Home Energy Conservation Project
Goal: To assist, through educational programs and materials, Berea homeowners to reduce their energy use and costs, and to incorporate solar energy systems.
Local Economy
Goal: To strengthen and expand Berea’s local economy.
Monthly re-skilling workshop: The Chicken Meeting
Back by popular demand, the meeting on raising chickens Bryce Bauman, Forever Farms, and Doreen Parsley, Berea, will speak about raising chickens. A discussion will follow about Berea’s current ordinances regarding backyard chickens.
Transition Town
“Increasing the ability of our community to deal with economic uncertainty, peak oil and climate change.”
Growing in a box
If tilling a garden is not an option for you, Sustainable Berea suggests trying a raised bed garden.
“If you don’t have enough tillable ground, you can grow plants in a raised bed, even on top of asphalt or concert,” Bruce Gregg of Sustainable Berea said Sunday as carpenter Larry Stone joined 2×8 planks to make 3-foot by 5-foot boxes to sell for $25.
