newspaper into totally biodegradable seedling pots to start your garden seeds in. She was using a wine bottle with a “punt”,...
Family Cultural Day at Tobique First Nation
Stephanie Kelley A Family Cultural Appreciation Day complete with a potluck picnic, barbecue, dancing, drumming and nature hikes was hosted by Tobique First Nation on October 12, 2013 at Mudwass Park. The event received support from the Heritage Canada Youth Take Charge initiative through Falls Brook Centre in Knowlesville....
Herbal Medicine
Way back before we had Big Pharma, pills and expensive patent medicines folks depended on local herbalists to help them heal when they got sick. Every generation of herbalists built on the knowledge and experience that had been gathered by the healers who had lived before them. These...
Wild Mushrooms in New Brunswick
It’s now mushroom season in the woods of New Brunswick and our fields and forests offer up a tasty buffet of edible wild mushrooms…if you know what you are looking for! Foraging for mushrooms is a time honoured event in many regions, with many mushrooms hunters jealously guarding the...
Bee keeping workshop
Want to learn more about bees and beekeeping? Falls Brook Centre in Knowlesville will be hosting a two part Bee Keeping Workshop. Part one will be on Saturday, August 24th and part two will be held on October 5th. Both workshops will run 1-5 pm. Falls Brook...
Falls Brook Fair A Celebration of Rural Life
The annual Falls Brook Fair in Knowlesville, NB was held over the weekend of September 1st & 2nd and was a wonderful and educational celebration of all that is good and sustainable in our beautiful rural New Brunswick Communities. This year of 2102 marks a tipping point for...
Falls Brook Gives Kids Hands On Experience
To promote environmental sustainability Paper Mate is sponsoring Tree Canada and Andover Elementary School in a project to plant 26 Maple, Willow and Linden trees on the grounds of the school. Last week 24 of these beautiful saplings were planted by the staff of Falls Brook Centre, Dave Dunlop...