Remove lowimpact-topic smallholding
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What kind of work do we want to do? Is working with our hands passé?

Low Impact

From the hundreds of conversations I’ve had with people doing this kind of work in London, a large proportion of them feel trapped, and would jump at the chance to be a smallholder, natural builder, market gardener, renewables installer, potter, textile maker, woodworker or any other kind of craftsperson. Smallholder. Basketmaker.

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Craft production, prices and mutual credit: weaving

Low Impact

We can add smallholders and builders and renewables installers and restaurants and craft producers and taxi drivers, and everybody can have an account. Lowimpact is not advocating compulsory purchasing of craft goods – it’s entirely voluntary. But it’s not money, it’s just numbers in accounts. My work is visual.

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Career change? Making a living from weaving

Low Impact

At Lowimpact.org we’re interested in helping to bring production back to communities, and so we’re talking with craftspeople, smallholders, natural builders, renewables installers and small business owners in our range of topics. I was living on a smallholding, so wanted to do something to complement smallholding.