These are the homemaking skills our great-grandparents took for granted, and they’re how a neighborhood takes care of itself: cooking, gardening, putting food by, painting, quilting, woodwork, masonry, mending what’s worn. We practice them out loud and pass them hand to hand.

Ways to take part

• ●Saturday garden mornings, April through October, 11 to 1 — tend the beds, share the harvest.
• ●Neighbor meals — we cook and eat together.
• ●Workdays — many hands on the building and the grounds.
• ●Skill-shares — somebody who knows shows somebody who wants to learn.
• ●The art studio and gallery — a working studio and a rotating wall of art.