June 13, 2009

Skill Share : Local Driven Education

Just got back from skill-share at the Belleview Grange. I attended Barnyard's presentation on compost, while Nina held a program on quilting. I took photos of both event - hopefully they will be good enough to post here.

The skill share is a basic unit of community sustainability - each person that has hands on skills should find a way of developing apprentices to carry on the tasks after we are no longer viable at doing it ourselves. Having been a composter for many years and serving on the board of the Compost Council of Oregon, i can say that this was a reasonable beginning of a long process - to convert education away from state control back into the hands of the local populace. In this form, we build our own communities in the image that we, the people, desire them. For more on this topic, try this
article.

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