EVENTS

 🦋 FULFILL THE DREAMS  🦋

Join us on Saturday, July 25 from 1pm to 2:30pm at the Crellin Park to explore practical ways to bring your projects to life, connect with others who share your vision, and map out next steps. Meet neighbors who care about the same things you do and enjoy some free pizza!

RSVP   RSVP is appreciated. 

The Understory (formerly PCA) has now opened phase 2 of Funding Futures: Gameplan. Learn how this second phase of funding can help build capacity and turn your project ideas into action. Understory staff will be there to answer your questions. 

 Past Events.  First Community Gathering November 11th 6:30 at the North Chatham Trolly station

Conversation Recap- Highlights from our first community conversation 

Where is the center of Chatham? 

Discussion around Community and the need for more community centers. -   where is the place for everybody where everybody could meet ?

Food security and envisioning what it would take to be food secure or independent and feed ourselves in Chatham. 

Dissuasion around how to better accelerate getting food growers looking for land connected to land and

figure out how to bring back or encourage more farming and have the farmers be very happy with their situation.

Renewable Energy

Changing the messaging around climate change-Focusing more on community enrichment and climate resiliency, as the better way to address climate change and environmental issues.  

The inaccessibility of some “Climate solutions”  or the perception that climate solutions -seem out of reach for some individuals. 

Vented Frustrations about the state spraying herbicides along Route 66, and the lack of local control. The frustration for individuals who are  trying to do everything they can to avoid herbicides , grow gardens to promote pollinators and promote pollinator habitat only to have the state spay aggressively right by their house. We discussed that the application of herbicides was especially aggressive this year. A desire to address this issue so that we don’t have our state roads sprayed. 

Being more connected and involved in helping the local school systems. 

Discussion how it takes a willingness on the part of old timers and new comers and people with different ways or ideas to listen to each other and be heard. 

It was noted that Civic institutions in North Chatham like the library, the historical society and the post office help to better  integrate new residents into the community. 

A need to foster entrepreneurship. 

Talked about how some of the shops and the restaurants that we have in the village are not accessible or don’t serve everyone-tend to cater to a very specific market/demographic.-Which doesn't mean they are not open to everybody, but there was an acknowledgment that a whole sector in the community doesn't even feel comfortable or doesn't go to the village.