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2023 featured speakers
Joel Salatin Polyface Farm
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Joel Salatin calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in th
Joel Salatin calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. Salatin is the editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer, granddaddy catalyst for the grass farming movemen and is the author of many books including POLYFACE MICRO – Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale Follow Joel at www.polyfacefarms.com
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Kevin and Sarah left the corporate world and moved to the Ozarks in 2016. They share their journey on YouTube with over 700k subscribers. While this couple can talk on a wide range of topics they will be teaching on raising rabbits for meat. They will have a Q&A session afterwards.
Brandon Sheard The Farmstead Meatsmith
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Brandon Sheard The Farmstead Meatsmith
Brandon will demonstrate the art of butchery and make it look and sound like poetry. Farmstead Meatsmith is the only abattoir, butchery and educational operation of our kind in the country. Brandon says: meatsmithery appeals particularly to small farmers, homesteaders, their interns and anyone enthused by localized agrarianism, which inc
Brandon will demonstrate the art of butchery and make it look and sound like poetry. Farmstead Meatsmith is the only abattoir, butchery and educational operation of our kind in the country. Brandon says: meatsmithery appeals particularly to small farmers, homesteaders, their interns and anyone enthused by localized agrarianism, which includes urbanites with zero agricultural experience and even vegetarians who object not to meat, but tormented livestock.
Lisa Bass Farmhouse on Boone
Shawn and Beth Dougherty The Independent FarmsteadCANCELED DUE TO DEATH OF CLOSE FRIEND
Shawn and Beth Dougherty The Independent FarmsteadCANCELED DUE TO DEATH OF CLOSE FRIEND
Lisa has a blog showcasing everyday life in the farmhouse; food from scratch, natural living and a handmade home. She grew up in the country on an elk farm in Missouri. After spending one year in St. Louis for college, she returned to rural Missouri convinced that urban life wasn't for her. You can also find her on YouTube. She will be teaching on sourdough.
Shawn and Beth Dougherty The Independent FarmsteadCANCELED DUE TO DEATH OF CLOSE FRIEND
Shawn and Beth Dougherty The Independent FarmsteadCANCELED DUE TO DEATH OF CLOSE FRIEND
Shawn and Beth Dougherty The Independent FarmsteadCANCELED DUE TO DEATH OF CLOSE FRIEND
Shawn and Beth Dougherty have been farming together since the 1980’s, for the last twenty years in eastern Ohio, where they manage 90 acres, much of it designated by the state as ‘not suitable for agriculture’. Using intensive grazing as the primary source of food energy, they raise dairy and beef cows, sheep, farm-fed hogs, and a variet
Shawn and Beth Dougherty have been farming together since the 1980’s, for the last twenty years in eastern Ohio, where they manage 90 acres, much of it designated by the state as ‘not suitable for agriculture’. Using intensive grazing as the primary source of food energy, they raise dairy and beef cows, sheep, farm-fed hogs, and a variety of poultry, producing most of the food, feed and fertility for humans and animals, on the farm. Concerned that farming is so often dependent upon multiple off-farm resources, from feed, fuel and fertilizer to water and electricity, their ongoing project is to identify and test the means by which farming was done for centuries with a minimum of off-farm inputs. Their research has led them to identify grass conversion, especially the daily conversion of grass into milk by dairy ruminants, as a key to whole-farm sustainability, combined with the integrated nutrient feed-backs that are possible with a community of diverse animal and plant species, domestic and native. They are the authors of The Independent Farmstead,
Bo Brown Foraging the Ozarks
Shawn and Beth Dougherty The Independent FarmsteadCANCELED DUE TO DEATH OF CLOSE FRIEND
Bo Brown Foraging the Ozarks
Bo Brown is the Owner of First Earth Wilderness School, and Author of Foraging the Ozarks. Bo has been teaching outdoor skills for nearly 30 years. He is a songbird field biologist and field research technician. He conducts programs for Stone Age wilderness survival skills, and Natural Education at his schools property along the Niangua
Bo Brown is the Owner of First Earth Wilderness School, and Author of Foraging the Ozarks. Bo has been teaching outdoor skills for nearly 30 years. He is a songbird field biologist and field research technician. He conducts programs for Stone Age wilderness survival skills, and Natural Education at his schools property along the Niangua River. He also leads weekly primitive skills and foraging demonstrations at Dogwood Canyon Nature Park, a Johnny Morris Property.
