Living Skills Project

The folks here at Living Skills have a lot of big ideals we want to fulfill:

community building/network strengthening + economic/social justice + environmental stewardship + local food supply/survivalism = ????

At least, those question marks have been what we have been trying to figure out for a while. One obvious way that a highly-motivated group of folks in Portland are addressing this multidisciplinary problem is by spearheading a local money system, like they have in Ithaca NY. There are several initiatives out there working on this, but that is a Big Project that needs A Lot of Work. Isn’t there anything we can do on a smaller level as our group of friends? Something we can do now?

Over a few locally-brewed beers this weekend (I’m not telling how many) at our favorite neighborhood pub, we think we hatched an interesting idea to get at this overly ambitious desire to do good in all those ways at once.

What if we took all of our resources as a group and founded an urban CSA by finding a wannabe urban farmer?

Here are our resources: tools, a few urban properties with yards (mostly in the same neighborhood, but not all; some residences, some rentals), our various group business, organization, and marketing skills. In the land of utopian idealism that is Portland, Oregon, surely there must be someone(s) who has the complimentary skill set: time, extensive and devoted gardening talent/experience, a desire to start a CSA but with no land or start-up capital.

Surely…?

M is working on preliminary market research to explore the feasibility of this idea, and then we can look at a business plan, if it makes sense.

Imagine.it.

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