Up!Skilling

Up!Skilling sessions are hands-on demonstrations and an opportunity for participants to ‘dip their toes’ into a new skill, craft, or trade. Learn the basics of a new skill from local experts that can be applied at the household level.

Examples from years past include:

  • Straw hat weaving
  • Spinning yarn
  • Natural beekeeping
  • Seed saving
  • Cycle repair
  • Knot tying
  • Soil fertility & organic amendments
  • Rain gardens: home storm-water management
  • Growing Shitake mushrooms on logs
  • Heritage Kitchen Skills: dried fruits, canning, freezing, root cellars, herbs, oils

Up!SKILLING SESSIONS

Sessions are being confirmed, so keep returning to the site for new session being added! In the meantime check out the sessions below:

Building Benches, Dreaming Community

OSO Planning & Design

 This up!skilling session is led the team at OSO Planning & Design.

This session offers practical, repeatable skills in bench-building that participants can apply at home, in Tatamagouche and beyond. More importantly, it models a way of working together, using making as a starting point to dream, envision, and begin to take collective action toward the kinds of places and communities people want to inhabit.