Join some of the BEST EXPERTS IN THE NATION for a FACE TO FACE, UP CLOSE & PERSONAL EXPERIENCE you won't forget!
More than 40 SESSIONS in TWO DAYS including HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS, SKILLED ARTISAN DEMOS, KIDS ACTIVITIES, and some of the BEST VENDORS IN THE COUNTRY for your HOMESTEADING RESOURCES.
Christian, libertarian, environmentalist, capitalist, lunatic farmer. He will be doing a chicken processing demo among other talks,.
Kevin and Sarah left the corporate world and moved to the Ozarks in 2016. They share their journey on YouTube with over 700k subscribers. They will be teaching on raising rabbits for meat.
Brandon will demonstrate the art of butchery and make it look and sound like poetry.
Lisa has a blog showcasing everyday life in the farmhouse; food from scratch, natural living and a handmade home. You can also find her on YouTube. She will be teaching on sourdough.
Terry is the pioneer that brought the ancient use of elderberry back into popularity.
Author Bo Brown is a local self-taught naturalist who has been an outdoor skills/wilderness survival instructor for over 30 years. His initial interest in plants was bolstered by nearly four decades of work as an avian field technician, where habitat vegetation studies required accurate plant identification..
Cooking with Wild Edibles with Rachael West (Chef, Author and Owner of Eating the Ozarks).
Zach left his job in the big city to start an off-grid homestead and has educated thousands through the years on his popular YouTube Channel, An American Homestead.
Marissa Ames is the Editorial Director for Ogden Publications, which publishes Mother Earth News, Grit, Goat Journal, Backyard Poultry, and other homesteading magazines. She volunteers for the National Grange Organization. A homesteader since childhood, she raises and preserves much of her family's food and works to preserve rare breeds o
Marissa Ames is the Editorial Director for Ogden Publications, which publishes Mother Earth News, Grit, Goat Journal, Backyard Poultry, and other homesteading magazines. She volunteers for the National Grange Organization. A homesteader since childhood, she raises and preserves much of her family's food and works to preserve rare breeds of goats, chickens, and garden vegetables. Marissa and her husband travel to Zambia, Africa to assist with sustainable farming efforts among rural villages. She spends her free time eating lunch. She will be teaching Goats 101 and Breeding Chickens for Egg Color, Sex Links and Broilers.
Mindful Farmer is a family-owned greenhouse manufacturing and farm supply company in Central Arkansa and will be speaking on Small Farm Efficiencies – The Lean Homestead
Practical ways to eliminate waste and in increase production with less effort and expense.
Mike and his wife Cara have worked over a decade to transform their rocky hillside in the Ozarks into a small but productive herb and mushroom farm that includes the straw bale house they built themselves. Mike will teach on identifying mushrooms in the wild and also cultivating your own mushrooms with some hands-on opportunities to inoculate your own log with mushroom spawn.
Cyndi is the founder/ CEO of the Ladies National Homestead Gathering and will be talking about community. She also will be sharing during lunch where ladies can get to know each other.
Ann is the face behind the brand, A Farm Girl in the Making, and the author of, The Farm Girl's Guide to Preserving the Harvest. If there were one thing you'd need to know about Ann, it is her passion for achieving and teaching others to achieve food freedom. Ann and her family farm in middle Tennessee and offer hands-on workshops for tho
Ann is the face behind the brand, A Farm Girl in the Making, and the author of, The Farm Girl's Guide to Preserving the Harvest. If there were one thing you'd need to know about Ann, it is her passion for achieving and teaching others to achieve food freedom. Ann and her family farm in middle Tennessee and offer hands-on workshops for those seeking to learn traditional skills such as food preservation, fermentation, livestock processing, herbal remedies, and farmhouse sourdough.
Joyce and her husband Gene are a home school family of eleven, with six boys and three girls and they share their life and expertise with home preservation demonstrations on their YouTube Channel. They will be demonstrating the art of Fermenting vegetables to benefit gut health and food security.
Wyatt is the Executive Director of Native Domain, a nonprofit Association helping communities put resiliency into practice. Native Domain has created and currently manages a farmer’s market, a community garden, a private food co-op, and a number of other community assets. Wyatt wrote Community Trust, about the experience of creating so
Wyatt is the Executive Director of Native Domain, a nonprofit Association helping communities put resiliency into practice. Native Domain has created and currently manages a farmer’s market, a community garden, a private food co-op, and a number of other community assets. Wyatt wrote Community Trust, about the experience of creating sovereign systems for himself and his community.
Wyatt will be sharing essential information from the book and his experience on the topics of public vs private structures and how to use both, community law, food systems, personal and land sovereignty, and connecting communities.
Kody is a wife of a veteran, mother of 6, homesteader, and homeschooler, that has devoted her life to agriculture and embracing rural living. She created and authored the Homestead Education series of homeschool curricula that includes homestead science. She is the host of The Homestead Education Podcast, which is rapidly growing in popul
Kody is a wife of a veteran, mother of 6, homesteader, and homeschooler, that has devoted her life to agriculture and embracing rural living. She created and authored the Homestead Education series of homeschool curricula that includes homestead science. She is the host of The Homestead Education Podcast, which is rapidly growing in popularity where she chats candidly about homesteading, homeschooling, and personal growth. She enjoys teaching many topics as well as bringing in some of the greatest thinkers in her field to teach her audience as well. Her teaching topic will be Teaching Homesteading for Lifelong Self-Sufficiency
Dewayne is a national speaker on all things homesteading from wildcrafting to animal husbandry. He has studied microbiology and has a degree in agriculture. Dewayne is a Cherokee citizen and as a child he spent much of his time in the Dine and Navajo Indian reservations. Dewayne will be demonstration Emergency Preparedness and also will be doing a presentation on Raising Meat Goats for profit.
