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2 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com CONTENTS A LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Sponsors and Partners 4 Hands-On Demonstrations 6 Welcome to the Mother Earth News Fair, FiberFest, Mother Earth News Stage 7 and UnCapped 2018! When we launched our first event in the fall of 2010 at Seven Springs Common Market Co-op Stage 8 Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania, the goal was simple – bring Mother Grit Stage 9 Earth News to life. Heirloom Gardener Stage 10 Over the years since, we have grown to half a dozen locations across Homestead Hustle Stage 11 the country, and developed friendships and lasting relationships with The Livestock Conservancy Stage 12 dozens of presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, and thousands of attendees. Mother Earth Living Stage 13 We are so happy to bring this joint event to Frederick, Maryland, for the first time in collaboration with our friends and colleagues at the Frederick Natural Building Demonstrations 14 News-Post! One of the best things about our work here Mother Earth News is Yanmar Sustainable Agriculture Stage 15 sharing time with our passionate and engaged community. Your energy and imagination lead us on one Kids’ Treehouse Stage 16 adventure after another. Map 18 This weekend promises to be inspiring, stimulating, and fun. People all over the world are looking Saturday Schedule 20 for solutions to the sustainability puzzle, and the participants here are the sorts of people who help, Sunday Schedule 21 in myriad ways, to make our existence on this miraculous planet not only ecologically sound but Uncapped 22 also prosperous and enjoyable. I would like to extend my personal thanks to the many supportive organizations that have invested FiberFest 23 their time and effort into joining us at this event, and the many innovative exhibitors who have chosen Exhibitor Demonstrations 28 to participate. A special thanks to our title sponsors: Common Market Co-Op, Visit Frederick, and Exhibitors by Name 30 Yanmar. We are also extremely grateful to the extraordinary individuals who have agreed to join us as Exhibitors by Location 35 speakers. They represent some of today’s most dedicated and knowledgeable experts in the realm of Food 37 sustainability and conscientious lifestyles, and we are honored by their commitment. Marketplace 38 Sincerely, WORKSHOPS 7
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The Common Marketbelieves that, together, we can Visit Frederick is the recognized destination marketing Yanmar, started in 1912, has from its very beginning create a better future. This cooperatively owned, organization for Frederick County, Maryland. It operates been dedicated to the small farmer. Their mission has natural-foods grocery store is committed to providing the Frederick Visitor Center and related programs. always been to support and make the daily life of the the highest-quality, freshest food available. Open to all, Frederick County is conveniently located less than an rural farmer working in his fields easier. Today, Yanmar they’re a community-owned cooperative that proudly hour from Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and nearby is known for several product lines, including diesel offers local and organic produce; humanely raised, Gettysburg, Antietam, and Harpers Ferry. engines, but their agricultural equipment is known as hand-cut meats; and thousands of other natural products www.VisitFrederick.org being among the best in the world. Yanmar tractors for the good of people, pets, and the planet. Common harness immense power with great efficiency, making Market shoppers support the work of local farms and the daily routine of working on the land not only more organizations dedicated to making a better world for all. manageable, but also more enjoyable. www.CommonMarket.coop www.YanmarTractor.com Booth #2100, 2200 Booth #250
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 5 ONLY Get your hands dirty and learn $15 new homesteading skills! EACH Led by our sustainability experts, these workshops are designed to demonstrate how easy it is to create health care products, make food from scratch, and so much more!
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Hands-on Workshops located in building 9 Mastering Kimchi Christopher Shockey – Storey Publishing Mastering Spice Blends for Making Sausage and Dry Rubs Who doesn’t love hot and spicy kimchi? This Korean form of vegetable fermentation has many faces and Meredith Leigh – New Society Publishers flavors. Part of an ancient art now experiencing a renaissance in the United States, this nutrient-dense Author, butcher, and cook Meredith Leigh immerses audiences in a world of flavor. In this hands-on food represents a delicious example of the rewards that preservation yields. This class aims to demystify session, participants learn the perfect ratio for seasoning homemade sausage and dry rub. They discover this safe culinary tradition, one step at a time. Learn how to make a kimchi that is just right for your how to pick from a host of spices and herbs to create their own sausage-seasoning blend. The live taste buds, be it mild or five-alarm heat. Best of all, take home your creation and watch it ferment on sausage demo and tasting during the class focuses on one spice blend. Attendees leave with ideas for your counter. Item #8820 | $15 new flavor combinations to try, knowledge about buying and storing bulk spices and herbs, fail-proof Saturday | 10:00-11:00 a.m. ratios for their own seasoning blends and rubs, cooking tips, and pro techniques for marinating and making sausage. Item #8828 | $15 Seed-Cleaning Techniques and Tips Sunday | 10:00-11:00 a.m. Irena Hollowell, Gryphon Corpus, and Sappho Heavey – Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Irena Hollowell, Gryphon Corpus, and Sappho Heavey show you how to clean seeds you’ve harvested Healthy Homemade Mayonnaise in your garden for good germination rates and shelf life. This workshop focuses on the threshing, Patricia Foreman – The Gossamer Foundation winnowing, and screening of seeds that mature in dry pods or seedheads (such as beans, okra, and Salad dressings make salads delicious and healthy. Once you create the basic mayonnaise, you’re set lettuce), and participants can try their own hand at winnowing. Hollowell also briefly touches on the to whip up any dressing of your choice: ranch, blue cheese, Caesar, and more! Learn which oils, fermentation of seeds that mature wet. These methods are applicable to seeds of flowers and herbs, as emulsifiers, herbs, and spices are superior for human nutrition and taste. When you understand well as vegetables. Take home handouts and seed samples. Item #8823 | $15 the basic food chemistry of emulsions, you can make sauces, gravies, smoothies, and other gourmet Saturday | 11:30-12:30 p.m. delights. By the end of this hands-on workshop, you will have made mayonnaise to take home. Item #8824 | $15 Learn to Churn: Buttermaking Sunday | 11:30-12:30 p.m. Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Creamery Learn how easy it is to make your own delicious butter. Whether you slather it on toast, saute veggies, Make Your Own Sourdough Starter or use it in baked goods, you just can’t beat the taste of handcrafted butter. Item #8819 | $15 Victoria Miller – New Society Publishers Saturday | 1:00-1:30 p.m. Sourdough starter, activated by wild yeast, can be used for making a lot more than just loaf breads and pizza! Experienced and passionate sourdough baker Victoria Miller, author of the new book From Oyster Mushroom Cultivation No-knead to Sourdough: A simpler approach to handmade bread (advance copies available at the FAIR!) Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain provides a hands-on experience in which participants learn to make and maintain their own sourdough Tradd Cotter shows you how to cultivate your very own oyster mushrooms! Item #8822 | $15 starter to take home and use for making bread or pizza. Item #8827 | $15 Saturday | 2:00-3:00 p.m. Sunday | 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Hand-Stitching Leather Make Your Own Hard Cider Dennis Biswell – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Christopher Shockey – Storey Publishing Learn to make three leather stitches: blanket, saddle, and whip stitch (and find out when each is used). You’ve heard the saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” but did you know you can get Attendees receive a kit that includes the leather pieces to make a 4-inch-by-6-inch pouch, needles, some of those same antioxidant benefits in a pint of your own hard cider? Hard cider has been made artificial sinew, and instruction on how to sew the pouch together using the three stitches. in America since the 1700s, and today it is enjoying a long-earned revival. It’s also a simple and Item #8826 | $15 inexpensive process to learn. Hear all the tips and tricks for re-creating your favorite commercial hard Saturday | 3:30-4:30 p.m. cider at home, starting with your first cider from this class. Item #8825 | $15 Sunday | 3:30-4:30 p.m. Make Your Own Herbal Bonbons Maria Noel Groves – Wintergreen Botanicals Enjoy herbal medicine in a tasty, satisfying snack! In this workshop, Maria Noel Groves shows you how to mix and roll herbal powders into nut butter and honey. Learn how to easily craft your own bonbons for energy, stress support, longevity, vitality, heart health, cognition, nutrition, and more! Purchase Your Extra Pass to Item #8821 | $15 Saturday | 5:00-6:00 p.m. These Hands-on Workshops at the Bookstore during the FAIR or at MotherEarthNews.com/store!
