Prince Charles laments loss of craft skills in communities

[Kritter]

Prince Charles laments loss of craft skills in communities | UK news | The Guardian

The Prince of Wales has urged communities not to lose the dwindling skills that shaped the built environment and prevent specialist trades from disappearing ?at an alarming rate?.

Ahead of his 70th birthday in November, the prince also said he was ?deeply concerned? that young people were growing up without a basic understanding of how the world works and our relationship with food.

[TLLK]

Prince Charles laments loss of craft skills in communities | UK news | The Guardian

The Prince of Wales has urged communities not to lose the dwindling skills that shaped the built environment and prevent specialist trades from disappearing ?at an alarming rate?.

[royalanthropologist]

So true. Recently there was a shocking story of school children not knowing where their milk actually came from. Surely that is a failing of an inadequate and inappropriate education system?

[TLLK]

^^^I'd add that it is also parents/guardians who choose not to share this type of information with their children because they assume the schools will cover it.  Take them to the grocery store or a farmer's market and chat about where the various fruits, vegetable, dairy products come from and how they're made. Check out books from the library to read about farms, factories, and crafts instead of playing with a tablet. Also PBS still runs programs that have segments on these  subjects.

[TkGhoul]

This is a very sad story.

[Duch_Luver_4ever]

Sadly the cities need for people and the govts desire to keep people as domesticated and dependent as possible have fed this loss in basic skills.

[FanDianaFancy]

Skills  are  becoming a  losing  job source in my  opinion.

-watch repair
-farming  jobs
and just what PCharles  said.

[Duch_Luver_4ever]

both of those for sure, luckily if you check out the permaculture community its starting to come back. Innovative things like urban farming, silvopasture, alley cropping, paddock shifting and mob grazing is bringing some of the old skills back and even making them better, combining both old time western and native/natural systems as well.

Even artisinal crafts like butchering (check this out if youre ok with seeing animals processed the old way)
https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/

but I agree so many old skills will be lost in next 10 years as the people old enough to remember them die off. Many kids today, even their grandparents were on the urban supermarket shopping mall system.