Rachael West Eating the Ozarks
Marissa Ames Editorial Director Ogden Publications
Rachael West Eating the Ozarks
Rachael West is the Owner, Lead Instructor and Founder of Eating the Ozarks. She is an Expert Forager, Wild Foods Chef, Certified Herbalist and Author of Wild Foraged an educational culinary cookbook. She's taught wild foods in the Ozarks for the past decade working with KOLR-10 (biweekly Wednesday's), the Missouri Master Gardeners, Vario
Rachael West is the Owner, Lead Instructor and Founder of Eating the Ozarks. She is an Expert Forager, Wild Foods Chef, Certified Herbalist and Author of Wild Foraged an educational culinary cookbook. She's taught wild foods in the Ozarks for the past decade working with KOLR-10 (biweekly Wednesday's), the Missouri Master Gardeners, Various Herbalist Societies, Homeschool Groups, Private Land Owners, Local Library's, Springfield Community Gardens, Springfield Art Museum and more.
Zachery Bauer An American Homestead
Marissa Ames Editorial Director Ogden Publications
Rachael West 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 Editorial Director Ogden Publications
Marissa Ames Editorial Director Ogden Publications
Marissa Ames Editorial Director Ogden Publications
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.
Terry Durham Elderberry Farmer, River Hills Harvest
Terry Durham Elderberry Farmer, River Hills Harvest
Terry Durham Elderberry Farmer, River Hills Harvest
Terry started his farming career on a .25 acre plot growing organic vegetables for stores and farmers market in 1978. He joined the organic farming movement in 1987, becoming active on the board of Ozark Organic Growers Association. He then co-founded Missouri Organic Association (renamed Mid-America Organic Association), holding the offi
Terry started his farming career on a .25 acre plot growing organic vegetables for stores and farmers market in 1978. He joined the organic farming movement in 1987, becoming active on the board of Ozark Organic Growers Association. He then co-founded Missouri Organic Association (renamed Mid-America Organic Association), holding the office of President several times. Terry grew food for Missouri’s second CSA, which served 90 families from 1989 to 1995. Terry became active in the Elderberry Improvement Project as a donator of germplasm. His elderberry plantation was among the first to use the recommended culture methods for varieties developed from wild Missouri elderberry plants.. Subsequently, he raised the largest elderberry acreage in the United States. Terry spends a great deal of time recruiting growers and teaching them how to grow and harvest elderberries and how to prepare their crop for market. He has developed two unique products using a proprietary process under the River Hills Harvest label. He travels across the U.S. sharing the economic opportunities presented by elderberries and sharing his knowledge about growing, harvesting and selling their crop to farmers. At home, he gives farm tours, tastings and sponsors Elderberry Mentoring Workshops, as well as performing custom planting and management work.
Mike Snyder Wildwise Botanicals
Terry Durham Elderberry Farmer, River Hills Harvest
Terry Durham Elderberry Farmer, River Hills Harvest
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 Ball National Ladies Homestead Gathering
Terry Durham Elderberry Farmer, River Hills Harvest
Cyndi Ball National Ladies Homestead Gathering
Cyndi is the founder/ CEO of the Ladies National Homestead Gathering. The NLHG provides a welcoming environment where women can share knowledge and celebrate victories. NLHG is not about acres of land but rather about doing homesteading activities wherever you live. We have urban, suburban, and rural chapters nationwide. We help women con
Cyndi is the founder/ CEO of the Ladies National Homestead Gathering. The NLHG provides a welcoming environment where women can share knowledge and celebrate victories. NLHG is not about acres of land but rather about doing homesteading activities wherever you live. We have urban, suburban, and rural chapters nationwide. We help women connect in their own areas to share knowledge, build communities, and grow friendships. All women are welcome to our Gatherings who have a dream or desire to be more self-reliant. Whether their homesteads are in the planning phase or already established, all women have something to contribute or gain from coming together. Cyndi will be talking about The Benefits of Authentic Community. She also will be sharing during lunch where ladies can get to know each other and find others in your community.
