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Skill-sharing/skill bartering

Question: Not food-related, but related to sustainable living. Would others be interested in a group for bartering services? I have decades of experience in things like preserving food, making food from scratch (bread, fermentation, tofu/tempeh/cheese, etc.), fiberarts (knitting, sewing, crochet, bobbin lace, dying with natural dyes, etc.), and miscellaneous other skills (welding, programming, etc.) It occurs to me that others might be interested in skill-sharing. And also along those lines, there is a skill-sharing workshop coming up in Santa Cruz shortly. Would there be any interest in having one in the East Bay? I believe Albany is trying to do something like this occasionally, possibly through Transition Albany.

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Permalink Reply by Kim Di Giacomo on September 19, 2011 at 3:31pm

Hi J., I think this could be a successful group if you want to start it. Also, can you send a link to the skillshare group in Santa Cruz so we can check it out. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by J. Evans on September 20, 2011 at 4:18pm

I'm afraid I can't agree. In my experience a bartering group needs a certain number of people to be successful and, so far, nobody has expressed an interest.

However, here is the link to the Santa Cruz Reskilling Expo. I think it looks very interesting and would urge those interested to go and report back.