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2 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 3 CONTENTS A LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Sponsors and Partners 5 ere’s no place like … Hands-On & Extended Workshops 6 M E N Stage 7 It has been a busy 2018 for the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR team Building and Energy Stage 8 with events across the country! We kicked things o in February for our third year in Belton, Texas. April found us back in Asheville, North Capper’s Farmer Stage 9 Carolina. In June, we hosted a rst-time FAIR in Frederick, Maryland. G Stage 10 After zigzagging from the Paci c Northwest for the Oregon FAIR in Heirloom Gardener Stage 11 August to the original FAIR location in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, in Homestead Hustle Stage 12 September, we are nally back in Topeka! e Livestock Conservancy Stage 13 Nothing pleases us more than to host this fun and inspiring event right in Saturday Schedule 14 our own backyard, and we look forward to gathering for our nal event Sunday Schedule 15 of the year here at home. One of the best things about our work here at MOTHER EARTH NEWS is Map 16 sharing time with our passionate and engaged community. Your energy and imagination lead us on one adventure after another. Mother Earth Living Stage 17 Real Food Stage 18 is weekend promises to be inspiring, stimulating, and fun. On page 6 you’ll nd several “Hands- Kids’ Treehouse Stage 19 On” workshops where participants can learn new practical, money-saving skill sets. We believe that one Food 20 of the best ways to learn is by doing, and our nationally renowned experts will show you how. Create your own sourdough starter, hand-stitch a leather pouch, learn how to ferment kimchi or properly Exhibitor Demonstrations 21 piece poultry, and more! A limited number of tickets are available to these special sessions in the Exhibitors by Name 22 bookstore located in the center of the arena. Exhibitors by Location 24 I would like to extend my personal thanks to the many supportive organizations that have invested Marketplace 25 their time and e ort into joining us at this event, and the many innovative exhibitors who have chosen to participate. A special thanks to our sponsors for making this FAIR possible: Ball Brand Fresh Preserving, Brushy Mountain Bee Farm, Coconut Bliss, CoreFirst Bank & Trust, Diamond Pet Foods, Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Omlet, and Premier 1 Supplies. We are also extremely WORKSHOPS 6 grateful to the extraordinary individuals who have agreed to join us as speakers, including Jessi Bloom, Exhibition Hall
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 5 HANDS ON WORKSHOPS Take part in these limited engagements aimed at fostering practical, money-saving skill sets. The best way to learn is by doing, and our nationally renowned experts show you how. PLUS you take what you make! Space is limited! Passes are available on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR Bookstore located in Landon Arena. See map on page 16.
Mastering Kimchi: Hot or Mild Hand-Stitching Leather Kirsten Shockey – FermentWorks Dennis Biswell – MOTHER EARTH NEWS DIY Bath Bombs, Soaks, and Herbal Face Masks A Korean form of vegetable fermentation that has many faces Learn to make three leather stitches: blanket, saddle, and whip Janice Cox – Natural Beauty at Home and avors, kimchi is part of an ancient art now experiencing a stitch (and nd out when each is used). Attendees receive a kit In this workshop, learn the basics of making your own bath products renaissance in the United States. Learn step by step how to make a that includes the leather pieces to make a 4-inch-by-6-inch pouch, using all-natural ingredients (many of which you already have in your kimchi that is just right for your taste buds, be it mild or ve-alarm needles, arti cial sinew, and instruction on how to sew the pouch own home). Attendees create an herbal bath soak, relaxing face mask, heat. Best of all, take home your delicious creation and watch it together using the three stitches. and a zzing bath bomb full of natural salts and herbs. Take them ferment on your counter. Item #9071 | $15 home and enjoy! Item #9072 | $15 Saturday 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Item #9073 | $15 Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Simple, Quick, Delicious Cheeses Hand Spinning with a Drop Spindle Homemade Face Cream Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Creamery Caitlin Wilson – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Queren King-Orozco – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Some of the easiest cheeses to make are also the most versatile and Learn how to make yarn with a drop spindle! Hand spinning is With simple ingredients and a blender, you can whip up a fabulous delicious! Learn how you can make these classics with only one stop meditative and satisfying, and once you get the hang of it, you facial cream that can be easily personalized for your skin type. Queren at the grocery store! In an hour, Gianaclis Caldwell helps you make can make anything into yarn, from naturally colored wools to King-Orozco will share herbalist Rosemary Gladstar’s famous recipe ricotta and paneer. brightly dyed silks to Fido’s fur. Caitlin Wilson covers how to and demonstrate how to mix the ingredients so that they blend Item #9070 | $15 prepare your ber, set up your spindle, spin, and nish your yarn. perfectly into a moisturizing, nourishing cream for face and body. Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. e workshop includes a spindle and 2 ounces of wool roving. Samples and recipes shared. Item #9068 | $30 Item #9077 | $15 Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Fresh Indian Apple Chutney Sourdough Starter Piecing Poultry Karen Solomon – Storey Publishing Victoria Redhed Miller – New Society Meredith Leigh – New Society is rich, decadent, and avorful condient takes its savory avor from Sourdough starter, activated by wild yeast, can be used for making a In this session, learn three ways to piece a whole bird with butcher a pantryful of toasted, ground spices and sweet red bell peppers and lot more than just loaf breads and pizza! Experienced and passionate and author Meredith Leigh. Work with a partner to produce wings, onions. is is a new kitchen classic you’ll return to again to eat with sourdough baker Victoria Redhed Miller provides a hands-on thighs, drumsticks, and breast meat, plus learn how to remove the curry, pork chops, scrambled eggs, or stu ed into a sandwich with experience that teaches how to make and maintain your very own oyster intact and how to produce professional boneless cuts. Never cheddar or a mild, milky cheese. Each guest will leave with newfound sourdough starter to take home and use for making bread or pizza. pay a higher price for preportioned poultry again! knowledge, a copy of the recipe, and a jar of chutney to take home. Item #9075 | $15 Item #9069 | $20 Item #9133 | $15 Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Mushroom Cultivation for Everyone Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain If you think growing mushrooms is too complicated, here’s your chance to see how easy and rewarding it can be. Attendees leave this workshop understanding the best ways to cultivate delicious mushrooms at home or on the farm. Learn about inexpensive start-up options for beginners and many commercial ideas to expand on. Item #9074 | $50 Sunday 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
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Homesteader’s Guide to Renewable Energy Garden Herbs and Flowers for Health and Beauty Natural Organic Pest Control Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute Janice Cox – Natural Beauty at Home Howard Garrett – Dirt Doctor ere are many ways to heat and cool your home, provide electricity, Did you know geranium leaves are powerful antidepressants, or that e most e ective pest control just happens to be organic. Howard cook your food, and heat water with clean, a ordable, and reliable lavender has antibacterial properties? Aloe vera is called the “ rst aid Garrett discusses how to protect and work with bene cial insects, renewable energy. Some make more sense than others. Some are plant” and every household should have one. Discover new healthy as well as what natural, organic pest control products to use in amazingly cheap, even paying for themselves in short order. Learn uses for some of your favorite common garden plants. Janice Cox, certain situations. which options make the most sense for you and how a ordable author of the newly revised book Natural Beauty from the Garden, Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. renewable energy is. Unplug from the grid! presents some of her favorite useful herbs and owers for home beauty Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. and 6:00-6:30 p.m. Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. recipes and treatments. You don’t have to have a garden to enjoy many Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. of these botanicals, herbs, and owers, as many are available at local markets and natural food stores. Bring the outdoors in and promote your own health, wellness, and natural beauty! Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m.