Ann Accetta-Scott A Farm Girl In The Making
Joyce Morris Morris' Patch of Heaven Homestead
Joyce Morris Morris' Patch of Heaven Homestead
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 Morris Morris' Patch of Heaven Homestead
Joyce Morris Morris' Patch of Heaven Homestead
Joyce Morris Morris' Patch of Heaven Homestead
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 Gober Native Domain
Joyce Morris Morris' Patch of Heaven Homestead
Wyatt Gober Native Domain
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 Hanner The Homestead Education
Dewayne Hall Red Feather Farms
Dewayne Hall Red Feather Farms
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 Hall Red Feather Farms
Dewayne Hall Red Feather Farms
Dewayne Hall Red Feather Farms
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 teaching on Emergency Preparedness in the home and
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 teaching on Emergency Preparedness in the home and on the road and also will be doing a presentation on Raising Meat Goats for profit.
Patrick Byers Horticulturist MU Extension
Dewayne Hall Red Feather Farms
Patrick Byers Horticulturist MU Extension
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 Cheesemaking
Sean Pessara The Mindful Farmer
Sean Pessara The Mindful Farmer
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.
Sean Pessara The Mindful Farmer
Sean Pessara The Mindful Farmer
Sean Pessara The Mindful Farmer
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.
Connie Jacoby, ND Wise Women Botanicals
Sean Pessara The Mindful Farmer
Connie Jacoby, ND Wise Women Botanicals
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
Samantha Crooks Livestock Guardian Dogs
Mike Nocks White Harvest Seed Company
Samantha Crooks Livestock Guardian Dogs
Samantha Crooks is a Livestock Guardian Dog Educator and is passionate about sharing how dogs are used to protect her farm. Her and her husband, Corey are raising their four children on their 500 acre family farm in Missouri with the goal of self sufficiency and they are doing things as naturally as possible.
To learn more about Livestock
Samantha Crooks is a Livestock Guardian Dog Educator and is passionate about sharing how dogs are used to protect her farm. Her and her husband, Corey are raising their four children on their 500 acre family farm in Missouri with the goal of self sufficiency and they are doing things as naturally as possible.
To learn more about Livestock Guardian Dogs and all of the animals they protect head to @thecrooksfamilyfarm on Instagram!
Vincent Finelli USA Prepares.com
Mike Nocks White Harvest Seed Company
Samantha Crooks Livestock Guardian Dogs
Vincent Finelli, Nationally Syndicated Radio Broadcaster and Missouri Cattle Farmer, is the Original Survival Economist. Rule 1 - Start your own Preparedness Business. Rule 2 - Never have someone else prepare your taxes. Since 2012, he has taught over 6,200 one-hour Preparedness Classes and this course will teach you how you can easily sa
Vincent Finelli, Nationally Syndicated Radio Broadcaster and Missouri Cattle Farmer, is the Original Survival Economist. Rule 1 - Start your own Preparedness Business. Rule 2 - Never have someone else prepare your taxes. Since 2012, he has taught over 6,200 one-hour Preparedness Classes and this course will teach you how you can easily save thousands of dollars per year, while preparing for what’s to come. It is the same thing that the rich do - The IRS publishes how to do it - and it costs you nothing. This class is absolutely free. If you can only attend one seminar this year, this might be it.
Mike Nocks White Harvest Seed Company
Mike Nocks White Harvest Seed Company
Mike Nocks White Harvest Seed Company
Mike Nocks has spent over 15 years gaining experience working in the seed industry. Mike and his family utilized this experience to open White Harvest Seed Company located in the Ozarks of Missouri in 2010.The Nocks family have worked every aspect of the seed industry including: growing, maintaining, harvesting, seed storage, and packagi
Mike Nocks has spent over 15 years gaining experience working in the seed industry. Mike and his family utilized this experience to open White Harvest Seed Company located in the Ozarks of Missouri in 2010.The Nocks family have worked every aspect of the seed industry including: growing, maintaining, harvesting, seed storage, and packaging.
For Mike and his family, prepping is currently a lifelong journey. They reside on 40 acres and live the self-reliance lifestyle, using off grid solar power, water supplied by an Amish-made windmill (which they helped erect), and their gardens have expanded yearly to help supply their food needs. Raising animals for food is also a high priority of their self-sustaining lifestyle.
