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19 Jul 2026: Deeply Rooted: Local Food & Community

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Join us as Francie Randolph discusses the work of Sustainable CAPE, a Truro-based nonprofit that celebrates local food while educating and empowering individuals to create a more delicious, healthy and sustainable world. From its beginnings in a volunteer-run agricultural fair to its present, Sustainable CAPE seeks to demonstrate the direct link between local food, sustainable health and wellness, and the importance of preserving the fragile land and water resources that directly enable our local harvest. Among its many programs and … Continue reading 19 Jul 2026: Deeply Rooted: Local Food & Community

Deeply Rooted: Local Food & Community

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Join us as Francie Randolph discusses the work of Sustainable CAPE, a Truro-based nonprofit that celebrates local food while educating and empowering individuals to create a more delicious, healthy and sustainable world. From its beginnings in a volunteer-run agricultural fair to its present, Sustainable CAPE seeks to demonstrate the direct link between local food, sustainable health and wellness, and the importance of preserving the fragile land and water resources that directly enable our local harvest. Among its many programs and events are Children’s Gardens, Farmer’s Markets, Food Access and Food is Medicine.

Founding Director of Sustainable CAPE, Francie Randolph, Ed.M., is an award-winning visual artist whose nature-based work has been published & exhibited internationally. After living in Papua New Guinea and Australia, she taught in Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies Department for 7 years, winning numerous Teaching Awards. In 2009, she and two farming friends co-founded the Truro Agricultural Fair; shortly thereafter she founded the non-profit Sustainable CAPE. Randolph now works toward creating a Deeply Rooted Food System, combining her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard with cross-disciplinary passions for art, food, health, the environment, education & food equity. She lives surrounded by gardens on an historic farm in Truro with her artist husband, 2 children, 1 cat, a dozen hens and countless honeybees.

Learn more at 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, 2026. All are welcome.

At the Chapel in the Pines, 220 Samoset Road in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30.
Also on Zoom via this Zoom program link.

21 Jun 2026: A Day in the Life of a Beekeeper

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Join us with “The Bee Lady” of Outer Cape Honeybees for a fascinating look inside the life of a honeybee colony. Discover the remarkable world of honeybees and the vital roles played by worker bees, nurse bees, foragers, drones, and the queen—the heart of the hive. Get an up-close look at a live observation hive and meet the colony’s matriarch, the beloved Queen Bee. Learn how bees develop from egg to larva, pupa, and adult, and see how the queen … Continue reading 21 Jun 2026: A Day in the Life of a Beekeeper

14 Jun 2026: Cooling Our Overheated Planet

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Join us as Nancy Lee Wood Ph.D discusses plant-based solutions to global warming.  The global warming discourse has centered on cooling the planet through lowering CO2 emissions via the development and use of “green technologies.”  Little-to-no attention has been paid to cooling the planet through the power of CO2 drawdown accomplished through nature-based solutions.  This presentation focuses on the multiple factors contributing to ecological deterioration and the necessity to go beyond “green-tech” solutions by practicing natural-based regenerative practices to cool … Continue reading 14 Jun 2026: Cooling Our Overheated Planet

24 May 2026: Native Plants for Your Outer Cape Garden and the Pollinator Pathway

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Join us as Paul Greenspan of the Master Gardener’s Association of Cape Cod discusses the importance of native plants and the Cape Cod pollinator pathway. Paul will talk about the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens Ecoregion, keystone species, and his personal journey caring for 1/3 of an acre of sunny and dry Wellfleet carver sandy soil. Paul’s wide ranging presentation will cover a wealth of subjects, so come and learn about them all.  Established in 1993, the Master Gardener Association of … Continue reading 24 May 2026: Native Plants for Your Outer Cape Garden and the Pollinator Pathway

29 Mar 2026: Restoration Agriculture, Cape Cod to Malawi

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Join us as Rand Burkert discusses the work of the Food Forest Initiative of Cape Cod, a non-hierarchical eco-action group. Since 2016, FFI has planted and tended public food forests, inspired by the vision of permaculture and its outgrowth, Restoration Agriculture. Rand will give practical knowledge to enable home gardeners to apply these approaches. He will also present the global scope of the method and its usefulness in mitigating climate change and building local food security, with some discussion of … Continue reading 29 Mar 2026: Restoration Agriculture, Cape Cod to Malawi

15 Mar 2026: Historic Storms of Cape Cod with Don Wilding

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Sunday, March 15, 2026 10:00 AM Cape Cod has always been in the path of deadly hurricanes and ferocious storms. Unwelcome summer visitors include the “Long Island Express” Hurricane of 1938, the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, the twin Hurricanes Carol and Edna in 1954 and Hurricane Bob in 1991. These storms destroyed countless homes and left coastal communities under several feet of water. Surging tides carried away houses with residents inside who didn’t survive, and high seas sank the … Continue reading 15 Mar 2026: Historic Storms of Cape Cod with Don Wilding

Restoration Agriculture, Cape Cod to Malawi

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Join us as Rand Burkert discusses the work of the Food Forest Initiative of Cape Cod, a non-hierarchical eco-action group. Since 2016, FFI has planted and tended public food forests, inspired by the vision of permaculture and its outgrowth, Restoration Agriculture. Rand will give practical knowledge to enable home gardeners to apply these approaches. He will also present the global scope of the method and its usefulness in mitigating climate change and building local food security, with some discussion of its application in Africa.

In addition to being a founding member of the Food Forest Initiative of Cape Cod, Rand is a folksinger, a children’s author, and a middle school teacher of applied ecology at Nauset Middle School. In the 1990s, he and his friend Mark Shepard helped launch New Forest Farm in Wisconsin, an early large-scale permaculture project that later became known as Restoration Agriculture and was documented in Shepard’s book of the same name. After a period of farming in Italy, Rand returned to Cape Cod and, with friends, founded the eco-action and food sovereignty group Food Forest Initiative of Cape Cod.

15 Feb 2026: “It’s All About the Soil” with Gretel Norgeot

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Gretel Norgeot has been an advocate for locally grown food, farms, and farmers’ markets for decades. Nowadays, she focuses on soil health and its relationship to human health. Join us as she explains how regenerative growing and healthy soil can help with climate change. Growing healthy food, reducing use of plastics, chemical fertilizer and pesticides encourages the natural microbes in the soil so that carbon can be removed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil and more food can … Continue reading 15 Feb 2026: “It’s All About the Soil” with Gretel Norgeot

11 Jan 2026: Climate Conversations: What Can We Do?

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Fighting climate change may feel too daunting for any one person to take on. But if enough of us change our behaviors and promote change in our communities, we can significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades. The Eastham Energy and Climate Action Committee will be leading a conversation about community and individual actions that are sensible and critical to helping to preserve the Cape Cod natural environment that we all love and cherish. Tom McNellis … Continue reading 11 Jan 2026: Climate Conversations: What Can We Do?