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PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 25-26, 2014  TOPEKA, KAN. CONTENTS A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Sponsors and Partners 5-6 Dear friends, M E N Stage 7 G Stage 8 ank you for helping us launch our  rst M E N F Stage 9 in Topeka, ! Your enthusiasm is the reason for this event and we appreciate your passion and your participation. Organic Stage 10

Real Food Stage 11 We are excited about bringing the F to our own backyard right here in Stage 12 the Midwest. We’re especially eager to host an event in the capital city for Seed Stage 13 the  rst time. e Livestock Conservancy Stage 14 Utne Reader Stage 15 Every day we hear from folks all over the world who have great ideas for Saturday Stage Schedule 16 helping to solve the puzzle, and we always look forward to getting together at the F to share ideas in pursuit of this common goal. Sunday Stage Schedule 17

Map 18-19 I would like to extend my personal thanks to the many supportive organizations that have invested their time O -Stage Demonstrations 20-21 and e ort in support of this event, and the many innovative entrepreneurs who have chosen to participate. Major Kids Treehouse Stage 21 sponsors this year include Agrilicious, Botanical Interests, Capital City Nissan, Coconut Bliss, Colorado Yurt, Fresh Food Options 22 Cromwell Solar, Enerhealth, Envirolet, Frontier Farm Credit, Mockingbird Meadows, Nature’s Flavors, Premier 1, Exhibitors 25-27 Purina, Split Second Log Splitter and eo Chocolate. Exhibitors by Location 28 We are particularly grateful to the extraordinary individuals who are joining us as speakers, including our headliners: Marketplace 29-30 Dan and Don Adams, Ed Begley, Jr., Jessi Bloom, Dan Chiras, Rosemary Gladstar, David Gumpert, Gary Nabhan, WORKSHOPS 7 15, 21 Joel Salatin, David Schafer, and Stephanie Tourles. ey represent some of the most in uential and visionary minds and we are honored to share their commitment to sustainability and conscientious lifestyles.

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6 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com MOTHER EARTH NEWS STAGE presented by f Are We Winning the Energy Wars Food Chain Restoration: Climate What the Cluck?! Getting Started Against Coal, Nuclear and Oil change, pollinators and on Gardening With Chickens Companies? sustainable fruit production Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute Gary Paul Nabhan – Edible Baja Landscapes Will solar and wind become Arizona and University of Arizona Come learn the basics of how to economical and reliable sources of is workshop focuses on how integrate chickens into your garden, energy of the future? Is there and industrial starting with chicken raising myth enough renewable energy to power have created a perfect busters and moving on to designing our future? Can these intermittent storm for pollinators, triggering the habitat for them (and you) to sources of energy provide our 24-hour-a-day energy risk of food chain collapse. e solutions to this benet from. Jessi Bloom, best-selling author of demand? Or are our eorts to promote renewable dilemma come from practices that farmers and orchard Free-Range Chicken Gardens, also shares her favorite top energy technologies futile against the powers that keepers are already innovating, including planting 10 chicken garden plants! control the world’s energy system? Are we destined to insectary, forming hedgerows in and near elds to create Sunday 11:30-12:30 live in a world of severe climate change, energy wars and alley cropping, or pollinator-friendly forages beneath Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 economic hardship? Come here what internationally low-chill fruit and nut trees. renowned solar and wind expert Dan Chiras has to say Saturday 2:30-3:30 DIY Solar Panels about this timely topic. Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 Dan and Don Adams – Earthineer Saturday 10:00-11:00 We all would like to be o the grid, Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 Herbal Remedies for Pain Relief but the costs for solar panels are Stephanie Tourles – Storey Publishing prohibitive ... or are they? Follow Beautiful and Abundant: e Come hear author, herbalist and Dan and Don Adams through their MOTHER EARTH NEWS community licensed holistic aesthetician latest project: building solar panels! and its vision for the future Stephanie Tourles discuss soothing ey’ll discuss the steps they took, Bryan Welch – MOTHER EARTH NEWS herbal remedies that will help ease the decisions they made, and how M E N’ positive the pain associated with backache, they trimmed thousands o the price by building their message brings together a arthritis, headaches and sore, sti own. is presentation has been updated with their community of working visionaries. muscles, from her latest book current projects, including exible panels and DIY In his award-winning book, Hands-On Healing Remedies. She’ll highlight 15 herbs to monitoring solutions. Beautiful and Abundant: Building promote blessed pain relief, comfort and healing. Learn Sunday 1:00-2:00 the World We Want, M E N publisher how these aromatic, topically applied herbal remedies Bryan Welch explores the power of human visualization are made and used. Samples will be available for Live Simply So at Others Can and oers an engaging and practical method for everyone to experience. A question and answer session Simply Live building a collective vision of human sustainability one will follow, if time allows. Ed Begley Jr. – Envirolet person – and one endeavor – at a time. 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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 7 GRIT STAGE Cooking With the Power of the Sun Mycoremediation of Home and Farm Waste How to Find the Perfect Survival Retreat Pond Management Dynamics Paul Munsen – Sun Ovens International Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain Marjory Wildcraft – Grow Your Own Groceries Kenneth Rust – Kasco Marine Learn how to harness the sun’s power to cook, Mushrooms native to your area of the United is workshop is for those who are looking for a Ponds and small lakes are a dynamic web of dehydrate and purify water, and be better prepared States are also well-adapted to lter, stun and location that has the natural resources needed to . Pond management choices will aect for emergencies. See how practical and easy it is to destroy pathogenic bacteria that accompany failing maintain a good lifestyle for an extended period; several other parts of the pond’s ecology and use the sun to bake, boil and steam foods. Hear septic systems, manure holding ponds, and even years, decades, or perhaps generations. It covers behavior. is presentation will touch on the about the many economic, health and pet waste runo. Learn how these mushrooms three simple steps to nding your perfect retreat, major components of managing ponds on your environmental benets of cooking with the sun. perform these miraculous tasks and how to the top nine regions (and why they are chosen by property: aquatic plants, erosion, stocking, algae Learn how to harness the sun’s power to cook, develop a living barrier or ltration system that is most preppers), the four biggest threats that must and raising healthy sh. dehydrate and purify water, and be better prepared customized to t your needs. is talk focuses on inuence your decision on where to relocate, the Sunday 1:00-2:00 for emergencies. See how practical and easy it is to simple biomass expansion techniques, basic site biggest mistake you can make when rst thinking use the sun to bake, boil and steam foods. is engineering, and species of mushrooms that can be about your retreat and how far from town your DIY Aquaponics workshop covers solar cooking, solar dehydrating, used for mycoremediation projects at home or on retreat should be located. Dan and Don Adams – Earthineer solar water pasteurization and hard-boiling eggs . Saturday 5:30-6:30 Aquaponics combines aquaculture, for raising sh, without water. In addition, hear about solar Saturday 1:00-2:00 and hydroponics, for growing plants. 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8 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com MOTHER EARTH LIVING STAGE Wild Food, Wild Medicine Acupressure for the Whole Family Herbal Remedies at Work Chasing the Blues Away: Herbs for anxiety, Linda Conroy – Moonwise Herbs Judith Boice, ND, LAc, FABNO – Seven Winds David Christopher, M.H. – School of Natural stress and depression Join forager and herbalist Linda Conroy of Institute Healing Rosemary Gladstar – Storey Publishing Moonwise Herbs for this fun and interactive Acupressure is a needle-less way of stimulating e top diseases, cardiovascular health, cancer and Stress has become a hot topic in our frantic world presentation. Conroy shares harvesting and points on the Chinese acupuncture meridians, diabetes will be discussed. 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In the process, they fortify and beyond for people of all ages. and strengthen our nervous systems, calming and Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows Saturday 2:30-3:30 MagniSCENT Mints as Medicine grounding us. is discussion covers favorite You may have heard a lot about these once Joanne Bauman – Prairie Magic Herbals nervine herbs and specic therapies that are deeply little-known glands over the past couple years. DIY Herbal First Aid e magniSCENT Mint family is easy to grow calming and relaxing. Whether you are male or female, they are very Linda Conroy – Moonwise Herbs and lled with aromatic, benecial plants that Sunday 1:00-2:00 important in the maintenance of hormonal Join herbalist and wilderness rst responder Linda both stimulate/warm and sedate/cool. Come and Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 balance and so much more. Learn how to keep Conroy for this inspiring presentation. 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Other mints can help aid can be used for general health, what must be Joanne Bauman – Prairie Magic Herbals Saturday 4:00-5:00 digestion, calm and relax us, help us sleep and maintained for our soil and pollinators, and what Discuss herbs to boost immunity, support the relieve pain. Mints can also ease menstrual cramps is just plain tasty! respiratory system and nourish wholeness. is Flu Prevention and Treatment Tips and frayed emotions, supply calcium, and ease hot Sunday 2:30-3:30 class focuses on herbs to prevent (and deal with) David Christopher, M.H. – School of Natural Healing ashes. 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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 9 ORGANIC GARDENING STAGE Saving Seeds From Fall Produce Grow a Sustainable Diet Seed Starting Simplied Organic Gardening for Newbies – Avoiding Grant Olson – Seed Savers Exchange Cindy Conner – New Society Publishers Ira Wallace – Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Beginner Mistakes In the days before seed catalogs, collecting and Cindy Conner combines her experience with Learn tips and timing for starting vegetable and Barbara Pleasant – MOTHER EARTH NEWS saving seeds for the next year’s garden was GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable herb seeds indoors, transplanting, growing on, and For new gardeners, the rst three seasons are essential. Today, seed saving plays a critical role in Mini-farming with what she’s learned through hardening o the young plants. Learn time tables especially challenging because there is so much to preserving rare, heirloom varieties and the garden study and practice in organic gardening, soil for planting vegetables direct from seed and how learn. Which mistakes are you most likely to heritage they represent. Join Seed Savers Exchange building and nutrition since her rst garden in you can extend your season with repeat or periodic make, and how can you avoid them? M to discuss the process of saving seeds from garden 1974. Learn how she has put it all together in a plantings. E N Contributing Editor Barbara fruits and vegetables (tomatoes, squash, peppers, way that works for her and get valuable tips for Sunday 10:00-11:00 Pleasant, award-winning author of Starter Vegetable melons, beans and more), and learn how to growing your own sustainable diet. Her book Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 Gardens, explores the top 10 pitfalls for organic participate in this backyard preservation. Grow a Sustainable Diet: Planning and Growing to gardening newbies, and shares proven strategies Saturday 10:00-11:00 Feed Ourselves and the Earth is new in 2014. Creating Life in Your Soil for success. Saturday 2:30-3:30 Dale Strickler – Star Seed Sunday 2:30-3:30 Growing Great Garlic and Perennial Onions We have historically thought of soil as merely an Book signing Sunday 11:00-11:30 Ira Wallace – Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Managing Your Homegrown Food Supply inert medium into which we pour water and Learn about heirloom garlic and perennial onion Barbara Pleasant – MOTHER EARTH NEWS fertilizer to make our crops grow, and we thought Build Your Own Community-Adapted Seed varieties, from planting to cultivation and Wouldn’t it be great to eat from your garden every that they grew better if we did our best to kill all Saving Project harvesting at home. is workshop covers soil day of the year? Learn proven, low-energy the nasty fungi and bacteria that were surely out to Renata Christen – Seed Savers Exchange preparation, weed control, disease prevention, strategies for growing, eating, storing and kill our crops. What we are now coming to realize Seed swaps, seed libraries and seed banks are just a harvesting, curing, and storage requirements for preserving your homegrown veggies and fruits is that a soil with a strong, healthy microbial few examples of Community Seed Projects. Join adding these culinary essentials to your garden. from someone who is doing it, award-winning population will be much more drought tolerant, Seed Savers Exchange to learn how to start a Saturday 11:30-12:30 garden writer and M E N more disease resistant, and much more fertile than successful seed saving group in your region. Seed Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 Contributing Editor Barbara Pleasant. than the typical cropland or garden soil. is saving collaboratively increases your community’s Saturday 4:00-5:00 workshop covers methods to promote a healthy resilience, grows more biodiversity in your More Biochar Solutions Book signing Sunday 11:00-11:30 microbial population in our soil and the benets neighborhood, and oers direct peer-to-peer Albert Bates – e Farm, Summertown, Tenn. that can be derived from it. support in sharing seed to save seed. is In e Biochar Solution, Albert Bates discussed the Restoring Pollinators to Farms in a Time of Sunday 11:30-12:30 workshop oers working examples, helps you process of soil creation discovered by indigenous Rapid Climate Change troubleshoot, and provides the tools you need to peoples 8,000 years ago, and how to bring that Gary Paul Nabhan – Make Way for Monarchs Can the Sweet Corn get started. practice into your organic garden or farm today. Gary Paul Nabhan draws from his book Growing Hank Will – GRIT Magazine Sunday 4:00-5:00 Now he describes new discoveries of how biochar Food in a Hotter, Drier Land to suggest how While most folks are focused on sweet corn for can be used to improve the health of livestock, farmers, gardeners and orchard keepers can homestead growing, heirloom int, our and dent reduce odors in stock barns, reduce costly support healthy populations of native bees and corns are much more versatile and arguably more antibiotics, store energy, lter water, improve butteries in a time of climate uncertainty. practical in the garden or small eld plot. Most are digestion and much more. He will describe how to Saturday 5:30-6:30 easy to grow, some have incredibly short growing make, prepare and “turbocharge” your biochar to Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 seasons, some are highly drought tolerant, and all get the most from it. oer a multitude of uses. Join G Editor-in- Saturday 1:00-2:00 Chief Hank Will as he walks you through the Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 process of raising, harvesting, using and storing this “a-maize-ing” crop on a homestead scale. Sunday 1:00-2:00

