Save Our Old Forests

Medicinal Plant Walk with Ember Peters (Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area)
2024-05-18 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax) | Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia, B0S 1C0, Canada
Join Registered Clinical Herbalist Ember Peters (RHP) for an exploration of wild medicinal plants growing in the mature ecosystems around Goldsmith. Through this walk we will weave together sustainable wild harvesting, plant identification tips, and learning through your own sensory observation. By learning to honour the plant medicines, we can inspire our spirits of community resistance and resilience!
What to bring/wear: Layered clothing, waterproof boots/shoes, water, snacks, bug dope/bug shirt
Limited to 12 participants.
Registration required: email soof@saveouroldforests.ca to register
Meeting Location for Check-In: Intersection of Morse Road and Neaves Road (GPS: 44.770245, -65.242387)
Informed Consent & Release Of Liability: Our workshops are a wonderful way to connect to nature, learn more about our forests and interact with the community, but it is not without certain risks, dangers, hazards, and liabilities to participants. We require all participants (or their legal guardians) to complete, sign and date the waiver before they can participate in the workshop. Click here to download the waiver and please ensure that you bring it with you to the workshop. Extra copies will be available at check-in if you forget!

Protection of Nova Scotia's Forests as Defence against Fire and Climate Change
2024-05-13 19:00 - 20:15 | Chester United Baptist Church, 84 King Street, Chester, Nova Scotia, B0J 1J0, Canada
Join the Healthy Forest Coalition’s Mike Lancaster on Monday May 13 (7pm-8:15pm) at the Chester United Baptist Church for a presentation on the benefits of protecting Nova Scotia’s forests as defence against fire and climate change. The 45 minute presentation will be followed by time for a Q&A. Tea and coffee provided. Free admission, donations to help cover venue costs are appreciated.
SOOF will have a table with petitions, brochures and stickers!

Old Time Music & Country Dance
2024-05-11 19:00 - 22:00 | Round Hill Community Hall, 1689 Hwy 201, Round Hill, Nova Scotia, B0S 1A0, Canada
Get your dancing shoes on for another Old Time Music & Country Dance in support of SOOF! Featuring live fiddle music by the North Mountain Islanders. Instruction for 2 steps, waltzes, maybe a contra or two, polkas by request. $10 at the door.

SOOF @ the Deanery Project
2024-05-05 10:30 - 12:00 | The Deanery Project, 751 Ship Harbour Road, Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia, Canada
Join SOOF’s Nina Newington at The Deanery Project’s Open House on Sunday May 5 to hear about the SOOF campaign! Nina will be talking about the Save Our Old Forests campaign from 10:30 to noon and then there will be live music (with coffee, tea and cookies!) from 1:00 – 3:00pm!

Citizen Science Workshop (Part 2) @ Sandy Lake Park
2024-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Sandy Lake Park, 110 Smiths Rd, Bedford, Nova Scotia, B4B 1B6
Join Dr. David Patriquin and Dr. Sean Haughian (Curator of Botany, NS Museum) for a hike around Sandy Lake Park. Dr. Patriquin has noted that there are patches of Old Growth in the Sandy Lake Park – some very similar to stands at the Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area. This is a great opportunity for folks in the Halifax area to see and walk through Old Growth right in your own backyard!
Please register by emailing thedirtgang.ns@gmail.com

Citizen Science Workshop (Part 1) @ The Wooden Monkey
2024-04-21 13:00 - 15:00 | The Wooden Monkey Restaurant, 40 Alderney Dr., #305 Level 2 Alderney Ferry Terminal, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 2N5, Canada
If you’re in the Halifax area be sure to register for the Citizen Science Workshop (Part 1) at the Wooden Monkey (Dartmouth location). This first part will take place indoors with some soup (by the Wooden Monkey) and some presentations featuring: Nina Newington sharing news about the SOOF campaign (and petitions!), Karen Robinson talking about Sandy Lake and Nikki Gullett talking about iNaturalist and eBird.
The workshop is limited to 40 participants.
Please register by emailing thedirtgang.ns@gmail.com

SOOF Soup Sunday & Earth Day Celebration
2024-04-21 12:00 - 16:45 | Centrelea Community Hall, 3495 Highway 201, Centrelea, Nova Scotia, B0S 1C0, Canada
SOOF and Centrelea Community Hall are getting together to celebrate our beautiful, bountiful planet and all her gracious gifts by hosting for all our communities an Earth Day Celebration! There will be plenty of family friendly activities including a nature hike, tree planting, kids crafts, films and more! SOOF will be serving up soup and bread (free for all) – if you would like to contribute please bring a sweet treat for the dessert table.
Registration is not required but we’d really appreciate an email to let us know you are coming for soup – it will help us with figuring out how much soup to make. Send an email to soof@saveouroldforests.ca and let us know how many folks are coming, and if anyone in your party needs a vegan/vegetarian option!

SOOF Lunenburg - Special Screening of In the Quiet and the Dark
2024-04-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Chicory Blue General Store, 27 School Rd, Blockhouse, Nova Scotia, B0J 1E0, Canada
Join the SOOF Lunenburg team on Friday, April 12th for a special screening Nance Ackerman’s In the Quiet and the Dark, a 50 minute film which details the decline of Eastern Hemlock trees in Nova Scotia due to the rapid spread of the woolly adelgid. The film’s director Nance Ackerman and forest ecologist Donna Crossland will join us for the evening.

Select dinner menu available from 6pm-7pm (first come first served)
Short presentation from Save Our Old Forests following dinner
Screening of the featured film

Register for screening and talk: sooflunenburgcounty@gmail.com

SOOF @ Seedy Saturday - Amherst
2024-04-06 11:00 - 14:00 | 5 Ratchfor Avenue, 5 Ratchford Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia, B4H 3A7
If you’re at Seedy Saturday in Amherst on Saturday, April 6 be sure to stop by the Save Our Old Forests and Don’t Spray Cumberland County table! Have a chat and learn how these two groups are working to save and protect our health and our forests. It will be a great time to swap for seeds, grab a coffee and pastry from the Angry Alpaca and sign the Cumberland County SOOF petition! Plus there’s a door prize raffle in support of The Amherst Food Bank!
