Photo caption: Transition Bay St. Margarets’ co-founder David Wimberly with gift serviceberries.
One of the highlights of the Natural Building East conference at the Deanery Project in mid-May was a gift of two serviceberry plants from Transition Bay St. Margarets. The organization is giving away 30 pairs of serviceberry plants,
motivated by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s recent book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. The group praised the book “as a bold and inspiring vision of how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community.” Transition Bay St. Margarets is “a grassroots community project that aims to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of energy abuse, climate destruction, and economic instability through renewed localization strategies, especially around food production and energy usage.
