UNITY — A group of volunteers will host Farm & Homestead Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center. The emphasis will be teaching rural living skills through a variety of hands-on activities.

Workshops will include tool sharpening, raising meat rabbits, leather working, all things scythe and many more. The fiber area will have spinning, weaving, carding, felting and other workshops.

Children’s activities will include papermaking, building bird boxes and planting a pizza garden.

New this year are several alternative methods of cooking, including using a solar oven, a rocket stove and a bake oven. In addition, a building track will teach how to make a coffin, humanure box, bike trailer, garden cart, really raised beds and more.

More workshops will be added, visit www.mofga.org for details.

Farm & Homestead Day at MOFGA is a volunteer driven, skill-share event with its own steering committee, so volunteers are needed to share their skills, ideas and energies. If you are interested in volunteering or have ideas about the event, contact Anna Libby at alibby@mofga.org or 568-4142, or the Farm & Homestead Day Rabble Rousing Committee at farmandhomesteadday@myfairpoint.net.