Early Discussions of SkillShare Faire - Transition Whatcom2024-03-28T10:35:12Zhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/re-skilling-fair-1?commentId=2723460%3AComment%3A81423&feed=yes&xn_auth=noNext meeting this Thursday at…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-08-07:2723460:Comment:825282012-08-07T23:18:38.235ZKate Clarkhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/KateClark
<p>Next meeting this Thursday at 6:30pm at my place, 2339 West Street in Columbia neighborhood (1 block east of Eldridge, blue house on the left). If anyone wants to reach me beforehand, they can contact me at kateclark101 at hotmail dot com, or 305-9644.</p>
<p>Next meeting this Thursday at 6:30pm at my place, 2339 West Street in Columbia neighborhood (1 block east of Eldridge, blue house on the left). If anyone wants to reach me beforehand, they can contact me at kateclark101 at hotmail dot com, or 305-9644.</p> Skill Share Folks- Can you po…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-08-07:2723460:Comment:826682012-08-07T19:56:26.054Zwarren millerhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/warrenmiller
<p>Skill Share Folks- Can you post the next meeting date, time and location? I have had a couple folks express interest in helping out but they need to know when and where to go.</p>
<p>Thanx,</p>
<p>Warren</p>
<p>Skill Share Folks- Can you post the next meeting date, time and location? I have had a couple folks express interest in helping out but they need to know when and where to go.</p>
<p>Thanx,</p>
<p>Warren</p> Here are some ideas for the s…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-08-01:2723460:Comment:822592012-08-01T13:53:45.112Zwarren millerhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/warrenmiller
<p>Here are some ideas for the skill share faire that Transition Seattle included in their recent Urban Country Fair: <a href="http://sustainableneseattle.ning.com/events/planet-home-2012" target="_blank">http://sustainableneseattle.ning.com/events/planet-home-2012</a></p>
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<p>Solar cooking (bring your cookers you'd like to show off or practice with to add to the display)</p>
<p>Produce and plant swap (Bring home-made or home-grown items to barter)</p>
<p>Leave-One-Take-One share table…</p>
<p>Here are some ideas for the skill share faire that Transition Seattle included in their recent Urban Country Fair: <a href="http://sustainableneseattle.ning.com/events/planet-home-2012" target="_blank">http://sustainableneseattle.ning.com/events/planet-home-2012</a></p>
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<p>Solar cooking (bring your cookers you'd like to show off or practice with to add to the display)</p>
<p>Produce and plant swap (Bring home-made or home-grown items to barter)</p>
<p>Leave-One-Take-One share table (bring items for gifting)</p>
<p>Tool sharpening (bring your dull tools)</p>
<p>"Stone soup" salad and fruit salad (bring potluck salad and/or fruit items to share. We'll keep adding ingredients as they show up!)</p>
<p>Tool donation station for the new NE Seattle Tool Library (bring electric or hand-powered tools you'd like to share)</p>
<p>Sustainable food prepared by Outside the Box / Cata Catering food company (Paleo beef chili, curry chicken/curry veg and coconut cardamom cauliflower rice)</p>
<p>DIY solar hot water systems</p>
<p>Alternative currencies / Fourth Corner Exchange</p>
<p>Sun jam demonstration</p>
<p>Local watershed model</p>
<p>Eco-jeopardy</p>
<p>Materials salvaging and repurposing</p>
<p>Seed bombs</p>
<p>Healing salve for cuts, scrapes, and burns workshop<b><br/></b></p>
<p>Cargo bikes</p>
<p>Emergency Preparedness</p>
<p>Cake Walk</p>
<p>Rabbits</p>
<p>Home-made goods</p>
<p>Tug-o-war and bag toss games, sack races</p>
<p>Cedar lotion bars workshop</p>
<p>Goats!</p>
<p>DIY weatherization and insulation</p>
<p>Polyhedra building with magnets</p>
<p>Energy retrofit home tour</p>
<p>Slow motion pie-eating contest</p>
<p>Gardening Q&A booth</p>
<p>Electric cars</p>
<p>Art projects table for kids</p>
<p>Radical Mycology</p>
<p>Cascadian Edible Landscapes</p>
<p>Live local music from Klez Chaos, Podorythmie, and Leo Brodie!</p>
<p>and much more!</p>
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<p>Scheduled activities (other events run all day or we're still deciding exact times):</p>
<p>11-12, 2-3 DIY Affordable and trouble free solar hot water systems</p>
<p>11-12 Rain Gardens with Loralee Wenger</p>
<p>12-1 Remodeling for Resilience: Learn from a case-study example by the homeowner how to remodel your home for efficiency, health and resilience. Tour included.</p>
<p>1-2 Cedar Lotion Bars workshop</p>
<p>3-4 Fungus Among Us with Radical Mycology</p>
<p>4-5 Healing Salve from Common Plants workshop</p>
<p>1-2 Musical entertainment by Leo Brodie</p>
<p>2-3 Klezmer music by Klez Chaos</p>
<p>3-4 French Canadian steps and tunes by Podorythmie</p>
<p></p> Add your RSVP to our Whatcom…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-07-18:2723460:Comment:820442012-07-18T21:14:05.350ZHeather Khttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/HeatherK
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Add your RSVP to our Whatcom SkillShare Faire on TW- <a href="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/whatcom-skillshare-faire">http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/whatcom-skillshare-faire</a> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Add your skillshare offering on our website page-…</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Add your RSVP to our Whatcom SkillShare Faire on TW- <a href="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/whatcom-skillshare-faire">http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/whatcom-skillshare-faire</a> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Add your skillshare offering on our website page- <a href="http://whatcomskillsharefaire.org/skillshare.html">http://whatcomskillsharefaire.org/skillshare.html</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gather together your homegrown & homemade items to barter, (plus table & awning if you have), and bring some seeds to share for a seed-exchange table, your musical instruments and songs to share.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Great to hear Brian from Inspiration Farm will attend and share useful human powered tools. (plus Farmer Krista Rome & we're hoping for more!) </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We are calling for more Skill-Share offerings - Add your offering to our website online form-</span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <a href="http://whatcomskillsharefaire.org/skillshare.html">http://whatcomskillsharefaire.org/skillshare.html</a> <strong>Or phone (360) 739-1968 and share your idea.</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mary J is also attending, who is skilled in 'zero-waste' event consulting . Although the plan is for us all to “pack out” what we bring in, we still need folks to volunteer to create a 'Re-Use & Re-Cycle Station”. If you can help, contact Mary, and request her coaching on how to set up a site Before the event begins. Leave message for her at - (<a href="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/MaryVJensen?xg_source=profiles_memberList">http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/MaryVJensen?xg_source=profiles_memberList</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p> I am super swamped with other…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-07-16:2723460:Comment:820352012-07-16T21:57:58.270ZBrian Kerkvliethttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/BK
