TEMPLE — The Koviashuvik Local Living School will hold an open homestead from 3 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. Tours will start at 3:30.

A potluck supper will be served at 6 p.m. and those attending are asked to bring food to share and dishes and utensils. Supper will be followed by a sharing of inspirations, hints and ideas.

The school includes a stone root cellar, ice storage house, subterranean green house, Cree Indian style earth-covered lodge, rain-water catchment, solar dehydrator and composting toilet.

Visitors will be able to walk through an organic garden that fully feeds a family of four year-round. They will see the walls of beans, wild-food plantings, compost piles, three-sisters gardens, nut orchards and perennials.

Also on display will be homemade rocket stoves, an acorn-processing system and a variety of local material craftwork and hand tools.

For more information, visit www.mainelocalliving.com or call or 778-0318.