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Secret Organic Gardening Hacks That Natural Stress Relief and Energizing Herbs Perma-What? How to Create a Homestead Will Blow Your Mind Maria Noel Groves – Wintergreen Botanicals Paradise with Permaculture Shawna Coronado – www.ShawnaCoronado.com Who couldn’t use a little less stress and more energy? Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Landscapes Shawna Coronado is an author, columnist, blogger, Learn about how useful herbs can be for this. Registered clinical What is permaculture and can it help us to create a more photographer, media host, and brand ambassador in the realms herbalist Maria Noel Groves runs Wintergreen Botanicals, an herbal sustainable future? Jessi Bloom shares step-by-step instructions, of green lifestyle living, organic gardening, and low-cost cuisine clinic and education center. Certified by Michael Moore’s Southwest plus her favorite tips, inspirations, and great plants for beautiful who campaigns for social good. Coronado teaches eco-friendly School of Botanical Medicine, Groves is a registered professional and abundant homesteads and lives! Bloom is a best-selling author, solutions to improve any garden. Discover clever ways to upcycle herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild and has also completed award-winning ecological landscape designer, and speaker. She owns everyday items in your garden in order to save your pennies and Rosemary Gladstar’s advanced training program and Lichenwood N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Landscapes, based near Seattle, which is save the environment. Each hack is natural or organic and easy Herbals’ flower essence practitioner training. In this workshop, known as an innovator and leader in the fields of permaculture, to accomplish in the garden, and they will give you creative she helps audiences choose from the myriad of stress-busting and sustainable landscape design, construction, and land management. insight on how you can grow for very little money. Coronado energizing adaptogen herbs to pick out the best ones for your Her work has been recognized by government agencies and demonstrates each tip with full-color photos and tales from her specific needs. She covers several herbs, including brain-boosting industry organizations, and makes headlines in national media. creative and wacky home garden, which is making a difference gotu kola, calm-energizing ashwagandha, zippy rhodiola, and Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. in her community and for her family. blood-sugar balancing holy basil. She also shares safety information Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. and which of these herbs grow easily in northeastern gardens. Book Signing Sunday 3:00-3:30 p.m. Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Book Signing Sunday 3:00-3:30 p.m.
Natural Organic Pest Control Introduction to Charcuterie Pastured Poultry Profit$ Howard Garrett – Dirt Doctor Meredith Leigh – New Society Publishers Joel Salatin – Polyface Farm The most effective pest control just happens to be organic. Learn about charcuterie: the preservation of meat using salt Take a virtual tour of pastured poultry production on Joel Howard Garrett discusses how to protect and work with and smoke. Meredith Leigh demonstrates making fresh sausage Salatin’s Polyface Farm, and discover the pathway to creating beneficial insects, as well as what natural, organic pest control and discusses other forms of charcuterie (such as fermented a full-time salary from a small acreage. With 80 percent of products to use in certain situations. Garrett has extensive sausages and smoked meats). More about the speaker: Leigh is Americans saying they dislike their jobs, this presentation offers experience in natural organic gardening, landscape contracting, a farmer, butcher, and cook who has been working for half her an opportunity for those who want to jump ship and start a new greenhouse growing, golf course planning and maintenance, life to advocate for, grow, cook, and create real food. She’s the vocation. While this presentation is certainly applicable to small, and organic product development. Garrett provides state-of-the- author of The Ethical Meat Handbook: Complete Home Butchery, backyard operations, it has special application to those who are art advice on natural organic gardening, landscaping, pet health, Charcuterie and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore, and currently running (or are dreaming of starting) full-time farms. composting, pest control, and how to enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Pure Charcuterie: The Craft & Poetry of Curing Meat at Home. More about the speaker: Salatin and his family own and operate Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, producing salad bar Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. beef, pastured poultry, pigaerator pork, and forage-based rabbits. Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Book Signing Sunday 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Fermented Condiments Fruits in the Edible Landscape From a Frog’s Perspective Christopher Shockey – Storey Publishing Michael Judd – Ecologia, Edible & Ecological Landscapes Joel Salatin – Polyface Farm Fermentation is a hot topic, from health to flavor. Americans are Edible landscape and permaculture designer Michael Judd In his theatrical style, Joel Salatin creates a verbal image of a frog looking to bold flavors to jazz up their meals, from kimchi to sriracha. explores incorporating uncommonly good and easy-to-grow in a beaver pond 500 years ago and builds 12 ecological principles What do these flavors have in common? Lactic acid fermentation! fruits (such as pawpaws, jujubes, hardy kiwi, persimmons, from that perspective. What would that frog know about Starting with mustard and moving through fermenting peppers, goumis, and elderberries) into an edible landscape with a ecology in that pond? Believing that the most stable ecologies this session teaches how to create your own delicious, easy permaculture twist. More about the speaker: Judd has been a mimic historic normalcy, Salatin takes you on a winsome fermented condiments. More about the speaker: Christopher presenter for the Monticello Heritage Harvest Festival, the U.S. fantasy journey with the frog and what it knows. Sometimes Shockey and his wife, Kirsten, got their start in fermenting foods Botanic Garden, the Northeast Organic Farming Association becoming like a child is the best way to rethink our future. with their farmstead food company. They’ve created more than (NOFA), a guest on popular radio programs such as “A Way to Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. 40 varieties of cultured vegetables and krauts, and their current Garden with Margaret Roach,” and a host of podcasts revolving Book Signing Sunday 11:00-11:30 a.m. focus is on teaching the art of fermenting vegetables to others around edible landscaping, gardening, and permaculture. through classes and workshops at their farm in southern Oregon. Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Book Signing Sunday 3:00-3:30 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 6:00-6:30 p.m. Mother Earth News Fair 7 COMMON MARKET CO-OP STAGE Cheesemaking: Quick and simple cheeses Whole Animal Butchery From No-Knead to Sourdough: Finding your Sustainable Eating with a Pressure Cooker for Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Creamery Meredith Leigh – New Society Publishers comfort zone with handmade bread Personal and Planetary Health It’s amazingly easy to make three types of Meredith Leigh, author of The Ethical Meat Victoria Redhed Miller – New Society Publishers Jill Nussinow – The Veggie Queen cheese from the same simple process. In this Handbook, demonstrates whole-animal butchery. Making your own bread is easier than you might Jill Nussinow shows how quickly and easily you workshop, cheesemaker and author Gianaclis Using a hog, she discusses delicious and thrifty think, once you find your comfort zone and try can cook food with the modern pressure cooker. Caldwell shows how to make several easy use of the entire carcass, and applies principles of it! The author of the new book From No-knead to You save time, money, and energy (both yours cheeses at home (even from store-bought butchery, charcuterie, and cooking to other Sourdough: A simpler approach to handmade bread and the planet’s). Only solar cooking saves more milk) and how to use these cheeses in delicious animal species. (dvance copies available at the FAIR!), covers the energy than pressure cooking. Learn what you and nutritious ways. Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. basic principles of breadmaking, with an can cook and get some tasty samples, too. Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. overview of simple no-knead yeast breads, Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. pre-ferments and sourdough-based breads. You Book Signing Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m. “Berry” Inspired: Discover new flavor twists to don’t need experience, fancy equipment or Fermented Sodas and Drinks with Sweet Farm a classic homemade jam expensive ingredients to make wonderful bread at The Art of Cooking Meat Rachel Armistead – The Sweet Farm Tamika Adjemian – Ball Brand Fresh Preserving home. Includes a brief look at a hand-built wood- Meredith Leigh – New Society Publishers Who doesn’t love soda? 