PAUL SMITHS -- The 2016 Adirondack Rural Skills and Homesteading Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Paul Smith’s College’s Adirondack Visitor’s Center (VIC).

The event celebrates the talents of a bygone era with a distinctly Adirondack flair.

Featuring exhibitions on logging and farming with draft horse, and a demonstration of competitive lumberjack sports by the Paul Smith's College Woodsmen's Team, the festival also offers dozens of workshops that appeal to a wide range of interests such as canning, cider making, woodworking, renewable energy, cord wood construction, small-scale farming and primitive skills.

The Adirondack-North Country is uniquely positioned to serve as a model for diverse and vibrant working landscapes.

Rooted in a culture of stewardship and entrepreneurial spirit, Paul Smith’s College, the VIC and Cornell Cooperative Extension advance a multi-sector vision that connects the region’s “foodsheds” and “woodsheds” as integrated components of the working landscape.

Beyond sustainable agriculture and forestry, the festival highlights additional related sectors such as education, agri-tourism, biomass development, education and sustainable food system development.

Paul Smith’s College, the College of the Adirondacks, and its Adirondack Visitors Center, along with partner Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Franklin County, serve as the center for these diverse and vibrant concepts and projects involving working landscapes.

With the culture of the College rooted in hospitality, environmental stewardship and the entrepreneurial spirit, the Center provides an identity for the interdisciplinary vision that connects the College’s academic programming with the economic reality of the region.

CCE brings to the partnership its long history of research based education in agriculture, food systems and food nutrition and safety.

Admission is $5 per person or $10 per carload.

Info: www.paulsmiths.edu/homesteading-festival.