10 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com REAL FOOD STAGE How to Milk a Goat, Make Raw Milk Cheese, Milling Your Own Flour How to Cook With Tea Chocolate: e journey from bean to bar and Stay Out of Jail William Rubel – Writer Paula Winchester – Paula Winchester Enterprises, Cat Gipe-Stewart – eo Chocolate Elizabeth Rich – Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Using history as a starting point, this workshop LLC and Twelve Winds Tea Company Amazing, delicious, mind-bendingly wonderful Fund oers an introduction to the range of artisan ours Learn about using a rice cooker for simple recipes, chocolate. It’s pure joy in every bite and it comes Learn strategies for eective and sanitary hand that you can produce with a stone mill and a basic mortar and pestle to blend herbs, tea, and seeds from passion. But for eo, it’s about more than goat milking to produce milk that is not intended set of sieves. is workshop is appropriate for to make Lei Cha. Taste prepared items. chocolate. It’s about the land, the people, the for pasteurization. Join us as we make chèvre, feta home bakers and small artisan bakers who are Receive recipes. dedication and the interconnected relationships and ricotta. During the demonstrations, hear looking to increase their control over the taste and Sunday 10:00-11:00 that bind us all. Join Cat Gipe-Stewart as she discussions about regulatory trends for raw milk texture of their breads and growers looking for roasts raw cocoa beans for this rare treat of tasting cheesemakers; legal distinctions between cheese ways to add value to their grain crop. You will Making Delicious Bread With Sourdough the transformation of chocolate from bean to bar. production for private vs. public consumption; leave the workshop understanding how to prepare Starters, Pre-ferments and Yeast Sunday 2:30-3:30 and enforcement case studies. grain for your mill, the dierence between William Rubel – Writer Saturday 10:00-11:00 single-pass and multiple-pass milling, and how to is workshop covers the history and practice of Drink the Harvest: Delightful garden wines use a basic set of sieves in combination with fermenting bread with sourdough and yeast. You Nan K. Chase – Storey Publishing Introduction to Fermentation single- and multiple-pass milling to create a wide will leave this workshop with an understanding of ere’s a world of light, bright and delicious Jennifer Kongs – MOTHER EARTH NEWS variety of ours of distinction. the history of fermented doughs from pre-history garden wines waiting just outside your door. Learn Jennifer delvea into the history and health benets Saturday 2:30-3:30 to today through a presentation of historic texts how to convert surplus crops of any kind, as well of fermented foods, provide you with some and images. You will also leave the workshop with as wild foraged plant material, into wines that will science as to how fermentation works, and pass Cheesemaking for the Homesteader: Using formulas for making and using a variety of last for years in the bottle and provide memorable around show-and-tell examples of fermented plants instead of rennet to make cheese sourdough starters, pre-ferments, and yeast strains drinking with friends and family. Fruits and products from her own kitchen. is workshop Elizabeth Rich – Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense that you can take with you for use in your kitchen berries, owers and herbs, vegetables and root nishs up with a sauerkraut-making demo and Fund or bakery. is workshop puts you in control of crops, grains and even some leaves can be made time for questions! Want to make your own cheese, but don’t have a the fermentation process and is appropriate for into wine. ey commonly were in olden times, Saturday 11:30-12:30 calf’s stomach on hand for rennet? Nature provides both home and craft bakers. and still are in some parts of the world. Home us with many other options. Learn which plants Sunday 11:30-12:30 winemaking requires a minimal investment in Can Do Easy Canning can be used to coagulate milk for home equipment and supplies, and wine “cooks” without Nan K. Chase – Storey Publishing cheesemaking, when they can be gathered, how to Can Do Easy Canning any added energy. is workshop covers Discover how safe, easy and economical it is to prepare them most eectively, and which types of Nan K. Chase – Storey Publishing equipment, sanitation and temperature guidelines, preserve food and beverages by canning. A cheeses can be made in this way. Discover how safe, easy and economical it is to and such processes as racking (clarifying) and well-stocked pantry, and canning ensures that no Saturday 4:00-5:00 preserve food and beverages by canning. A bottling wines. one runs short of food even during paralyzing well-stocked pantry, and canning ensures that no Sunday 4:00-5:00 blizzards, power outages, or other disruptions. And Piecing Out Poultry: Chicken cut up and one runs short of food even during paralyzing Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 this proven method helps cut energy use and curb sausage demonstration blizzards, power outages, or other disruptions. And global pollution: Why drive to a grocery store Rosanna Bauman – ANCO Poultry Processing DBF this proven method helps cut energy use and curb when you already have your favorite foods as close Bauman’s Cedar Valley Farms global pollution: Why drive to a grocery store as your cupboard! Canning the surplus cuts waste In this workshop, a local chicken processor when you already have your favorite foods as close when you have an extra large harvest, and provides demonstrates seven ways to piece out poultry, as your cupboard! Canning the surplus cuts waste a way to combine and preserve your best crops in followed by grinding a chicken breakfast sausage. when you have an extra large harvest, and provides imaginative ways. 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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 11 RENEWABLE ENERGY STAGE e No-Mortgage Natural Cottage Greensburg, Kansas: From tragedy to triumph e Dirt on Dirt Floors MAXimizing Mileage: e MAX car and MPX Chris McClellan – Natural Cottage Project Bob Dixson – City of Greensburg, Kansas Sukita Reay Crimmel and James omson – New streamlined pickup truck Before the Industrial Revolution our ancestors On May 4, 2007, 95% of Greensburg, Kansas, Society Publishers Jack McCornack – Kinetic Vehicles generally lived in small houses they built for was destroyed by an EF5 tornado. Following the Sukita Reay Crimmel and James omson share Learn how to build your own MAX, a 100- mile- themselves from local earth, stone, straw and disaster, Greensburg has rebuilt as a sustainable dazzling photos, make some mud, and help you per-gallon DIY sports car, and how to modify wood, mainly because the materials were cheap or community, with renewable energy production, walk away knowing much more about the ancient other vehicles for high fuel eciency. Jack free and didn’t require a great deal of specialized and a variety of “green” construction methods. practice of earthen oors ... and how they are done McCornack’s current project is MPX, M’s skill. Today’s houses might be bigger and more Greensburg is a great example of how a in modern homes. is short workshop could Pickup eXperiment, which he is converting to a 50 comfortable, but they’re also often toxic and community can join together following disaster to change your life! MPG (knock wood) work truck. expensive. For all sorts of good reasons, basic DIY rebuild in a positive way. Come hear Mayor Bob Saturday 4:00-5:00 Sunday 1:00-2:00 shelter is making a comeback. With a little Dixson give his personal account of survival Book signing Saturday 5:00-5:30 guidance, almost anyone can still build their own and rebuilding. Renewable Energy for Homes and Businesses home with low-cost natural and scrounged Saturday 1:00-2:00 Build Your Own Electric Car Part 1 materials for under $10,000 and opt out of the Ben Nelson – www.300MPG.org Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute industrial building and mortgage rat race. Seven Steps to a Green, Healthy and Ben Nelson provides DIY, how-to instruction for Learn about the many clean, aordable and Saturday 10:00-11:00 Ecient Home anyone wanting to convert a gas car to electric on reliable renewable energy technologies available to Doug Garrett – Building Performance & a budget! is workshop includes info on motors, heat and cool homes and businesses and provide e Carbon Ranch Comfort, Inc. batteries, charging, legal issues, and more! electricity and hot water, including passive solar, Courtney White Green building and building science are a matched Saturday 5:30-6:30 solar thermal, solar hot air, solar electric, and small e idea of the carbon ranch involves the potential set. One teaches us about materials and the other wind. for removal of carbon dioxide from the teaches us exactly how to build with them for the Is Solar Electricity Right for You? Sunday 2:30-3:30 atmosphere through plant photosynthesis and best outcome. Green building tells us how to Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 related land-based carbon sequestration activities select the right materials to build, encourages us to is workshop explores solar energy and solar that are both large and largely overlooked. reduce our waste during construction, and sets electric systems, helping home and business Renewable Energy for Homes and Businesses Strategies and co-benets include: enriching soil standards for energy eciency. Building science owners understand how photovoltaic systems Part 2 carbon, no-till farming with perennials, employing teaches us how to use applied physics to correctly work, what options they have, how much Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute climate-friendly livestock practices, conserving combine those healthy, sustainable materials with electricity they can acquire from a system, what Learn about the many clean, aordable and natural habitat, restoring degraded watersheds and the best equipment and appliances to create a systems will cost, and the best ways to mount a reliable renewable energy technologies available to rangelands, increasing biodiversity, lowering holistic, integrated house system that is right for system for optimum production. heat and cool homes and businesses and provide agricultural emissions, and producing local food. the climate in which it is built, incredibly healthy, Sunday 10:00-11:00 electricity and hot water, including passive solar, ese strategies have been demonstrated truly comfortable and maximizes our return on Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 solar thermal, solar hot air, solar electric, and small individually to be both practical and protable. your home building/remodeling investment. wind. Saturday 11:30-12:30 Saturday 2:30-3:30 Build Your Own Electric Motorcycle Sunday 4:00-5:00 Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 Ben Nelson – www.300MPG.org Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 is DIY, how-to workshop shows you all the steps you need to build your own electric motorcycle. is workshop covers vehicle design concepts, motors, batteries, speed control, budget, charging, legal issues, questions and answers, and more! Sunday 11:30-12:30

