UF students and Gainesville residents can celebrate Earth Day at the 35th Annual Farm and Forest Festival Saturday.
The festival, hosted by the City of Gainesville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Morningside Nature Center, 3540 E. University Ave.
Sally Wazny, program coordinator for Gainesville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, said unlike past festivals, this year’s event will focus more on the forest.
The festival will feature blacksmithing, woodworking, cooking demonstrations and live animals, Wazny said.
She said the festival will also celebrate the traditions and cultures of the Native Americans who lived in the surrounding forests with feather painting and bow and arrow crafting.
Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children and free for children 3 years old and younger.
Hollie Greer, recreation leader at Morningside Nature Center, said the festival will include environmental information to educate children.
“We’re trying to make it more of an Earth Day celebration and a celebration of the farms that relied on the forests,” she said.