Perma-What? How to Create a Homestead Livestock Behavior and Handling Fermenting Vegetables from A to Z: Paradise with Permaculture Temple Grandin – Storey Publishing Preserving the harvest Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Landscapes Keep your animals calm and safe with Temple Grandin’s Kirsten Shockey – FermentWorks What is permaculture and can it help us to create a more sustainable groundbreaking insights and methods, now tailored speci cally for For your harvest of garden veggies, why not use one of the safest, future? Jessi Bloom shares step-by-step instructions, plus her favorite small farms. Understand the behavior, fears, and instincts of cattle, easiest, most avorful, and healthiest techniques known to tips, inspirations, and great plants for beautiful and abundant goats, pigs, and sheep, and set up the most humane, healthy, and preserve and keep all the nutrients alive (and even increase health homesteads and lives! productive systems and facilities on your farm. bene ts)? Kirsten Shockey demysti es the process by discussing and Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. demonstrating these ancient methods and modern techniques of Book Signing Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 6:00-6:30 p.m. preservation. is workshop explores herbal pastes, chutneys, and other condiments. Bring your curiosity and questions. Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Book Signing Sunday 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Introduction to Charcuterie Creating Drought-Resilient Soil Meredith Leigh – New Society Publishers Dale Strickler – Storey Publishing Four Easy Ways to Grow Mushrooms at Home Learn about charcuterie: the preservation of meat using salt For most of history, we have been at the mercy of drought, and still Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain and smoke. Meredith Leigh demonstrates making fresh sausage and are, as evidenced by the drought of 2012 being among the costliest Looking for an amazingly easy class to get you started in growing discusses other forms of charcuterie, such as fermented sausages and of environmental disasters in U.S. history. Our only response to mushrooms? Learn four easy methods of mushroom cultivation that smoked meats. A farmer, butcher, and cook, she has been working drought has been either to complain or pray for rain. No longer! have the potential for high-yielding, low-tech operations at home or for half her life to advocate for, grow, cook, and create real food. is presentation outlines e ective actions you can take to create on the farm. Tradd Cotter discusses cultivating mushrooms on logs, She’s the author of e Ethical Meat Handbook: Complete Home soils that capture and store more rainfall, and deeper root systems stumps, wood chips, composts, spent co ee grounds, paper, and Butchery, Charcuterie and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore, and that extract more moisture from the soil. cardboard. Learning these four techniques opens the door to being Pure Charcuterie: e Craft & Poetry of Curing Meat at Home. Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. able to cultivate dozens of edible and medicinal species with little or Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m. and no startup costs or expensive equipment. Book Signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. Sunday 3:00-3:30 p.m. Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Book Signing Sunday 4:30-5:00 p.m.
M E N F 7 BUILDING AND ENERGY STAGE Making Cob: How to build with mud Cheap, Sturdy Buildings from Straw, Solar Panels for Everyone: How new Build a Rocket Mass Heater Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Clay, and Pallets technology has made home-grown energy Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Cottage Project Uncle Mud and Family – Natural easy, safe, and cheap Cottage Project Learn how the dirt under your backyard can Cottage Project Robert Rosenberg – Flint Hills Renewable See how you can turn a pile of old bricks and be turned into beautiful buildings, benches, See how straw, an agricultural waste Energy and E ciency Coop mud into a super-e cient woodburning pizza ovens, and much more ... the product, and wood pallets can be turned What is rooftop solar? Get up to date on heater for your house or cabin. possibilities are limited only by one’s into a low-cost, beautiful, eco-friendly, how low cost and easy it can be to take Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. imagination! Be prepared to get muddy. highly-insulated wall that keeps your house advantage of rooftop solar right here in Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. comfy winter and summer. Kansas. Learn tips and tricks to get started Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. sooner than you thought possible. It’s easier Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud than ever to install! Cottage Project Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Is Wind Energy Right for You? Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Play in the mud with Uncle Mud and Cottage Project Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute friends. Use clay, straw, and sticks to build Use clay, straw, and sticks to build little Wind power is sweeping the nation, but DIY Composting Toilet and Bin little houses and sculpt beautiful objects from houses and sculpt beautiful objects from your most of what is being installed is large wind Uncle Mud and Family – Natural your wild imagination. is is a “Hands In” wild imagination. is is a “hands in” turbines. Do small wind turbines make Cottage Project workshop: hands and feet squishing and workshop: hands and feet squishing and economic sense for homes and farms? What Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute mixing and making a big mess. Talk about mixing and making a big mess. Talk about do you need to know about wind resources Almost half the water you use in your house how we can use these same materials to build how we can use these same materials to build in your area and wind energy systems to gets ushed down the toilet, wasting water, benches, ovens, and even houses. You can use benches, ovens, and even houses. You can use make intelligent buying decisions? Dan energy, and valuable nutrients that could be the water at this workshop to wash o with, the water at this workshop to wash o with, Chiras discusses how wind turbines work, going back into your garden. To be truly but be prepared to get dirty and have fun. but be prepared to get dirty and have fun. types of wind turbines, towers and other sustainable, we need to compost all organic Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. important topics. materials, such as food scraps and yard waste, Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. returning the nutrients to the Earth. at Renewable Energy Q&A Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. includes humanure, the nutrient-rich Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute excretions human societies produce in Author and expert Dan Chiras hosts a Build Your Own Wood-Fired Pizza Oven massive quantities each and every day. Dan wide-ranging discussion on the many ways from Dirt Chiras and Chris “Uncle Mud” McClellan in which we can harness and conserve Uncle Mud and Family – Natural show how to build a safe, low-cost, odor-free, energy with sustainable and e cient Cottage Project and highly e ective humanure composting methods, from high-tech to low-tech. Help turn a pile of mud into a wood- red system, consisting of a sawdust toilet and Bring your questions as Chiras provides pizza oven! See how easy it is to do this in compost bin. is system works well in answers on a wide array of renewable your own backyard. Be prepared to get homes, cabins, cottages, and even camping energy topics, how they work together, and muddy. spots. It can also be used in emergencies. the pros and cons of di erent modalities. Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Saturday 1:00-1:30 p.m. Chiras’ Book Signing Saturday Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. 11:00-11:30 a.m.
