| Community Needs |
| The Land Human Resources Needed Physical Resources Needed Livestock Needed Short Term Stock Pile Supplies |
Who are we looking for? Below are listed a number of skill sets needed in the development, building and maintenance of community. Obviously, we hope that people will have more than one skill set. You will also be urged to train (like CEUs) in an areas that you would be interested in so that the community would have some redundancies.
Human Resources
- Lawyers
- Help with acquiring land
- Setting up community partnership agreements
- 501C3 status
- Accountants
- Professional Secretary
- Admin coordinator
- Keeping minutes from all meetings
- Community historian
- Letters and all correspondence
- Filing. Hard copy and electronic
- Real Estate Expert in zoning or County zoning employee
- Insurance broker
- Professional facilitator/Mediator/ Psychologist
- Mediating conflicts
- Facilitating meetings
- Community Counselor
- Fireman
- Wildfire protection
- Water storage for fire protection
- Zoning regards to fire and structures
- Hunter
- Those skilled not only with rifles, but bows and other primitive forms of hunting.
- Skilled in field dressing many different types of animals
- Skilled in tracking animal/people and the patterns of nature
- Fisher/Aqua Culture
- Fishing the local coast and knowledge where, how and when
- Collecting mussels, when, how and preparation
- Crabing, when, how and processing
- Raising/reproduction of fish in greenhouse tanks and open pond culture
- Using/processing fish manures as fertilizer
- Farmers
- Someone with a back ground in CSA (community supported agriculture)
- Permaculture
- Soils specialist for Mendocino County
- Experience working with draft animals
- Grain and food crop storage
- Animal husbandry
- Experience with farm machinery
- Expert in soil buidling using manure, green manure and local seaweed
- Computer IT person
- Sales/marketing/information via the web
- Managing software/hardware needs for accounting, database,
- Managing a community database
- Herbalist
- with skills in medicine making, growing, harvesting, storing and herbs. Diagnosing illness and treatment
- Doctor/Nurse/Bio Science/eye care
- Family practitioner or general “country” doctor
- Field medicine
- Skilled nurses
- Optometrist
- Blacksmith or metal worker
- Tinsmith
- Experience with farm equipment helpful
- Horseshoeing
- Mason, stone worker
- Using native stone
- mixing primitive mortars with local material
- building foundation work
- cisterns
- Cobb or Straw Bale Expert
- experience building with local material
- Chemist/Physicist
- Law enforcement officer/Peace Keeper
- Community security
- Military experience
- Dentist
- Basic dentistry
- knowledge of herbal dental medicines
- Dental surgery
- Geologist
- Familiar with Medocino
- Assist with finding and maintaining water sources
- Soil structure for farming
- Earthquake structural design
- Carpenter/Primitive wood worker
- Rancher/Animal Husbandry/Veterinarian
- Cows, Poultry, Sheep, Goats, Hogs
- Horses for transportation and field work
- Veterinarian medicine using herbal medicine
- Engineer/Architect/Alternative building systems expert
- Green building
- Solar/electrical engineer
- Experience with solar
- Micro-Hydro
- Wind Turbine
- Potter/glass blower/basketry/
- Knowledge of human powered throw wheel
- Making everyday pottery
- Collection of local clays and material
- Every stage of glass works
- Basketry and harvesting/growing local materials
- Leatherwork
- Saddle/farm equipment repair
- Tanning hides
- Weaving
- Collecting wool, etc
- Looms
- Artist/Musicians
- Bring inspiration and joy to community
- Lead entertainment during community gatherings
- Mechanic
- Manage/maintain farm equipment
- Co-create with black smith for community solutions
- Maintain housing mechanics
- electronics specialist/Ham radio operator
- Chef/nutritionalist/food management
- Timber management
- Experience turning raw lumber into building material
- Running primitive saw mills
- Timber management for long term production
- Nurserymen
- Maintains greenhouse for production of food crops
- Maintains open-air pollinated seed collection
- Responsible for public sales of plant material/seeds
- Maintain extensive orchards
- Greenhouse design and operation
- Entomologist/Biologist
- Experience with pest problems using herbal pesticides
- Extensive knowledge of common pest to this area
- Teacher/Speaker/Trainer
- Giving weekend workshops…set of marketable skills to start immediately holding $$$ producing workshops
- Be able to train community members in multiple skills sets
- Organize and plan continue education classes
- Public liaison with outside
- Bee Keeper
- Maintain/produce communities source of sugar and wax
- Pollination of crops
- Sewing, canning, ….homemaking
- Extensive knowledge of canning and food storage
- Food drying
- Safe food preparation
- Spinning, carding, looms
- Experience with treadle powered sewing machines
- Water management
- Plumber/plumbing
- Waste water and experience with Humanure
- Grey water, using it in safe irrigation methods
- Irrigation
- Well drilling
- Pond building
- Water source as springs, developing springs
- Fire prevention and water storage for such