A neighbor in Beckley fixes a leaky faucet. A neighbor in Berkeley Springs teaches her sourdough starter. Nobody pays a dollar.
That's the West Virginia we grew up in. The one where a wave from a porch turns into a borrowed ladder. Where a casserole at the church potluck turns into a tutoring trade for the kid down the street.
But that informal economy — the one that kept our hollers and small towns standing for generations — is fading. Outmigration, broadband gaps, and the slow erosion of "third places" mean a lot of West Virginians don't know who lives three doors down anymore, let alone what they could trade.
SkillRoot is how we bring it back — at scale, on purpose, across all 55 counties.
