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2023 featured speakers - watch as we add more!!!
Joel Salatin Polyface Farm
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Kevin and Sarah Living Traditions Homestead
Christian, libertarian, environmentalist, capitalist, lunatic farmer. He will be doing a chicken processing demo among other talks,.
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. They will be teaching on raising rabbits for meat.
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.
Lisa Bass Farmhouse on Boone
Lisa Bass Farmhouse on Boone
Lisa Bass Farmhouse on Boone
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 Durham River Hills Harvest Elderberry
Lisa Bass Farmhouse on Boone
Lisa Bass Farmhouse on Boone
Terry is the pioneer that brought the ancient use of elderberry back into popularity.
Bo Brown Foraging the Ozarks
Lisa Bass Farmhouse on Boone
Bo Brown Foraging the Ozarks
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..
Rachael West Eating the Ozarks
Marissa Ames Editorial Director Ogden Publications
Rachael West Eating the Ozarks
Cooking with Wild Edibles with Rachael West (Chef, Author and Owner of Eating the Ozarks).
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.
Sean Pessarra The Mindful Farmer
Mike Snyder Wildwise Botanicals
Mike Snyder Wildwise Botanicals
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 Snyder Wildwise Botanicals
Mike Snyder Wildwise Botanicals
Mike Snyder Wildwise Botanicals
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
Mike Snyder Wildwise Botanicals
Cyndi Ball National Ladies Homestead Gathering
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 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 demonstration Emergency Preparedness 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
Ingrid Shewmake ShewCrew Homestead
Ingrid Shewmake ShewCrew Homestead
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 Shewmake ShewCrew Homestead
Ingrid Shewmake ShewCrew Homestead
Ingrid Shewmake ShewCrew Homestead
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, ND Wise Women Botanicals
Ingrid Shewmake ShewCrew Homestead
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
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