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins Home Sweet Bees
Lissa Teague The Vintage Tomato & Busy Bee
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins Home Sweet Bees
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is an award-winning author, TEDx speaker, Certified Master Beekeeper and Master Gardener Emeritus. She was one of the 11 collaborative University of Missouri authors who developed Missouri’s Master Pollinator Steward program, designed to help non-beekeepers help pollinators.
She founded a non-profit bee club in 2014
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is an award-winning author, TEDx speaker, Certified Master Beekeeper and Master Gardener Emeritus. She was one of the 11 collaborative University of Missouri authors who developed Missouri’s Master Pollinator Steward program, designed to help non-beekeepers help pollinators.
She founded a non-profit bee club in 2014 when students of her classes asked for support to become beekeepers.
She is now the chair of the Great Plains Master Beekeeping Governing Committee, a partnership between 7 Midwest states to offer open teaching apiaries to beginning beekeepers.
Her one acre apiary in Rolla, Mo. on the side of a limestone hill, where her neighbors said nothing would grow, is now a Monarch Way Station, Certified Wildlife Habitat and working apiary.
Blogs: homesweetbees.com and gardeningcharlotte.com.
More at charlotteekkerwiggins.com.
Ingrid Shewmake ShewCrew Homestead
Lissa Teague The Vintage Tomato & Busy Bee
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins Home Sweet Bees
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!
Lissa Teague The Vintage Tomato & Busy Bee
Lissa Teague The Vintage Tomato & Busy Bee
Lissa Teague The Vintage Tomato & Busy Bee
Lissa lives in far Southwest Missouri and owns the Vintage Tomato and Busy Bee where she also lovingly houses a seed bank, caring, sharing and preserving seed from all over the world. She has great stories to tell about starting a seed bank and how you can be involved in preserving heirloom seed that could have been lost forever. She will
Lissa lives in far Southwest Missouri and owns the Vintage Tomato and Busy Bee where she also lovingly houses a seed bank, caring, sharing and preserving seed from all over the world. She has great stories to tell about starting a seed bank and how you can be involved in preserving heirloom seed that could have been lost forever. She will share her knowledge of best practices of saving your own seed and storing it. If you have some rare varieties or heirloom seed passed down from your family bring it with you and maybe you can do some swapping with her or others. .
Maranda Weathermon Oddball Homestead and Shearing
Maranda Weathermon Oddball Homestead and Shearing
Maranda Weathermon Oddball Homestead and Shearing
Maranda Weathermon and her husband Pietro "Monti" Monticelli have been working towards self sufficiency for over 15 years. They work a small Homestead in Southern Missouri filled with sheep, milk cows, milk goats chickens and gardens. Despide loving it all they are most passionate about sheep. Maranda and Monti lead their family shearin
Maranda Weathermon and her husband Pietro "Monti" Monticelli have been working towards self sufficiency for over 15 years. They work a small Homestead in Southern Missouri filled with sheep, milk cows, milk goats chickens and gardens. Despide loving it all they are most passionate about sheep. Maranda and Monti lead their family shearing crew in shearing all over the Ozarks. They love helping budding shepherds choose their breed of sheep, improve their husbandry, how to use the whole animal and care for these wonderful creatures. They will be sharing their knowledge, giving tips on shearing as well has helping troubleshoot shearing equipment.
Bill Wehlage Bacon Acres Farm
Maranda Weathermon Oddball Homestead and Shearing
Maranda Weathermon Oddball Homestead and Shearing
Bill Wehlage and his wife Karen are passionate about the Registered Tamworth Pigs they raise at Bacon Acres Farm in Northeastern Oklahoma. This pasture operation runs 16 sows and two different bloodline boars, which have allowed the farm to build and ship Tamworth breeding stock, feeder pigs, and complete turnkey herds to 37 states. Bil
Bill Wehlage and his wife Karen are passionate about the Registered Tamworth Pigs they raise at Bacon Acres Farm in Northeastern Oklahoma. This pasture operation runs 16 sows and two different bloodline boars, which have allowed the farm to build and ship Tamworth breeding stock, feeder pigs, and complete turnkey herds to 37 states. Bill is known for carefully working with new growers, assisting them with the setup and the normal and unexpected stresses of swine husbandry. His philosophy is 1) do good prep work, 2) add great pigs, 3) follow thru with a consistent program, 4) stay as natural as possible, and 5) let the pigs do the rest. Learn more about Bill and the Tamworth Pigs at www.baconacresfarm.com.
