Farm & Homestead Day
Saturday, June 20, 2026
At MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center in Unity
Please submit your proposal May 15!
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Farm & Homestead Day in 2025!
We had gorgeous weather, and hosted over 400 participants and 45 workshops. Thanks to the efforts of our workshop leaders, participants learned skills such as bike maintenance, woodworking, food preservation, scything, spinning wool, book binding, and the list goes on.
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.
*Note that the schedule may be subject to change. This page will be updated with any changes to the schedule. Last updated: 6/19/25.
Want to help with the event?
Whether you want to lead a workshop, help with event set-up, or be involved in our planning meetings, we’d love to have you join us! Email [email protected] to get involved early, or check back on this page in the spring to see volunteer shifts for the event.
What to bring:
- Bring something to share for the potluck and stone soup lunch!
- A dish to share at the potluck
- And/or vegetables to add to the Stone Soup
- Bring your bicycle so you can do some maintenance and repair work on it in a workshop!
- Bring small appliances and learn to repair them in a workshop!
- Bring clothes in need of mending and learn mending in a workshop!
- Bring bare root plants to exchange in the plant swap!
- We are striving for a zero waste event. To help us in reaching this goal, we ask that you:
- Pack in/pack out any waste
- Bring reusable water bottles
- Bring reusable dishware for lunch
- If you’ve got items you no longer use, donate them to the Free Cycle table.
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!
