Here are some photos from three wrokshops on the first week of the knowledge swap. Please note that not all workshops are on sustainable living themes as I did not want to turn anyone away (we live in a small community of 650 people.)

Next week I'll post more photos from more workshops including the Alternative Enegy day tour, the Sustainable Systems day tour and other sustainable living topics.

Floral Art: Very creative, very peaceful.Floral Art: During the floral art workshopFloral Art: Nova explains the art of floral art.

Jam making: Preparing the apricots.Jam Making: Putting the plums on to simmer.Jam Making: The plums and apricots are simmering, and beginning to turn into jam.Jam making: Dianne shows us how to bottle apricots by the overflow method.

Lapidary: Bob describes what to do.Lapidary: Choosing stone and looking at each others' choices.Lapidary: That's me cutting some stone on Bob's diamond saw.

We're half way through the Karamea Summer Knowledge Swap, and it's been going well.

I'm just learning how to post photos here so that I can show you what we've been doing here...

Next week is going to be much busier with a lot more workshops.

I've also been updating the main knowledge-swap page with more info, see http://www.relocalize.net/node/4800

Liz

This year my goal for "Karamea Sustainable Living" is to form it up as a real group of real people, in Karamea.
So far, the group has been in concept only - a starting point, but one which I need to move along a bit.
My plan to is tie the concept in with the Karamea Summer School and Winter Schools, which I've been organising for the last couple of years. The summer/winter schools are focussed on "Back to Basics Living" which is another way of saying sustainable living. I deliberately used the words "Back to Basics Living" because I felt that our community would relate better to them than to "sustainable living". But now I think it's time to make the transition, and to make the link with the Post Carbon Institute absolutely clear.