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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 13 NATURAL BUILDING DEMONSTRATIONS Making Cob: How to build with mud Building with Straw Bales Even a Kid Can Do It: Building a natural Interactive: Build a Rocket Mass Heater Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project house to code Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project Learn how the dirt under your backyard can be Get muddy and see how straw bales can be Brennan Stark - Y Innovations See how you can turn a pile of old bricks and turned into beautiful buildings, benches, pizza used for a low-cost, beautiful, eco-friendly, Y Innovations’ Brennan Stark shares his mud into a super-efficient woodburning heater ovens, and much more ... the possibilities are highly insulated construction. experience building community by building for your house or cabin. limited only by one’s imagination! Be prepared Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. houses. From convincing his friends and the Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. to get muddy. Forest Service that unsupervised high school Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. The No-Mortgage Natural Cottage students building a storage shed out of mud and Earthen Plasters You Can Make at Home Uncle Mud – Natural Cottage Project junk was a good idea, Stark has gone on to use Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud Before the Industrial Revolution our ancestors straw bales to build community-funded refugee Earthen artists and natural builders of Uncle Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project generally lived in small houses they built for housing in his hometown. He walks audiences Mud & Family teach how to make gorgeous Play in the mud with Uncle Mud. Use clay, themselves from local earth, stone, straw, and through the learning curves involved in working colored earth plasters and sculpted elements straw, and sticks to build little houses and wood, mainly because the materials were cheap with natural materials, building code officials, and apply them to your walls. sculpt beautiful objects from your wild or free and didn’t require a great deal of neighbors, and your own circumstances. Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. imagination. This is a “hands in” workshop: specialized skill. Today’s houses might be Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. hands and feet squishing and mixing and bigger and more comfortable, but they’re also making a big mess. Talk about how we can use often toxic and expensive. For all sorts of good DIY Composting Toilet and Bin these same materials to build benches, ovens, reasons, basic DIY shelter is making a Uncle Mud – Natural Cottage Project and even houses. You can wash off with water, comeback. With a little guidance, almost Dan Chiras – The Evergreen Institute but be prepared to get dirty and have fun. anyone can still build their own home with Almost half the water you use in your house Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. low-cost natural and scrounged materials for gets flushed down the toilet, wasting water, less than $10,000 and opt out of the industrial energy, and valuable nutrients that could be building and mortgage rat race. going back into your garden. To be truly Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. sustainable, we need to recycle everything. We also need to compost all organic materials, Build Your Own Wood-Fired Pizza Oven such as food scraps and yard waste, returning From Dirt the nutrients to the Earth. That includes Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project humanure, the nutrient-rich excretions human Help turn a pile of mud into a wood-fired societies produce in massive quantities each pizza oven! See how easy it is to do this in your and every day. Dan Chiras and Chris “Uncle own backyard. Be prepared to get muddy. Mud” McClellan show how to build a safe, Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. low-cost, odor-free, and highly effective humanure composting system, consisting of a sawdust toilet and compost bin. This system works well in homes, cabins, cottages, and even camping spots. It can also be used in emergencies. (For extra insight, be sure to catch Chiras’ “The Scoop on Poop” workshop Sunday morning.) Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Dan’s Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m.
14 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com YANMAR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE STAGE Poultry Unplugged: Free-ranging poultry Creating Your Own Farm Airbnb Native Plants for Honey Bees and Solar Power: On-grid, off-grid, grid-tie, just about anywhere Matt Wilkinson – Hard Cider Homestead Other Pollinators battery backup, and generators Victoria Redhed Miller – New Society Publishers Take advantage of both the scenic environment Leo Sharashkin – HorizontalHive.com Jeffrey Yago – J.R. Yago and Associates, Allowing poultry to free-range has many of your farm and the interesting, creative Honey bees can produce unique and flavorful Consulting Engineers benefits, both for the birds and the farming activities that you practice on a daily honeys from native nectar plants. Learn about Primarily an introduction to solar power environment. This workshop explains these basis. Matt Wilkinson guides you through the the simple and economic strategies to establish, systems for homeowners, this workshop also benefits, and offers strategies for success development of a farm Airbnb, which includes improve, and conserve the plantings of native addresses specific questions about existing regardless of predator issues and other a compost-heated outdoor shower, a compost wildflowers, shrubs, and trees, the benefits they systems, installation problems, battery backup challenges. It includes a planning worksheet, toilet, and recycling existing home structures. provide, and the honeys they produce. Leo systems, and powering a weekend retreat. and audience questions are encouraged! Learn how to assemble such a living space, as Sharashkin also discusses how marketing Bring your questions, plans, and self-reliance Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. well as the techniques used to market and artisan honey can support livelihoods, help goals to this audience-interactive presentation. Book Signing Sunday 11:00-11:30 a.m. advertise it. conserve the blossoming landscapes, and save Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. populations of local pollinators. Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. What Does It Take to Get Started in Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Beekeeping? Mycotopia 2018: Medicinal mushrooms, Book Signing at booth 5005 Shane Gebauer – Brushy Mountain Bee Farm magical molds, and magnificent mycorrhizae If you have ever thought about beekeeping as a Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain Eco-Friendly Water Gardening hobby but don’t know what’s involved or how Learn how to braid mushrooms and other fungi Suzanne Boom - Lilypons Water Gardens to get started, this workshop is for you. It aims into almost every aspect of your coexistence with Suzanne Boom reveals how easily a water garden Sponsored by to help you answer the question: Is beekeeping this strategy guide for cultivating and extracting can fit into a wildlife-friendly yard. She covers right for me? Explore things you need to know medicinal mushrooms, creating your own eco-friendly ways to maintain your water garden before you get bees, like the time commitment, mycorrhizae for seed-starting mixes, recycling without the use of chemicals. Set it up right and the startup cost, good locations for hives, and home and farm waste, biological pest control, let nature do the work! This presentation generally what it’s like to be a beekeeper. and easy steps for cleaning contaminated soil sponsored by Lilypons Water Gardens. Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. and water. Broad in scope yet easy for beginners Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. and experienced mushroom folks alike to follow, Pawpaw 101: America’s forgotten, this presentation reveals how mushrooms can Feeding Your Family Well on a “tropical” fruit help create harmony and many levels of Near-Zero Budget Andrew Moore – Chelsea Green Publishing symbiosis on your farm or homestead. Maureen Diaz – Weston A. Price Foundation Andrew Moore, author of Pawpaw: In Search of Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. Do you want to provide nourishing, America’s Forgotten Fruit, offers a brief history Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m. nutrient-dense meals for your family, but of the pawpaw, the largest edible fruit native to wonder how in the world to do so on a limited the United States, and an overview of the budget? Have no fear, it can be done! growers and producers working to raise the Experienced homemaker Maureen Diaz fruit’s profile. Learn the basics of how to grow explores strategies she uses in her own large pawpaws, and what they’re good for (think ice household to accomplish just that! Using both cream, wine, and fresh eating!). time and money efficiently is key. (And Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. creativity a must!) Diaz shares recipes, formulas, Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. tactics, and resources that make it all possible. Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m.
