Common practical skills:
Bookkeeping, Carpentry & repair, Cleaning, Farm animal care, Gardening or crop cultivation, Grant-writing, Group facilitation, Organizing & labeling, Permaculture
Experience or schooling:
Activism & organizing, Animal training or care, Anthropology, Architecture, Bookkeeping/accounting, Business management, Carpentry & construction, City planning, zoning, & compliance, Diversity, equity, and inclusion trainer, Ecological science, Event planning & management, Finance, economics, timebanking, Horticulture or permaculture, Humanitarian work, Long term rentals and maintenance, Marketing, Mediation or dispute resolution, Natural building, Nutrition, Political campaigning, Political science & history, Public speaking, Short term rentals and hospitality, Sociology, Waterworks, plumbing, sanitation, Writing
Occupation(s) and expertise:
Forest has worked as a researcher for the Rural Development Institute of Brandon Manitoba, there he performed research on a wide variety of topics pertaining to rural development and rural society. His Masters Thesis was on "Hemp Production in Manitoba as a Rural Development Tool". The "Plants for a Future" database is a continual inspiration for Forest.
Years lived in an IC:
Less than a year in IC, Lived with roommate(s) or housemate(s), Lived with sibling(s) or other non-parent relatives
Experience in community:
Forest has lived in a community of 30+ persons from various backgrounds. Decision making was not something this community had to worry about. However, there were many group activities and work projects that required cooperation between persons with very different personalities. Meadow has spent over a year in total in semi-communal living.
