Speaker Schedule

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35+ Homesteading Experts, Over 7 Days!

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Day 1: Monday October 31st

Can the Sweet Corn

Hank Will

Raising, harvesting, using, and storing a variety of corn on a homestead scale.
Discover how heirloom flint, flour and dent corns are more versatile than sweet corn.
Varieties of corn that have short growing seasons, drought tolerant, and more!

About The Speaker: Hank Will (Oscar H. Will III) currently serves as the Editor-in- Chief for Mother Earth News, as well as Editorial Director, all brands, for Ogden Publications. He is a business leader, academic, and agricultural practitioner devoted to conservation and small-scale, sustainable agriculture.

How To Grow A Gout-Free Garden

Bert Middleton

Control your gout pain with FOOD therapy… not drugs!
The 15 best foods to reduce or ELIMINATE gout.
SURPRISE! Foods that work even better than anti-inflammatory drugs.

About The Speaker: Bert Middleton battled gout for 13 years and finally won, becoming a Certified Nutritional Therapy Consultant along the way. Now, he’s using his experience to help others seek relief from their gout symptoms.

How to Grow Tropical Plants In Impossibly Cold Climates

Jerome Osentowski

Secrets for growing citrus, bananas, papaya, lychees, and more—in harsh climates!
How to keep a tropical climate in your greenhouse.
5 ways to heat a greenhouse in winter.
The subterranean heating & cooling system: how it works.

About The Speaker: A forager and permaculturist with roots in rural Nebraska, Jerome Osentowski lives in a passive solar home he built at 7,200 feet above Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. Director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and a permaculture designer for thirty years, he has built five greenhouses for himself and scores of others for private clients and public schools.

Saving Seeds To Save Ourselves

Bill McDorman

How to kick-start your own seed saving adventure!
The 9 EASIEST crops to start saving seeds from.
What’s at stake if you choose NOT to start savings seeds.

About The Speaker: Bill McDorman is Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance. He’s also the author of Basic Seed Saving and co-founder of Seed School, a nationally-recognized weeklong training program that’s graduated 800 students worldwide.

Biodynamic Farming for Homesteaders

Brook & Rose LeVan

Enjoy a TOUR of their beautiful ranch.
See first-hand how they’re managing their dairy cows.
Learn the secret to making your own butter on the homestead!

About The Speakers: Brook and Rose Levan co-founded the non-profit Sustainable Settings in 1997, which established the Whole Systems Learning Center in Colorado, where they work on direct and locally applicable solutions to climate change, food and energy security, and the regeneration of healthy topsoil.

Day 2: Tuesday November 1st

Pastured Poultry Tips

Joel Salatin

Intermediate skills for successfully raising chickens for meat.
Improving the odds of chick survival in the first 2 weeks.
The fastest growing breed of chicken.
Automating your chicken plucking… for faster processing.

About The Speaker: Joel Salatin co-owns Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., when he’s not on the road speaking, Joel is at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails.

Buckskin Clothing: A Beautiful Working Wardrobe From Your Backyard

Woniya Thibeault

Discover why buckskin is so ideal for making clothes.
How to make clothes that last 10X longer on the homestead.
The tanning process—explained in a nutshell.
The best tools for sewing buckskin.

About The Speaker: Woniya Thibeault has been living off grid, growing most of her own food, storing it without refrigeration, and teaching classes on these and other ancestral and homestead arts for decades. With both a Masters in Environmental Science and a lifetime of practical living, Woniya brings a wealth of experience to her teaching and writing.

Livestock Fencing Bloopers & Lessons Learned

Deborah Niemann

How to choose fencing that suits your species of livestock.
Which animals are the most difficult to fence.
The truth about “Grass Is Greener” syndrome.

About The Speaker: Deborah Nieman speaks about raising goats and sustainable living at conferences from California to North Carolina and in Canada. She has written three books: Homegrown and Handmade, EcoThrifty, and Raising Goats Naturally.

Intermediate Seed Saving Tips

Don Tipping

TUTORIAL: the basics of seed selection & breeding
Surprising insect pollinators… beyond bees!
Seed savings tips by plant family.

About The Speaker: Don Tipping has been offering hands-on, practical workshops at Seven Seeds Farm since 1997. Lauded as one of the best examples of a small, productive Biodynamic and Permaculture farm in the Northwest, Seven Seeds Farm mentors new farmers through internships and workshops. In 2009, Siskiyou Seeds, a bioregional organic seed company, began operating off the farm, as well.