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 15 KIDS’ TREEHOUSE STAGE Soil and Seeds, Sprouts to Success Chick in Egg: The miracle of incubation & Kid’s Kombucha Tasting and SCOBY Bacteria Soil Layer Dessert Un-Included Club Youth Leaders educating baby chicks “Petting Zoo” Un-Included Club Youth Leaders Learn about urban agriculture from the Patricia Foreman – The Gossamer Foundation Hannah Crum – Kombucha Kamp Learn about soil layers in the most delicious way! Un-Included Club Youth Leaders! They are The journey from egg to chick is an awe- The Kombucha Kamp SCOBY Petting Zoo is a Kids can use ingredients to create a sweet treat growing superfoods and using them to grow inspiring, educational, life-affirming event. This hands-on experience for everyone. Our bacterial that resembles soil layers ... including green healthier. They showcase what they have learned workshop covers the entire process of finding buddies help us stay healthy and strong. Create coconut for the grass! and you can see what the Un-Included Club is fertile eggs (even without a rooster) and selecting delicious fermented drinks and get up close and Sunday 1:00-1:30 p.m. accomplishing with their knowledge. the most likely eggs to hatch. Understanding the personal with some of the “good bugs” that keep Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. embryo development that is happening inside the our bodies in balance. The Kombucha Mamma, Up-Close Guinea Encounter egg enables you to have better hatches. Hannah Crum, shares secrets of the SCOBY to Guinea Fowl International Association Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud Egg-to-chick in only 21 days for replacement thrill the little ones and introduce them to the The Guinea Fowl International Association Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project birds. Patricia Foreman also covers the critical wonder of fermentation. presents an interactive encounter with their Play in the mud with Uncle Mud and friends. first week of chick-hood, basic chick nutrition Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. Guinea Fowl Ambassador Pearl, including Use clay, straw, and sticks to build little houses and “chick-ability,” and why you must Book Signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. background and information about the history of and sculpt beautiful objects from your wild understand it as a life or death matter in guinea fowl and their place on the farm today. imagination. This is a “hands in” workshop: educating baby chicks. Great for home and Fungi in the Classroom Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. hands and feet squishing and mixing and making school projects. Become a Chickeneer incubation Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain a big mess. Talk about how we can use these same and baby chick eggs-pert! Ever wonder what kind of projects you and your Fizzy Fun: A kid’s guide to fermented soda materials to build benches, ovens, and even Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. children can start at home or in school with Rachel Armistead – The Sweet Farm houses. You can wash off with water, but be Book Signing Saturday 6:00-6:30 p.m. mushrooms? This program is part show and part Summer is almost here, which means it’s the prepared to get dirty and have fun. hands-on, with many cool experiments that are perfect time for fizzy, refreshing pop! Learn Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Soil Layer Dessert practical for demonstrating recycling and how you and your family can make your own Located at Natural Building Demos Un-Included Club Youth Leaders composting home and school waste byproducts sweet and tasty drinks without all the sugar Learn about soil layers in the most delicious way! using mushroom spawn. Participants make and and chemicals found in store-bought soda. Kids can use ingredients to create a sweet treat take home a small mushroom fruiting kit they Kids learn about the basics of fermenting and that resembles soil layers ... including green make from shredded paper or cardboard, as well carbonating their own soda, and take home a coconut for the grass! as a living culture! Ginger Bug culture they can use to start their Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. first batch. Parents needn’t just attend, either; Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m. they can participate, too! Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. ReWild the Child! Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Landscapes Are you ready to be a part of the wild tribe of little Earth warriors? Learn and play with the power and magic of plants. Decorate and dream up all that we can be. You can even make an herbal dream pillow to take home and put to use! Space is limited. Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m.
DAILY AT 11AM, 1PM & 3PM Working Sheepdog demonstrationS Nancy Starkey of Trial & Error Acres – Nancy Cox Starkey of Mt. Airy, Maryland has had border collies most of her adult life and began training them for sheep work almost thirty years ago. With the help of her dogs, Nancy manages a large flock of Bluefaced Leicester sheep. Additionally, she competes regularly with her dogs in sheepdog trials and provides working sheepdog demonstrations at other festivals and events. Assisting in the demonstrations is AJ Hesketh-Tutton. AJ was born in Winchester, England, but now lives here in the states and is training and competing with her own sheepdog
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Secret Organic Natural Stress Perma-What? How Natural Organic Introduction to Mother Gardening Hacks Relief and to Create a Pest Control Charcuterie Earth News That Will Blow Energizing Herbs Homestead Howard Garrett Meredith Leigh Break Stage Your Mind Maria Noel Groves Paradise with (Page 7) Shawna Coronado Permaculture Jessi Bloom
Cheesemaking: Fermented Sodas Basics of Whole Animal “Berry Inspired”: Fermenting Common Market Quick and simple and Drinks with Essential Oils Butchery Discover new flavor Vegetables From A Co-op Stage cheeses Sweet Farm Charlynn Avery Meredith Leigh twists to a classic to Z: Preserving the (Page 8) Gianaclis Caldwell Rachel Armistead homemade jam harvest Tamika Adjemian Christopher Shockey
Homesteader’s Gardening with Renewable Energy Emergency Power Urban The Practicality Grit Stage Guide to Renew- Mushrooms, Straw Q&A Long After Permaculture: and Legality of (Page 9) able Energy Bales, and More! Dan Chiras the Grid and Urban farms, food Craft Distilling Dan Chiras Jessi Bloom & Your Generator forests, and com- Victoria Redhed Tradd Cotter Have Failed munity gardens Miller Jeffrey Yago Darrell Frey Tree Planting, Plant to Preserve Ask a Gardener Choosing the Natural Beekeeping Extending Your Heirloom Natural Organic Barbara Pleasant Shawna Coronado Right Fall-Planted That Works Growing Season Gardener Tree Management, Alliums for Your Leo Sharashkin Dan Chiras Stage and Fabulous Trees Garden! (Page 10) of the World Ira Wallace Howard Garrett
Homestead Growing Business Law for Planning Your Value-Added The Return of the Hustle Stage Elderberry for Artisan Food Pro- First Homestead Living For Small Family Milk Cow Health and Profit ducers, Farmers, Kimberlee Bastien Farmers Faith Schlabach (Page 11) Terry Durham and Homesteaders Kristin Kay Elizabeth Rich Schultz
The Livestock Homegrown Pork Chicken Behavior The Shocking A Guide to Home Poultry Conservancy and Getting Ready and Health Truth About Keeping Geese Processing for Backyard Pigs Charlene Couch Electric Fence Kirsten Lie-Nielsen Patricia Foreman Stage Jeannette Beranger Joe Putnam (Page 12)