<p>I am super swamped with other commitments this year so I don't have time for planning but I do intend to attend and share skills.</p>
<p>I would be willing to teach/show the usefulness of scythes and other human powered tools. We may have our seed cleaner finished by then and we could have it on hand to clean peoples seeds along with a seed swap shop.</p>
<p>Keep me posted on developments.</p>
<p>I am super swamped with other commitments this year so I don't have time for planning but I do intend to attend and share skills.</p>
<p>I would be willing to teach/show the usefulness of scythes and other human powered tools. We may have our seed cleaner finished by then and we could have it on hand to clean peoples seeds along with a seed swap shop.</p>
<p>Keep me posted on developments.</p> When is your next meeting? I…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-06-25:2723460:Comment:816662012-06-25T18:17:01.595ZDiana Ambauen-Meadehttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DianaAmbauenMeade
<p>When is your next meeting? I am interested in learning more and helping with the project.</p>
<p>When is your next meeting? I am interested in learning more and helping with the project.</p> It would be cool to work with…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-06-23:2723460:Comment:811292012-06-23T16:56:14.477ZLaura R.https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LauraRidenour812
<p>It would be cool to work with the colleges, and with businesses that offer mentorship projects like woodworkers and potters, etc. too.</p>
<p><br></br>Since this awesome event is in September, we can help promote it in relation to celebrating September Eat Local Month - we publish 50,000 copies of the month long guide to activities and the Farm Tour. All this stuff is related to cultivating our local food culture!</p>
<p>See here:…</p>
<p>It would be cool to work with the colleges, and with businesses that offer mentorship projects like woodworkers and potters, etc. too.</p>
<p><br/>Since this awesome event is in September, we can help promote it in relation to celebrating September Eat Local Month - we publish 50,000 copies of the month long guide to activities and the Farm Tour. All this stuff is related to cultivating our local food culture!</p>
<p>See here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eatlocalfirst" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/eatlocalfirst</a>, or give us a ring at 647-7093 x 114 or email your events listings to eatlocalfirst@sconnect.org.</p>
<p>toward more, together!</p>
<p>Laura</p> We will need some folks to ho…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-06-18:2723460:Comment:814232012-06-18T22:35:53.713ZHeather Khttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/HeatherK
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We will need some folks to hold focus for a Security Team, for Zero-Waste management, and Set-up & Take-Down teams at the skillshare faire. Anyone feel called to lead or co-lead any of this?</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Thanks Farmer Krista for offering grain/bean threshing station! I think those who are able to meet in person in urban zone will discuss your offer & needs! (I've emailed Tom's network). Thanks…</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We will need some folks to hold focus for a Security Team, for Zero-Waste management, and Set-up & Take-Down teams at the skillshare faire. Anyone feel called to lead or co-lead any of this?</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Thanks Farmer Krista for offering grain/bean threshing station! I think those who are able to meet in person in urban zone will discuss your offer & needs! (I've emailed Tom's network). Thanks also to Chris W who is offering to help with food vendors & circus folks! I know you are both busy on the farms in the north county and don't make it in for meetings.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">All- pass the word to mark your calendar for Sat Sept 22 for the EarthSkill Faire. And if you're helping with the event, to include friday night the 21<sup>st</sup> and sunday morning the 23<sup>rd</sup>!</p> HEATHER proposed a grain/bean…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-06-15:2723460:Comment:810672012-06-15T18:03:39.724ZKrista Romehttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/KristaRome
<p>HEATHER proposed a grain/bean threshing station at the Reskilling Fair. I think that is a great idea and I am willing to organize that, provide threshing materials, instruction, and etc. I would need a covered building out of the wind to do it so that would have to be arranged. I'm excited to teach other workshops as well, but haven't had time or energy to focus on it just yet. I would love to do something involving food preservation, such as making sauerkraut, and something around "stocking…</p>
<p>HEATHER proposed a grain/bean threshing station at the Reskilling Fair. I think that is a great idea and I am willing to organize that, provide threshing materials, instruction, and etc. I would need a covered building out of the wind to do it so that would have to be arranged. I'm excited to teach other workshops as well, but haven't had time or energy to focus on it just yet. I would love to do something involving food preservation, such as making sauerkraut, and something around "stocking up for the winter - experiences at Riverhaven" where I could share what our household did last year to eat nearly all home-grown and locally-procured food throughout last fall/winter/spring.</p> TOM, did you see that the alt…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-05-30:2723460:Comment:806372012-05-30T07:52:21.313ZJamie Jedinakhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/JamieJedinak
<p>TOM, did you see that the alternative library has been offered as a meeting space?</p>
<p>TOM, did you see that the alternative library has been offered as a meeting space?</p>