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8 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com CAPPER’S FARMER STAGE Women Who Homestead: e need A Tiny Home to Call Your Own: Living Durable and Beautiful Hair-On Hides Common Legal Issues on the Homestead for community well in just-right houses Dennis Biswell – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Elizabeth Rich – Farm-to-Consumer Legal Cyndi Ball – National Ladies Patricia Foreman – e Gossamer Foundation Have you ever wanted to turn a deer skin Defense Fund Homestead Gathering You can have an attractive, upscale quality into a beautiful throw for your home? Elizabeth Rich, executive director of the Women represent the fastest-growing built tiny home that is artistically beautiful, Dennis Biswell reveals how to create durable Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, segment in agriculture today. Women’s highly marketable and long-term pro table. hair-on leather from a wide range of animals, provides insight into the various issues you active role in farming has tripled in the last Smaller homes can be more livable, including deer, goats, raccoon, coyotes, and may nd on the homestead, farm, in cottage three decades. Even so, there is a loneliness cozy, enjoyable, easy to clean with lower rabbits. Sharing how to do it all at home with kitchens, and more! that often accompanies women who choose maintenance than big houses. But tiny a limited investment in tools and supplies, Sunday 1:00-1:30 p.m. this career. ey need community, a place and smaller homes are not for everyone. Biswell discusses his timetable for working where they can share new ideas, celebrate Learn why and what it takes to live in a tanning projects into a busy schedule. He Farm Succession Planning victories, address challenges, and cultivate small space to make room for a larger life. also shows items he has created with his Elizabeth Rich – Farm-to-Consumer Legal relationships with like-minded women. Explore the many uses of tiny homes and home-tanned hides. Defense Fund Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. nd out why more people are opting for Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. As the average age of farmers climbs ever less square footage in exchange for more higher, more are looking for creative ways From No-Knead to Sourdough: Finding time, freedom and money. Beeswax from the Hive to Your Lips: to both pass on the farm and still provide your comfort zone with handmade bread Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Rendering beeswax and using it in skin for themselves in retirement. Explore Victoria Redhed Miller – Book Signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. care products options for continuing the family farm New Society Publishers Becky Tipton – Northeast Kansas legacy: options for land and farm transfer; Making your own bread is easier than you e Healthy Homesteader Beekeepers Association using corporations, partnerships, and might think, once you nd your comfort Deborah Niemann – New Society Publishers Becky Tipton starts with fresh cappings and trusts; family land leases; and solutions zone and try it! e author of From No- Today, too many people are literally turns beeswax into beautiful, clean chunks, to perceived inequities between on- and Knead to Sourdough: A simpler approach to sick and tired all the time. at is not and then into some of the best lip balm ever. o -farm heirs. handmade bread covers the basic principles sustainable, and we can’t a ord it. Our She provides other hints for easy-to-make Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. of breadmaking, with an overview of modern lives are lled with conveniences skin care balms, too. simple no-knead yeast breads, pre-ferments, that are killing us slowly. We spend too Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. How Safe Is Your Drinking Water? and sourdough-based breads. You don’t much time sitting and eat too much so- Chris Mahan – Self-Su cient Living need experience, fancy equipment, or called food that didn’t exist 50 years ago. Grow in Places of Unusable Spaces Explore the challenges every household expensive ingredients to make wonderful So, what’s the answer? Start cooking from Matt Stephens – Homestead Hustle faces when coming to terms with the bread at home. is workshop includes a scratch. Plant a garden for fresh veggies. Matt Stephens provides a practical look into quality of their water supply. is brief look at a hand-built wood- red bread Get a few backyard chickens for fresh eggs. using every square inch of your property. presentation addresses the most important oven, plus a handout with a simple yeast Step away from the desk. Move! Steep slopes, downgraded dirt, or rocky ledges questions in detail, including: How do I bread recipe. Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. can be turned into productive-scapes. Corners know if my water is safe? What steps can I Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Book Signing Saturday and Sunday and walls provide excellent edges that can take to enjoy safe water? How much will it Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m. 4:30-5:00 p.m. ourish. With the right setup you can even cost? Is bottled water the answer? and Sunday 11:00-11:30 a.m. make your farm safer. Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m.
