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CONTENTS A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Sponsors and Partners 5 Dear Friends, Keynote Speakers 6 Thank you for helping us launch our first Mother Earth News ALBC Stage 7 Fair in Kansas! Your enthusiasm is the reason for this event and we Grit Stage 8 appreciate your passion and your participation. Kids’ Treehouse Stage 9 Mother Earth Living Stage 10 We are excited about bringing the Fair to our own backyard right here in the Midwest. We’re especially eager to host a downtown Organic Gardening Stage 11 event for the first time – one that plugs directly into the vibrant Real Food Stage 12 community of Lawrence. We appreciate the city’s welcoming, small- Renewable Energy Stage 13 town charm – the perfect backdrop for an exciting and inspirational Seed Reader Stage 14 weekend. Map 15 Every day we hear from folks all over the world who have great ideas Saturday Stage Schedule 16 for helping to solve the sustainability puzzle, and we always look Sunday Stage Schedule 17 forward to getting together at the Fairs to share ideas in pursuit of Off-Stage Demonstrations 18 this common goal. Utne Reader Stage 19 I would like to extend my personal thanks to the many supportive organizations that have invested Exhibitors by Name 20-24 their time and effort in support of this event, and the many innovative entrepreneurs who have chosen Exhibitors by Booth Number 25 to participate. Major sponsors this year include Botanical Interests, CeCe Caldwell’s, Colorado Yurt, Marketplace 29-30 Cromwell Solar, Deltec Homes, Earthineer, Envirolet, Flame Engineering, Hilary’s Eat Well, Icynene, Mockingbird Meadows, Nature’s Flavors, Premier 1 Supplies and Theo Chocolate. WORKSHOPS 6-14, 18-19 We are particularly grateful to the extraordinary individuals who are joining us as speakers, including our headliners: David Schafer, Ed Begley Jr., Eliot Coleman, Frank Reese Jr., Joel Salatin, Kelly Kindscher, Rosemary Gladstar, Sherri Brooks Vinton, Temple Grandin and Woody Tasch. They represent some of the most influential and visionary minds and we are honored to share their commitment to sustainability and conscientious lifestyles. Enjoy your weekend!

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MORE THAN 150 WORKSHOPS! P. 7 ECO-FRIENDLY FAIR HOURS MARKETPLACE P. 20 KEYNOTE ON THE COVER: The sunflower is the official state flower of Kansas SPEAKERS P. 6 OFF-STAGE Saturday Fair hours: 9:00 AM-7:00 PM DEMONSTRATIONS P. 18 and is featured on the Kansas state quarter and flag, and inspired the state’s Sunday Fair hours: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM nickname: The Sunflower State. PROGRAM GUIDE OCTOBER 12-13, 2013 LAWRENCE, KS. 1 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 1 Photo by Laura Perkins. 4 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com SPONSORS

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Why Standard Breed Birds? Nothing Is Impossible Slow Money: Investing as if Frank Reese Jr. – Good Shepherd Eliot Coleman – Four Season Farm food, farms and fertility matter Turkey Ranch Learn about the difficulties Woody Tasch – Slow Money Discover the history, breeding and faced by small farmers and how What began with a book and a development of heritage poultry all of them can be successfully set of ideas four years ago has in the United States. Frank Reese overcome. Eliot Coleman has 45 blossomed into a network of tells his story of 60 years working years of experience as an organic investors, philanthropists, farmers, with standard breed poultry (often farmer. He runs a year-round entrepreneurs, and everyday folks called “heritage poultry” today). Learn why it matters market garden on the coast of Maine. who are concerned about where their food comes to the future of poultry worldwide and why we Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 from and where their money goes. More than $21 should be concerned about the genetic preservation Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 million has been invested directly in more than 180 of standard breed poultry. small food enterprises through the Slow Money Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 Herbs for Family Health network, both nationally and through 17 local Rosemary Gladstar – Storey chapters. Learn how these millions of small acts can Beautiful and Abundant: The Publishing rebuild our economy from the ground up. MOTHER EARTH NEWS community This comprehensive and practical Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 and its vision for the future presentation focuses on creating Book signing Saturday 5:00 – 5:30 Bryan Welch – Ogden Publications an herbal apothecary for your Inc. home, 10 popular herbs and their Put ’Em Up! The ways and whys Mother Earth News’ positive uses, popular remedies