Making Herbal Medicine

Dr. Patrick Jones

The secrets to making your tinctures, teas, glycerites, poultices, vinegars, lotions, salves, herbal pills, electuaries, and more – with confidence.
The best time to harvest your herbs to guarantee their potency!
See illustrative photos of wound treatments.

About The Speaker: Dr. Patrick Jones is a practicing veterinarian and clinical herbalist, based out of Buhl, Idaho. As well, he’s the founder of the Homegrown Herbalist School of Botanical Medicine.

Day 3: Wednesday November 2nd

Better Gardening Through Experimentation

David The Good

How to become a backyard scientist – and let your garden teach you!
How to build garden beds for FREE!
David’s recipe for “fertility tea” – to supercharge plant growth.

About The Speaker: David The Good is the author of four books, writes a regular column for The Ag Mag in North Central Florida, is a Mother Earth News blogger, and has also written for outlets including Backwoods Home, Survival Blog, The Prepper Project and Self-Reliance Magazine. He now lives somewhere near the equator on a productive cocoa farm.

Medicinal Plants: The Apocalypse Apothecary

Dr. Patrick Jones

How to find and identify local herbs with medicinal properties.
Wild herbals that are also delicious wild edibles.
Anti-bacterial wound treatments with no side effects.
Pain and infection-fighting herbals.

Top Traps of Homesteading, and How to Avoid Them

Jason Matyas

The #1 temptation faced by homesteaders that can RUIN the journey to self-reliant living.
How to AVOID THE TRAP that usually ensures you won’t leave a legacy of homesteading.
Essential planning that can make or break you. Don’t get this wrong!
How to avoid burnout, and take joy in the journey.

About The Speaker: Jason Matyas is a homesteader, lifelong gardener, local food advocate, 18-year Air Force veteran, and entrepreneur. He is the Executive Producer of Beyond Off Grid – a documentary film and training media project devoted to inspiring and equipping you Return to the Old Paths of productive households and sustainable living, and has interviewed dozens of homesteaders. The best lessons learned from this homesteaders mind trust are delivered in this presentation.

How to Harvest and Maintain a High-Altitude Food Forest

Jerome Osentowski

Take a tour of Jerome’s food forest at 7,200 feet.
Hear his thoughts on why you shouldn’t harvest everything from your garden.
Surprising crops that grow well at high altitudes, in cold climates.

Top 5 Ways to Grow More Vegetables in Small Spaces

John Kohler

City-living doesn’t have to limit your food-growing abilities.
Learn the secrets to growing lots of food in small, urban spaces.
How certain vegetables can MULTIPLE the volume of your harvest.
Vertical planting solutions. (Grow UP!)

About The Speaker: After almost losing his life in his twenties, John Kohler realized that you are what you eat—and decided that he wanted to put the best foods in his body. So he figured out how to grow the majority of his vegetables on his small urban property—and began sharing his learning journey online.

Day 4: Thursday November 3rd

Plant Friends & Medicines of a Desert Herbalist

Doug Simons

The “maintenance” herbal that Doug takes for 2 weeks of every month.
The skin-nourishing oil with considerable health benefits.
How to HARMONIZE your skin with the sun—and avoid sunburns!

About The Speaker: Doug Simons spent over 20 years of his life living very primitively—almost wild—in the Sonoran Desert and other wilderness areas in the Western U.S., Mexico, Central and South America. Through these travels he learned herbal medicine from many indigenous cultures, including the Tarahumara, the Tohono O’Odham, and the Navajo.

Growing Most Of Your Food In Less Than 10 Hours Per Week

Justin Rhodes

Grow more than 75% of your food in less than 10 hours per week.
Discover how to get chickens to do most of your work.
How to set food production goals that are realistic.
The CHEAPEST way to boost garden yields.

About The Speaker: Justin Rhodes is a daily YouTuber and founder of Abundant Permaculture, where he teaches and inspires folks to grow more of their own food in a natural, yet productive way. He’s enjoyed many years of practicing permaculture on his 75-acre family farm near Asheville, NC.

Edible Flowers: Using Them As Food & Medicine

Kami McBride

Delicious, easy ways to add edible flowers to your everyday meals.
7 Flower-Based Recipes that you can steal to “wow” family with beautiful, tasty, flower-based appetizers, soups, side dishes, and main dishes.
Flowers that boost energy, heal skin, regenerate tissue, act as digestive aids, and more.
Which edible flowers are the easiest to grow!

About The Speaker: Kami McBride is the creator of Herbal Kitchen Remedy Solutions, an online course that demystifies the world of herbal medicine and empowers people to use their herb garden for herbal self-care in the home to prevent illness and take care of common ailments.

