The Cove donated $300 to our work from this event.

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Winter Eco Cafe series

Thursdays January-March 2026 3:30-6:30pm

the Cove Inn

Jan 15

• Introducing Plant Baby Plant — a Robin Wall Kimmerer & team initiative.

Moving forward with Westport Pocket Forests.

• Sign up for the Earth Doll workshop and Climate Cafés @

• Call for donations: single mitts and clothing for the Clothing Exchange Feb 12 and wool items to be repurposed into blankets Feb 19

Jan 22

• Climate Café with Claire Beach of Wild Edge Nature Immersion; A gentle space in a changing world to listen, share, and connect. Theme: climate and change. Pre-register, limited spaces.

Jan 29

with Shannon Lem from the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Network

• Focus: planning for local projects in the Frontenac Arch Biosphere, eg tree inventory, pocket forests, removing invasives, EcoFest 2026

Feb 5

• Make a Mother Earth Doll. Ojibwe Dollmaker from Northern Ontario, Rose Moses, will lead a workshop to make a Mother Earth Doll using only recycled materials. Pre-register, limited spaces.

Feb 12

• Clothing exchange, mitt match up

• Reminder: wool items for blanket-making next week

Feb 19

• Stitching & upcycling session with woolen items

• Invitation to stay after dinner for community gathering next week

Feb 26

• Topic: Gardening communally, saving seeds, seed exchange

• Dinner social afterwards — stay and connect together

March 5

• Climate Café with Claire Beach of Wild Edge Nature Immersion; A gentle space in a changing world to listen, share, and connect. Theme: Active Hope

March 12

• Create a collaborative Sculptural Art piece with Delvalle with repurposed materials to be installed in Westport Pocket Forest; Cove site

lively conversations on ecological themes

meet new friends in your community after work
educational and informative topics and speakers
in the lovely atmosphere at the Cove where you can enjoy great food and music.

plant baby plant

Orange Shirt Day

Date: Tuesday September 30th, 2025 1-3pm

Location: Lockwood Park, Westport.

Orange Shirt Day was inspired by Phyllis Webstad, a residential school survivor, whose new orange shirt was taken away on her first day of residential school. This story has become a powerful symbol of the experience of many Indigenous children. Residential schools, run by Government and Churches, intended to break communities by taking children from their homes and instilling colonial beliefs whilst forbidding the children to speak their language or continue their cultural practices. The last school closed in the 1990's, and today, children's graves are being discovered in their grounds.

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Westport Pocket Forests

Saturday, October 18th 2025 10am until finished. The Cove parking lot.

plant native shrubs, forbs and grasses for biodiversity, shoreline health, shade and soil improvement
learn about pocket forests
plan more pocket forests
move your body and meet new people.

Better Together Circle and the Frontenac Arch Biosphere presented

For the Love of Trees

author Diana Beresford-Kroeger and her new book "Our Green Heart"

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest. She delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the lives of trees and forests and into the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.

This event was filled to capacity and the audience was captivated by her message and her insights.

Westport United Church was the perfect setting for the presentation being both beautiful and acoustic.

We are thrilled to begin developing networks and partnerships in this beautiful landscape. Do you like what we are doing, then perhaps you want to help in some way.

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Our heartfelt thanks for the generous support of the Young Petty Stones and the Cove Inn family, Westport,

and to the community who came out to join the warm summer vibes and who supported the Better Together Circle in what we do. Young Petty Stones perform again June 21st and July 19th and both concerts some of the proceeds will go towards our work at Better Together Circle.