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 9 GRIT STAGE Permaculture Is NOT Organic Gardening Farming the Gap: Surviving e Art of Cooking Meat of maximizing yields and minimizing weeds Amber Lehrman – Kansas transition agriculture Meredith Leigh – New Society Publishers with soil building, sheet mulching, compost, Permaculture Institute Rosanna Bauman – Kansas Beginning You don’t have to be a charcuterie nerd making vermicompost, plant allies, and pollinator Many people believe that permaculture is just a Farmers Coalition obscure salamis to bene t from a little cured attractors. Discover how to integrate fancy name for an organic vegetable garden with You’ve decided to transition away from meat knowledge. Interested in making your permaculture into your garden or farm design. fruit trees. In reality, permaculture is a holistic conventional agriculture to return to traditional own deli ham to pack in your kid’s lunchbox? Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. approach to genuinely sustainable living that and sustainable farming ... great! While it Curing your own bacon so you can feel good Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. and goes far beyond just how we grow food. is talk can be tempting to tackle all of the needed about its ingredients? How about making Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. explores the philosophy of permaculture and changes overnight, careful planning, resource the best barbecue or grilled chicken at the how it di ers from organic gardening. management, and knowing the most important next block party? Attend this session to learn Making Leather and Buckskin: Tanning Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. aspects to solve rst can make such a di cult, the most basic tenets of curing, brining, and at home but critical, process much easier. 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Joanne Olszewski all-season garden, including in-depth succession distinguishes the di erent alliums, uncommon Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. covers topics such as key factors to setting up planting, planting summer crops for a fall and everyday. Look at samples and leave with a a vermicomposting system, how to harvest garden, and fruit planting for late winter. sample of something new and fun to plant in Choosing the Right Worm Bin and Species vermicompost, and plants that can be Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. your garden this fall. Ira Wallace curates the for Vermicomposting fertilized with it. Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. Heirloom Allium collection at Southern Joanne Olszewski – Storey Publishing Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Exposure Seed Exchange. Use worms to recycle food waste into Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. An Introduction to Elderberry and Other Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or Medicinal Plants and eir Preparation Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. gardens! Learn about worm bins you can make Gardening with Mushrooms Using Straw John Moody – New Society Publishers or purchase to start vermicomposting at home. Bales, Wood Chips, and Recycled Cardboard With the advent of back-to-school and cold and Honey at’s Di erent: Unique hive Joanne Olszewski discusses factors such as Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom EcoLogical u season, learn how to make traditional products and their uses air ow and moisture and temperature control. Landscapes, Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain preparations to beat and treat various bugs. Leo Sharashkin – HorizontalHive.com She also helps you nd the right species for Participants in this hands-on workshop learn Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Some honeys have con rmed medicinal vermicomposting (while covering invasive how edible mushrooms can be spawned into Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m. bene ts while others may be dangerous to species issues and safety). straw bale gardens. Hear about intercropping consume. Get an in-depth understanding of Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. plants and mushrooms, utilizing mycorrhizae, Tree Planting, Natural Organic Tree how honey is produced today, and how to Book Signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. and vermicomposting with mushrooms in this Management, and Fabulous Trees of create truly wholesome, pollen-rich honeys clever twist on traditional raised gardening the World with unique properties and avors. Discover 30 High-Performance, O -Grid techniques. 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Homesteader’s Garden Herbs and Natural Organic Perma-What? Livestock Behavior Guide to Flowers for Health Pest Control How to Create a and Handling MOTHER EARTH Renewable Energy and Beauty Howard Garrett Homestead Paradise Temple Grandin NEWS Stage Dan Chiras Janice Cox Break with Permaculture (Page 7) Jessi Bloom
Making Cob: How to Kids Can Build with Renewable Energy Cheap, Sturdy Is Wind Electricity Build Your Own Building and build with mud Sticks and Mud Q&A Buildings from Straw, Right for You? Wood-Fired Energy Stage Uncle Mud & Family Uncle Mud & Family Dan Chiras Clay, and Pallets Dan Chiras Pizza Oven (Page 8) Uncle Mud & Family from Dirt Uncle Mud & Family Women Who From No-Knead to A Tiny Home to e Healthy Durable and Homestead: Sourdough: Finding Call Your Own: Homesteader Beautiful Capper’s Farmer e need for your comfort zone Break Living well in Deborah Niemann Hair-On Hides Stage (Page 9) community with handmade just-right houses Dennis Biswell Cyndi Ball bread Patricia Foreman Victoria Redhed Miller
Permaculture Is Prepping 101: One Wildlife Habitat Farming the Gap: e Practicality and e Art of Grit Stage NOT Organic week to prepare First: Create, Surviving Transition Legality of Craft Cooking Meat (Page 10) Gardening Kathy Harrison enhance, restore Agriculture Distilling Meredith Leigh Amber Lehrman Aaron Deters Rosanna Bauman Victoria Redhed Miller Composting Gardening with Extending the An Introduction Tree Planting, with Worms: e Mushrooms Using Harvest: Creating a to Elderberry and Natural Organic Tree Heirloom basics Straw Bales, Wood Break four-season garden Other Medicinal Management, and Gardener Stage Joanne Olszewski Chips, and More! Ira Wallace Plants and eir Fabulous Trees of (Page 11) Jessi Bloom & Preparation the World Tradd Cotter John Moody Howard Garrett Make More Money e Five Mistakes Homestead Hard What Does It Take Value-Added Living Navigating Farm-to- Homestead on Your Farm with Homesteaders Make Knocks to Get Started in for Small Farmers Table Legal Issues Hustle Stage Agritourism (and How to Avoid e Homestead Beekeeping? Kristin Kay Schultz Elizabeth Rich (Page 12) Matt Stephens em!) Hustle Bloggers Daniel Roath John Moody
Chicken Behavior Improving Chickens Hopping for Fun Keeping Livestock Natural Beekeeping Livestock and Health Stockmanship Q&A and Pro t with Fed and Watered in a at Works Charlene Couch Temple Grandin e Livestock Heritage Rabbits Drought Leo Sharashkin Conservancy Conservancy Callene and Eric Dale Strickler Stage (Page 13) Rapp