Turmeric and How to Make Kombucha and Fearless Pressure Ayurveda’s Ancient Mother Earth Ginger: Growing Your Own the Human Cooking All-Natural Stress Living Stage for medicinal and Coconut Milk! Microbiome Jill Nussinow Solutions (Page 13) culinary use Emily Lesiak Hannah Crum Ananta Ripa Ajmera Ann Codrington Break Natural Making Cob: How Kids Can Build Building with The No-Mortgage Build Your Own Building to build with mud with Sticks and Straw Bales Natural Cottage Wood-Fired Pizza Demos Uncle Mud & Mud Uncle Mud & Uncle Mud Oven From Dirt Family Uncle Mud & Family Uncle Mud & (Page 14) Family Family
Yanmar Poultry Unplugged: What Does It Take Pawpaw 101: Creating Your Mycotopia 2018: Sustainable Free-ranging to Get Started in America’s forgotten, Own Farm Airbnb Medicinal mush- Agriculture poultry just about Beekeeping? “tropical” fruit Matt Wilkinson rooms, magical Stage anywhere Shane Gebauer Andrew Moore molds, and magnif- (Page 15) Victoria Redhed icent mycorrhizae Miller Tradd Cotter
Kids’ Soil and Seeds, Kids Can Build Chick in Egg: The Kid’s Kombucha Treehouse Sprouts to Success with Sticks and miracle of Tasting and Un-Included Club Mud incubation & SCOBY Bacteria Stage Youth Leaders Uncle Mud & educating baby “Petting Zoo” (Page 16) Family chicks Hannah Crum @ Natural Building Demos Patricia Foreman
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Pastured Poultry Profit$ Fermented Condiments Fruits in the From a Frog’s other M Joel Salatin Christopher Shockey Edible Landscape Perspective Earth News Michael Judd Joel Salatin Stage (Page 7)
From No-Knead to Kombucha Demo Sustainable Eating with The Art of Cooking Common Market Sourdough: Finding Workshop a Pressure Cooker for Meat Co-op Stage your comfort zone with Hannah Crum Break Personal and Planetary Meredith Leigh handmade bread Health (Page 8) Victoria Redhed Miller Jill Nussinow
Holistic Goat Health Varroa Management Common Legal Advanced Meat Grit Stage Gianaclis Caldwell Shane Gebauer Questions on the Farm Processing (Page 9) Elizabeth Rich, Joel Matt Wilkinson Salatin, & Patricia Foreman
Grow More, Work Food Forests Sun Growing Common Arthritis in the Four Easy Ways to Heirloom Less: Expert tips for Design and and Uncommon Greens Garden: How to lower Grow Mushrooms at Gardener your vegetable garden Management for Summer Salads chronic pain without Home Stage Ira Wallace Darrell Frey and More drugs Tradd Cotter Ira Wallace Shawna Coronado (Page 10)
Homestead Your Most-Asked Making Leather and Homestead Hard Sustainable Business Weeds and Water: Hustle Stage Questions About Buckskin: Tanning Knocks Opportunities Wisdom for resiliency Composting at home The Homestead Hustle Kristin Kay Schultz Jessi Bloom (Page 11) Answered! Dennis Biswell Bloggers Barbara Pleasant
The Livestock Extraordinary Equines Guinea Fowl for Rabbits: The secret Interactive! Getting a Conservancy Charlene Couch Your Organic Yard homestead resource Feel for Goats and Garden Jeannette Beranger Gianaclis Caldwell Stage Cindy Gibson (Page 12)
Grant Writing and Live in Harmony with Brain-Boosting Herbs The Scoop on Poop Mother Earth Development Capital to Mother Nature: The Maria Noel Groves Dan Chiras Living Stage Support Conservation ancient art and science Break (Page 13) and Agriculture of Ayurveda lifestyle Michele Beener Ananta Ripa Ajmera
Natural Even a Kid Can Do DIY Composting Build a Rocket Earthen Plasters You Building It: Building a natural Toilet and Bin Mass Heater Can Make at Home Demos house to code Uncle Mud & Uncle Mud & Family Uncle Mud & Family Brennan Stark Dan Chiras (Page 14)
Yanmar Native Plants for Eco-Friendly Water Sustainable Honey Bees and Other Gardening Feeding Your Family Solar Power: On-grid, Agriculture Pollinators Suzanne Boom Well on a off-grid, grid-tie, Stage Leo Sharashkin Near-Zero Budget battery backup, and (Page 15) Maureen Diaz generators Jeffrey Yago
Kids’ Fungi in the Classroom ReWild the Child! Soil Layer Dessert Up-Close Guinea Fizzy Fun: A kid’s guide Treehouse Tradd Cotter Jessi Bloom Un-Included Club Youth Encounter to fermented soda Leaders Guinea Fowl Rachel Armistead Stage International Association (Page 16)
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 27 EXHIBITOR DEMONSTRATIONS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Create Business from Home – Booth #1604 Pressure Canning for Beginners – Booth #1502 Digital Wood Carver Self-Sufficient Living Digital Wood Carver teaches how you can create artwork and Take a look at pressure canning meats and vegetables, the signs. With our innovative machines and start a home-based history of canning, and a simple step-by-step process to achieve wood art business. outstanding results. Ongoing Saturday and Sunday 1:00 p.m.
Cordless Power Equipment – Booth #255 Repurposing Ideas for Reusable Bags – Booth #4001 Makita CRESBI Crates/Sun Sugar Farms Makita’s cordless products include chainsaws, blowers, string Most reusable bags are just promotional gimmicks that fall apart trimmers, hedge trimmers, lawn mowers, pole saws, and when you use and then wash them. Then when you try to recycle cultivators. Discover how conveninet these cordless tools fit them no one will take them because of the plastic they are and they your needs. end up in a landfill! See how you can turn this trash into colorful Ongoing long-lasting rugs, placemats and dog pull toys. Sunday 3:00 PM Alpacas 101 – Booth #F11 Painted Spring Farm Alpacas Unique Three-Point Hitch Tools for Small Tractors – Interact with alpacas and learn the basics of raising them on a Booth #321 small acreage. Earth & Turf Products Ongoing Earth & Turf Products shows and displays how two new, unique three-point hitch tools for compact tractors operate. Raising Cattle on Pasture, Naturally! – Booth #F3 Saturday and Sunday 2:00 p.m. This discussion is a primer in raising homestead cattle naturally and efficiently on a pasture diet. We will look at the benefits to Water Collection, Filtration, and Storage – Booth #1502 pasture diversity, pasture rotation, and how that affects animal Self-Sufficient Living husbandry practices. If you have questions, bring them here and Explore various water sources and collection methods, for when we will answer them! traditional municipal water sources are not available. We also Saturday 11:00 a.m. discusses storing collected water for long-term personal use Goat Milking Demonstration for the Homestead – and methods of safely filtering the water to remove harmful FIBER Booth #364 substances. The Dawson Gap Farm Store Saturday and Sunday 11:00 a.m. Rug Hooking – Booth #FF55 A lovable addition to any homestead, Nigerian Dwarf Goats Eagles Nest Woolens provide rich, creamy milk (while being a size that is manageable NATURAL HEALTH A demonstration of primitive rug hooking from Eagles Nest even for children). The Dawson Gap Farm Store demonstrates Woolens. hand-milking techniques useful on the small farm. The Organic Way to Great Health – Booth #2002 Ongoing Ongoing Barrier Island Organics Try a free sample of Barrier Island Organics’ root cider. Spinning Art Yarn – Booth #1802 Hand-Carving Spoons – Booth #1800 Ongoing All Strings Considered Riverwood Treenware Learn the centuries-old art of yarn spinning with All Strings Find out how to hand-carve spoons with traditional hand tools. Considered. Ongoing Ongoing
Spinning with Alpaca – Booth #F11 Painted Spring Farm Alpacas Painted Spring Farm Alpacas demonstrates how to hand-spin fiber harvested from alpacas. Ongoing