Patrick Byers is Commercial Horticulture Field Specialist with University of Missouri
Extension, serving 9 counties in southwest Missouri. His educational background includes horticulture degrees from the Universities of Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Patrick’s 33-year career has touched all aspects of horticulture, and his current job
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Patrick Byers is Commercial Horticulture Field Specialist with University of Missouri
Extension, serving 9 counties in southwest Missouri. His educational background includes horticulture degrees from the Universities of Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Patrick’s 33-year career has touched all aspects of horticulture, and his current job
focuses on advisement to fruit and vegetable farmers with the goal of supporting sustainability and profitability. His passions include berries (especially elderberry),garlic, native fruits and nuts, hops and orchids. He will be speaking on Starting an Orchard in the Ozarks, including PawPaws and Figs.
Ryan Mihalik is a professional cheesemaker with nearly a decade of professional experience working on dairies across the US, Europe, and Australia. Born and raised here is the Ozarks, he got his first milking and cheesemaking experience at a local dairy and made cheese at home for several years before deciding to pursue it as a full-time
Ryan Mihalik is a professional cheesemaker with nearly a decade of professional experience working on dairies across the US, Europe, and Australia. Born and raised here is the Ozarks, he got his first milking and cheesemaking experience at a local dairy and made cheese at home for several years before deciding to pursue it as a full-time career. He spent 6 years as head cheesemaker at a sheep dairy on the central coast of California making high end cheeses and yogurt for farmers markets, stores and restaurants in the San Fransisco Bay area. His passion the craft has taken him to dairies around the world, apprenticing with expert cheesemakers in France, Italy, Austria, Tasmania, and beyond. He is now the head cheesemaker at Terrell Creek Farm, a local goat dairy. This wealth of experience gives him unique insight into translating professional methods and precautions onto the home cheesemaking scale.
Ingrid is a Master herbalist who believes that every herb and seed is a GIFT from GOD. Her study of herbs, essential oils, holistic living and the like has been an on-going 27-year passion that she LOVES to share with others. Ingrid, her husband (pastor and best freind), and their nine children live on a 14-acre homestead in the MO Ozarks
Ingrid is a Master herbalist who believes that every herb and seed is a GIFT from GOD. Her study of herbs, essential oils, holistic living and the like has been an on-going 27-year passion that she LOVES to share with others. Ingrid, her husband (pastor and best freind), and their nine children live on a 14-acre homestead in the MO Ozarks, where they raise free-range chickens, guineas, ducks, dairy goats and meat rabbits.
Their family loves growing and raising their own food, foraging in their woods, cooking from scratch and preserving their harvests! They also operate an online business, making and selling organic elderberry syrup and DIY kits, organic loose leaf tea blends, coffee alternative, alcohol-free herbal tinctures, magnesium lotion, and more.
Hopefully you can come to know them and be encouraged by them!
Connie Jacoby, N.D., a 28 year Nursing professional disenchanted with the progression of western medicine. She chose to return to the paths of health and wellness of our forefathers and dedicated to provide the highest quality products economically with sound research and development Education and affordability being the primary concer
Connie Jacoby, N.D., a 28 year Nursing professional disenchanted with the progression of western medicine. She chose to return to the paths of health and wellness of our forefathers and dedicated to provide the highest quality products economically with sound research and development Education and affordability being the primary concern.
She will be teaching on Cancer and What You Need to Know
If your product or service is a great resource or of interest to Homesteaders then you will want to come join us at the Ozarks Homesteading Expo at Webster County Fairgrounds in Marshfield, Mo.
Please reach us at ozarkshomesteding@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
We love pets but please leave them at home. The close proximately in tents, the heat, and the livestock present do not make it a great environment for pets.
Food trucks will be available (and we have a lot more this year after our unfortunate cancellation of several last year). Some of the food trucks have made improvements for faster service and are even offering sack lunch pre-orders and a pre-order pickup line. You are certainly welcome to bring your own food, however, we ask that you leave coolers outside. There is a great, shade park right across the street that also offers picnic tables and even grills. Other fast food options are just 5 minutes away, as well.
Sorry, there is no room for camping at the fairgrounds. Consider Natural Farming Campgrounds or HipCamp.
Enter main parking on the Garst Street south of the fairgrounds. When that is full there is a parking lot entrance one block south of there where signs will direct and we will try to offer shuttle. There is also parking across the road in the city park and along with side streets. Handicap parking will be available, watch for signs.
Seating is provided in the speaker areas but you are welcome to bring your own chairs in the case of overflow seating or if you want to sit in the shade.
Children should not be left unsupervised. If your children are patient enough to sit through one to one and a half hour presentations without disrupting other attendees then we would love for them to come learn alongside you. (Children left to play in close proximity to speaking areas need to keep noise level/playing down in consideration of attendees trying to listen) We will have some activities/workshops for children but parents will need to be nearby. We may also have some small animals for them to engage with. Parents are asked not to allow their children to disturb nature at the fairgrounds including trees/tree limbs, wild flowers or other botanicals and to be nature conscientious if wading in the creek.
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