Envirolet_Mother_Earth_News_Fair_KS_2014-AD-OUT.indd 1 2014-10-02 12:17 PM 12 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com SEED STAGE Growing and Storing Cold-Hardy Winter Growing Unusual Fruits Crop Rotations for Vegetables and Cover Crops How to Produce Half of Your Own Food in Less Vegetables John Holzwart – Moonwise Herbs Pam Dawling – Twin Oaks Community an an Hour Per Day Pam Dawling – Twin Oaks Community Everyone enjoys the sensual pleasure of tasting a Pam Dawling provides ideas to help you design a Marjory Wildcraft – Grow Your Own Groceries Get the details on crops, timing, protection and new and exotic tropical fruit, but few people sequence of vegetable crops that maximizes the Marjory Wildcraft shows you a simple, storage. Why farm in winter? Here’s the realize that they can taste these delicious fruits in chance to grow good cover crops as well as reduce three-component system that only takes about an information to succeed: tables of cold-hardiness, their own backyard. Join John Holzwart of pest and disease likelihood. She discusses formal hour per day and produces half of the food you details of four ranges of cold-hardy crops (fall Moonwise Herbs as he shares tips for growing and rotations as well as ad hoc systems for shoehorning need. And she shows how you can do it in a crops to harvest before serious cold, crops to keep preserving unusual fruit. e fruit discussed may minor crops into available spaces. e workshop backyard-sized space! Wildcraft adds up calories, growing into winter, crops for all-winter harvests, include edible dogwoods, aronia, elderberries, sea includes a discussion of cover crops suitable at looks at nutrition, and estimates minutes of time overwintering crops for spring harvests), buckthorn, autumn olives, pawpaws, gs and various times of year, particularly winter cover involved on an average day. You can do this! is scheduling, weather prediction and protection, many more! crops between vegetable crops in successive years. system has been thoroughly tested for years at hoophouse growing, and vegetable storage. Saturday 2:30-3:30 Dawling covers examples of undersowing of cover Wildcraft’s research center for sustainable backyard Saturday 10:00-11:00 crops in vegetable crops and of no-till options. food production. Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 Bioshelters: Design and management of Saturday 5:30-6:30 Sunday 1:00-2:00 solar greenhouses Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 Easy Peasy Edibles Darrell Frey – New Society Publishers Biochar Stove Demonstration Jessi Bloom – N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Landscapes is workshop presents a detailed study of several Compost Your Way to Better Soil Albert Bates – New Society Publishers Have you wanted to grow your own food but bioshelters, or ecologically managed solar Barbara Pleasant – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Make biochar for your organic garden the found it is too much work and takes too much of greenhouses. ese include the original bioshelter, Home composting expert Barbara Pleasant shares way by stacking functions. Albert your time? Join award-winning landscape designer the New Alchemy Ark, Solviva Bioshelter, and the dozens of practical composting techniques for Bates demonstrates various biochar stoves, from Jessi Bloom as she talks about a permaculture bioshelter at ree Sisters Farm. 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Making a Living on 1.5 Acres Farm Sunday 4:00-5:00 Jean-Martin Fortier – Les Jardins de la Grelinette Get in-depth information on the benets that Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 Jean-Martin Fortier is the author of e Market gourmet mushrooms have for the environment Gardener: A successful grower’s handbook for and for our health. en see a live inoculation small-scale organic farming and in this workshop he of a log with mushroom plug spawn and shares in detail the techniques, tools and sawdust spawn. that make his market Sunday 11:30-12:30 garden productive and protable. Saturday 1:00-2:00 Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 13 THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY STAGE presented by Pig Pickin’ – An Introduction to Heritage Get Started With Family Flocks Taking Care of Business Pickin’ Chickens – An Introduction to Heritage Breeds Patricia Foreman – Gossamer Foundation Elizabeth Rich – Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Breeds Jeannette Beranger – e Livestock Conservancy Many folks feel there is too much eort involved Fund Jeannette Beranger – e Livestock Conservancy Heritage pigs are hot with today’s consumers and a in keeping chickens, and that the learning curve is Learn about some of the legal issues faced by ere is an amazing array of heritage chicken welcome addition to small-scale sustainable farms. too steep ... so they never start. is workshop direct-to-consumer farm businesses. Elizabeth breeds available today, and it can be complicated Learn about the wide array of breeds to choose simplies and demysties family ocks, showing Rich covers choice of entity issues (should you deciding which is most appropriate for your land, from and how they compare with each other for it’s so easy and simple that kids can do it— operate as a sole proprietorship, LLC, S-Corp, climate and needs. Learn which questions to ask personality, adaptability, dress out, and more. inexpensively. Learn the newest techniques, C-Corp, or other?); employment law issues before committing to a breed, and explore the Saturday 10:00-11:00 equipment for raising baby chicks and keeping aecting those hiring interns; zoning and diversity of chickens to choose from. Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 adult birds. is workshop covers chick and hen right-to-farm issues; hosting on-farm events; and Sunday 2:30-3:30 behavior, handling, health care, nutrition, innovative business models. Bring your legal Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 Heritage Breeds Marketing 101 furniture, housing and time-saving management. questions for the question-and-answer session. Alison Martin – e Livestock Conservancy By the end, you will know the basics of Sunday 10:00-11:00 Aquaculture Basics Marketing your products is key to succeeding with successfully raising your own baby chicks from day Kenneth Rust – Kasco Marine rare breeds. Discover the growing market one to productive adult chickens. Co-presented Chickens! e Enablers, Mascots and Heroes of Aquaculture can be a great way to grow healthy potential for heritage breed food and ber with chicken celebrity Oprah Hen-Free. Local Foods and Healthy, Sustainable Living protein for your family or for market. ere are products, and the avenues to pursue for market Saturday 4:00-5:00 Patricia Foreman – Gossamer Foundation several things to plan for to make your project success. Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 Develop action plans to employ family ocks so successful. Join us to review species selection, water Saturday 11:30-12:30 they create and enhance food-growing topsoils; quality, and the types of basic systems available. Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 Poultry Unplugged: Free-ranging poultry o help grow vegetables, berries, nuts and fruits; Sunday 4:00-5:00 the grid or anywhere else become part of emergency preparedness plans; How Strong Is the Shell of an Egg? (And Other Victoria Redhed Miller – New Society Publishers sequester carbon and decrease carbon footprints Fun Facts for Successfully Raising Poultry) e author of Pure Poultry: Living well with the while saving on grocery bills and decreasing Gordon Ballam – Purina Animal Nutrition heritage chickens, turkeys and ducks tells you how to community taxes. Understand your egg-shed. is workshop demonstrates the strength of a evaluate pasture space, predator issues, housing Learn how employing family ocks is truly a chicken’s egg shell and provides recommendations and feed concerns, and more, all from rsthand community service. Co-presented with chicken for raising a healthy ock. experience. is workshop includes a handout and celebrity Oprah Hen-Free. Saturday 1:00-2:00 time for questions. Sunday 11:30-12:30 Saturday 5:30-6:30 Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 Introduction to Heritage Breed Goats Book signing Saturday 6:30-7:00 Alison Martin – e Livestock Conservancy Hopping for Fun and Prot With Heritage Join e Livestock Conservancy for an overview of Rabbits heritage goat breeds and how to pick the right one Alison Martin – e Livestock Conservancy for you. ese adaptable and friendly critters are Rabbits can be easy, versatile and quiet animals to productive and useful additions to any homestead. raise on your small property. Heritage breeds oer Sponsored by Premier 1. a chance to set yourself apart from other rabbitries, Saturday 2:30-3:30 and they provide value-added product for both Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 home use and sale. Get acquainted with the breeds and the basics of raising rabbits. Sunday 1:00-2:00 Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00