7 Ways To Prepare Thistle

Katrina Blair

Preparing thistle greens for an ENERGIZING, deeply nutritious juice.
The alkaline health benefits of thistle.
How to harvest & eat thistle stalk like celery (a delicacy)!
Yum… a delicious thistle chocolate truffle recipe.

About The Author: In 1998, Katrina Blair founded Turtle Lake Refuge, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the connections between personal health and wild lands. She is also the author of “The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival.” As well as “Local Wild Life: Turtle Lake Refuge’s Recipes for Living Deep.”

High BioNutrient Crops

Dan Kittredge

How to create a flourishing ecosystem on a farm.
How your taste buds indicate the nutritional value of food.

Strengthening crops to NATURALLY resist pests.

About The Speaker: Dan has a 24 acre mixed farm in MA with 2.5 acres of intensive vegetable, 8 hoop houses, pastured poultry, grass fed beef, and perennials in development. He is the founder and E.D. of the BFA and presents courses for growers regularly across the US.

Day 5: Friday November 4th

A Permaculture Approach to Entrepreneurship

Rick Sapio

Whether you’re a 100% self-employed homesteader, or generating income with a small business on the side, learn the secrets to sustaining your business long-term.
The secret to freeing time and releasing stress: how adding layers of structure simplifies everything—and empowers EVERYONE involved to make faster, better decisions.
Attracting more success: how to refine and repeat what’s already working for you.

About The Speaker: Rick Sapio is a lifelong entrepreneur who started his first business, a bicycle repair shop, after the death of his father, when he was just 13 years old. Since then he has founded more than 20 companies. His dream is to motivate people to learn and grow as passionate entrepreneurs, regardless of their age, their starting point, or their current position.

13 Ways to Use Sunlight for Delicious, Efficient Homesteading

Paul Munsen

Harness the sun’s energy to cook, bake, and roast food.
Reduce your utility bills while learning how to cook off grid.
Never worry about burning dinner again.
Naturally dehydrate fruits & vegetables using the sun.

About The Speaker: Paul Munsen is the president of Sun Ovens International. For the past 18 years, Paul has devoted his life to sharing fundamental Sun Oven Cooking techniques with people all over the world. Paul has been involved in solar cooking projects and taught solar cooking on five continents.

Chicken Whispering

Patricia Foreman

Chicken whispering 101: get inside the head of your chickens.
How to correctly pick up a chicken—so they feel safe and comfortable.
How to gently calm an agitated chicken.
12 sources of flock stress—audit your chicken coop!

About The Speaker: Patricia Foreman is a sustainable agricultural author, local foods activist, and popular speaker. For over 4 years, Pat was the co-host of the daily Chicken Whisperer Talk Show. She’s kept poultry for 25+ years, with experience ranging from backyard flocks to owning and operating a small-scale farm with free range, organic layers, broilers and turkeys.

How to Build an On-Farm Smokehouse

Meredith Leigh

How to build a smokehouse for under $400.
The #1 smoking method that Leigh recommends for ease & health benefits.
Tips for preparing your meats for smoking.
The art (and science) of controlling temperature in your smokehouse.

About The Speaker: Meredith is a farmer, butcher, chef, and author of The Ethical Meat Handbook. She has developed a farmer co-op, founded and catalyzed non-profit ventures, grown vegetables, flowers, and meats, owned and managed a retail butcher shop, and more.

The Lost Art: Yes! You Can Bake Bread

Laurie Neverman

How to save money by baking your own bread with simple, natural ingredients.
One EASY recipe that makes sandwich loafs, buns, or monkey bread.
The perfect loaf of bread: common mistakes to avoid.
How to store your homemade bread before or after baking for maximum freshness.

About The Speaker: Laurie Neverman is the creator of Common Sense Homesteading, one of the most popular homesteading sites on the Internet. Her gardening adventures include companion planting, wildcrafting (using weeds for food and medicine), vertical gardening, herbalism, and permaculture.

Day 6: Saturday November 5th

Greening The Desert Journey

Geoff Lawton

How permaculture can transform the driest, most barren landscape into a thriving food forest that feeds and supports local people.
Secrets for capturing and retaining water in areas of extreme water scarcity and insecurity.
Strategically giving nature what she needs to thrive—so that, in turn, humans can harvest what we need to support life.

About The Speaker: Geoff Lawton is a world-renowned Permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. Geoff has done thousands of permaculture designs in 6 continents and close to 50 countries around the world. And he has educated over 15,000 students in Permaculture worldwide.

10X More Efficient Heat… Anywhere!

Paul Wheaton

Can you really heat your home with 1/10 the wood?
The beauty and science of the sideways fire.
Is THIS more efficient than a wood stove?
A safe and proven wood stove you can make yourself.

