Farm & Homestead Day - Jun 2026

📅 20 June 2026 | 📍 MOFGA’s Education Center, 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, 04988, United States

Farm & Homestead Day at MOFGA is a free day of hands-on learning and fun. From its beginnings in 2012 it has been presented by volunteers who delight in sharing their expertise in skills for rural and sustainable living. There are activities for all ages.

Learning to mow with a scythe has been a draw from the beginning, as has been hands-on tool care. Woodworking techniques for utility and beauty are shared. The plant swap is always popular as are fiber arts including spinning, dyeing, and weaving with a variety of looms.

Farm & Homestead Day begins with traditional tea and crumpets.  A variety of musical offerings has everyone dancing and singing to round out the day.

The volunteer organizers, The Rabble, meet throughout the winter and spring to plan this event. To join, email farmandhomesteadday@mofga.org.

Regular Highlights include:

Learning to mow with a scythe

Tool care demonstrations (bring a favorite hand tool from the garden or kitchen to learn tips for keeping the blades sharp and the wooden handles well-oiled)

Blacksmithing and woodworking workshops

Tea & crumpets

Learning to repair small electrical appliances or bicycles (bring one from home that needs attention!)

A wide variety of fiber arts, including knitting, mending, rug hooking, dyeing with plants, sewing with a treadle machine and much more!

Gardening workshops

Cooking workshops

A potluck lunch featuring stone soup made from locally-sourced ingredients

Bean hole beans

A plant swap (please only bring bare root plants to share, in order to limit the spread of jumping worms through soil)

Music: ukulele, singing, and mixed-instruments! (bring your own ukulele, fiddle, mandolin, drum, etc.)

Livestock care and handling

And so much more!

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