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14 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com UTNE READER STAGE Menopause With Science and Soul Free Cooling for Life Herbal Hair Care Medicinal Mushroom Gardens: Judith Boice, ND, LAc, FABNO – Seven Winds Dan Chiras – e Evergreen Institute Stephanie Tourles – Storey Publishing Cultivation, garden design, and preparing Institute Inc. Although many people don’t realize it, we can cool Come hear author, herbalist and licensed holistic extracts and tinctures Explore the physiological, biochemical and our homes naturally in many climate zones. 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Explore 900 talks on menopause, osteoporosis and Chasing the Blues Away: Herbs for anxiety, Sunday 10:00-11:00 some of the most potent medicinal mushrooms bio-identical hormones. stress and depression Book signing Saturday 5:00-5:30 and how you can grow them at home in your Saturday 10:00-11:00 Rosemary Gladstar – Storey Publishing garden in this in-depth, but easy to digest, class. Stress has become a hot topic in our frantic world Water of Life: Hydrotherapy treatments for Learn the cultivation principles and preparation Making Herbal Infusions for Health as more and more people fall under the gray spell home health care methods of medicinal mushrooms, for creating Joanne Bauman – Prairie Magic Herbals of depression, anxiety and stressful living. 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Nutritive herbs were meant to be roses, to dig a little deeper and keep our hands in u to headaches and digestive problems. e Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 consumed on a regular basis as a part of our food. the dirt, while also providing our body with hydrotherapy treatments Judith Boice explores ey were intended to help nourish our bodies essential nutrients that are necessary for the health were researched by physicians in the early 20th Permaculture: Design for regeneration and keep them strong. ese nutrients found of the nervous system. 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MOTHER EARTH Are We Winning the Beautiful and Herbs for Long- Food Chain Herbal Remedies for I’m From the NEWS Stage Energy Wars Against Abundant: e Lasting Health: Restoration: Climate Pain Relief Government and I’m Coal, Nuclear and Oil MOTHER community Experience well- change, pollinators Stephanie Tourles Here to Help Presented by Companies? and its vision for the being and celebrate and sustainable fruit David Gumpert Nature’s Flavors Dan Chiras future Bryan Welch every stage of life production Page 7 Rosemary Gladstar Gary Paul Nabhan Cooking With the e True American Mycoremediation Beginning Aquaponic How to Find Power of the Sun Spirit: Distilling of Home and Beekeeping Gardening: Growing the Perfect GRIT Stage Paul Munsen liquor at home, Farm Waste Matt Reed sh and Survival Retreat Page 8 safely AND legally Tradd Cotter vegetables together Marjory Wildcraft Victoria Redhed Miller Sylvia Bernstein

Wild Food, Adrenal Health: Cold & Flu: Acupressure for the DIY Herbal First Aid Flu Prevention and Wild Medicine Fertility, menopause, Remedies for Whole Family Linda Conroy Treatment Tips Mother Earth Linda Conroy sleep and beyond symptom relief Judith Boice, ND, LAc, David Christopher, Living Stage Dawn Combs Joanne Bauman FABNO M.H. Page 9

Saving Seeds From Growing Great More Biochar Grow a Managing Your Restoring Pollinators Fall Produce Garlic and Solutions Sustainable Diet Homegrown Food to Farms in a Organic Grant Olson Perennial Onions Albert Bates Cindy Conner Supply Time of Rapid Gardening Stage Ira Wallace Barbara Pleasant Climate Change Page 10 Gary Paul Nabhan

How to Milk a Goat, Introduction to Can Do Milling Your Cheesemaking for Piecing Out Make Raw Milk Fermentation Easy Canning Own Flour the Homesteader: Poultry: Chicken Real Food Stage Cheese, and Stay Out Jennifer Kongs Nan K. Chase William Rubel Using plants cut up and sausage Page 11 of Jail instead of rennet to demonstration Elizabeth Rich make cheese Rosanna Bauman Elizabeth Rich e No-Mortgage e Carbon Ranch Greensburg, Kansas: Seven Steps to a e Dirt on Build Your Own Natural Cottage Courtney White From tragedy Green, Healthy and Dirt Floors Electric Car Renewable Chris McClellan to triumph Ecient Home Sukita Reay Crimmel Ben Nelson Energy Stage Bob Dixson Doug Garrett and James omson Page 12

Growing and Storing Easy Peasy Edibles Making a Living on Growing Unusual Bioshelters: Design Crop Rotations for Cold-Hardy Winter Jessi Bloom 1.5 Acres Fruits and management of Vegetables and Seed Stage Vegetables Jean-Martin Fortier John Holzwart solar greenhouses Cover Crops Page 13 Pam Dawling Darrell Frey Pam Dawling

e Livestock Pig Pickin’ – An Heritage Breeds How Strong Is the Introduction to Get Started With Poultry Unplugged: Introduction to Marketing 101 Shell of an Egg? Heritage Breed Family Flocks Free-ranging Conservancy Heritage Breeds Alison Martin (And Other Fun Goats Patricia Foreman poultry o the grid Stage Jeannette Beranger Facts for Successfully Alison Martin or anywhere else Presented by Purina Raising Poultry) Sponsored by Victoria Redhed Miller Page 14 Gordon Ballam Premier 1 Menopause With Making Herbal Herbs and Free Cooling Chasing the Blues Homeopathy: Science and Soul Infusions for Health Fermentation for for Life Away: Herbs for Remedies for the Utne Reader Judith Boice, ND, Joanne Bauman Digestive Health Dan Chiras anxiety, stress whole family Stage LAc, FABNO Linda Conroy and depression Judith Boice, ND, Page 15 Rosemary Gladstar LAc, FABNO

Kids and Chicks With Herbal Crafts Kids Goat Milking DIY Dad’s Eco Fungi in the Ethnobotany for Oprah Hen-Free for Kids Demonstration Backyard Projects Classroom Kids Kids Treehouse Patricia Foreman Jessica Kellner Elizabeth Rich Ben Nelson Tradd Cotter Dawn Combs Stage Page 21

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MOTHER EARTH STARTING AT 9:30 What the Cluck?! DIY Solar Panels Live Simply So at Heretics Unite Live Poultry Getting Started on Dan and Don Adams Others Can Simply Live Joel Salatin NEWS Stage Processing Demo Gardening With Ed Begley Jr. Presented by David Schafer and Chickens Nature’s Flavors Joel Salatin Jessi Bloom Sponsored by Envirolet Page 7 Shrooming O the Grid Fall Vegetable Pond Management DIY Aquaponics Beekeeping Basics Tradd Cotter Production Dynamics Dan and Don Adams Becky Tipton GRIT Stage Pam Dawling Kenneth Rust Page 8

Herbal Remedies MagniSCENT Mints Chasing the Blues Away: Virtual Medicine Walk Essential Oils for at Work as Medicine Herbs for anxiety, stress Dawn Combs Home Health Care Mother Earth David Christopher, M.H. Joanne Bauman and depression Judith Boice, ND, Living Stage Rosemary Gladstar LAc, FABNO Page 9

Seed Starting Simplied Creating Life in Can the Sweet Corn Organic Gardening for Build Your Own Ira Wallace Your Soil Hank Will Newbies – Avoiding Community-Adapted Organic Dale Strickler Beginner Mistakes Seed Saving Project Gardening Stage Barbara Pleasant Renata Christen Page 10

How to Cook With Tea Making Delicious Can Do Easy Canning Drink the Harvest: Paula Winchester Bread With Sourdough Nan K. Chase Chocolate: e journey Delightful garden wines Real Food Stage Starters, Pre-ferments from bean to bar Nan K. Chase Page 11 and Yeast Cat Gipe-Stewart William Rubel

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e Livestock Taking Care of Business Chickens! e Hopping for Fun Pickin’ Chickens – An Aquaculture Basics Elizabeth Rich Enablers, Mascots and and Prot With Introduction to Kenneth Rust Conservancy Heroes of Local Foods Heritage Rabbits Heritage Breeds Stage and Healthy, Alison Martin Jeannette Beranger Presented by Purina Sustainable Living Page 14 Patricia Foreman Herbal Hair Care Water of Life: Creating an Allergy- and Medicinal Mushroom Permaculture: Design Stephanie Tourles Hydrotherapy Toxin-Free Home Gardens: Cultivation, for regeneration Utne Reader treatments for home Shaylee Oleson garden design, and Darrell Frey Stage health care preparing extracts Page 15 Judith Boice, ND, and tinctures LAc, FABNO Tradd Cotter Fermentation! It’s Building With Mud Bandana Bash Soap Felting Fun! Bee-ing the Hive Freaky Fun Chris McClellan Heidi Hunt Hands-on Activity Robin Kolterman Kids Treehouse Hannah Kincaid and Linda Conroy Stage Jennifer Kongs Page 21

