Coming Events
What is Transition Aromas?

Transition Aromas is a local group working to increase our Community's resilience and sustainability. The Transition movement is a global network of hundreds of communities across the globe taking creative action to build community resilience as we face climate change, resource depletion and economic instability. The Transition model offers a positive way to respond to these negative trends and to improve quality of life.

Transition Aromas has been in existence since February 2012. A small group of dedicated volunteers is working to increase our community's resilience and sustainability by hosting skill-sharing workshops, showing films, gathering gardeners together to share information, hosting community discussions, and putting on an Aromas Community Harvest Fair. As more people contribute time and energy, Transition Aromas will initiate and support more projects/efforts that will help our community lower our carbon footprint, decrease our dependence on fossil fuel, strengthen our local food system, and increase community cooperation.

With an express goal of unleashing our community's collective genius, Transition Aromas welcomes anyone with ideas, energy, and good will. Please join us in creating a liveable future in Aromas.




                            Transition Aromas invites you to a
                                    Community Think Tank  
            Saturday, March 29, 2014 1 – 5 pm at the Aromas Grange 
 
Come and share your ideas for building greater neighborliness,  local self-sufficiency, and sustainability in Aromas.   
   
You’ll have a chance to:  
  •  Share your ideas for making Aromas more resilient.
  • Get inspired by the ideas of your neighbors. 
  • Connect in small groups with people who share your vision.
  • Brainstorm together how to make it happen. 
This is an opportunity to propose ideas, big and small, that are your deepest dreams for Aromas.  Once the creative juices start flowing, there’s no telling what will happen.  Transition Aromas will be happy to support groups that form at the Think Tank and who would like to continue working together in the future.

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If you’re wondering what kinds of ideas we’re talking about, here are some of the things that have been suggested at past Transition Aromas events:  
  • Holding neighborhood potlucks to share all kinds of ways to reduce our households’ carbon footprints and energy bills
  • Sharing practical skills with each other by offering workshops about things like using grey water, grafting fruit trees, raising chickens, sharpening tools, replacing broken zippers, and more…
  • Offering workshops on small-scale use of solar energy and financing home solar energy systems
  • Starting a local solar installation business which employs our young people
  • Creating a local business directory
  • Offering Emergency Preparedness and First Aid classes
  • Creating a tool-sharing library or cooperative, possibly with a kitchen and food processing element
  • Organizing a bulk food buying cooperative
  • Creating a local fiber arts network for sharing resources and skills
  • Time banking (San Benito Time Exchange is already in existence)
  • Starting a community garden
  • Supporting classroom veggie gardens at the Aromas School
  • Breeding chickens locally to create a local supply of quality chicks
  • Raising our own animal feed and supporting local farmers who raise it
  • Training in Cobb and other natural building methods
  • Developing a safety plan to support Aromas kids who want to ride their bikes to school
  • Starting a bike church in Aromas
  • Organizing car pooling
  • Forming  a local activist group to collaborate to stop fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, the Trans-Pacific Trade agreement, etc. 
  • Forming a “heart and soul” group, focused on sharing our feelings – joyful and sad -- about what’s going on in the world and in Aromas
     
        We hope you’ll join us at the Community Think Tank!              

If you have questions or comments, contact us at info@transitionaromas.org 



Invitation to Help Plan the 2014 Harvest Fair - Meeting: 4/10/2014

Transition Aromas invites all members of the community to join in planning the 2014 Harvest Fair.
This year, in addition to the local foods and food processing that the 2013 Harvest Fair showcased,
we would like to expand our focus on sustainability. We envision booths and hands-on activities
related to food, water, energy, emergency preparedness, and transportation. You don't need to be an
expert in any of these areas, although it would be great if you are! We need people interested in
planning, creating booths, making signs, translating, publicizing, and everything else needed to plan
an event of this type.

If  you enjoyed last year's Harvest Fair, and would like to get involved in organizing this year's, please
join us for the first planning session at 7PM on Thursday, April 10 at the Aromas Water District Office in Aromas.

If you are interested, but cannot attend, please contact us at info@transitionaromas.org or call
Wendy at 726-3406.
5th Quarterly Gathering of Gardeners

It’s that time again!  It’s time to come out of our solitary gardens and gather together to share gardening know-how and information, on  

                Wednesday, April 30th, 2014, at 7pm at the Aromas Grange  

Numerous gardeners have been complaining recently about how birds are being particularly pestilential this year.  Might it have to do with the drought?  We don’t have the answer to that, but we do have a few people who are ready to respond to the bird problems with some tried-and-true methods and materials to talk about.  There’s also a pretty interesting idea to try out which requires two nesting tin cans and some tin snips. Bring ‘em if you have ‘em, and give it a try.  And bring your own ideas and methods to share.     

Bring your general (or specific) gardening questions, too, and we’ll collectively see if we have solutions for you.   

We’ll also talk about what’s going on in the garden at this time of year.  What tasks should we be doing now?  

Bring your starts, seeds, handouts, books, etc., for the Share Table.  

And don’t forget your nesting tin cans and tin snips! 
            Transition Links

TransitionNetwork.org
TransitionUs.org

If you'd like to know more about the local Transition movement, visit TransitionSC.org

            Local Links

PinnacleOrganic.com HighGroundOrganics.com           

            Local Events

Watsonville Farmer's Market
South side of City Plaza on Peck Street
Friday 3PM to 7PM
Sunday 1PM to 6PM

Oldtown Salinas Farmer's Market
Corner of Alisal & Monterey Streets
Saturday 8AM to 2PM


            Local Organizations

AromasGrange.org
AromasCares.org
AromasHillsArtisans.com
Link to previous Transition Aromas events.