CANTON -- The Local Living Festival has announced its fourth celebration of resourceful living skills since 2010, to include seminars and hands-on workshops related to building skills for a more capable community.

The range of topics are as diverse as the people and skills of the North Country themselves; from composting to lambing, from making preserves and fermented foods to solar panels, from vegan diets to pastured poultry, and from bike repair to how to burn wood cleanly.

The event will be held Saturday, Sept. 26, on the village green in downtown Canton, with additional exhibits and workshops taking place indoors at surrounding businesses and churches.

As part of a tradition since 1992 there will also be tours of local green homes, likely the following weekend. Workshop presenters, exhibitors, skills and crafts demonstrators, tour hosts, and volunteers are all sought to make the Festival a success.

Local groups are being sought as "Community Partners" to help set up workshops and to bring in exhibitors and demonstrations relevant to one of the many theme tracks of the festival: gardening and farming, nutrition, cooking, preserving food, forestry and woodlot as well as wood heat, living simply, health & wellness, green building, animals for milk, meat and fiber, bio-diesel, tractor/bike repair, etc., transportation, lost arts and forgotten skills, women's skill building, community arts, college & dorm dwellers, small business/buy local and helping with day-long children's events.

Community Partners will be acknowledged in many print and electronic media advertisements as well as in the Festival Program.

Festival organizers say that there are many ways to participate and contribute to the Festival experience other than simply attending.

"You can help out the community by signing up to volunteer the day of the event, or by attending planning gatherings, or by talking to your organization or business about becoming one of the Festival’s Community Partners," said Co-coordinator Melinda Ely, "There is a place for everyone in this great community celebration."

Info: www.LocalLivingVenture.org in the coming months and mark your calendars for this coming September 26th.

For more information, or to volunteer, contact LocalLivingFestival@gmail.com or 347-4223.