The Ann Arbor Reskilling Festival is right around the corner! Registration will begin at 9:30am.
Highlights:
*Efficient Home Food Production: How To Grow Fabulous Organic Food with Very Little Time
*The Energy Efficient Home: 15 Low and No Cost Actions to Cut Your Energy Consumption
* Charcuterie: Salting, Seasoning and Enjoying Meats
*Composting: Turning Over a New Leaf
*Clothesline Tips from a Lazy Grandma
*Keeping Cool Without Air Conditioning
* More to come soon!
Click here to see how you can get involved with Transition Ann Arbor!
For more information about the day, visit www.transitionannarbor.org/events.htm
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Details: Sunday, July 19 at Steiner High School, 2230 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, 10 am - 4 pm. Admission is free. Materials fees apply for some sessions.
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More on the concept of reskilling (from Sustainable Bungay, a UK transition initiative):
There are myriad benefits for us as individuals, ranging from the enjoyment of learning new skills, gaining a pride in our handiwork, to saving money. Communities benefit through coming together in various ways, including taught courses, skill sharing and producer groups.
These latter enable activities that are often beyond most of us as individuals because of constraints of time, knowledge, money or resources.
The skills that can be easily re-learned are many and varied, but fall into three main categories:
Creating, i.e. artwork, basket weaving, beeswax products, dressmaking, eco-building, solar ovens, furniture, household products, knitting, soft-furnishings, spinning, weaving, storytelling
Maintaining , i.e. bicycles, buildings, cars, darning, furniture, gardens, wild spaces, woodland
Sustaining , i.e. baby/toddler food, bee keeping, bread making, brewing, cheese making, chicken keeping, composting, foraging, fruit tree growing, permaculture, preserving (chutney, jam, and bottling/canning), seed saving, vegetable growing, singing
Thank you SO much for holding this! I am so excited to go!
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