CORVALLIS - The folk festival held Saturday at Avery Park in Corvallis drew in those interested in all things local.

The festival, called "A Celebration of All Things Local," featured live music as well as local arts and crafts from 2 p.m. to dusk.

As Eric Nicholson belted out cover tunes from The Beatles and others, people gathered to listen and browse.

"The weather is good, the music is good and I can celebrate 'hours trading,'" Corvallis resident Tina Embol said.

Hours trading is a local barter system, complete with its own monetary system, in which people trade goods and services or exchange them for printed "hours" to be used later. Some of the vendors took hours in exchange for handcrafted T-shirts or crafts.

Christina Calkins traded brightly colored jewelry she had made and exchanged them for hours. She also displayed a lengthy list of vendors around town that participate in the barter system.

All things local included locations of interest beyond Corvallis.

Jaiaen Beck, founder of Ancient Ways, a nonprofit foundation benefiting indigenous peoples of Zimbabwe, sold Zimbabwean sculptures, toys and crafts.

The money raised by Ancient Ways goes to fund health centers, education programs and residential facility improvements.

"I've been going to Zimbabwe, once or twice a year, since 2000," Beck said. "It's getting tougher because things are getting dicey."