Vintage Sock-Knitting Machine – Booth #FF8 Herbal Medicine – Booth #1505 Appalachian Sock Company Day Spring Farm Learn all about the uses and operation of a circular Learn how to prepare and make fire cider, an herbal antibiotic. sock-knitting machine. Ongoing Saturday and Sunday 1:00 p.m. Understanding CBD-Rich Hemp Oil – Booth #4001 GREEN BUILDING Highlander Merchandising Learn about the natural health benefits of CBD and try CNC Wood Carver – Booth #1604 samples of hemp oil upon request. Digital Wood Carver Ongoing Learn how easy it is to operate a CNC woodcarver to creat beautiful pieces of art out of wood. All-Natural Pain Relief with Five Essential Oils – Booth #1514 Ongoing MAX PR 35 All Natural Pain Relief Hands-Spinning – Booth #1605 Learn about and sample MAX PR’s all-natural pain relief, made KIDS’ PROGRAMMING Opalessence Fiber Studio with five essential oils. Feel your pain disappear fast, an effect Turn animal fibers into beautiful yarn, using time-tested hand- that lasts for hours. It’s relief without pills or side effects, and Be Un-Included! – Booth #2905 spinning techniques. no menthol. Un-Included Club Ongoing Ongoing Stop by to make a soil layer dessert, get your face painted, learn about harvesting microgreens, make your own slime, Long-Term Food Storage – Booth #1502 NATURE & COMMUNITY Self-Sufficient Living and more! In this demonstration we discuss how a family can store the Reduce Your Clothing Budget with a Knitting Machine – Ongoing harvest from their garden (as well as large-quantity purchases Booth #361 of staples) for future use. He examines strategies that include VonStrohm Woolen Mill MODERN HOMESTEADING dehydration, pressure canning, freeze-drying, using Mylar storage Learn how a knitting machine can reduce your clothing budget bags, and hand-milling your stored whole grains. while making fashionable knitwear for your family. VonStrohm Build great projects with True Trac Saw System – Booth #390 Saturday and Sunday 3:00 p.m. Woolen Mill demonstrates how to make woolen socks on the Levi Hollow Tools LLC knitting machine. They will show how to accurately cut out and assemble your Saturday 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., and Sunday 1:00 p.m. projects. Ongoing
28 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com EXHIBITOR DEMONSTRATIONS ORGANIC GARDENING Starting Turmeric and Ginger Seedlings – Booth #402 Southern Exposure Seed Exhange Aquaponics Filtration – Booth #1602 This exhibitor demonstrates how to grow ginger and turmeric Small Scale Aquaponics seedlings using no chemical sprays or fertilizers. Instead, take Learn about if Aquaponics is right for your needs and how advantage of growing media available locally. Ask them about aquaponics filtration with automatic backwashing works. purchasing seedstock, sprouting rhizomes, transplanting, and Ongoing growing out. Saturday and Sunday 12:00 p.m. Growing and Using Heirloom Collards, a Southern Tradition – Booth #402 Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Collards are part of a rich culinary tradition based in the southeastern United States thanks to a long history of growing, saving, and eating collards. See and taste the wide variations in color, shape, texture, and flavor that arose over time. Learn how you can help revive the cultural tradition of growing and saving heirloom collard seeds. Reconnect the cycle of growing and seed saving with the enjoyment of eating collards. Making Kombucha: An introduction – Booth #438 Saturday 1:00 p.m. and Sunday 11:00 a.m. HEX Ferments Learn the basics of making kombucha tea at home through a visual demonstration. HEX Ferments welcomes both beginners and seasoned makers alike to this presentation! The Second Season: Seeds to plant in June, July, and August – Saturday 2:00 p.m. Booth #5103 Harvesting History Stainless Steel Cookware – Booth #5100 Hear all about the seed varieties suitable for midsummer planting. Lifetime Stainless Steel Saturday 2:00 p.m. and Sunday 10:45 a.m. Hear about clean eating and Lifetime Stainless’ waterless cookware. Ongoing REAL FOOD
RENEWABLE ENERGY Shiitake Mushroom Hedge: soak, mist, harvest– Booth #2304 Food Hedge Cooking with the Soelov Hybrid Oven – Booth #315 Your own kitchen is a righteous place to start growing artfully Advanced Energy Systems local. Find out how with Food Hedge. Discover cooking with the sun and battery assist options at Ongoing Advanced Energy Systems’ booth. Saturday and Sunday 12:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. Planting and Maintaining Healthy Tomato Plants – Kraut-Chi!– Booth #438 Booth #5103 HEX Ferments Harvesting History Kraut-chi is a cross between sauerkraut and kimchi that incorporates Find out how to keep organically grown container tomato plants a mixture of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and spices to make a unique and healthy and productive throughout the growing season. tasty ferment. Learn to make your own Kraut-Chi from homegrown, Saturday and Sunday 11:00 a.m. community-supported agriculture, or farmers market vegetables. Sunday 2:00 pm
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Advanced Energy Systems Baystate Organic Certifiers Central Boiler Detroit Torch Booth #315 Booth #439 Booth #415, 416, 425, 426 Booth #437 www.advancedenergysystemsllc.com www.baystateorganic.org www.centralboiler.com www.detroittorch.com
Alimtox Full Body Detox Bee Incentive - Flow Hive Central Maryland School of Massage Diamond Pet Food – Associate Sponsor Booth #2302, 2303 Booth #314 Booth #449 Booth #4100 www.alimtox.com www.teachingmassage.com www.diamondpet.com BCS America All Strings Considered Booth #440, 441 Chestnut Oak Farm Digital Wood Carver Booth #1802 www.bcsamerica.com Booth #F3 Booth #1604 www.digitalwoodcarver.com Amare, the Mental Wellness Company Blacksmith’s Garden Antiques Chocolate Moonshine Booth #2102 Booth #393 Booth #5106 Earth & Turf Products www.amare.com/10065 www.facebook.com/blacksmithsgardenMD www.cmbars.com Booth #321 www.earthandturfattachments.com American Guinea Hog Blue Bonnet Worm Farm Coconut Bliss – Associate Sponsor Booth #F-4 Booth #433 Booth #1700, 1701 EcoJarz www.guineahogs.org www.bluebonnetwormfarm.com www.coconutbliss.com Booth #2204 www.ecojarz.com American Native Plants Book Publishing Company presents Dirt Common Market Co-Op– Title Sponsor Booth #323, 324 Cheap Books Booth #2100, 2200 Euphoric Herbals www.americannativeplants.com Booth #5301 www.commonmarket.coop Booth #330 www.bookpubco.com www.euphoricherbals.com Another Look Cornerstone Morgan Horse Booth #4202, 4203 Brushy Mountain Bee Farm – Booth #F9, F10 Evergreen Institute www.anotherlookinc.com Contributing Sponsor www.cornerstonemorganhorse.com Booth #4000 Booth #1511, 1512 www.evergreeninstitute.org Aspen Campers www.brushymountainbeefarm.com CRESBI Crates/Sun Sugar Farm Booth #251 Booth #4001 Fair Farms Campaign Bushtail Creek Unique Gifts www.cresbicrates.com Booth #429 Baer Brothers Maple Booth #351 www.fairfarmsnow.org Booth #353, 354 www.facebook.com/bushtailcreek Dawson Gap Farm Store www.baerbrosmaple.com Booth #364 Falling Bark Farm Caprikorn Farms www.dawsongap.com Booth #1506 Bailey’s Booth #2004 www.fallingbarkfarm.com Booth #602 www.kidslovegoatmilk.com Day Spring Farm’s Healing Harvest www.baileysonline.com Booth #1505 Farm Fresh Home Foods Caspian Breeders www.dayspringfarmva.com Booth #1501 Ball Jar – Contributing Sponsor Booth #F-5 - F-8 www.myfarmfreshdirect.com Booth #1600 Deer Run Farm www.freshpreserving.com CBD American Shaman Booth #5201 Farm Fromage Booth #308 www.deerrunfarmmd.com Booth #327 Barrier Island Organics www.cbdamericanshaman.com/cbdatl www.farmfromage.com Booth #2002 www.barrierislandorganics.com
