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FALLS BROOK CENTRE
...on the ground!
At Falls Brook Centre, everything keeps growing!
Staff, structures, gardens...it's hard to account for them all. We have camping sites, a new recreation hall, and a new strawbale home. The best way to know what happening on the ground is to come and see for yourself!
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Solar & Wind Powered Conference Centre:
location for local and international workshops. Workshops have been on Ethnobotany, heritage seeds, basket making, healing herbs, solar electrification, and wind power generation. Many of these have become annual events. Each summer season culminates with the increasingly popular fall fair, an annual bioregional harvest celebration. Contact us to make a reservation for either the conference centre or the fair.
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Organic Orchards, Garden, & Herbarium:
Apples, pears and plums, elderberry, blueberry, lingonberry, raspberry, blackcurrant, grapes and redcurrant form the orchards.
Organic vegetable gardens produce food for those living on site and for visitors through the year. Experiments include various gardening techniques; sheet mulching, brush wall gardens, double digging, companion planting and intercropping.
A wide assortment of culinary herbs are on display, set out in attractive bedding designs. Herbs for cooking, teas and mild medicinal applications are all cultivated. |
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Forest Trails:
Over 10kms. of forest trails have been developed for summer or winter, complete with boardwalks, hanging bridges and signage for understanding about the Biodiversity of our Acadian forest region. Four mini-ponds with walkways and signage of the plants of the area give visitors exposure of aquatic life in this region of the Maritimes. Bring a picnic with the family and enjoy the spectacular views from Skedaddle Ridge. |
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Mushroom Propagation:
We have started growing shiitake (pronounced she-e-ta-kay) mushrooms and oyster mushrooms on hardwood logs to provide us with a tasty treat! Come see our Mushroom Page for more information. |
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Forest Museum and Strawbale House :
We have recently built a second, wonderful, little strawbale house so folks can really see the beauty of plastered straw walls, though its beauty is more than skin deep! Strawbale walls can provide amazing resistance to heat loss in the winter, and superb insulation from the sun in the summer. Everyone has questions about the straw and its practicalities. Please come visit for a tour! |
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School Ground Naturalization:
Other projects Falls Brook Centre has been involved with includes working with various schools to naturalize their school grounds.
Heritage Seed Garden:
Our seed garden was built for the purpose of creating a place to preserve and explore the variety of heritage, open-pollinated plants that are available, and to save and share their seeds with others. |
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Acadian Forest Restoration Nursery:
a demonstration restoration tree nursery. All trees growing are native to the Acadian forest ecosystem and can be outplanted for school ground naturalization, degraded woodland and stream bank restoration. This nursery provides stock for our community and on-site tree plantings which happen each spring. |
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Renewable Energy Demonstrations:
Our systems range from simple solar systems used to provide lighting at night to a wind-solar hybrid system allowing us to trade electricity with NB Power to a facility capable of producing Biodiesel to run in our Climate Change Bus.
To learn more about our systems, take a tour of our systems on-line or organize a field trip with our RE coordinator. |
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