What is Resilience? In the context of transition communities, resilience refers to their ability not to collapse at the first sight of oil or food shortages, and to their ability to respond with adaptability to disturbance. There's a good chapter on Resilience in Rob Hopkins' book 'The Transition Handbook'. A copy is available from ledeacon@gmail.com Things that ADD resilience to a community, like Hornsea, would be:
Local Composting
Planting trees (like the orchard)
Using local building materials
Investing in the local community
Shopping locally, supporting local traders
Singing in the local choir
Local currencies
Doing voluntary work
Growing your own food
Things that do not add resilience to a local community, like Hornsea, would be:
Ornamental tree plantings
Sourcing organic food internationally
Carbon offsetting
Buying choral CD's
Consumerism, especially from outside the town
THESE LISTS ARE NOT EXHAUSTIVE!
What is re-skilling? We no longer have many of the basic skills our grandparents took for granted. Some of these skills might not be appropriate now. Others will still be very useful. Perhaps we can enlarge our ideas of what skills we need. Re-skilling events fulfil different functions. They bring people together and build networks, they create a sense of 'can do', and they build links between old and young as skills are learned and passed on. Some ideas for re-skilling events are:
Compost making, preserving, jam-making, making herbal tinctures, knitting, weaving, tree pruning, time management, nutrition and diet, listening skills, managing domestic finances and so on.
THIS LIST IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE! What do you want to learn?
TREE GRAFTING WORKSHOPS
TWO successful grafting workshops were held on Saturday 15th March at the Scout Hut on Burton Road, Hornsea. Some the newly grafted apple trees were planted in the community orchard.