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18 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com OFFSTAGE DEMONSTRATIONS GREEN BUILDING Rope Making – Booths #3040 and #3041 Tea Steeped Right – Booth #4416 Heirloom Garlic and Perennial Onion Tasting – Greg Davis – Rope maker Paula Winchester – paula winchester enterprises, Booths #1224 and #1324 Natural Building Demo – Domer Makerope.com is the source for hand-operated LLC/Twelve Winds Tea Company Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Livestock Arena rope machines and for the knowledge to use these Each variety of tea requires proper steeping Stop by the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Natural Building Network machines to make rope of any strand count, length temperature, the correct amount of steeping booth to taste some exciting and exotic garlic Ongoing or diameter. time, and the correct steeping device. Drop by to varieties, roasted and raw. ere’s only one way to Ongoing discover what is correct for your favorite tea. learn which types you prefer ... by tasting them! MODERN HOMESTEADING Ongoing Saturday and Sunday 1:00 Wild, Sustainable and Nutritious: How to pick Antique Tractor Display – Domer and handle sh that is good for you and the Whole Body Wellness Without a Prescription – How to Catch Destructive Grasshoppers – Livestock Arena planet – Booth #4302 Booth #5111 Booth #4308 Howard and Jane Hawkins Kendall Whitney – Seafood Producers Cooperative Bonnie Casazza – Whole Body Wellness Concepts Kurt Christensen – Turtle Creek Farm Ongoing In terms of seafood, Americans eat half the global A holistic approach to wellness: Whole Body Learn how to catch destructive grasshoppers in average, and the seafood we eat tends to be farmed Wellness Concepts wants to detox your living your ower or vegetable garden without the use Ask the Old Bee Guys – Booths #1226, #1325 with dubious practices and/or imported. e environment, your body and your water. Toxins are of bait or harmful chemicals, using a Hopper and #1326 biggest reason Americans don’t eat as much sh all around, and Whole Body Wellness Concepts Stopper™ grasshopper trap. Cecil Sweeney and Steve Tipton – Northeastern as they should is that they don’t know what to do wants to teach you exactly what you can do to Ongoing Kansas Beekeepers’ Association with it. is workshop presents how to pick and control them and take control of your health. Get your questions answered about the best handle sh that is good for both our bodies and See booth for times. Year-Round Microgreen Production – equipment choices for beekeeping here in the the planet. Natural, wild seafood is an extremely Booth #1307 Midwest. Check out the observation hive to see healthy seafood option. In addition to seafood ORGANIC GARDENING Randy Cummings – Johnny’s Selected Seeds what’s happening on the frames. cooking approaches, learn some easy and Join a discussion on the pros and cons of Ongoing nutritious recipes. Advantages of Open Raised Beds for the Home microgreens for year-round home use or Ongoing Garden – Booth #1612 commercial production. Broom Making: A traditional art – Booths Noel Valdes – CobraHead LLC See booth for times. #4319 and #4320 NATURE AND COMMUNITY Constructed raised beds are the rage, but raised John Holzwart – Brooms by Little John beds made just using the soil you’re given has huge Saving Seeds From Garden Fruits and Vegetables Join broom maker “Little” John Holzwart Artists Demonstrate Clay Work – Booth #5602 advantages over both container beds and – Booths #1221, #1222, #1321 and #1322 for these fun and educational broom making Ryan Caldwell, Merle Miles, Michael Bradley, Larry traditional row gardening in terms of cost, Renata Christen – Seed Savers Exchange demonstrations. Information about the broom Peters – Topeka Local Artists – NOTO (North Topeka production and sustainability. Seed Savers Exchange sta show guests how to corn plant and the history of broom making will Arts District) Saturday 11:00 and 2:00 save seeds from common garden crops such as be shared! Pottery and clay sculpture making will be tomatoes, beans, lettuce, radishes, squash and Ongoing demonstrated by artists. Wheel throwing and hand Aquaponic Gardening Systems Demonstrations more. Practice threshing and winnowing, and building will both be demonstrated on regular – Booths #1419 and #1519 discuss how to nd, grow and save heirloom fruits Cage Culture of Fish – Booth #4312 intervals over the two-day period. Sylvia Bernstein, Robbie the Plumber and Samson and vegetables. Kenneth Rust – Kasco Marine Ongoing Brock – e Aquaponic Source Ongoing Kasco Marine and Memphis Net & Twine are e Aquaponic Source demonstrates an intriguing sponsoring a drawing to win a oating cage for the Hand Spinning and Kumihimo Braiding – bell siphon, hosts author signings of the award- Seed Saving: You can do it – Booth #1614 culture of sh. A basic paper on cage culture will be Booths #1607 and #1707 winning and M E N-recommended Rick Nation – Clear Creek Seeds available in the Kasco Marine booth, as well as the Lorry McDonald and Tammy Taylor – Aquaponic Gardening book, and shows o its See a demonstration of how to save tomato seeds opportunity to sign up for the drawing. e cage BlackWater Treasures exciting new AquaBundance SpaceSaver food- that covers all the steps, from cutting the tomato to materials kit will be shipped directly to the winner. See spinning on a spinning wheel to learn how growing aquaponic system and AquaHeat o-grid seed storage. Ongoing yarn is made from natural bers. Also, see work water heating system. Saturday 10:00 and 2:00 done on a mari-dai, to make braids for trim, Ongoing New Tractor Display – Domer Livestock Arena jewelry and other uses. Timing Is Everything – Booths #1208 Heritage Tractors Ongoing Aquaponics: Clean sh practices – Booths and #1308 Ongoing #3015 and #3016 Judy Seaborn and Josh Pool – Botanical Interests Spoon Carving – Booths #5702 and #5703 Adam Harwood – GlobalAquaponics.net and “When should I plant?” “What does ‘last average How to Use a Well Bucket With a Windlass – Jake Kristophel – Riverwood Trading Co. ApexAquaponics.com frost’ mean?” “How does frost aect my garden?” Booth #3005 Learn about using traditional woodworking tools Hear a system review, showing what aquaponics is, Botanical Interests’ co-founder, Judy Seaborn, and Well WaterBoy Products to hand-carve spoons out of wood. plus what it is not. With numerous ways to grow, horticulturist Josh Pool answer those questions Well WaterBoy Products shows and explains how Ongoing this demonstration enables participants to see what and more as they talk about last average frost, how to use a well bucket (with or without a windlass) to aquaponics is, in person, with an actual model. to determine the last frost based on your area, get water from a drilled well during emergencies or Terra Char and Nutrients Absorption – See booth for times. and how to use that information to plan the best for o-grid living. Booth #5313 garden. ey also talk about microclimates in your Ongoing Phil Blom – Terra Char Community Seed Swap – Booths #1224 yard, including some tips on how to warm soil Terra Char, manufacturers and marketers of and #1324 during cooler outside temperatures. Because the Inside the Beehive – Booths #1226, #1325 biochar, explains the importance of the dierent Ira Wallace and other experts from Southern Exposure Botanical Interests seed packets contain a wealth and #1326 nutrient products that can used with biochar, Seed Exchange, Fruition Seeds, High Mowing Seeds, of sowing and planting information, Seaborn and Steve Tipton and Cecil Sweeney – Northeastern and how important this is prior to adding as a and the Seed Savers Exchange Pool also explain how to nd the information you Kansas Beekeepers’ Association soil amendment. Come share your seeds, your knowledge and your need on the packet, how to interpret it and how to With an active observation hive and teaching See booth for times. enthusiasm for dierent plant varieties with other plan your planting schedule. materials, master beekeepers show how the inside gardeners and farmers. Bring any seeds you have Ongoing of a beehive works. See the queen bee, workers, e Magical Continuous Strand Weaving to share or just stop by to meet the experts from drones, brood, capped honey and pollen inside Method: For everything from easy shawls to such places as Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, REAL FOOD the hive. washcloths – Booths #4518 and #4519 Fruition Seeds, High Mowing Seeds, and the Ongoing Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser – Carol Leigh’s Hill Creek Seed Savers Exchange. is is a great chance to Animal Welfare Approved Green Dirt Farm Fiber Studio get answers to your seed saving questions and see Samples eir Award-Winning Sheep’s Milk Pack Goats: e thrill of it all! – Exercise Arena is easy weaving technique that uses simple hands-on demonstrations. Cheese – Booth #1711 Dwite and Mary Sharp – Paradise Ranch Packgoats triangle, square and rectangle frame looms makes See booth for times. Green Dirt Farm and Animal Welfare Approved Learn why specically bred pack goats are, by far, shawls and hats from triangles; scarves, dish towels Green Dirt Farm is a sheep dairy farm and the pack animals of choice. Discover how to get and oor mats from rectangles; washcloths, pillows DIY Aquaponics and LED Grow Lights – creamery in Weston, Mo., that produces Animal started choosing and training your goats, as well and blankets from squares; and much more. Booths #4614 and #4615 Welfare Approved sheep’s milk cheese and grass-fed as how to care for them and tend to their specic See this simple technique using all three shapes Don Adams – Earthineer lamb. Cheesemaker Amy ompson will be on needs. Hear about choosing your equipment demonstrated throughout the F. To coincide with their DIY Aquaponics workshop, hand to sample this award-winning cheese, and and how to use it. Some of the information Ongoing Earthineer is showing their ebb and ow unit and AWA Farmer and Market Outreach Coordinators will surprise and amaze you! Join a hands-on LED grow lights. Learn how to make both the unit Alexandra Frantz and Katie Yanchuk will oer demonstration involving some of the biggest, most NATURAL HEALTH and the lights, and ask questions of Earthineer’s information and materials about the application docile horned goats you will ever see. If you hike, resident crazy engineer. process, program benets, and where to nd AWA- backpack, camp or are just looking for a wonderful Dragon’s Blood for Psoriasis and Eczema – See booth for times. certied products. companion, this will interest you! All ages are Booths #4313-#4315 Saturday 11:00-4:00 invited. Come see “Tarzan,” 302 pounds of love! George Cox – Natural Options Aromatherapy Saturday and Sundat 1:00 See how the resin from the Sangre de Drago tree Cider Pressing – Outside Exhibitors seals skin to assist with psoriasis and eczema. Happy Valley Ranch Saturday 11:00, 1:00, 3:00, and 5:00 Ongoing Sunday 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00

20 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com OFFSTAGE DEMONSTRATIONS Food Preservation in the 21st Century – Booths Sun-Dried Tomatoes Made Easy With Nesco Nissan Test Drive – Booth #3120 KIDS PROGRAMMING #5000 and #5001 American Harvest Digital Dehydrator – Capital City Nissan Dan Neville Booth #5211 Come by the Capital City Nissan booth to test Animals and Plants of the Tallgrass Prairie – Hear a discussion of the benets of all the food Ruby Renard – e Metal Ware Corp. – Nesco drive the all-electric Nissan LEAF. You will never Booths #1615 and #1715 preservation methods, including: dehydrating, American Harvest want to pay for gas again! Capital City Nissan Grassland Heritage Foundation pickling, salting, smoking and freeze-drying. Dehydrate amazing tomatoes in hours, not days! is specialized in selling fuel ecient, ultra-low Grassland Heritage Foundation will provide See booth for times. Just slice, use your favorite seasons, set timer and emissions vehicles since 2004. ey were the rst interactive educational materials focusing on the go. It’s that easy! to oer a free public charging station in Topeka native plants and animals of the tallgrass prairie. Heirloom Corn Muns and Jams From the Ongoing for all electric vehicles. Currently they have two of Feel a badger skin and claws, see how tall the Garden – Booths #1224 and #1324 them installed at their location. prairie grass grows, and track a coyote. Kids crafts Southern Exposure Seed Exchange e Best Buzz Garlic Bread Ever Had! – Ongoing will also be available. See and taste the richness and diversity of heirloom Booth #5206 Ongoing corn muns made with varieties such as Floriani Brent Styer – Ellbee’s Garlic Seasonings O-Grid Energy Production – Booth #3010 Red Flint, Bloody Bloody and Blue Clarage. Even Hear simple instructions on how to make this Roger Lehet – Unforgettable Fire Cob: Building houses with mud – Natural more delicious: Spread ’em with unusual jams from mouthwatering recipe. Samples are given, and the See a new thermoelectric hot water production Building Demo, Domer Livestock Arena the garden, herbs, ground huckleberry, peppers recipe goes home with each person. system that uses the heat of a woodstove to create Uncle Mud – Natural Cottage Project and more. Ongoing 5 gallons per minute of 130 degree water and up Come see how the soil under your feet can be used Saturday and Sunday 4:00 to 70 watts of electric power. e demonstration to build inexpensive, beautiful houses as well as RENEWABLE ENERGY shows how people can heat, cook, bake, take pizza ovens and benches. Bring your children and Quick, Delicious, Healthy Meals for People showers and run electrical devices on demand. get muddy with us. Who Eat! – Booth #5205 DIY Solar Panels – Booths #4614 and #4615 is allows for hydronic, in-oor, water baseboard Saturday and Sunday 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 Wildtree Don Adams – Earthineer remote heat systems, as well as running LED and 4:00 Stop by to see how you can make quick, healthy, To coincide with their DIY Solar Panels workshop, lighting systems, battery chargers and 12-volt wood budget-friendly meals for your family using Earthineer is conducting a live solar panel build stove blowers, in addition to charging devices such Petting Farm – Exercise Arena certied organic Wildtree ingredients. Wildtree during the F. See what is required to build your as phones and tablets. Farm to Fork Ranch answers the age-old question, “What’s for dinner?!” own, from framing to tabbing to encapsulation. Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Try your hand at tabbing solar cells, and ask questions from Earthineer’s resident crazy engineer. Power of Wind/Skins and Skulls/Creative Retained Heat Cooking – Booth #4106 See booth for times. Creatures – Booths #4115 and #4215 Serendipity Essentials Susan Mueller/Jo Woods – Rock Springs 4-H Center Learn how to extend your fuel supply. Dierent Power of Wind: See how dierent styles of ns methods have been used for a thousand years can provide . Skins & Skulls: Stop to keep food warm for an extended time. New by a display of Kansas mammal skins and skulls, products can actually retain a cooking temperature, including raccoon, deer, skunk and more! Creative to cook all day, if needed. Creatures: Using natural materials (such as leaves, Ongoing twigs and seeds) children can create their own unique creature ... info on habitat, behavior and adaptations included! Ongoing

