The Third Option Local Services Guide

Can you remember when every town had its own baker, cobbler, tailor, or repair shop? That sense of community is gone, but the people and skills aren’t. The Third Option Local Services Guide is about bringing them back. Not through nostalgia, but through action. It shows how local tradespeople, retirees, the unemployed, and people with disabilities can help rebuild the services every community once had: food, repair, learning, care, and craft. This isn’t about waiting for change. It’s about starting it.