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
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.
Seed Saving Basics
Led by Raina McDonald, co-founder of Pictou County Seed Collective and the Scotsburn Community Food Forest, who loves to talk seed and inspire new seed savers!
Discover the age-old practice of saving seeds from your garden! This session features demonstrations, Q&A, and resources to kick-start your seed saving at home. We’ll focus on low-tech, accessible methods for planning, planting, harvesting, cleaning, and storing quality vegetable seeds — skills that reduce costs, preserve regionally adapted varieties, and build food sovereignty and community resilience. Whether you’re a first-time gardener or simply seed-saving-curious, everyone is welcome.
