'Reskilling the Valley' - Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley
The Apricot Centre (www.apricotcentre.co.uk) through the help of a Sustainable Development Fund grant will be researching available skills and techniques to support a sustainable and local lifestyle in the valley. The project aims to find the keepers of these skills, personally interview and record them and then start the process of transferring these skills to the younger generation in a style which is creative and fun for all involved.
Over the next 20 – 30 years the way we live in the Dedham Vale and; Stour Valley will have to change dramatically to a “post peak oil” and “climate change” lifestyle, one that is re-localised and less dependent upon oil and carbon sources of energy. Some of the changes will use modern technologies and ideas but some will draw on skills from the past.
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