Essential Oils, How to Make Lunch Time with the Homegrown Demystifying DIY Natural Home Mother Earth CBD, and Herbs for Your Own Ladies Homestead Apothecary Makeup Cleaning Wellness in 2018 Coconut Milk! Gathering Crystal Stevens Marie Rayma Joanne Bauman Living Stage Connie Jacoby Emily Lesiak (Page 17)
Aged Cheese: Pickling Beyond the Whole Animal Capture the Flavors Fermented Making it easy Cucumber Butchery of Fall: Discover Condiments Real Food Stage Gianaclis Caldwell Karen Solomon Meredith Leigh a delicious twist Kirsten Shockey (Page 18) to your classic applesauce Tamika Adjemian Soil and Seeds, e Art and Practice Break Fungi in the Basic Homestead Family Adventures Kids’ Treehouse Sprouts to Success of Incubating Eggs Classroom Knot Tying in Gardening and Un-Included Club for Home, School, Tradd Cotter Matt Stephens Worm Farming Stage (Page 19) Youth Leaders and Science Projects Crystal Stevens Patricia Foreman
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Fermenting Vegetables Introduction to Creating Drought- Four Easy Ways to Grow from A to Z: Preserving Charcuterie Resilient Soil Mushrooms at Home MOTHER EARTH the harvest Meredith Leigh Dale Strickler Tradd Cotter NEWS Stage Kirsten Shockey (Page 7) Break Solar Panels for Everyone DIY Composting Toilet Build a Rocket Kids Can Build with Building and Robert Rosenberg and Bin Mass Heater Sticks and Mud Energy Stage Uncle Mud & Family Uncle Mud & Family Uncle Mud & Family (Page 8) Dan Chiras
Beeswax from the Hive Grow in Places of Common Legal Issues Farm Succession How Safe Is Your Capper’s Farmer to Your Lips: Rendering Unusable Spaces on the Homestead Planning Drinking Water? beeswax and using it in Matt Stephens Elizabeth Rich Elizabeth Rich Chris Mahan Stage (Page 9) skin care products Becky Tipton
Using Cover Crops to Regenerative Gardening Making Leather and Prepping 101: If the Grit Stage Build Fertility, Control and Farming Buckskin: Tanning lights go out (Page 10) Weeds, and Improve Soil Crystal Stevens Break at home Kathy Harrison Dale Strickler Dennis Biswell
Garlic, Onions, Shallots, Honey at’s Di erent: Beyond the Basics: Choosing the Right High-Performance, Heirloom Perennial Onions, and Unique hive products Growing common and Worm Bin and Species O -Grid Chinese Gardener Stage Leeks: Choosing the right and their uses uncommon greens for for Vermicomposting Greenhouses fall-planted alliums for Leo Sharashkin exciting salads, braising Joanne Olszewski Dan Chiras (Page 11) your garden! greens, and more all year Ira Wallace Ira Wallace Sustainable Business Simplify Your Sustainable Beekeeping Goats as the Centerpiece Homestead Opportunities Homestead Plan Daniel Roath of a Diversi ed Hustle Stage Kristin Kay Schultz Cyndi Ball Break Homestead (Page 12) Deborah Niemann
Poultry Unplugged: Holistic Goat Health Getting a Feel for Goats Homegrown Pork and Adding a Cow to Livestock Free-ranging poultry just Gianaclis Caldwell Gianaclis Caldwell Getting Ready for Your Family Conservancy about anywhere Backyard Pigs Callene Rapp Victoria Redhed Miller Charlene Couch Stage (Page 13)
Plant Allies and Medicine Musculoskeletal Pain: DIY Makeup: A face in How to Grow and Use Mother Earth for the Earth Ligaments, tendons, and an hour Loofah Sponges Living Stage Jessi Bloom bones, oh my! Marie Rayma Janice Cox Joanne Bauman (Page 17)
“Berry” Inspired: Home Poultry Processing Making Bacon at Home Eggs-traordinary Eggs: Discover new avor Patricia Foreman Karen Solomon e science, tricks, and Real Food Stage Break twists to a classic secrets of eggs (Page 18) homemade jam Patricia Foreman Tamika Adjemian
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16 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com MOTHER EARTH LIVING STAGE Essential Oils, CBD, and Herbs for Homegrown Apothecary degreaser, sink and oven cleaner, sanitizers, draws on both her personal and professional Wellness in 2018 Crystal Stevens – rive Permaculture Farm disinfectants, formulas for dusting and experience with chronic pain and pain Connie Jacoby – Wise Women Botanicals Learn about more than 24 medicinal herbs scouring, oor cleaners, carpet refreshers, management. Whatever the cause of pain (be is interactive seminar uses essential oils, that are easy to grow and rewarding to detergent, and more. it joints, muscles, nerves, or something else), herbal tinctures, and blending to maximize harvest. Find out how to stock your own Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. you can nourish your body with simple, easily bene ts and improve health and wellness. herbal apothecary with simple recipes for tea created herbal brewed infusions, tinctures, Bring questions and positivity. blending, tinctures, herbal honey, and salves. Plant Allies and Medicine for the Earth oils, liniments, poultices, and bath soaks that Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom ease sti ness and in ammation as well as Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. EcoLogical Landscapes improving function and performance. How to Make Your Own Coconut Milk! and Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. Jessi Bloom leads this permaculture Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Emily Lesiak – Coconut Bliss workshop about the many powerful uses By now, many of us are familiar with the Demystifying DIY Makeup of plants. A world of botanical alchemy DIY Makeup: A face in an hour various health bene ts and versatile uses of Marie Rayma – Humblebee & Me extends to an impressive assortment of Marie Rayma – Humblebee & Me coconut milk. However, purchasing it can Ever wanted to make your own makeup, but applications ... from food to medicine, fuel, Marie Rayma, author of Make It Up, creates be costly. Learn how simple it is to make had no idea where to start? Begin here! Marie bers, and the wisdom of weeds. Bloom and applies makeup for a custom look on your own coconut milk at home. Be sure to Rayma discusses di erent types of cosmetics walks through the ways you can put plants stage with audience input. See how easy it is stick around for samples of Coconut Bliss (such as powders, creams, and liquids), what to work in your life, from ecological design to quickly make cosmetics such as lipstick, ice cream to inspire your own creations. is they’re made of, and how to make them at to improved crop production or help with blush, and highlighter in any color, as well as presentation sponsored by Coconut Bliss. home. Learn about pure pigments, silky weed suppression, or from herbalism and how beautifully they perform! Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. powders, rich butters, and other mineral- making your own apothecary to use for Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. and plant-sourced ingredients, and how they personal health and well-being. Walk away Book Signing Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m. Lunch Time with the Ladies can be transformed into high-performance with a new understanding of how you can Homestead Gathering eye shadows, lipsticks, foundation, and more start looking to plants as important allies, in How to Grow and Use Loofah Sponges Calling all ladies interested in sharing your at home. almost everything we do on this planet. Janice Cox – Natural Beauty at Home lunch break with like-minded women! Trade Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. You may be surprised and delighted to learn stories and pose any questions you might Book Signing Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m. that loofah (lu a) sponges do not come have about your homesteading experience or from the sea but are a vegetable that can your dream of starting on the journey. (Or Natural Home Cleaning Musculoskeletal Pain: Ligaments, easily be grown in your own home garden. answer others’ questions.) Bring your lunch Joanne Bauman – Prairie Magic Herbals tendons, and bones, oh my! ese vegetable scrubbers are easy and fun and ideas. Ditch the toxic and harmful chemical Joanne Bauman – Prairie Magic Herbals to grow. Learn planting and growing tips as Saturday 1:00-1:30 p.m. products. Learn all about inexpensive is class discusses musculoskeletal system well as a few recipes for using your sponges. natural herbal home cleaners that are supports, as well as conditions that a ect Young plants are also edible and delicious. simple to make. Use herbs and hydrosols muscles, bones, and associated structures. Recipes for loofah soap, skin scrub, and stir- to scent instead of essential oils. Joanne Learn herb and plant allies that assist in fry included! Bauman leads the audience room by room healing musculoskeletal issues and injury, and Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. with recipes for making natural dish soap, that aid in recovery. Herbalist Joanne Bauman Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m.
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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 17 REAL FOOD STAGE Aged Cheese: Making it easy butchery, charcuterie, and cooking to other “Berry” Inspired: Discover new avor Making Bacon at Home Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Creamery animal species, as well. twists to a classic homemade jam Karen Solomon – Storey Publishing If you are ready to move beyond making fresh Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Tamika Adjemian – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Bacon: Hands down, it’s everyone’s favorite cheese, get ready to learn how to simply age Book Signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. Capture the avor of your seasonal berries meat. Even those who eschew the pig nd any cheese (without investing in complicated with delicious homemade jam, one of it hard to resist the intoxicating smoke and equipment). Learn a few simple and fun Capture the Flavors of Fall: Discover a canning season’s greatest delights. rich avor of crisp, delicious bacon. Why cheeses, including feta and Gouda, and how delicious twist to your classic applesauce Tamika Adjemian demonstrates how to stay beholden to the store-bought stu in to age them in your fridge. Tamika Adjemian – Ball Fresh preserve a delicious classic jam, and she shares the plastic package? Homemade bacon is Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. Preserving Products inspirational ideas on how to add unique far easier to make than you think ... with or Book Signings Saturday 11:00-11:30 a.m. When fall descends with a bounty of avor twists to jazz up your pantry jams without access to special equipment such as and Sunday 1:30-2:00 p.m. delicious apples, you need a bounty of throughout the entire year. Get inspired with a smoker or barbecue grill. Karen Solomon, ideas on how to use them. Applesauce is a tips and tricks for preserving jam while using author of Cured Meat, Smoked Fish, and Pickling Beyond the Cucumber: Ideas and perfect start. Tamika Adjemian demonstrates the new and innovative canning products. Pickled Eggs, demonstrates how to prepare, techniques to pickle meat, sh, eggs, nuts, how to create and preserve outrageously Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. cure, smoke, slice, and preserve your own beans, and more delicious applesauce, with inspiring spices, outstanding homemade bacon. Karen Solomon – Storey Publishing sweeteners, and cooking techniques that o er Home Poultry Processing Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. When people think pickles, they most often unique ways to use your new pantry staple Patricia Foreman – e Gossamer Foundation Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m. go straight to vegetables and, occasionally, throughout the entire year. Get inspired with Learn how to humanely, safely, sanitarily, fruit. While vinegar-doused and fermented tips and tricks for making your applesauce and skillfully process your birds at home. Eggs-traordinary Eggs: e science, tricks, cucumbers, carrots, and berries are a while using new and innovative canning Understand why the conventional way of and secrets of eggs delightful accompaniment to any meal, products that simplify the water bath canning processing is the worst way and can ruin Patricia Foreman – e Gossamer Foundation pickled proteins like meat, eggs, sh, process. is presentation sponsored by Ball meat quality. Get healthy, high-quality Eggs are among the most nutritious, easily beans, and more can easily show o food Fresh Preserving Products. meat and bone broth from your backyard digestible, and absorbed foods available preservation at its best center-plate. Karen Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. ock. Processing your own birds is a lost on the planet. Eggs are so adaptable Solomon, author of Cured Meat, Smoked art of our culture. It’s time to bring back that they can be used for a variety of Fish, and Pickled Eggs, discusses in depth Fermented Condiments this old tradition so that how to process dishes. ey create elegant sou és, hold the history of preserved meat, sh, beans, Kirsten Shockey – Ferment Works poultry is common knowledge in homes and meatloaf together, keep oil and vinegar nuts, and more, and she o ers some simple Fermentation is a hot topic, from health communities. is is the ultimate “know from separating in mayonnaise, and form suggestions for preserving these foods at to avor. Americans are looking to bold your source” for poultry and eggs. crystals in candies. ey spin magically into home. avors to jazz up their meals, from kimchi Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. meringues and thicken smooth custards. Eggs Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. to sriracha. What do these avors have Book Signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. build cake batters by providing the structural Book Signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 p.m. in common? Lactic acid fermentation! framework, and produce nely grained ice Starting with mustard and moving through creams, enrich soups, and glaze pie crusts. Whole Animal Butchery fermenting peppers, this session teaches how What other food can do all this? It’s said you Meredith Leigh – New Society Publishers to create your own delicious, easy fermented can tell a great chef from a cook by the way Meredith Leigh, author of e Ethical Meat condiments. they treat and use eggs. Learn the chemistry Handbook, demonstrates whole-animal Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. behind the magic of eggs in this eggs-plicit, butchery. Using a hog as an example, she Book Signing Sunday 11:00-11:30 a.m. eggs-citing workshop. discusses delicious and thrifty use of the Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. entire carcass, and applies principles of Book Signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m.
