Sharon Astyk: The Competence Project
November 6th, 2008 Posted in Preparedness, Education, generalAt a Transition Towns training in Cambridge, Mass. this past weekend, I manned a table where we talked about resource-sharing and “re-skilling.” Along these lines, Astyk introduces The Competence Project in this article. This is the newest in Astyk’s related series of challenges to her readers to become good at “doing things.” This has been a good year for re-skilling at our house, as we completed a wood-fired bake oven (and learned how to use it), planted fruit trees and berry bushes, learned worm composting, made compost tea, grew vegetables from seed, canned tomato sauce and made jam, made wholegrain sourdough bread and home-brewed beer. And we’re just getting started.
Astyk is the author of Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front and the forthcoming A Nation of Farmers.
YouTube is a goldmine of instructional videos, so make use of that in your “competency” efforts. See our Thrift and Preparedness page for a growing list of links and videos. Thanks to Sasha Cedar for directing us to this video.