I would like to try and start a local work party gathering!
I was thinking that people who need help building coops, starting gardens, fencing yards, etc etc... We could have gatherings to help out and socialize! Host of the party provides food and peeps bring their own drinks?? Peeps can help out with ideas, help with labor, providing tools or helping find materials. What do you all think?
Kind of like a barn raising in the older days!
Also would anyone be interested in a local gleening (gathering food that would otherwise go to waste such as fruit trees, extra veggie in the gardens, wild berries, etc) and canning/preserving gatherings?
Example:
I know where there is a ton of plum trees that the fruits go bad every year. We could work together and gather them all in a day then make jam/jelly/preserves with the fruits gathered and split the goods! Everyone would chip in with the picking/hauling/ingredients/cooking/canning.
*My mom has canned just about anything, so tons of knowledge and experience available for this gathering.
Any one interested?