About The Speaker: Paul Wheaton is the self-described tyrannical dictator of Permies.com, the largest permaculture forum on the web. As a certified master gardener and permaculture designer, he’s built an empire around what he calls “infecting brains with permaculture.” He regularly hosts workshops and natural building experiences at his property, dubbed Wheaton Labs, in western Montana.

Home Chicken Processing

Patricia Foreman

Discover the secrets to humanely, safely, sanitarily, and skillfully process your birds at home.
How to get healthy, high-quality meat from your backyard flock.
2 ways to chill meat without affecting tenderness.
HOME TRICKS: freezer packaging for long-term storage.

Garden Geeks Grow More!

Stacey Murphy

How Stacey produces 50lbs of food per week—in only 500 sq. ft.
Maintaining a 500 sq. ft. garden in 2 hours per week.
Calculate which crops are worth growing and which are cheaper at the market.
The one tool that can double, TRIPLE, maybe even QUADRUPLE your yield.

About The Speaker: Stacey Murphy founded BK Farmyards, a cooperative of urban farmers in Brooklyn dedicated to social justice through urban agriculture, and she has helped create over an acre of new farmyards in Brooklyn. She has taught 1,000s of teens and adults how to grow, harvest and prepare fresh foods.

Growing Food and Medicine in Public Spaces

Stephanie Syson

How to create edible public spaces with community support.
Why the biggest challenge is NOT money!
From design to implementation—the 50,000 ft. view.
Mobilizing people and gaining support for your vision.

About The Speaker: Stephanie Syson has over 13 years’ experience researching and practicing various forms of sustainable farming across the United States and Latin America, including over 10 years’ experience growing medicinal herbs. She is an owner of Dynamic Roots, an herbal product line as well as the lead grower for the medicinal herb gardens.

Day 7: Sunday November 6th

7 Ways to Garden and Get Paid

Justin Rohner

The top 7 ways you can garden—and get paid!
How to strategically add multiple streams of income to your property.
Investing in agriscaping: how it can pay off.
The 3 trends pushing up the value of backyard food production.

About The Speaker: Justin Rohner, founder of Agriscaping Technologies, has been helping people around the world grow their own healthy, fresh foods at home for more than 25 years. He is a passionate educator, artist, and entrepreneur committed to sharing his sustainable gardening secrets with the world.

Working With Natural Systems To Grow Abundance

Brad Lancaster

How to harvest rainwater from the streets!
Foods you can safely grow and eat from street run-off.
The 3 elevation zones that you need to harvest water.

About The Speaker: Brad Lancaster is the author of the award-winning book series, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, and he’s the co-founder of DesertHarvesters.org. His goal is to empower people to change their neighborhoods by harvesting free, on-site resources.

What It’s Like To Attend A Primitive Skills Gathering

Marjory Wildcraft

See what it’s like to step back in time, slow down, and learn primitive arts and ancestral skills.
Photos of a variety of primitive skills classes with commentary, including flint knapping, weaving, hiding tanning, holistic medicine, bow making, fire building, shelter making, and much more.
How to find a primitive skills gathering that suits your interests.

About The Speaker: Marjory Wildcraft is the founder of The Grow Network, an organization dedicated to teaching everyone how to simply and easily grow, prepare, and preserve their own food and medicine. She’s best-known for her video series “Grow Your Own Groceries,” which has over 500,000 copies in use by homesteaders, foodies, preppers, universities, missionary organizations, and more.

How to Build a Better Chicken

Jeanette Beranger

The #1 most important habit you need to succeed at chicken breeding.
How to determine the egg-laying capacity of a hen!
Secrets to breeding a large flock… with a SMALL amount of land.

About The Speaker: Jeannette Beranger is the Senior Program Manager for The Livestock Conservancy and has 30+ years’ experience working as an animal professional, using her knowledge to plan and implement breed conservation programs across the country.

Start a Sustainable Bee Keeping Revolution

Jacqueline Freeman

Where to find strong, naturally-raised bees.
Differences between wild bees and “packaged bees.”
Replacing queens is unnecessary 99% of time. Let the colony do it!
Prepping so you’re ready to catch a swarm in spring.

About The Speaker: Jacqueline Freeman is a natural bee educator and author of “Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World” – a book so popular that it’s now being translated into other languages. Susan is also the bee blogger for Mother Earth News.

Predator ID: Who Killed Your Chicken?

Justin Rhodes

How to keep your chickens safe from predators—so you can sleep at night!
The 2 chicken predators you need to worry about THE MOST!
Discover 12 ideas to keep your flock safe 100% of the time.

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