News
Cocagne - The GDDPC invites young people between the ages of 15 and 30 to join its team for the beautiful field season from May 12 to the end of August 2025.
Novemer 13, 2024
Cocagne - The Cocagne Community Garden presents its autumn newsletter for the 2024 season.
On October 27, 2023,
Cocagne - One of our most active volunteers within our group, Louis-Émile Cormier, was featured in a Radio-Canada newspaper article last week. The article highlights the various actions that Louis-Émile has taken to improve the health of tree swallows, ospreys, and monarch butterflies.

June 30, 2023 - Cocagne
The Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group, the Shediac Bay Watershed Association and Vision H2O of Cap-Acadie have partnered to organize the Living shorelines hands-on workshop. The workshop, held on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at the Cocagne Marina, focused on natural beach restoration.


The Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group (GDDPC) invites you to take part in a hands-on workshop presented by Rosmarie Lohnes of Helping Nature Heal. The workshop will be held on Tuesday August 23, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Cocagne Community Park, adjacent to the Cocagne Marina, 130 Marina Street, Cocagne NB.

The Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group (GDDPC) invites you to take part in a virutal presentation by Rosmarie Lohnes of Helping Nature Heal followed by a hands-on workshop on Living Shorelines. The workshop will be held on Tuesday June 28 2022, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Cocagne Community Park, adjacent to the Cocagne Marina, 130 Marina Street, Cocagne.
Cocagne – The Cocagne Community Park has won a Greener Greenspaces recognition award from The Society for Organic Urban Land Care.

Sunday, November 28, 2021
Cocagne (online)
The Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group (GDDPC) invites you to its 2021 Expo-info to present the achievements of 2020-2021 and to hear your suggestions.

September 16, 2021
Cocagne
Collaboration among several organizations on the east coast of New Brunswick has ensured the success of the Living Shorelines workshop, a natural method for managing coastal erosion. The coastal restoration projects took place in Caraquet on August 24, behind the Super 8 avenue du Carrefour, and in Cocagne, on August 26 at the Cocagne Marina.

July 28th, 2021
Cocagne / Caraquet - Organizations to offer hands-on workshops entitled Living Shorelines: A Natural Way to Manage Coastal Erosion.

23 juin 2021
Cocagne - The Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group (GDDPC) invites you to a butterfly outing this Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 9:30 am at the Cocagne trail, Centre 50 parking lot, 10 Villa street in Cocagne.

May 26th, 2021
Cocagne - Cocagne Country Colours and the Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group (GDDPC) are hosting a family workshop for natural dyes with Bernadette Goguen and Marie-Claude Hébert on Sunday, June 13, 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Marcel Goguen farm at 475 ch. Cocagne Sud in Cocagne.

March 29, 2021
Cocagne - In the context of reducing our energy footprint, the GDDPC hosted a consultant from NB Power's Community Energy Efficiency Program (https://www.saveenergynb.ca/en/save-energy).

January 13th, 2021
Cocagne/Grande-Digue - The GDDPC in collaboration with the "in Giadino" garden club hosts a seed exchange a little bit different this year. This is how we will proceed:
December 16, 2020
Cocagne - Cocagne Country Colours is launching its first holiday sale and welcomes you to the offices of the GDDPC, 118 Cocagne Cross in Cocagne.
November 3, 2020
Cocagne - The PCSDG is proud to announce that the Council of the Rural Community of Cocagne adopted the Climate Change Adaptation Plan at its regular meeting on October 13, 2020.
August 12, 2020
Pokemouche/Shediac - New partnership between organizations on the east coast of New Brunswick to offer workshops on a natural approach to dealing with coastal erosion.

July 6, 2020
New Brunswick - The authors of the Transition Pact (June 2020) offer us 101 ideas for recovery, including ideas against food waste (in French).

April 8, 2020
Cocagne - Shorebirds face many challenges and there are simple tips to better protect them according to the inventory conducted in 2019 by Denise Maillet, coordinator of the SENB Piping Plover Project at Birds Canada.

January 29, 2020
Grande Digue - Last week, thanks to the Gaia project educational program, 3rd year students in Mrs. Josée's class and 5th year students in Mrs. Joline class carried out a one-day audit of waste produced at school in order to better understand the different types of waste and possibly create a waste management plan.
Nov 19, 2019
Sackville - The Monarch butterfly generated a lot of interest during the presentation of the Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group (GDDPC) at the Mount Allison University Watershed Caucus meeting this November.

October 18, 2019
Cocagne - Since the beginning of October 2019, several students from Cocagne, Grande-Digue and Notre-Dame schools have been planting trees on their schoolyard and in the community in collaboration with the Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group (PCSDG).