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Welcome to the Gael Raibead Wiki
The Gael Raibead Mutual Aid and Help Association is a Celtic clan styled social club centered in Southern Louisiana and with branch septs in the surrounding area. We strive to have fun, learn interesting and useful things, and create a living learning community of good folks having a good time. This wiki will serve as a go to for sharing and documenting of knowledge. Recipes, tutorials, how to's, projects, all can find a place here--with topics as varied as homebrewing to blacksmithing, knitting to urban survival, and everything in between.

Members of the Clan are welcome to add and edit as they see fit. For more info, hit us up on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaelraibead

Clan Events Calendar
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=vep4obuiub53mmbmeun96sb9js%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Chicago 

Cookbook
Add a recipe to our cookbook! All you have to do is create a new page, type it up, and add the word "Recipe" to the categories section. It'll index to the category: recipe page! When there's more, we'll categorize them by type of recipe (Meat, veg, bread, beer or mead recipe, etc). Get typing, clanfolk!

Skills Database
Currently working on getting tutorials up and such. Add your own and tag the category as "Tutorial" so we can access it from this link here

Ongoing Projects
The Clan itself is an ongoing project, meant to grow and evolve as a community. At the core is the idea that we can all learn new things from each other and become stronger as individuals and as a community because of it. If you have something you think is useful or cool or just plain interesting, toss it out there.

Project Homeland: The longterm plan to build a communal castle and farm in Washington Parish. Also and more realistically, the much shorter term plan to get us all as self-sufficient as possible, including tips on homesteading, gardening, food preservation, etc. All the useful information you'd get from preppers, but without the crazy. You never know when a natural disaster or zombie apocalypse will happen, and it's always good to have a backup plan for when things get bad.

Project Man-at-Arms: A wide ranging project that involves mostly self-defense information, from period armoring in leather, plate, and maille to more modern skills like how to shoot and maintain a firearm. If you've ever wanted to be the most awesome person at a renaissance fair, or wanted to make your own sword, or just wanted to get a handle on emergency personal armaments, this would be the category for what you learn.

Project Weyland: Crafts. Making things by hand, from sewing to knitting to shoemaking to soap making to blacksmithing to woodworking and everything in between. Modern consumer culture is awesome, if you've got money and don't mind replacing things that are designed to wear out and be replaced, but there's a satisfaction in a thing made by hand and made well, a thing made to last and maintained.

Project Mugin: It's hard to remember everything you'll ever need to know, and eventually this project becomes a physical library. For now, though, a series of online file dumps and access points for useful data, ebooks, movies, playlists, etc.

Project Whatever You Come Up With: We're all here to support each other and learn cool new things. You want someone other than your professors to hear your thesis, or share research you think is cool? Do it! You want to do a class on auto repair or basic computer maintenance so people stop calling you when something goes wrong? DO IT! Maybe you just want to get a group of people together for a bike ride or to go box or run or hike or swim. Do it! Maybe, say, you want to go on a series of brewery tours all over your local area, getting sloshed in the process. Well, we're already doing that one, but it couldn't hurt to do it again! Whatever you want to do that you think is awesome, or teaches you something, or just contributes to folks becoming better, stronger, more capable people, toss it out there! No one can learn if no one teaches, and no one can grow if new things and experiences aren't discovered and explored. We can grow together!

Where can I get a shirt or something?
Glad you asked! We have a shop on Spreadshirt (it's like Cafepress, but less evil). Currently we only have the Clan's badge emblem design up, but if you know any bored graphic designers or people good with that kind of thing, get involved and let us know! Also, it's really easy to add designs that are just text and such, so if you have an idea, don't hesitate. We're open source type folks here.

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