for well of home food preservation message brings together a being, safety issues concerning herbs and resources Sherri Brooks Vinton – Storey community of working visionaries. for ongoing herbal studies. The workshop will Publishing In his award-winning book, Beautiful and Abundant: also include a slide presentation, handouts and a Can you pickle that? Or can Building the World We Want, Mother Earth News demonstration on preparing herbs for family use. it? Infuse it, dry it, freeze it publisher Bryan Welch explores the power of human Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 or ferment it? Author and visualization and offers an engaging and practical Book signing Sunday 2:00 – 2:30 food preservation guru Sherri method for building a collective vision of human Brooks Vinton presents on the many different sustainability one person at a time. ways to preserve your own food. A great session for Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 experienced preservers looking for new ideas as well Book signing Saturday 12:30 – 1:00 as anyone who has been thinking about doing a little preserving but doesn’t know where to jump in. Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00

SUNDAY

Live Poultry Processing Demo The World’s Easiest Cheese Wild, Native Foods and Medicine Joel Salatin – Polyface Farms and Cheryl Long – Mother Earth News Kelly Kindscher – University of David Schafer – Featherman Learn how to make delicious paneer, Kansas Equipment a simple, quick South Asian cheese Wild foods and medicines are Learn everything you need to know that’s been enjoyed for more than common across the region. This about chicken processing from 8,000 years. Samples will be served. presentation addresses how to find experts Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms Note: This presentation will last only and use some of the most common and David Schafer of Featherman 30 minutes. ones, a history of their use by Native Equipment, including handling, Sunday 12:30 – 1:00 Americans, and how we can incorporate them into our bleeding, scalding, plucking and lives today. eviscerating. Honor the bird and Live Simply So That Others Can Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 hone your stewardship skills in this Simply Live Book signing Sunday 3:30 – 4:00 live, hands-on demonstration. Ed Begley Jr. – Envirolet Sunday 9:30 – 11:00 Ed Begley Jr.’s presentation has been Don’t Be Scared, Be Strange received by standing ovations at more Joel Salatin – Polyface Farms Improving Animal Welfare: A than 300 events in just the last four Turning your part-time farm practical approach years. His message on sustainable enterprise into a bona fide full-time Temple Grandin – Storey Publishing living is empowering and humorous. business can be a fearful proposition. Revered animal scientist, activist He will discuss his new LEED-certified home and water- What about land, working with and author Temple Grandin unveils saving ideas. Presented by Envirolet. people, managing a business, her much anticipated presentation Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 regulations and strategic planning? “Improving Animal Welfare: A Book signing Sunday 2:00 – 2:30 Using his own Polyface Farms experience as an object Practical Approach” from her new lesson, Salatin addresses these concerns head-on with book, Humane Livestock Handling. Don’t miss this humor and encouragement. You’ll come away ready to compelling keynote address on how animals think, feel pursue an agrarian farm business. and can fear the things around them. Animals store their Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 memories in pictures, sound and other sensations, and Book signing Sunday 5:00 – 5:30 we must handle animals gently to avoid the formation of fear memories. Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 Book signing Sunday 12:30 – 1:00

6 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com AMERICAN LIVESTOCK BREEDS CONSERVANCY STAGE Poultry 101 Rabbit Husbandry: Keeping it hopping! Heritage Breeds Marketing 101 an interactive workshop, so bring Glenn Drowns – Sand Hill Preservation Callene and Eric Rapp – The Rare Hare Alison Martin – American Livestock Breeds questions. Center Barn Conservancy Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 This short course on getting started in Learn about the challenges and joys of Marketing your products is key to raising poultry will cover all poultry, from raising heritage breed rabbits. succeeding with rare breeds. Discover the Talking Turkey, Part 2 day-olds to managing adults. Workshop Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 growing market potential for heritage Jeannette Beranger – American Livestock topics will include selecting housing, feeds breed food and fiber products, and of the Breeds Conservancy and breeds. Is a Heritage Beef Enterprise Right for avenues to pursue for market success. So you want to take it to the next level Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 You? Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 with heritage turkeys? With the increasing Book signing Saturday 11:00 – 11:30 Alison Martin – American Livestock Breeds popularity of these birds, there is a great Conservancy Raising Goats Naturally for Milk, Meat need for new breeders. In part two of Talking Turkey, Part 1 Find out if heritage cattle could be a fit for and More ALBC’s turkey series, you will learn the Jeannette Beranger – American Livestock your farm enterprise. In this workshop you Deborah Niemann – New Society Publishers basics of breeding turkeys, including Breeds Conservancy will learn the definition of “heritage,” the Learn to raise dairy goats naturally to husbandry, how to select breeders and Heritage turkeys have made a remarkable basics of selecting a breed, why heritage produce your own milk, meat, cheese, productivity. comeback onto the American table, breeds are so appealing in niche markets, soap and more. We’ll discuss how to follow Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 and offer a great niche opportunity for and the planning process for deciding if nature’s example and let moms raise their farmers. Join us to learn the basics of breed heritage cattle are right for you and your own babies to have healthier goats that Primary Poultry Health Care selection, sourcing poults, and husbandry farm. produce more milk and meat. Patricia Foreman – Gossamer Foundation for turkeys being raised for the holiday Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 Learn the essentials of preventative disease market. Book signing Saturday 3:30 – 4:00 management that utilizes proactive care Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 Meat Goats Are Great to keep your flock healthy, including Yvonne Zweede-Tucker – Smoke Ridge Reconnecting to the Homestead (with considerations for housing, air quality, Everybody Duck! The basics of For the health of your land, the lightness Q&A) feed, water and special challenges that you raising ducks of your spirits, or on a plate, meat goats Amy and Dan Saunders – Amy’s Meats at might face with your flock. Learn what Victoria Miller – New Society Publishers are great. Happily converting unwanted The Homestead you need to know to avoid most veterinary Ducks have a lot of personality and can forage such as thistles, weeds and brush to Amy and Dan share their journey of bills. be surprisingly easy to care for. This a delicious, healthy meat, they are fun and homesteading, including community Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 presentation will cover choosing a breed, simple to raise. Sustenance and safety are supported agriculture, events, camps, Book signing Sunday 5:00 – 5:30 housing for ducks, feed considerations, what the goats need to thrive. The demand classes and workshops. They are a predator issues and more. There will for goat meat, called chevon or cabrito, small family homestead, naturally caring be plenty of time for questions and exceeds supply and continues to grow. for and raising livestock. They have Jersey discussion, photos of ducks on our farm, Sponsored by Premier 1. milk cows, lambs, pigs, honeybees, free- and a handout. Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 grazing chickens (both broilers and laying Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 Book signing Saturday 12:30 – 1:00 hens) and a heirloom garden. This will be Book signing Saturday 11:00 – 11:30

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 7 GRIT STAGE Electric Fencing Essentials Beekeeping Basics See Jane Grow: How women are Compost Your Way to Better Soil Ann Larkin Hansen – Storey Publishing Northeastern Kansas Beekeepers’ Association transforming food Barbara Pleasant – Storey Publishing Learn how to plan, build and maintain an This introduction to beekeeping will cover Lisa Kivirist – Inn Serendipity Farm and Home composting expert Barbara Pleasant electric fence. We’ll cover how to pick the basic equipment, cost and time needs. It B&B shares dozens of practical composting right size and type of energizer; correctly will include an overview of how a hive Women are launching farms and food- techniques for turning kitchen and garden install the grounding system and hook works and tips for becoming a successful based enterprises in record numbers. From waste into the best soil amendment for up the fence; lay out fencelines, corners beekeeper. farmers to innkeepers, from writers to any type of garden. In addition to basic and gates; and pick the posts and wire Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 jam-making entrepreneurs, come hear the composting methods, learn innovative appropriate to the animals you’re trying inspiring stories and experiences of women ways Mother Earth News readers to control or the plants you’re trying to Top Bar Hives: It’s all about the wax! homesteaders crafting careers that prioritize have found to create healthier soil with protect. Christy Hemenway – New Society Publishers healthy food, family and local community homemade compost. Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 Top bar hives work to support the natural and build your own idea bank. Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 systems at work inside a beehive. The Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 Book signing Sunday 11:00 – 11:30 building of natural beeswax honeycomb Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00 Beginning Beekeeping is the most important of these systems, Sustainable Living Simplified Matt Reed – Bee Thinking integral to the health of these very Living the Dream: Building a small John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist – Inn Learn about getting started in beekeeping important bugs! Clean, natural comb cheese dairy Serendipity Farm and B&B using natural beekeeping methods, helps the bees be healthy without adding Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Creamery Break free of fossil fuels. End the including the use of top bar and Warré toxic pesticides and antibiotics to their Spend a virtual day-in-the-life of a small, mortgage. Be your own boss. Grow most hives. environment. Learn how to support bees farm-based cheesemaker and learn some of of your own food and prepare it in your Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 naturally in top bar hives. the challenges and rewards that the small- farmstead kitchen. Craft your version of Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 scale, sustainable dairy farmer encounters. “the good life” based on self-reliance and Organic Farming 101 Book signing Saturday 5:00 – 5:30 Decide for yourself if this life is for you! interconnected systems that address food, Ann Larkin Hansen – Storey Publishing Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 energy, nature and finances. Sharing our Starting an organic farm: How to fit your Agents of Change Book signing Saturday 12:30 – 1:00 journeys to inspire your own! farm enterprise to your acreage, terrain, Albert Bates and Lyle Estill – New Society Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 water supply, markets, the organic rule, Publishers; Bryan Welch – Ogden Publications Finding Good Farmland Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00 and you. We’ll talk about how different We all know that if we can change the Ann Larkin Hansen – Storey Publishing types of organic farms require different stories, we can change the culture. Join Learn what to look for when you’re equipment, supplies, and budgets, but all Bryan Welch, Lyle Estill and Albert Bates researching farmland: real estate markets, follow the same basic rules for maintaining as they discuss the financial, spiritual and soils, terrain, water supply and more. Plus, soil health, biodiversity, and a proactive personal impacts of being in a position to discover options for financing a farmland approach for dealing with weeds, pests, transform society. purchase or getting on to land even if you and disease. Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 don’t have a lot of cash. Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 Book signings Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 Albert Bates – Sunday 2:00 – 2:30 Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 Lyle Estill – Saturday 11:00 – 11:30 Bryan Welch – Saturday 12:30 – 1:00

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8 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com KIDS’ TREEHOUSE STAGE Bandana Bash Kids and Chicks An Introduction to Youth Livestock Build Your Own Grass Head Heidi Hunt – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Patricia Foreman – Gossamer Foundation Showing Douglas Co. K-State Research and Extension How many ways can you use a bandana for Which came first: the chicken or the Ryan Walker – American Livestock Breeds Make grass heads by placing grass seed fun and fashion? Take a nap, craft a shirt, child? Usually, it’s the chicken—with a Conservancy inside a stocking filled with soil. After a tie a hat, wrap a gift, carry your lunch ... child trundling afterwards giggling with Bring the kids and learn the basics of few days of water and sunshine, the seeds Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 delight. This hands-on workshop shows showing livestock and poultry through sprout … and the stocking looks like a kids (and adults) how to responsibly, and 4-H, FFA or open shows. From locating head growing hair! Use your creativity and