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Family Resilience Planning When talking about Family Resilience I’m often asked whether hearing me discuss the issues around sustainability, resilience, and preparedness has made any of the children worried or anxious. Actually, we’ve found exactly the opposite to be true ! From an early age my three sons, and now our grandchildren, soon felt confident in their ability to handle a just about any crisis, and each one knows they make valuable contributions to our safety and family welfare. I believe it is important to make your preparedness a whole family unit project and to practice it like a game with scenarios and also try to include everyone in your family unit in some way, even the very young or elderly, as everyone can contribute. For example, by letting your children hear you calmly discuss how to evacuate your home in a fire and make the opportunity to practice those skills routinely, then the smoke detector going off in the middle of the night will simply put them on autopilot. They will know the steps to take and ways to reach safety. But if, in an effort to protect your children from the fear of fire, you never bring the subject up, the smoke detector going off in the middle of the night may well lead to panic, and panic is always dangerous! In preparing to care for your children in an emergency, panic will be the biggest threat. Because if you feel desperate and out of control, you can be assured that your children will quickly pick up on that and start to feel the same way. But if you are prepared and confident, your children will draw their strength from you and will often show remarkable resourcefulness and resilience. For this reason, if for no other, family preparedness is crucial. Whether you’re worried about a sudden work layoff, home invasions, car accidents, the power going out for a week, natural disasters, or long term economic and societal decline, it’s critical that you start getting ready for family resilience now. If you wait until you need it, it’s already too late ! What is Resilience Planning? Resilience planning is a process that family units can undertake to identify any potential hazards and key threats, and then establish adaptation, mitigation, and recovery plans. The goal is to reduce likely impacts and ensure a quick recovery. So what is the unit in the context we use for family resilience? Your own family probably consists of more people than the ones you share an address with, and maybe, like many these days, you have a blended family or an extended family and possibly like-minded close friends that you trust and would like to be with in case of a crisis. It is this group of people -defined by you – that I call your family resilience unit. Since your total unit does not necessarily live under the same roof, in the event of a crisis or disaster, you will need: A plan! It’s important that you have a predetermined meeting point that everyone knows. The most natural place to meet is at someone’s house, preferably the biggest one or a home you can easily get to. Building resilience within family units will mean learning skills that help you bounce back when things get tough. It's all about being mentally strong, adaptable, and learning from tough situations. The 5 characteristics of resilient people.
Symptoms and common characteristics of low resilience:
Key signs you might be more resilient than you think:
 Recently we have started to work with Amy James of Enchanted Forage expanding our capabilities on Family Resilience.
See : www.enchantedforage.co.uk Enchanted Forage, where nature's bounty becomes a playground for learning and exploration!
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Introduction to Aquaponics - June 2019Venue: C.A.S.T in Kingsley Cheshire WA6 Weekend Course (Sat/Sun) NEW DATE : 15th JUNE 2019
You will learn the essentials of Aquaponics by:
There will be a mixture of time spent in the classroom with lectures and hands-on practical sessions as well as looking at our planned new Aquaponics system being built at the farm. Price = £95 NEW PRICE : £80
...... note: we are offering this reduced price due to date change (we usually also have a few concession places for the low and unwaged)
Note it does not include overnight accommodation or evening meals. Please contact us regarding booking and / or overnight accommodation options. LEARN TO START YOUR OWN AQUAPONICS BUSINESS !After the success of last weekends Intro to Aquaponics course we are looking at what other special interest courses we could run at the Aquaponics Smallholding. Proposed Course List
If you are interested in any courses on our suggestions list do let us know and I'll start arranging dates.e to edit. About our project:  This new Aquaponics Smallholding based in rural Cheshire is a community agriculture start-up project. Our plan is to provide for the wider community:-
Project Status Since the Easter weekend we’ve been active on the site clearing the space in the old wooden rearing sheds with a view to converting part of it into an “agricultural classroom”. We’ve taken down most of the wood and block-work partitions leaving us a 23ft x 19ft space and cleared the many odds and ends stuff that’s been stored and accumulated in there over the years.
Project DRAFT Plan at 24/04/18 1. Priority is the rearing shed to classroom conversion work :-
Due to it being a community type project we have little or no budget. So for all of this work we are going to have to be very creative in the obtaining, reusing, and reclamation of materials (wood, bricks, panelling, paint, insulation, electrics, plumbing, etc) for the conversion. As you can imagine planning to a tight schedule is very difficult when we are not sure about the availability of materials so this is where Agile helps, BUT a fixed deadline is for the teaching area to be ready and usable for our course starting on Friday 11th May Intro to AQUAPONICS Weekend 2. Setup of greenhouse and outdoors growing areas:-
3. Setup of the Aquaponics system:-
We usually can offer our weekend volunteers mugs of hot tea or coffee and some really good home produced organic food.
Ongoing Activity There are more that enough tasks on this project to keep several people busy for the rest of the year, and then there will be the on-going operational activity to keep the Aquaponics Smallholding running. 4. On-going operational activity:-
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