KIDS TREEHOUSE STAGE Kids and Chicks with Oprah Hen-Free DIY Dad’s Eco Backyard Projects Fermentation! It’s Freaky Fun Soap Felting Fun! Hands on Activity Patricia Foreman – Gossamer Foundation Ben Nelson – www.300MPG.org Hannah Kincaid and Jennifer Kongs – MOTHER Linda Conroy – Moonwise Herbs Which came rst: the chicken or the child? Learn how to make your own recycled backyard EARTH NEWS Join herbalist Linda Conroy for soap felting! Take Usually, it’s the chicken ... with a child trundling fun with DIY eco projects such as the 5-gallon is workshop provides a hands-on experience for raw wool and bits of soap and make a scrubby that after, giggling with delight. is hens-on workshop Bucket Swing, Cardboard Clubhouse, Solar kids interested in getting started on the road to will get you super clean! You can take home what shows kids (and adults) how to responsibly and PowerWheels, Soda Bottle Sprinkler and becoming gardening experts. We discuss preparing you make! safely handle a chicken. Learn tips, tricks and traps much more! seed starting soil mix, all the materials needed to Sunday 2:30-3:30 about how to keep interacting with chickens a fun Saturday 2:30-3:30 get seeds o to a good start and the basics of caring experience that can last a lifetime. Kids learn about for young plants before putting them out in the Bee-ing the Hive the value of family ocks in green communities. Fungi in the Classroom garden. Participants then assist with the entire seed Robin Kolterman – Northeastern Kansas We will cover how chickens oer more than just Tradd Cotter – Mushroom Mountain starting process. (Hands will likely get dirty!) Beekeepers’ Association eggs. ey also have skills such as pesticiders, Ever wonder what kind of projects you and your Sunday 10:00-11:00 is is an interactive workshop for children and kitchen waste recyclers and compost creators. kids can start at home or in school with their parents. Explore the dierent roles performed Learn why chickens are truly pets with benets. mushrooms? is program is part show and part Building With Mud by a honey bee with some hands on activities. ere will be ample time for a question and hands-on with many cool experiments that are Chris McClellan – Natural Cottage Project en just as every bee in the colony has a part to answer session. practical for demonstrating and Come get muddy with your M in this perform, each child plays their part and Saturday 10:00-11:00 composting home and school waste byproducts hands-on, interactive demonstration. See why “bee-comes the hive”. Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 using mushroom spawn. Participants can make more than half of the houses in the world are built Sunday 4:00-5:00 and take home a small mushroom fruiting kit they from local clay soil. Get your hands (and feet) into Herbal Crafts for Kids make from shredded paper or cardboard and a the mix in our kid-friendly clay pit or try sculpting Jessica Kellner – Mother Earth Living living culture! your own miniature earthen house at our play Make two fun herbal crafts: Colorful herb bath Saturday 4:00-5:00 table. Regional natural building experts will be on salts and a pouch of fairy dust to attract fairies to Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 hand to answer questions. your garden. Sunday 11:30-12:30 Saturday 11:30-12:30 Ethnobotany for Kids Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows Bandana Bash Kids’ Goat Milking Demonstration Are you curious about the weeds on the Heidi Hunt – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Elizabeth Rich – Misty Moraine Creamery playground? When you go to the park do you look Have fun while folding and twisting a simple Learn all about how to milk a goat. First learn how for the plants hidden under the trees before the bandanna into a whole bunch of unusual uses, to clean the udder and teats, then watch as swings and slides? ere is food, medicine, such as a shirt, hobo lunch bag and gift wrap. Elizabeth Rich demonstrates proper milking clothing and beauty growing all around us. How Sunday 1:00-2:00 techniques. Learn how to strain the milk and store do we look for it? Bring an adult along as we learn it. Kids can pet the goat, talk to her, and try their basic skills for safely and sustainably exploring and hand at milking her themselves! studying our plant friends. Saturday 1:00-2:00 Saturday 5:30-6:30

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 21 EXHIBITORS Agrilicious – Contributing Sponsor Chapman Creek Cattle Co Ellbee’s Garlic Seasonings Globalaquaponics.net and Booth #4511 Booth #3025 Booth #5206 Apexaquaponics.com www.agrilicious.org www.kansasgrassfedbeefcompany.com www.ellbees.com Booths #3015 and #3016 www.globalaquaponics.net Alenco Inc. Chelsea Green Ellie Pots Inc. Booths #4109 and #4209 Booth #4211 Booth #4206 Good Energy Solutions www.alenconline.com www.chelseagreen.com www.elliepotsinc.com Booths #1618 and #1718 www.goodenergysolutions.com Alpacas of Wildcat Hollow Clear Creek Seeds EnerHealth Botanicals – Associate Sponsor Booths #2003 and #2004 Booth #1614 Booths #4500 and #4501 Grassland Heritage Foundation www.alpacasofwildcathollow.com www.clearcreekseeds.com www.enerfood.com Booths #1615 and #1715 www.grasslandheritage.org Animal Welfare Approved Cloud County Community College Envirolet – Contributing Sponsor Booth #1711 Booth #1415 Booth #4611 Green Cover Seed www.animalwelfareapproved.org www.cloud.edu/Academics/programs/ www.envirolet.com Booth #4119 Wind/index www.greencoverseed.com Antique Tractors – Howard and ePantry Jane Hawkins Cobrahead LLC Booth #5213 Green Life Antique Tractor Display, Domer Livestock Arena Booth #1612 www.epantry.com Booth #5503 www.cobrahead.com www.thegreenlife.us Bad Dog Tools Evergreen Institute Booth #4311 Coconut Bliss – Associate Sponsor Booth #4212 Greensburg, Kan. Tourism www.baddogtools.com Booths #4502 and #4503 www.evergreeninstitute.org Booth #4201 www.coconutbliss.com www.greensburgks.org Barnetts’ Family Farm, LLC Evergreen Naturalworks Booth #5101 Colorado Yurt – Associate Sponsor Booth #4213 Greg Davis Rope Maker Booths #5200 and #5300 www.evergreencandleworks.com Booths #3040 and 3041 Bauman’s Cedar Valley Farms & www.coloradoyurt.com www.makerope.com ANCO Processing Extreme Panel Tech., Inc Booth #4417 Community Gardens & Shawnee Co. Booth #4205 Ground Source, Inc. Extension Master Gardeners www.extremepanel.com Booth #4305 BCS America Booth #5511 www.groundsourceinc.com Booths #4300 and #4400 www.shawnee.ksu.edu EZ Animal Products www.bcsamerica.com Booth #4508 Grow Your Own Groceries Cousin Mary Jane & Lady Jane www.ezanimalproducts.com Booth #5312 Bee inking Gourmet Seed www.growyourowngroceries.org Booth #4409 Booth #4117 EZ-Communications www.beethinking.com www.cousinmaryjane.com Booths #4520 and #4620 Hague Quality Water www.ezcom.us Booths #4107 and #5704 Being Onto Something Cromwell Solar – Associate Sponsor www.haguewaterkc.com “Greener Shopping” Booths #4111 and #4112 Faith Wellness Center Booth #1518 www.powertomorrow.com Booth #4402 Hangapot the Hidden Flower Pot www.beingontosomething.com www.medmassager.com Booth #5214 Crooked Post Winery www.hangapot.com Bell Aquaculture LLC Booth #5404 Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Booth #1414 www.crookedpostwinery.com Booth #5501 Happy Valley Ranch www.shrich.com www.farmtoconsumer.org Cider Pressing, Outside Exhibitors Cutco Cutlery www.happyvalleyranch.com Better Garden Tools Booth #4514 Farm to Fork Ranch Booth #4415 www.cutco.com Petting Farm Harvest Right www.bettergardentools.com Booths #5000 and #5001 Daisy Blue Naturals FarmTek www.harvestright.com BlackWater Treasures Booth #4515 Booth #2305 Booths #1607 and #1707 www.daisybluenaturals.com www.foddersystems.com Heritage Tractor www.blackwatertreasures.com New Tractor Display, Domer Livestock Arena Devoted to Wellness Featherman Equipment www.heritagetractor.com Bodacious Cases, LLC Booth #5601 Booths #4418 and #4419 Booth #4619 www.featherman.net High Caliper Growing www.bodaciouscases.com doTerra Essential Oils Booth #5604 Booth #4412 Featuring Invictus Voices & Bear Clan Royalty www.smartpots.com Boettcher Supply www.mydoterra.com/michellebonne Booth #4414 Booths #4301 and #4401 High Castle Solar www.boettchersupply.com Douglas and Shawnee County Conservation Fertrell-Troque Farms Booth #4207 Districts Booth #4420 www.highcastlesolar.com Botanical Interests – Contributing Sponsor Booths #3140 and #3141 www.troquefarms.net Booths #1208 and #1308 www.douglasccd.com High Mowing Organic Seeds www.botanicalinterests.com Flinthills Aromatherapy Booth #4406 Down Home Ranch, Inc. Booth #1514 www.highmowingseeds.com Boys Grow Booth #5305 www.inthillsaromatherapy.com Booth #4307 www.downhomeranch.org Homestead General Store www.boysgrow.com Four Season Tools Booths #4506 and #4507 Dr. Earth Booths #1300-#1305 www.homesteadgeneralstore.com Capital City Nissan – Associate Sponsor Booth #1118 www.smallfarmtools.com Booths #3000 and #3120 www.drearth.com Honey Dew Naturals www.capnissan.com Frontier Farm Credit – Associate Sponsor Booth #5314 Eagles’ Rest Natural Mattresses and Furniture Booth #4612 www.honeydewnaturals.com Carol Leigh’s Hill Creek Fiber Studio Booth #4408 www.frontierfarmcredit.com Booths #4518 and #4519 www.eaglesrestnaturalhome.com Iwig Family Dairy www.hillcreekberstudio.com Garden Variety Soap Company Booths #2102 and #2103 Earth Elements Booth #5412 www.iloveiwig.com Central Iowa Organic Fertilizer Booth #5509 www.gardenvarietysoaps.com Booth #1512 JCCC Sustainable Agriculture Program www.centraliowaorganicfertilizer.com Earthineer – Contributing Sponsor GardeningRevolution.com Booth #5512 Booths #4614 and #4615 Booth #1508 www.jccc.edu/sustainability.com Ceramic Garlic Grater www.earthineer.com www.gardeningrevolution.com Booth #5100 J-N-S Boer Creek Farm Ebert Sheep Farm Booths #2001 and #2002 Booths #2104-2106 www.jnsboercreekfarm.com www.ebertsheepfarm.com