David McDaris Missouri Wind & Solar
Maranda Weathermon Oddball Homestead and Shearing
David McDaris Missouri Wind & Solar
David McDaris has been in the building and construction industry for over 25 years. For the past 6 years, that focus has been on wind and solar, designing small DIY systems to large setups for off-grid living. David appears regularly on the Missouri Wind and Solar podcast and teaches the hands-on workshop. With a lifetime experience wor
David McDaris has been in the building and construction industry for over 25 years. For the past 6 years, that focus has been on wind and solar, designing small DIY systems to large setups for off-grid living. David appears regularly on the Missouri Wind and Solar podcast and teaches the hands-on workshop. With a lifetime experience working with cattle, he's a fantastic resource for the farmer or homesteader that needs power where it's otherwise hard to get. He's got a true passion for pond aeration but has a wealth of knowledge in all things wind and solar. David will be demonstrating the basics on how to size and install a small solar-powered system and explain the benefits of energy independence. Topics: Going Solar for Your Well
What it means to be off grid vs hybrid
Joe Putnam Premier 1 Supplies
Jordan Chell Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Jordan Chell Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Joe Putnam works at Premier 1 Supplies as their copywriter. He frequently appears in Premier’s instructional how-to videos on YouTube. Putnam can be found at farm industry events, where his gentle, hands-on approach makes even the most complex farming topics simple. When not at work, Putnam spends time on his family’s 40-acre farmstead in
Joe Putnam works at Premier 1 Supplies as their copywriter. He frequently appears in Premier’s instructional how-to videos on YouTube. Putnam can be found at farm industry events, where his gentle, hands-on approach makes even the most complex farming topics simple. When not at work, Putnam spends time on his family’s 40-acre farmstead in southeast Iowa. There the family raises cattle, sheep, poultry, multiple gardens, corn, hay, and oats. He will be talking about electric fencing.
Jordan Chell Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Jordan Chell Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Jordan Chell Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Jordan Chell is Farm Manager at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. Farming is in his DNA. He is a third-generation farmer born and raised in southern California, where his great-grandfather, an Indian immigrant, built a very successful family farming business in the southern California desert. When his father began contract farming vegetables,
Jordan Chell is Farm Manager at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. Farming is in his DNA. He is a third-generation farmer born and raised in southern California, where his great-grandfather, an Indian immigrant, built a very successful family farming business in the southern California desert. When his father began contract farming vegetables, and later table grapes and strawberries, in the Bakersfield and Oxnard plains, Jordan was right by his side. He has a wealth of experience in large-scale, hydroponic, and organic farming, including working as grower for Driscoll’s genetic breeding and research program and as the head organic grower for Hollandia Produce, the West Coast’s largest producer of hydroponic butter and cut-leaf lettuce. He also founded a company that helped commercial berry growers humanely control Australian crows, a major nuisance. Jordan has implemented many innovative growing systems at Baker Creek and managed a major expansion of the company’s greenhouses and gardens. Jordan will be speaking on "Growing Your Best Ozarks Garden"
Ted Stiritz New Woodlands Farm
Ted Stiritz New Woodlands Farm
Ted Stiritz New Woodlands Farm
Ted Stiritz will help you plan and implement earthworks projects on your farm and homestead. He lives and works in Arkansas with his wife and four children.
Curtis Millsap. Millsap Farms
Ted Stiritz New Woodlands Farm
Ted Stiritz New Woodlands Farm
Curtis Millsap, along with his wife Sarah, family, and farm team, operate Millsap Farms–a 25-acre diversified Vegetable and Flower farm, four miles north of Springfield MO. They use organic practices, and offer their produce for sale through a year-round, 225 member CSA, farmers market, online sales, and restaurant sales. They have been
Curtis Millsap, along with his wife Sarah, family, and farm team, operate Millsap Farms–a 25-acre diversified Vegetable and Flower farm, four miles north of Springfield MO. They use organic practices, and offer their produce for sale through a year-round, 225 member CSA, farmers market, online sales, and restaurant sales. They have been farming this land for 15 years.
Sarah and Curtis and their crew are passionate about establishing community bonds with eaters, farmers, and learners in their region, and are always on the lookout for ways to build these relationships. Curtis has a passion for teaching and finds time to share his knowledge with the next generation of farmers through internships and apprenticeships.
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