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18 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com KIDS’ TREEHOUSE STAGE Soil and Seeds, Sprouts to Success Fungi in the Classroom Family Adventures in Gardening and ReWild the Child! Un-Included Club Youth Leaders Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain Worm Farming Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Learn about urban agriculture from the Ever wonder what kind of projects you and Crystal Stevens – rive Permaculture Farm Landscapes Un-Included Club Youth Leaders! ey are your children can start at home or in Learn how worms play a bene cial role in Are you ready to be a part of the wild tribe growing superfoods and using them to school with mushrooms? is program is the soil and in food production. Discover of little Earth warriors? Learn and play with grow healthier. ey showcase what they part show and part hands-on, with many the bene ts of building a vermicompost the power and magic of plants. Decorate have learned and you can see what the cool experiments that are practical for bin in your garden. Learn all about worms and dream up all that we can be. You can Un-Included Club is accomplishing with demonstrating recycling and composting in this hands-on family workshop. even make an herbal dream pillow to take their knowledge. home and school waste byproducts using Saturday 5:00-6:00 p.m. home and put to use! Space is limited. Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. mushroom spawn. Participants make and Book Signing Saturday 3:00-3:30 p.m. Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. take home a small mushroom fruiting kit Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. Book Signing Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m. e Art and Practice of Incubating Eggs they make from shredded paper or for Home, School, and Science Projects cardboard, as well as a living culture! Making Soap Balls Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud Patricia Foreman – e Gossamer Foundation Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Connie Jacoby – Wise Women Botanicals Uncle Mud and Family – Natural Incubate eggs and you can maintain Book Signing Sunday 4:30-5:00 p.m. Use your imagination to create fun shapes Cottage Project self-perpetuating ocks. Learn how to of soap with scents or no scent at all. Play in the mud with Uncle Mud. Use clay, select incubators that you can buy ... or Basic Homestead Knot Tying Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m. straw, and sticks to build little houses and make. Find and set the best eggs, without Matt Stephens – Homestead Hustle sculpt beautiful objects from your wild owning a rooster! Discover how embryo Bind it tight, bundle it up, and keep it Soil Layer Dessert imagination. is is a “hands-in” development in the shell a ects secure. Matt Stephens shows what knots to Un-Included Club Youth Leaders workshop: hands and feet squishing and hatchability. Hear about the critical phase use and where to use them. Should you use Learn about soil layers in the most delicious mixing and making a big mess. Talk about of chicks hatching out, the rst week of braided or twisted? Should you use cotton, way. Kids can use ingredients to create a how we can use these same materials to “chick-hood,” and chick nutrition for nylon, sisal, or poly? Learn which cordage sweet treat that resembles the layers, build benches, ovens, and even houses. You optimal health. Patricia Foreman also to use in di erent situations, depending on including green coconut for the grass! can wash o with water, but be prepared to covers “chick-ability” and why it is a matter actual workloads. Practice tying functional Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. get dirty and have fun. of life or death. Understand why homestead knots for your next project and Located at the Building and Energy Stage incubation know-how is a key to not only take your example home. Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m. heritage poultry sustainability but also Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. enabling local foods. Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. Book Signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m.
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FOOD Apothecary Food Truck at the Apothecary Food Truck uses homegrown ingredients from their urban garden in Lawrence, Kansas, to make their simple dishes nourishing and flavorful. Enjoy mobile, intentional food.
BBQ’s Roll N Smoke BBQ’s Roll N Smoke offers delicious smoked meats, homemade barbecue sauce, and friendly service. Their menu includes jumbo turkey legs, brisket, pulled pork, sausages, hot FAIRSee map on page 16. dog, chips, potato salad, salad, baked beans, and fries. Becky’s Bierocks Bierocks are sandwiches that have a filling of meat, cabbage, onion, and other spices, encased in a yeast dough shell. Fresh vegetables and lean meats are used in all products. The dough and meat fillings are made fresh each day prior to assembling the product. Becky’s Bierocks also sells chips and homemade cinnamon rolls.
Dry Creek Buffalo Co. Chuck Wagon Stop by the chuck wagon for buffalo burgers, bison chili, loaded bison nachos, bison brisket, tacos, fries, loaded baked potatoes, and smoky mac and cheese.
Front Door Catering All of Front Door Catering’s food is made from scratch every time to make sure that you receive nothing but the highest-quality and best-tasting food possible with every bite. They offer pulled pork, brisket, Cubano chicken wraps, and chicken salad, as well as turkey and Swiss cheese.
Oz Highland Farm Oz Highland Farm sells a variety of food: Scottish Highland Beef, rib-eye steak sandwiches, 1/3-pound steakburgers, Haggis and Mash-Bangers, mashhaggis, pup-banger sausage, mac and cheese, Oz dogs, sides, and drinks.
Paydro & Lena’s Catering Paydro & Lena’s Catering has been serving delicious, wholesome, homemade Mexican, American, and Italian foods at family-friendly prices to northeastern Kansas for the past 15 years!
