Live and Learn cultivates community sustainability, resilience, and social connectedness by creating frequent & accessible learning & teaching opportunities on the lower Sunshine Coast. Our program seeks out people with amazing local sustainability skills and offers training and support in becoming a Mentor so they can share their skills with others. Skills might be growing, gathering, knitting, dancing, fishing for, canning, drying, preserving, cooking, and raising food, or other ways to create abundance. Mentor training is offered to skilled individuals including single parents, seniors, ethnic group members, newcomers, and others. We then help link Mentors with Learners to create new opportunities for teaching & sharing. People … [Read More...]

At Live & Learn, people are connecting, learning together, and participating in our unique Sunshine Coast food culture. While this is wonderful fun, it is also vital for personal, community, & environmental health. 1) It’s good for your health! Social connectedness Most people come out to learn with Live & Learn simply because it is joyful and fun. But did you know it is also good for your health? It’s no secret that people with a strong social support system tend to … [Read More...]