Come on Thursday to our first in-person meeting since last summer. The Good Work Institute has once again generously opened its doors to us and we are enthusiastic about getting together and seeing both new and familiar faces. Transition is all about connecting with others in your community, and being physically in the same space creates real connections that no zoom can. All are welcome, especially millenials and their younger siblings, for an hour of sharing opinions about what and how our community of Kingston needs to do to make it a better place to live for everyone.

It was heartening to hear from Creek of Seed Song Farm last month that his sugar maple tapping continues this spring, from late February through March. They have about 250 maples and families can take the tour most Saturdays, seeing the process from tapping to boiling to enjoying pancakes with syrup. Coming up they will be planting trees, saplings, native perennials and pollinators. Seed Song farm is an agro ecological farm project with heavy community involvement. Located on Esopus Avenue, a short bike ride from Ulster Avenue, it is easily accessible through public transport.

MidHudson Energy Transition (MHET), led by Susan Gillespie, is a new entity working to insure low and moderate income households have the opportunities for alternative energy sources as well as promoting energy efficiencies in all buildings. They go beyond Community Choice Aggregation to look at communities, block by block, household by household