Building Community Self-Reliance - Reskilling Workshop

June 12, 2010

Eighty people attended this first Reskilling program with workshops that included:  Green housing with Thom Phillips, Sustainable Building Specialist for Habitat for Humanity of Michigan; Composting and Compost tea with Dane of Flowerfield Enterprises; a panel discussion on Planting for the Future with Tom Small, Wild Ones of Kalamazoo, Norm Bober on forest gardening and PJ Chmiel on permaculture; Bee Keeping with Mike Phillips; Fermentation: preparing healthy foods with live cultures such as sauerkraut, yogurt, etc. with Shawna Greenway; and a Medicinal and Wild Edible Plant Identification walk with Rita Bober.

The following is a pictorial of this event.

Maynard Kaufman giving the history and background of MLT and the Transition movement

Maynard


Dane from Flowerfield Enterprises talking on composting

Thom Phillips on energy efficient housing
Tom Small beginning the panel on Planting for the Future





Dane on compost tea




Mike Phillips on low-cost bee keeping




Shawna on Fermentation





Plant Identification walk with Rita





Frog on milkweed plant - all of nature invited





Monarch butterfly catepillar





Plant walk






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