Top skills

[prepperG]

I have a hard time keeping my skills up to date dispite regular practice at survival skills/navigation.
I am trying to expand knowledge in survival engineering (making stuff with min tools) and food gathering and processing.
I would like to do a rib boat course and a vemonus snake course (local pet shop does one).
some 4x4 driving training would be great

[G.B]

Metalworking is my trade and woodworking is one of my hobbies. Fishing and Hunting I consider myself advanced. I consider myself able to put my hand to most things though expert in only a few.

Post SHTF I have a book/manual for many crafts, trades and skills.
But I would like to be skilled before hand in Animal Husbandry, Electrical (specifically for alternative power) and possibly Sailing. Sailing I have done a little and the other 2 terrify me.

[junmist]

Textiles like Felting and weaving
improve my dress making skills
and how to dress meat
but I think your being mean making me pick 3

[lee3]

Growing Coffee and Tobacco

Soooooo love this answer! ..... And cocoa would make it 3?

Would absoloutly recommend blacksmithing if anyone gets the opportunity ..... Have done a couple of courses and it has come in handy soooooo many times ..... Also for those peeping for the big collapse scenarios .... Don't forget the early blacksmiths were the magicians .... And some times gods of their times ... Its no coincidence that Thor carry's a hammer lol
Most trades were reliant on blacksmiths .....and with significant practise you can start with nothing and end up equipping yourself and others with everything from tools to nails

[jean405]

My skill wish list is long, but three things I would like to be able to do are

Make hard cheese

animal husbandry

herbalist/homeopath

[Colin KC]

Ore mining & refining moving on to metalworking/smithing

plant lore & forestry moving on to farming/wood management

archery & bowyery moving on to hunting/defence

Not for us mind you, for our childrens children, scavenging in the aftermath of shtf will not last forever

[TwoDo]

How about midwifery? Not my sort of thing to be fair - but I can see it always being in demand.

[colack]

Loving everyone's answers, and mine would be animal husbandry, blacksmithing and medical/surgical skills. Loving the mix of skill sets people already have, its a shame we can't make a prepperfest to share our skills, because I'd happily run workshops on navigation and preserve making

[Quercus-robur]

herbalist/homeopath

Homeopathy is a pseudoscience. Stick to Herbalism.

Qr

[colack]

Growing Coffee and Tobacco

love this, add fermentation and I'll happily buy a post SHTF pint and smoke from you