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We're a registered charity and demonstration centre, committed to finding and promoting practical solutions to today's sustainability challenges.
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Permaculture System for Sustainability
Permaculture system will help in increasing soil fertility, watershed health, and safe places for nature to survive and thrive. At Falls Brook Centre demonstration site, we have created apple tree guild or polyculture planting around fruit trees. A guild or a polyculture is the intentional planting of multiple plants that encourages beneficial and complex interactions. […]
A Bat Box Workshop of Falls Brook Centre Develops New Ideas
A one and a half hour bat box workshop turns into warm discussion and develops new ideas from enthusiastic participants on how to save bat populations in New Brunswick. Citing news from CBC, Graham Forbes, a biologist at the University of New Brunswick and a member of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife […]
Falls Brook Centre Visited “A Little Forest” of Save a (Native) Plant Nursery
On a sunny afternoon 2 days ago, Falls Brook Centre visited the “little forest” of David Smith’s Save a (Native) Plant nursery. The front of his house at 16 Fletcher Court, Fredericton looks lush with variety of plants. A warm welcome from him with sincere smiles offering us water, “a bottle of water?” Then he […]
Nature Walks! Exploring 98 acre of Falls Brook Centre Demonstration Site
9th Annual Free School will take attendants to connect with nature through Nature Walks. Falls Brook Centre’s 98 acre demonstration site has much to offer exploring attendants during Free School. As Free School Committee Lead Max Mathies explains,” Free School attendants can enjoy and explore a number of trails through meadows, forests, and beside the […]