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 25 EXHIBITORS Johnny’s Selected Seeds – Associate Sponsor Midwest Aronia Association NOTO (North Topeka) Artist Group Real Time Pain Relief Booths #1207 and #1307 Booth #5210 and Friends Booth #5403 www.johnnyseeds.com www.midwestaronia.org Booth #5602 www.painpotion.com www.notoartists.org Juice Plus Company Millner-Haufen Tool Co. River Hills Harvest Booth #4214 Booth #4605 Nuwati Herbals Booth #4607 www.sv.juiceplus.com www.millnertools.com Booth #5306 www.riverhillsharvest.com www.nuwatiherbals.com Kansas 4-H Minuteman Press Riverwood Trading Co. Booth #1608 Booth #5611 Oak Grove Fabrication Booths #5702 and #5703 www.joinkansas4-h.org www.minutemanlawrence.com Booth #4105 www.riverwoodtrading.etsy.com

Kansas Barn Alliance Miracle Door Mat Oatie Beef Roberts Seed Booth #5401 Booth #5600 Booth #5104 Booth #1712 www.kansasbarnalliance.org www.oatiebeef.com www.robertsseed.com Mockingbird Meadows – Associate Sponsor Kansas City Food Circle Booths #5400 and #5500 Olea Estates Distribution, Inc. Rock Springs Booth #5212 www.mockingbirdmeadows.com Booth #5309 Booths #4115 and #4215 www.kcfoodcircle.org www.oleaestates.com www.rocksprings.net Moonwise Herbs and Brooms by Kansas Farmers Union Little John Organic & Non-GMO Report Rocking H Charolais Booth #4316 Booths #4319 and #4320 Booth #1225 Booth #3030 www.kansasfarmersunion.org www.moonwiseherbs.com www.non-gmoreport.com www.rockinghcharolais.wix.com/ rockinghcharolais Kansas Land Trust Mr. Ellie Pooh’s Fair Trade Organic Crop Improvement Association Booth #1515 Booth #4618 Booth #1708 Sandhill Farm & Milkweed Mercantile www.klt.com www.mrelliepooh.com www.ocia.org Booth #4304 www.sandhillfarm.org Kansas Soybean Commission Murray McMurray Hatchery Paradise Ranch Packgoats Booth #1611 Booth #2101 Packgoats Display, Exercise Arena School of Natural Healing www.kansassoybeans.org www.mcmurrayhatchery.com Booth #4118 Parsons’ Prairie Farm www.schoolofnaturalhealing.com Kansas Wesleyan University My Pillow Booth #4309 Booth #5113 Booth #5410 www.naturalberfarm.com SeaAgri, Inc www.kwu.edu www.mypillow.com Booth #4413 Paula Winchester Enterprises www.seaagri.com Kasco Marine Mystic Wonders Booth #4416 Booth #4312 Booth #5204 www.paulawinchester.com Seafood Producers Cooperative www.kascomarine.com www.mysticwondersinc.com Booth #4302 Pearl’s Premium Ultra Low Maintenance Lawn www.alaskagoldbrand.com Kaw View Farm Naked Goat Farm Seed Booth #2100 Booth #5610 Booth #1714 Sedore Usa www.kawviewfarm.com www.nakedgoatfarm.com www.PearlsPremium.com Booths #4517 and #4617 www.sedoreusa.com Keene Road Country Estate/Healthy Path Natural Building Network Perka Wood Steel Hybrid Buildings Way, LLC Natural Building Demo, Domer Livestock Arena Booth #5613 Seed Savers Exchange Booth #5203 www.nbnetwork.org www.perkabuildings.com Booths #1221, #1222, #1321 and #1322 www.vrbo.com/429285 www.seedsavers.org Natural Options Aromatherapy Perpetual Food Company Kitchen Craft Booths #4313-#4315 Booths #5505 and #5506 Serendipity Essentials Booths #5700 and #5701 www.naturaloptions.us www.perpetualfood.com Booth #4106 www.kitchencraftcookware.com Naturally Ozark Pika Energy Shawnee County Democrats Koelzer Bee Farm Booth #1511 Booths #1619 and #1719 Booth #5502 Booth #5614 www.naturally-ozark.com www.pika-energy.com www.scdpks.com www.koelzerbeefarm.com Nature’s Flavors – Title Sponsor Pines International, Inc Skinner Garden Store, Inc. KTWU, local public television Booths #4601-#4603 Booth #4208 Booths #1411 and #1412 Booth #3001 www.naturesavors.com www.wheatgrass.com www.skinnergardenstore.com www.ktwu.org Nature’s Head Pollinator Partnership Smalley Heating & Cooling Livestock Conservancy Booth #4411 Booth #5202 Booth #4303 Booth #2320 www.natureshead.net www.pollinator.org www.smalleyenergy.com www.livestockconservancy.org Nature’s Renewable Products Power Bee Farm Smart Klean for Health Love at First Sit Booths #3135 and #4101 Booth #4513 Booth #4218 Booth #4200 www.greenheatunits.com www.smartkleanforhealth.com www.loveatrstsit.com Premier1 – Contributing Sponsor Nebraska Sustainable Agricultural Society Booths #1218 and #1318 Soap Alchemy Lucky George Farm Booth #1408 www.premier1supplies.com Booth #4217 Booth #2000 www.nebsusag.org www.soapalchemy.com www.luckygeorgefarm.com Project Lydia New Society Publishers Booths #5302 and #5303 Solar Chef International Made in House DIY Food Kits Booths #4113 and #4114 www.projectlydia.org Booth #5112 Booth #5209 www.newsociety.com www.solar-chef.com www.madeinhouse.us Purina – Title Sponsor Northeastern Kansas Booth #2315 Southern Distributors Marie’s Alpaca Acres Beekeepers’ Association www.purinamills.com Booths #4120 and #4220 Booth #4407 Booths #1226, #1325 and #1326 www.mariesalpacaacres.com www.nekba.org Quail Manufacturing Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Booth #2310 Booths #1224 and #1324 Massaging Insoles Northern Sun www.eggcartn.com www.southernexposure.com Booth #4219 Booths #4404 and #4405 www.massaginginsoles.com www.northernsun.com Quarto Publishing Group USA SouthWoods Permaculture Design Booth #4505 Booth #5402 Metal Ware Corp – Nesco Am. Harvest Norwood Sawmills USA Inc. www.quartous.com www.southwoodscenter.com Booth #5211 Booths #3020 and #3021 www.nesco.com www.norwoodsawmills.com

26 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com EXHIBITORS Split Second Log Splitter – Terra Char Turtle Creek Farm Whole Body Wellness Concepts Contributing Sponsor Booth #5313 Booth #4308 Booths #5110 and #5111 Booths #3110 and #3111 www.terra-char.com www.farm-naked.com www.wbwconcepts.com www.splitsecondlogsplitter.com ayer Feed LLC Udderly Naked Goat Milk Soap Products Wichita Rain Barrels SRI Wind Solar Booth #5102 Booth #5201 Booth #4509 Booth #5513 www.thayerfeedllc.com www.udderlynaked.com www.wichitarainbarrels.com www.sriwindsolar.com e Aquaponic Source Unforgettable Fire Wild Herb Natural Skin Care Star Seed Booths #1419 and #1519 Booth #3010 Booth #4108 Booths #5310 and #5311 www.theaquaponicsource.com www.unforgettable rellc.com www.wildherbok.com www.gostarseed.com e Berkey Dealer Urth Wild Planet Foods Sun Ovens International Booth #5504 Booths #4608 and #4609 Booth #4613 Booth #3130 www.berkeydealer.com www.urthealer.com www.wildplanetfoods.com www.sunoven.com e Fire Place UV Paqlite - e Amazing Light Wildtree Sun-Mar Booths #3150 and #3151 Booth #5603 Booth #5205 Booth #4606 www.the re-place.com www.uvpaqlite.com www.annie4wildtree.mywildtree.com www.sun-mar.com e Handy Camel Visit Topeka Inc. Wise Women Botanicals SunSource Homes Booth #4403 Booth #3004 Booth #5114 Booths #5405 and #5406 www.thehandycamel.com www.VisitTopeka.com www.wisewomenbotanicals.net www.sunsourcehomes.com eo Chocolate – Associate Sponsor Walnut Kitchen Homestead Wood-Mizer Sustainability Action Booth #4600 Booth #1418 Booths #3160, #3161 and #3162 Booth #5612 www.theochocolate.com www.WalnutKitchenHomestead.com www.woodmizer.com www.sustainabilityaction.net Tiny Trailer Water-Revolution Woollow Swims and Sweeps Inc Booths #1019 and #1119 Booth #5409 Booth #5301 Booths #3170, #3171, #4102, #4103, #4202 and www.ourtaoshouse.com www.water-revolution.com www.woollow.com #4203 www.swimsandsweeps.com Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Watkins Products Yogawrap Spine Support, Inc. Booth #5413 Booth #5103 Booth #5304 Tar River Trading Post www.tscpl.org www.jrwatkins.com/consultant/cmary www.yogawrap.com Booths #5002 and #5003 www.TarRiverTradingPost.com Topeka ZERO Well WaterBoy Products Young Living Essential Oils Booth #3002 Booth #3005 Booth #4306 Tasteful Olive www.waterbuckpump.com www.ylwebsite.com/thepotters Booths #4317 and #4318 Trammell Treasures Mushroom Farm www.thetastefulolive.com Booth #4512 White Harvest Seed Company www.trammelltreasures.com Booths #1407 and #1507 Teeny Greeny - Earthy Baby Boutique www.whiteharvestseed.com Booths #5414 and #5514 www.teenygreenykc.com

