Skill Share Network

We’re building a network for skill sharing in our community. Below you can find the names and contact information of your neighbors, listing various skills they have to teach and share, and skills they want to learn. This is a free resource for anyone in the community to use to share knowledge and learn new skills. Feel free to get in touch with anyone on this list to learn from or teach them at your convenience. You never know what incredible skills might be around you, or what someone might be looking to learn that you could teach!

To sign up, fill out this short survey.

 

Pat
Contact: immorganpm@gmail.com
Location: Arcata
Skills I want to learn:
Skills I have to share:
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Marlon Gil
Contact: fogwoodworking@gmail.com / 707 407-0550
Location: Freshwater
Skills I want to learn: Making hard cider
Skills I have to share: Carpentry, permaculture, fruit tree grafting, rainwater catchment, using greywater in the landscape.

 

Danny Kelley
Contact: danny@edgecaliber.com
Location: Fortuna
Skills I want to learn: Motivational Interviewing, Meditation, yoga, fabrication, CAD design, property management
Skills I have to share: Business Coaching & Consulting, Public Speaking, personal productivity, Habit Coaching, Communication Coaching, Organizational Systems Coaching, Project Management, Team Coaching, Sleight of Hand Magic, 3D printing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Political Analysis & Coaching, Worker Owned Cooperatives

 

Thom Boswell
Contact: thomboz@yahoo.com / 7075024080
Location: McKinleyville
Skills I want to learn: Welding
Skills I have to share: Carpentry

 

Pat Bitton
Contact: pbitton@hotmail.com
Location: Eureka
Skills I want to learn:
Skills I have to share: Writing and editing

 

Melissa
Contact: Birdiemum@yahoo.com
Location: Arcata
Skills I want to learn: Drawing, watercolor, meditation, plant identification, collecting and using kelp, Thai cooking, expanding my knowledge of using herbs in cooking
Skills I have to share: Database skills, Microsoft Word & Excel, canning, fermentation, knitting, soap making, jam & jelly making

 

Natalie Rynne
Contact: Ner117@humboldt.edu
Location: Eureka and HSU
Skills I want to learn: VW Diesel repair/mechanic, electrical wiring, welding, sewing lessons, wood working and more
Skills I have to share: Writing, editing, public speaking, adobe illustrator, photoshop, premiere and indesign, childcare, k-8 environmental education lesson planning, embroidery, jewelry making and repair

 

Nicki
Contact: nicki.viso.03@gmail.com
Location: Arcata
Skills I want to learn: how to sharpen knives, how to drive a stick shift car, basic car things (I know how to change my oil and fill my tires with air, but that's it)
Skills I have to share: low level mediation, apartment gardening, baking, bullet journaling

 

Carol
Contact: Possibilitiesforu@gmail.com
Location: Humboldt
Skills I want to learn: Gardening, worm composting, yard maintenance, wood working, many things
Skills I have to share: Some building experience, replace lightning, general home maintenance and some remodeling. Interior design, party planning, floral, cooking and catering.

 

Anna
Contact: anna.a.ronan@gmail.com
Location: Arcata
Skills I want to learn: herbalism, leatherwork, archery, carpentry, sailing, tattooing
Skills I have to share: creative / essay writing, drawing + painting, some graphic design and video editing, yoga, capoeira, tolerable French, academic research, sloppy van conversion, bootleg therapy

 

Christie Childs
Contact: christie@natureprovidesbeauty.com
Location: Eureka
Skills I want to learn: Social media marketing, vegan baking, needle felting, dry gardening, canning (besides acidic foods)
Skills I have to share: Computers (software, websites, and troubleshooting), Admin/office (typing, document creation, payroll, basic accounting, office equipment), Human Resource management, Handmaking cosmetics and toiletries (natural and organic), Elimination communication, Cloth diapering, Sustainable nutrition, Cooking (organic, vegetarian, indian, mexican, american, italian, baking, asian), Multi-tasking and organization, Home waste reduction, Organic grocery shopping on a budget

 

Dee Dreslough
Contact: ddreslough@gmail.com / 8603411995 (text strongly preferred) / Facebook Messenger: Dee Dreslough
Location: Arcata
Skills I want to learn: android and iphone app programming, and how to be a happy, functional human being. LOL!
Skills I have to share: Windows and Linux install, troubleshooting, home networking, some javascript programming, ecommerce/website and general computer basics, digital art with Gimp/photoshop, animal knowledge (cats, trap neuter release, taming feral kittens, catio design, social management of cats; other animals: chickens, some cow and horse knowledge too. -Animal science University of Connecticut grad), sewing (machine and hand). General academic tutoring maybe? I know up through algebra pretty well, and I survived chemistry. Precalc and calc are distant memories, though... I also design roofing truss systems, but that takes some specialized software I only have access to at work.

 

Joan
Contact: crandellj@gmail.com
Location: McKinleyville
Skills I want to learn: Better gardening skills; have basics. Better sewing, have basics, pressure canning
Skills I have to share: How to raise, humanely process own livestock, break down a carcass into basic cuts(not super finessed), make simple cheese, can goods

 

Gail
Contact: gailmail@reninet.com
Location: Freshwater
Skills I want to learn: Computer
Skills I have to share: Spinning, Self-Breema( a form of gentle exercise) making grain free crackers

 

Cheryl
Contact: cause4paws@yahoo.com
Location: Kneeland
Skills I want to learn: Tree pruning, food preservation, hard cider making
Skills I have to share: beekeeping, cooking, gardening

 

Erin
Contact: babeonblades@gmail.com
Location: Trinidad
Skills I want to learn: gardening/pruning.etc
Skills I have to share: Conflict resolution, cooking, real estate/finance basics??

 

Note: this list is updated manually, so you may not see your survey submission go up right away.
Last updated: 1/16/2020