This Week's Favourite Things! Sept 22nd - Sept 28th, 2014

1. Afterglow Bridgewater.  This is a free community art event in Bridgewater.  I went to this event last year and again this past Saturday, and am so pleased to see the growth and direction it is evolving in.  They blocked off a street and there was a giant dragon made of squash! Makes me hopeful that lanterns, giant puppets and a community street band could be in my future as these are all things I miss.

2. The Port Grocer Port Jam.   Awesome music festival /pig roast at the Port Grocer in Port Medway to fundraise for a generator.  I hope they do it again next year and have it on a different night than Afterglow!

3.  Indian Falls Park.  Sweet little waterfall park not too far from us, went there for the first time on Friday.

4. Peasant's Pantry, New Ross.  My traveling gourmand realtor friend told us about this new charcuterie in New Ross.  We didn't have lunch (though it looks tasty) but bought a pile of sausages and smoked ribs.  I think this family bought the building they're in for cheap, an interesting looking spot that was formerly the "Highwayman Restaurant".  Looks like they're off to a great start! Stories like this make me hopeful that in time rural villages will be repopulated by younger people looking for healthier lifestyles for their families.

5.  This piece of Fox News.  Yes, Fox news.   Look, Herald editorial staff and frackhappy columnists who presumably are invested in oil and gas, look look look!!! Look at the drought in California, people are getting nervous about water and food supplies, how does Nova Scotia agriculture look now?  Look! even the Rockefellers are pulling their money out of oil and gas in favour of investing in green technologies.  Good water, good soil, proximity to large populations like Montreal, Toronto and New York.  Maybe Nova Scotia ends up being richer than you all thought, without fracking!  Look, we'll end up being so far 'behind the times' as to pull ahead when the revolution of community health and wellness comes.   Basic human needs = food, shelter, water and community.  Not petrochemicals that can only be extracted by draining the watershed, filling it with chemicals and stuffing it into our shale.  Up with steamed kale, down with fracked shale.