Undisturbed, peaceful, glorious: this is your body, your baby, and your birth. HomeBirth Midwives RiversideMidwifery.com Power Equipment Proud sponsor of the Nursing Tent Chainsaws • Trimmers Please visit us at booth 4200 Blowers • Lawnmowers Sales & Service Nannette Jenkins CNM Shawna DeWitt CPM WoodbineEquipment.com Chris Bontrager CNM Grace Mueller CPM 7746 Woodbine Road • Woodbine, MD • 410-795-1600 240-341-4974 | Serving MD, VA, & WV
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Fermentation Creation Harvesting History Horizontal Hive Kitchen Craft Cookware Booth #1603 Booth #5103 Booth #5005 Booth #2300, 2301 www.fermentationcreation.com www.harvesting-history.com www.horizontalhive.com www.kitchencraftcookware.com
Food Hedge Hawaiian Moon Hundredfold Farm Kitchen Saver Booth #2304 Booth #5202 Booth #444 Booth #1510 www.food-hedge.com www.aloecream.biz www.hundredfoldfarm.org www.kitchensaver.com
Fox Wood Run Farm Hawkins Landscaping Ironwood Tool Co. Lavender Moon / Baby Moonshine Booth #359 Booth #319 Booth #5205, 5206 Booth #358 www.hawkinslandscaping.com www.ironwoodtools.com www.babymoonshine.com Frederick County Office of Sustainability & Environmental Resources Heal Your Disease Jade Distribution LeafFilter Gutter Protection Booth #5303 Booth #326 Booth #2305 Booth #1805 www.frederickcountymd.gov www.healyourdisease.com www.leaffilter.com Joyful Bath Company Glory Energy Solutions Heartjcreations Booth #407 Lifetime Stainless – Associate Sponsor Booth #5104 Booth #434 www.joyfulbathco.com Booth #5100 www.gloryenergysolutions.com www.heartjcreations.etsy.com www.lifetimestainless.com Joyful Suds Gnome Serum Hempzels Booth #2001 Lilla Rose Hair Accessories Booth #4101 Booth #233 www.joyfulsuds.com Booth #1704 www.gnomeserum.com www.hempzels.com www.lillarose.biz/jackiea Juice Plus/Tower Garden Grouseland Tours Herc Rentals Booth #360 Lilypons – Contributing Sponsor Booth #5003 Booth #318 Booth #4102 www.grouseland.com www.hercrentals.com Kaiya Naturals www.lilypons.com Booth #5102 Guinea Fowl International Hex Ferments www.kaiya-naturals.com Lineage Goods Booth #F-14 Booth #438 Booth #1504 www.guineas.com www.hexferments.com Kannavis www.lineagegoods.com Booth #4201 H2O at Home Hiland Natural Feeds www.kannavis.org Livestock Conservancy – Supporting Partner Booth #5002 Booth #363 Booth #F-13 www.myh2oathome.com/ASHLEIGH www.hilandnaturals.com KarmaFarma 1000 www.livestockconservancy.org Booth #2000 Halo Dips Honey Dew Naturals www.karmafarma1000.com Loaded Goat Homestead Booth #328 Booth #5006 Booth #1515 www.halodips.com www.honeydewnaturals.com Keswick Creamery www.loadedgoathomestead.com Booth #2003 Hang A Pot Honeysuckle Pottery / NK Farm www.keswickcreamery.com Love at First Sit Booth #1702 Booth #352 Booth #1703 www.hangapot.com www.facebook.com/Honeysuckle- Kimonoimp www.loveatfirstsit.com Pottery-192682027445494/ Booth #3101 Serenity... FOR SALE
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LuLaRoe Nature’s Head Paradise Energy Solutions Purefire Tactical Booth #1513 Booth #5302 Booth #448 Booth #1804 www.shopalexisandshane.com www.natureshead.net www.paradisesolarenergy.com www.purefiretactical.com
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Makita USA – Associate Sponsor New Country Organics Personal Etchings Red Bud Farm Booth #255, 256 Booth #432 Booth #5004 Booth #5200 www.makitapowerequipment.com www.newcountryorganics.com www.personaletchings.com www.red-bud-farm.com
Massaging Insoles New Society – Supporting Partner Pittsburgh Green Environmental Solutions Relax Saunas Booth #436 Booth #5305 Booth #1508 Booth #2005 www.massaginginsoles.com www.newsociety.com www.pittgreen.com www.relaxsaunas.com
Master Gardeners Norm’s Farms Plow & Hearth Remodel USA Booth #404 Booth #2104 Booth #414 Booth #316 www.normsfarms.com www.plowhearth.com www.remodelusa.com Max PR 35 All Natural Pain Relief Booth #1514 Norwex Potomac Edison Residential EmPOWER Rent the Chicken www.atlmaxpr35.com Booth #5101 Maryland Programs Booth #443 www.stephanieturner.norwex.biz Booth #408 www.rentthechicken.com Maya Mountain Coffee & Spice www.energysavedmd.com Booth #2203 Nutritional Healing Center ReYuze Cases www.mmcsc.org Booth #4003 Power House Remodeling Booth #317 www.doctorlo.com Booth #392 www.reyuzecases.com Meadow Ridge Farm www.powerhrg.com Booth #394 Ohio Valley Herbal Products River Hills Harvest Booth #356 Premier 1 Supplies – Contributing Sponsor Booth #1801 Midnight Forest Farm www.wilderb.com Booth #500 www.riverhillsharvest.com Booth #F-15 www.premier1supplies.com www.midnightforestfarm.com Omlet – Associate Sponsor Riverside Midwifery – Associate Sponsor Booth #501 Pura V All Natural & Organic Skincare Booth #4200 Millner-Haufen Tool Company www.omlet.us Booth #2202 www.riversidemidwifery.com Booth #1705 www.puravskincare.com www.millnertools.com Opalessence Fiber Studio Riverwood Treenware Booth #1605 Pure American Naturals Booth #1800 National Ladies Homestead Gathering – www.etsy.com/shop/maverickson Booth #3100 www.riverwoodtradingco.com Supporting Partner www.pureamericannaturals.com Booth #446, 447 Painted Spring Alpacas Self-Sufficient Living www.ladieshomesteadgathering.org Booth #F-11, F-12 Pure Indian Foods Booth #1502, 1503 www.paintedspring.com Booth #2103 www.self-sufficientliving.com Native Perennials www.pureindianfoods.com Booth #5105
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Share International Tori’s Company Baggy Britches Farm Fabric Inspirations Booth #5300 Booth #311 Booth #53 Booth #47 www.share-international.us/ne www.baggybritchesalpacafarm.com www.fabricinspires.com TrueTrac Saw Systems Sharondale Farm Booth #390 Blue Heron Yarns Fibernymph Dye Works Booth #409 www.truetracsaw.com Booth #38 Booth #60 www.sharondalefarm.com www.blueheronyarns.com Turmeric Store Fiberrarium Sherm’s Designer Woods Booth #2101 Brediculous Yarns Booth #61 Booth #3102 www.turmericstore.com Booth #16 www.fiberrarium.com www.etsy.com/shop/BrediculousYarns Shockley Honda Un-Included Club Flame Pool Alpacas Booth #252 Booth #5306 Breezy Hill Farm Booth #45 www.shockleyhonda.com Booth #19 www.flamepoolalpacas.com Urban Kettle www.bhalpaca.com Sierra Club – Supporting Partner Booth #400 Frederick Backyard Beekeepers Assoc. Booth #5001 Buck Hollow Llamas Booth #34 www.sierraclub.org/maryland Usborne Books and More Booth #13 Booth #5000 www.buckhollowllamas.com Frederick YMCA Simply Shaker Oval Trays www.usbornebookstop.com Booth #85 Booth #405 Budding Creek Farm www.frederickymca.org VonStrohm Booth #42 Small Scale Aquaponics Booth #361 www.buddingcreekfarm.com GlitzNGlaze Booth #1602 www.vonstrohm.com Booth #46 www.smallscaleaquaponics.com Checkmate Farm www.Etsy.com/shop/GlitzNGlaze WBWC Personal Infrared Saunas Booth #2 Smile Farmer Booth #5203, 5204 www.checkmatefarm.com Greenbridge Pottery Booth #435 www.pisauna.com Booth #66 www.senegence.com/mandeemancuso Clare Margaret www.greenbridgepottery.com Western Maryland Apiaries Booth #23 Soap Alchemy Booth #411, 412 Guilty Treasures Gradient Yarn Booth #3003 www.westernmdapiaries.com DoTerra Booth #5 www.soapalchemy.com Booth #84 Weston A. Price Foundation www.doterra.com/US/en/site/oilswithaleena Hunt Valley Cashmere SoTru Organic Fermented Whole Booth #322 Booth #18 Food Nutrition www.westonaprice.org Eagles Nest Woolens www.huntvalleycashmere.com Booth #4103 Booth #69 www.sotru.com