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 27 EXHIBITORS BY LOCATION DOMER LIVESTOCK ARENA ATRIUM IN EXHIBITION HALL 4319 Moonwise Herbs and Brooms by 5300 Colorado Yurt Little John 5301 Woollow 1019 Tiny Trailer 3000 Capital City Nissan 4320 Moonwise Herbs and Brooms by 5302 Project Lydia 1021 Antique Tractors 3001 KTWU, local public television Little John 5303 Project Lydia 1022 Antique Tractors 3002 Topeka ZERO 4400 BCS America 5304 Yogawrap Spine Support, Inc. 1023 Antique Tractors 3004 Visit Topeka Inc. 4401 Boettcher Supply 5305 Down Home Ranch, Inc. 1024 Antique Tractors 3005 Well WaterBoy Products 4402 Faith Wellness Center 5306 Nuwati Herbals 1025 Antique Tractors 4403 e Handy Camel 5309 Olea Estates Distribution, Inc. 1026 Antique Tractors OUTSIDE EXHIBITORS 4404 Northern Sun 5310 Star Seed 1118 Dr. Earth 4405 Northern Sun 5311 Star Seed 1119 Tiny Trailer 3010 Unforgettable Fire 4406 High Mowing Organic Seeds 5312 Grow Your Own Groceries 1207 Johnny’s Selected Seeds 3015 Globalaquaponics.net and 4407 Marie’s Alpaca Acres 5313 Terra Char 1208 Botanical Interests Apexaquaponics.com 4408 Eagles’ Rest Natural Mattresses 5314 Honey Dew Naturals 1218 Premier1 3016 Globalaquaponics.net and and Furniture 5400 Mockingbird Meadows 1221 Seed Savers Exchange Apexaquaponics.com 4409 Bee inking 5401 Kansas Barn Alliance 1222 Seed Savers Exchange 3020 Norwood Sawmills USA Inc. 4411 Nature’s Head 5402 SouthWoods Permaculture Design 1224 Southern Exposure Seed Exchange 3021 Norwood Sawmills USA Inc 4412 doTerra Essential Oils 5403 Real Time Pain Relief 1225 Organic & Non-GMO Report 3025 Chapman Creek Cattle Co 4413 SeaAgri, Inc 5404 Crooked Post Winery 1226 Northeastern Kansas 3030 Rocking H Charolais 4414 Featuring Invictus Voices & Bear 5405 SunSource Homes Beekeepers’ Association 3040 Greg Davis Rope Maker Clan Royalty 5406 SunSource Homes 1300 Four Season Tools 3041 Greg Davis Rope Maker 4415 Better Garden Tools 5409 Water-Revolution 1301 Four Season Tools 3110 Split Second Log Splitter 4416 Paula Winchester Enterprises 5410 My Pillow 1302 Four Season Tools 3111 Split Second Log Splitter 4417 Bauman’s Cedar Valley Farms & 5412 Garden Variety Soap Company 1303 Four Season Tools 3120 Capital City Nissan ANCO Processing 5413 Topeka & Shawnee County 1304 Four Season Tools 3130 Sun Ovens International 4418 Featherman Equipment Public Library 1305 Four Season Tools 3135 Nature’s Renewable Products 4419 Featherman Equipment 5414 Teeny Greeny - Earthy Baby Boutique 1307 Johnny’s Selected Seeds 3140 Douglas and Shawnee County 4420 Fertrell-Troque Farms 5500 Mockingbird Meadows 1308 Botanical Interests Conservation Districts 4500 EnerHealth Botanicals 5501 Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund 1318 Premier1 3141 Douglas and Shawnee County 4501 EnerHealth Botanicals 5502 Shawnee County Democrats 1321 Seed Savers Exchange Conservation Districts 4502 Coconut Bliss 5503 Green Life 1322 Seed Savers Exchange 3150 e Fire Place 4503 Coconut Bliss 5504 e Berkey Dealer 1324 Southern Exposure Seed Exchange 3151 e Fire Place 4505 Quarto Publishing Group USA 5505 Perpetual Food Company 1325 Northeastern Kansas 3160 Wood-Mizer 4506 Homestead General Store 5506 Perpetual Food Company Beekeepers’ Association 3161 Wood-Mizer 4507 Homestead General Store 5509 Earth Elements 1326 Northeastern Kansas 3162 Wood-Mizer 4508 EZ Animal Products 5511 Community Gardens & Shawnee Co. Beekeepers’ Association 3170 Swims and Sweeps Inc 4509 Wichita Rain Barrels Extension Master Gardeners 1407 White Harvest Seed Company 3171 Swims and Sweeps Inc 4511 Agrilicious 5512 JCCC Sustainable Agriculture Program 1408 Nebraska Sustainable 4512 Trammell Treasures Mushroom Farm 5513 SRI Wind Solar Agricultural Society EXHIBITION HALL 4513 Power Bee Farm 5514 Teeny Greeny - Earthy Baby Boutique 1411 Skinner Garden Store, Inc. 4514 Cutco Cutlery 5600 Miracle Door Mat 1412 Skinner Garden Store, Inc. 4101 Nature’s Renewable Products 4515 Daisy Blue Naturals 5601 Devoted to Wellness 1414 Bell Aquaculture LLC 4102 Swims and Sweeps Inc 4517 Sedore Usa 5602 NOTO (North Topeka) Artist Group 1415 Cloud County Community College 4103 Swims and Sweeps Inc 4518 Carol Leigh’s Hill Creek Fiber Studio and Friends 1418 Walnut Kitchen Homestead 4105 Oak Grove Fabrication 4519 Carol Leigh’s Hill Creek Fiber Studio 5603 UV Paqlite - e Amazing Light 1419 e Aquaponic Source 4106 Serendipity Essentials 4520 EZ-Communications 5604 High Caliper Growing 1507 White Harvest Seed Company 4107 Hague Quality Water 4600 eo Chocolate 5610 Naked Goat Farm 1508 GardeningRevolution.com 4108 Wild Herb Natural Skin Care 4601 Nature’s Flavors 5611 Minuteman Press 1511 Naturally Ozark 4109 Alenco Inc. 4602 Nature’s Flavors 5612 Sustainability Action 1512 Central Iowa Organic Fertilizer 4111 Cromwell Solar 4603 Nature’s Flavors 5613 Perka Wood Steel Hybrid Buildings 1514 Flinthills Aromatherapy 4112 Cromwell Solar 4605 Millner-Haufen Tool Co. 5614 Koelzer Bee Farm 1515 Kansas Land Trust 4113 New Society Publishers 4606 Sun-Mar 5700 Kitchen Craft 1518 Being Onto Something 4114 New Society Publishers 4607 River Hills Harvest 5701 Kitchen Craft “Greener Shopping” 4115 Rock Springs 4608 Urth 5702 Riverwood Trading Co. 1519 e Aquaponic Source 4117 Cousin Mary Jane & Lady Jane 4609 Urth 5703 Riverwood Trading Co. 1607 BlackWater Treasures Gourmet Seed 4611 Envirolet 5704 Hague Quality Water 1608 Kansas 4-H 4118 School of Natural Healing 4612 Frontier Farm Credit 1611 Kansas Soybean Commission 4119 Green Cover Seed 4613 Wild Planet Foods CIDER PRESSING OUTSIDE EXHIBITORS 1612 Cobrahead LLC 4120 Southern Distributors 4614 Earthineer 1614 Clear Creek Seeds 4200 Love at First Sit 4615 Earthineer Happy Valley Ranch 1615 Grassland Heritage Foundation 4201 Greensburg, Kan. Tourism 4617 Sedore Usa 1618 Good Energy Solutions 4202 Swims and Sweeps Inc 4618 Mr. Ellie Pooh’s Fair Trade PACKGOAT DISPLAY EXERCISE ARENA 1619 Pika Energy 4203 Swims and Sweeps Inc 4619 Bodacious Cases, LLC 1707 BlackWater Treasures 4205 Extreme Panel Tech., Inc 4620 EZ-Communications Paradise Ranch Packgoats 1708 Organic Crop 4206 Ellie Pots Inc. Improvement Association 4207 High Castle Solar LANDON ARENA PETTING FARM EXERCISE ARENA 1711 Animal Welfare Approved 4208 Pines International, Inc 1712 Roberts Seed 4209 Alenco Inc. 5000 Harvest Right Farm to Fork Ranch 1714 Pearl’s Premium Ultra Low 4211 Chelsea Green 5001 Harvest Right Maintenance Lawn Seed 4212 Evergreen Institute 5002 Tar River Trading Post NATURAL BUILDING DEMO DOMER ARENA 1715 Grassland Heritage Foundation 4213 Evergreen Naturalworks 5003 Tar River Trading Post 1718 Good Energy Solutions 4214 Juice Plus Company 5100 Ceramic Garlic Grater Natural Building Network 1719 Pika Energy 4215 Rock Springs 5101 Barnetts’ Family Farm, LLC 4217 Soap Alchemy 5102 ayer Feed LLC NEW TRACTOR DISPLAY DOMER ARENA EXERCISE ARENA 4218 Smart Klean for Health 5103 Watkins Products 4219 Massaging Insoles 5104 Oatie Beef Heritage Tractor 2000 Lucky George Farm 4220 Southern Distributors 5110 Whole Body Wellness Concepts 2001 J-N-S Boer Creek Farm 4300 BCS America 5111 Whole Body Wellness Concepts ANTIQUE TRACTOR DISPLAY DOMER ARENA 2002 J-N-S Boer Creek Farm 4301 Boettcher Supply 5112 Solar Chef International 2003 Alpacas of Wildcat Hollow 4302 Seafood Producers Cooperative 5113 Kansas Wesleyan University Howard and Jane Hawkins 2004 Alpacas of Wildcat Hollow 4303 Smalley Heating & Cooling 5114 Wise Women Botanicals 2100 Kaw View Farm 4304 Sandhill Farm & Milkweed Mercantile 5200 Colorado Yurt 2101 Murray McMurray Hatchery 4305 Ground Source, Inc. 5201 Udderly Naked Goat Milk 2102 Iwig Family Dairy 4306 Young Living Essential Oils Soap Products 2103 Iwig Family Dairy 4307 Boys Grow 5202 Pollinator Partnership 2104 Ebert Sheep Farm 4308 Turtle Creek Farm 5203 Keene Road Country Estate/Healthy 2105 Ebert Sheep Farm 4309 Parsons’ Prairie Farm Path Way, LLC 2106 Ebert Sheep Farm 4311 Bad Dog Tools 5204 Mystic Wonders 4312 Kasco Marine 5205 Wildtree 2305 FarmTek 4313 Natural Options Aromatherapy 5206 Ellbee’s Garlic Seasonings 2310 Quail Manufacturing 4314 Natural Options Aromatherapy 5209 Made in House DIY Food Kits 2315 Purina 4315 Natural Options Aromatherapy 5210 Midwest Aronia Association 2320 Livestock Conservancy 4316 Kansas Farmers Union 5211 Metal Ware Corp - Nesco Am. Harvest 4317 Tasteful Olive 5212 Kansas City Food Circle 4318 Tasteful Olive 5213 ePantry 5214 Hangapot the Hidden Flower Pot

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