20 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com EXHIBITOR DEMONSTRATIONS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Secrets to Building a Healthy Meal – Booth #1215 Gardening with Native Plants – Booth #2063 Natural Grocers The Resilient Activist Dexters and Babydolls: Brushing and leading, DNA, Confused about what to eat for energy, focus, Discover simple ways to shift your flower garden to a and wool samples – Booth #4200 and optimal health? No matter what your eating thriving pollinator habitat. Gladhour Farm philosophy is, learn the secrets to building a healthy Saturday 10:00 a.m. & Sunday 3:00 p.m. This exhibitor demonstrates leading a Dexter (instead meal that help people achieve their health goals and of moving one by pressure), as well as brushing the that keep them feeling their best. How to Grow Perennial Onions, Leeks, and Other animal. Understand the process of acquiring a DNA Saturday & Sunday 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and Unusual Alliums – Booth #2055 sample from hair follicles to send in for lab tests. The 3:00 p.m. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange exhibitor also shows how to take a wool sample from Most kitchen gardens contain at least one row of Babydolls, and explains what value the lab report The Power of the New Infrared – Booth #2603 onions, usually planted in the spring. Fall-planted provides an owner wanting to work with wool. WBWC – Personal Infrared Saunas onions are less well-known. Learn how to add these Saturday 10:00 a.m. Hear all about no-sweat healing and the promise it easy alliums (such as multiplying onions, shallots, and holds for total detoxification, boosted immunity, bulbing leeks) to your garden. Goat to Garment – Booth #4500 reduced inflammation, improved circulation, and Saturday & Sunday 10:00 a.m. Pygora Breeders Association increased metabolism. Throughout the weekend, the Pygora Breeders Ongoing Tractor Demonstrations – Booth #5311 Association demonstrates shearing, skirting a fleece, Heritage Tractor fleece preparation, and spinning. Follow all the stages, Upkeep your farm, garden and lawn with John from fleece on the goat to a finished product! NATURE & COMMUNITY Deere, STIHL and Honda Power equipment from Saturday 10:00 a.m. Heritage Tractor. Grief and Hope in Times of Environmental Angst Ongoing – Booth #2063 KIDS’ PROGRAMMING The Resilient Activist Let’s Make Something Grow! – Booth #5308 The Resilient Activist offers uplifting philosophy and Central Iowa Organic Fertilizer Working with Clay – Booth #1602 nurturing tools to support your nature-loving heart Learn how to use organic earthworm castings, as well Fire Me Up Ceramics even in the midst of ecological despair. as the best methods for planting veggies, flowers, See throwing demonstrations at two-hour intervals Saturday 12:00 p.m. & Sunday 1:00 p.m. lawns, and houseplants. Find out which approaches throughout the weekend. Find out how to make suit different soil types and conditions. fermentation pots, seed savers, canisters, and more Making Handwoven Baskets – Booth #1913 Ongoing useful items. Flinthills Fibers Saturday 9:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 3:15 p.m. Marsha Jensen of Flinthills Fibers demonstrates Making Seed Balls – Booth #2055 and 5:15 p.m. & Sunday 9:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:15 splintwoven basketry throughout the weekend. See Southern Exposure Seed Exchange p.m. and 3:15 p.m. examples of a variety of handwoven, functional baskets Participate in guerrilla gardening (or a fun, easy project for sale, and watch a basket in progress. to share with adults and children). Learn, make, and Ongoing take some seed balls home. MODERN HOMESTEADING Saturday & Sunday 3:00 p.m. Mothering a Young Environmentalist Without Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter! – Booth #1611 Going Off the Rails – Booth #2063 Tomato Hornworm: Feeling the love – Booth #2063 LeafFilter The Resilient Activist The Resilient Activist This exhibitor teaches folks all about gutter protection, Perfect for parents of young nature lovers, this Learn compassionate gardening ideas. The critters rainwater filtration and collection, and more. demonstration teaches how to communicate to eating your tomato plants might just be beneficial Ongoing children what’s happening in the environment and pollinators! what helpful tools can support their hearts and minds. Saturday 5:00 p.m. & Sunday 10:00 a.m. Hand-Carving Spoons – Booth #2004 Beth Sarver, artist and trauma-informed resilience Riverwood Treenware educator, leads the discussion. Weed-Free Raised Bed Gardening – Booth #1300 Find out how to hand-carve spoons with traditional Saturday 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Gardening Revolution hand tools. This exhibitor teaches about their proven gardening Ongoing Permaculture Paradigm for the Next Economy system and why it works. – Booth #2063 Saturday & Sunday 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. The Resilient Activist NATURAL HEALTH This demonstration serves as an introduction to the Worm Composting – Booth #5602 permaculture concepts of whole systems thinking and Texas Worm Ranch Food Testing Demonstration: Glyphosate embodiment, which can create an economy serving all Discover why you should consider vermicomposting. contamination of popular foods – Booth #1612 of humanity. Learn where you can set up worm bins, how to do so, GMO Free USA Saturday 2:00 p.m. what care is involved, and how to use worm castings Do your favorite foods contain glyphosate, the main as a cheap and easy garden amendment. Improve your ingredient in Roundup weed killer? Roundup is Top 5 EnviroTips to Benefit the Planet – Booth #2063 chances for organic garden and landscaping success! sprayed repeatedly on genetically engineered crops, The Resilient Activist Saturday & Sunday 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. used as a desiccant on grains and other food crops, Learn five simple ways you can easily give back to the and has been linked to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. planet to support a healthy environment while you Watch this exhibitor’s Home Test Kit Demo to find nurture your own heart. REAL FOOD out if your favorite foods are contaminated. Saturday 3:00 p.m. & Sunday 2:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Waterless Cooking – Booth #2007 Kitchen Craft Cookware Herbal Salts – Booth #2105 ORGANIC GARDENING Kitchen Craft Cookware shows how to cook healthily Feral Gardens during this demonstration. Make your own herbal salts at home from locally Fall Bulb Prep and Supporting Early Pollinators – Saturday & Sunday 10:00 a.m., 12:00, 2:00, and abundant weeds or herbs sourced from an organic Booth #2063 4:00 p.m. farmer. This exhibitor goes over different techniques, The Resilient Activist talks about ethically sourcing medicinal herbs, and Darlene Arnett, Advanced Missouri Master Gardener, shares samples. shares everything you want to know about planting spring Saturday & Sunday 1:30 p.m. bulbs (location, soil prep, selection, and troubleshooting) and how you can plant for early pollinators. Saturday 1:00 p.m. & Sunday 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
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