This group is intended to be a resource for those intending to live a sustainable lifestyle. It will be continually updated with articles and information regarding sustainable living, growing produce (including creating and maintaining a seedbank), and on how to make items to barter/swap. These will include but are not limited to organised skillshares and reviving crafts/traditions such as:
Holistic and herbal medicine
Natural dyes
Spinning
Braiding/splicing
Weaving
Feltmaking
Pottery
Wood Carving
Silverwork
Glass blowing
Methods of food preservation
Music/the construction of musical (mainly woodwind) instruments
Other subjects include:
Small-scale renewable energy
Forest Gardening
Permaculture
Ecological Housing (including plans and ideas)
Dry-stone walling
Hedge laying
Coppicing
Dowsing/divining
Many indigenous cultures that practice these skills and traditions have an animistic spiritual viewpoint, and this group welcomes discussion on this subject.