Wild Bill’s Soda www.eaglesnestwoolens.com Koofies Booth #397, 398 Booth #67 South Mountain Creamery www.wildbillssoda.com Ewe Knit & Sew www.koofie.com Booth #2201 Booth #7 www.southmountaincreamery.com Wood-mizer www.eweknitsew.com Lanart International Inc. Booth #601 Booth #21 Southern Exposure Seed Exchange – www.woodmizer.com EZ Green Home www.lanart.net Supporting Partner Booth #83 Booth #402, 403 Yanmar – Title Sponsor www.ezgreenhome.com www.heritageharvestfestival.com Booth #250 www.yanmartractor.com Spring Ridge Chiropractic Booth #428 Yogamour design your summer www.springridgechiropractic.com Booth #406 www.yogamour.org Sun-Mar Happy place Booth #1803 Zilis www.sun-mar.com Booth #5007 www.zilis.com/7119197 The Barn at Lemont Booth #3004 FIBER FEST EXHIBITORS The Boulder Yard Booth #320 29 Bridges Studio www.theboulderyard.com Booth #64 www.29bridges.com The Dancing Herbalist Booth #430 3BW Farm www.thedancingherbalist.com Booth #51 www.threebagswool.com The Fertrell Company Booth #362 Aberdeen’s Wool Company www.fertrell.com Booth #15 www.aberdeenswool.ca The Lathe-Meister Booth #355 Alford Family Farms and Spinnery www.lathe-meister.com Booth #35 www.fibermillbob.com The Soft Cloth Shop Booth #1509 Alpacas of Menges Mills www.ginassoftclothshop.net Booth #48, 49 www.alpacasofmengesmills.com Therapeutic Innovations Ambling Brook Farm 20% off Booth #3103, 3104 Booth #39 YOUR ENTIRE PURCHASE OF $35+ www.amblingbrookfarm.com or 10% off set pricing Therapeutic Innovations Offer good in stores only. Does not apply to previous purchases, gift cards, already discounted items, Booth #4004, 4005 Appalachian Sock Company WestvieW Promenade Alegria®, Dansko® or UGG® footwear. Cannot be Booth #8 shoPPing Center combined with any other offer. Must present coupon THriv Nutraceuticals www.AppalachianSockCompany.com SHOW440for discount. Expires 6/30/18. 5271 Buckeystown Pike Booth #427 PROMO CODE: www.thrivforlife.com Aspen Run Alpaca Farm Frederick, MD 21704 SHOW440 ìSHOW440!î Booth #65 (240) 578-4755 www.aspenrunalpacafarmllc.com
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Lavender Hills Farm Taylored Fibers Flavor of Maryland McClintock Distilling Booth #20 Booth #36 www.flavorofmaryland.com Booth #3305 www.localharvest.org/lavender-hills- www.mcclintockdistilling.com farm-M41615 Tempting Ewe Yarns Pizza Llama Booth #17 www.pizzallama.com MISCellaneous Distillery Lazy O Ranch www.cloverhillyarn.com/tempting-ewe- Booth #3304 Booth #62 yarns Pork Authority www.miscdistillery.com www.learntoknitncrochet.com www.facebook.com/porkauthority The Frederick News-Post Olde Mother Brewing Metis Industries Booth #79 Rick’s Kettle Corn Booth #3205 Booth #75 www.fredericknewspost.com www.oldemother.com www.MetisIndustries.com Sara Festivals The Knitting Boutique Orchid Cellar Meadery and Winery Moon on the Mountain Fiber Arts Booth #4 Say Cheese Booth #3302 Booth #68 www.knittingboutique.com www.saycheesefoodtruck.com www.orchidcellar.com www.moononthemountain.com The Wood Rasp Shop Sno-Belles Rockwell Brewery Mulberry Hill Farm Booth #1 www.sno-belles.com/home Booth #3201 Booth #63 www.thewoodraspshop.com www.rockwellbrewery.com www.mulberryhillfarm.com South Mountain Creamery The Yarn Dynamic www.southmountaincreamery.com Smoketown Brewing Station Painted Sky Alpaca Farm & Fiber Mill Booth #37 Booth #3203 Booth #11 www.theyarndynamic.com Strates Fine Foods www.smoketownbrewing.com
She’s Cuter in a Skirt Twisted Yarn and Fiber Bags Sweet Farm Tenth Ward Distilling Booth #3 Booth #14 www.thesweetfarm.com Booth #3303 Singleton Fiber Processing www.twistedyarnfiber.com www.tenthwarddistilling.com Booth #41 The Dawg Pound www.singletonfiber.com Whispering Meadows Booth #43, 44 Solitude Wool www.whisperingmeadowsalpaca.com UNCAPPED EXHIBITORS Booth #9, 10 www.solitudewool.com Woodbine Equipment & Supply – Antietam Brewery Associate Sponsor Booth #3204 Stegen Trading Booth #96 www.antietambrewery.com Booth #52 www.woodbineequipment.com Brewers Alley/Monocacy Brewing Stelar Designs FOOD Company Booth #12 Booth #3202 Chic Enterprises www.brewers-alley.com monocacybrewing.com Sweitzer’s Fiber Mill LLC England Acres Farm Booth #FF54 www.englandacres.com Hillbilly’s Jerky www.sweitzersfibermill.com Booth #3301 www.hillbillysjerky.net
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34 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com EXHIBITORS BY LOCATION 233 Hempzels 449 Central Maryland School 4102 Lilypons 14 Twisted Yarn and Fiber Bags 250 Yanmar of Massage 4103 SoTru Organic Fermented 15 Aberdeen’s Wool Company 251 Aspen Campers 500 Premier 1 Supplies Whole Food Nutrition 16 Brediculous Yarns 252 Shockley Honda 501 Omlet 4200 Riverside Midwifery 17 Tempting Ewe Yarns 255 Makita USA 601 Wood-mizer 4201 Kannavis 18 Hunt Valley Cashmere 308 CBD American Shaman 602 Bailey’s 4202 Another Look 19 Breezy Hill Farm 311 Tori’s Company 1501 Farm Fresh Home Foods 5000 Usborne Books and More 20 Lavender Hills Farm 314 Bee Incentive - Flow Hive 1502 Self-Sufficient Living 5001 Sierra Club 21 Lanart International Inc. 315 Advanced Energy Systems 1504 Lineage Goods 5002 H2O at Home 23 Clare Margaret 316 Remodel USA 1505 Day Spring Farm’s 5003 Grouseland Tours 34 Frederick Backyard 317 ReYuze Cases Healing Harvest 5004 Personal Etchings Beekeepers Assoc. 318 Herc Rentals 1506 Falling Bark Farm 5005 Horizontal Hive 35 Alford Family Farms 319 Hawkins Landscaping 1508 Pittsburgh Green 5006 Honey Dew Naturals and Spinnery 320 The Boulder Yard Environmental Solutions 5007 Zilis 36 Taylored Fibers 321 Earth & Turf Products 1509 The Soft Cloth Shop 5100 Lifetime Stainless 37 The Yarn Dynamic 322 Weston A. 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Start planning now to join us at a future Fair! 440 BCS America 4000 Evergreen Institute 443 Rent the Chicken 4001 CRESBI Crates/Sun RESERVE EXHIBIT SPACE 444 Hundredfold Farm Sugar Farm Hurry ... booths are going fast! 445 Neighborhood Sun Solar 4002 Real Time Pain Relief 446 National Ladies 4003 Nutritional Healing Center Email [email protected] or call (800) 234-3368 Homestead Gathering 4004 Therapeutic Innovations ALBANY, OR SEVEN SPRINGS, PA TOPEKA, KS 448 Paradise Energy Solutions 4100 Diamond Pet Food August 4-5 September 14-16 October 13-14 4101 Gnome Serum
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FOOD Chic Enterprises Sweet and savory crepes at the England Acres Farm Meatballs on a stick or over sautéed vegetables, prepackaged meats, seasonings, baked goods Our Dream Pursuits Serving burgers and ribbons fries. Pizza Llama FAIRSee map on pages 18-19. Wood fired pizza and refreshments Pork Authority Frederick based barbeque trailer that serves up delicious smoked pork, chicken, and beef barbeque Rick’s Kettle Corn Rick’s Kettle Corn has many different sweet and salty flavors Sara Festivals Healthy, delicious food with quality ingredients and spices carefully selected for authentic flavor from the other side of the globe Say Cheese Gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches & more Sno-Belles Providing refreshing shaved ice and delicious soft serve ice cream South Mountain Creamery South Mountain Creamery is the first on-farm production plant in Maryland and makes products right on the dairy, just 20 minutes from Downtown Frederick Strates Fine Foods Greek food Sweet Farm Grilled sausages, porkchops sandwiches, sauerkraut bar, pickles on a stick dilly beans potato chips pork rinds, ginger beer The Dawg Pound Hot dogs & the trimmings
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