Primitive Bead-Making for Kids! safely, handle baby chicks and fully grown animals to feeding and caring for them to decorate them with eyes and mouth for the Wade Myslivy – Wind and Stars Farm birds. Learn how to keep interacting with showmanship, see what it takes before you full effect. Participants have an opportunity to make chickens, a fun experience that can last walk in the show ring, and how to walk Sunday 1:00 – 3:30 beads made from materials such as soft a lifetime. Kids learn about the value out a winner! stone, bone and shell, using primitive of family flocks in green communities, Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 Seed-Starting for Kids drilling techniques. Knowledge of ancestral and that chickens offer more than just Jennifer Kongs and Hannah Kincaid – drilling skills are applicable to a wide eggs. Offering skills that enable local Poultry Basics for Youth MOTHER EARTH NEWS variety of primitive life/survival skills. This food production, they are truly pets with Glenn Drowns – Sand Hill Preservation This workshop provides a hands-on workshop offers a hands-on introduction benefits. Center experience for kids interested in getting to such skills as: soapstone bead-making, Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 Tips on how to raise young poultry, started on the road to becoming gardening fire by friction, and making naturally Book signing Sunday 5:00 – 5:30 specifically geared to methods usable for experts. We’ll discuss preparing seed- pigmented face/body paint. Grown-ups young people. Learn how to properly starting soil mix, all the materials needed welcome, too! Seed-Starting for Kids handle and care for young birds for both to get seeds off to a good start and Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 Jennifer Kongs and Hannah Kincaid – your safety and the birds’. the basics of caring for young plants MOTHER EARTH NEWS Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 before putting them out in the garden. Learn How to Make Soft Cheese A hands-on experience for kids interested Book signing Saturday 11:00 – 11:30 Participants will then assist with the entire Mary Jane Toth – Hoegger Supply in getting started on the road to becoming seed-starting process. (Hands will likely get Learn how to make a wonderful, French- gardening experts. We discuss preparing Making Lotion Family Workshop dirty!) style soft cheese with Mary Jane Toth, seed-starting soil mix, all the materials Amanda Sorell – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 author of A Cheesemaker’s Journey. Toth needed to get seeds off to a good start Kids and adults alike can learn how to has been teaching cheesemaking for more and the basics of caring for young plants make lotion out of just a few natural than 30 years and will show you how easy, before putting them out in the garden. ingredients. Amanda Sorell guides you fun and delicious making cheese at home Participants then assist with the entire through a fun and simple presentation can be. This is the perfect cheese for people seed-starting process. (Hands will likely get of the lotion-making process, and invites new to cheesemaking. dirty!) you to experiment and mix some natural Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 ingredients yourself. Attendees may keep Book signing Sunday 5:00 – 5:30 their own concoctions, or small samples will be handed out to try. Sunday 11:30 – 12:30

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 9 MOTHER EARTH LIVING STAGE Th e Healing Herb Garden: Easy-to-grow Creating Salves and Balms: Home Tea 101 and Beyond! the gray spell of depression, anxiety and native plants for optimal health remedies made simple Paula Winchester – Herb Gathering Inc. / stress. Th ankfully, herbs and an ‘herbal Lori Trojan – Granny Good’s Naturals Lori Trojan – Granny Good’s Naturals Twelve Winds Tea Company way of life’ off er an eff ective solution to Discover the medicinal properties of native Learn to craft natural herbal home Th is workshop begins with the basics: the stresses of everyday living. Th is is a healing herbs that thrive in the prairie remedies for yourself and your family using how tea is made, major diff erences discussion of favorite nervine herbs and land. Learn need-to-know basics about simple ingredients in this demonstration. between tea-producing countries, and the specifi c therapies that are deeply calming growing and using these garden must- Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 six varieties of tea (white, yellow, green, and relaxing. haves. oolong, black and pu-erh). We consider Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 Herbs for Longevity and Well-Being: how to make the perfect cup of tea, the Book signing Sunday 2:00 – 2:30 Experience well-being and celebrate many ways to serve tea (such as Chinese Virtual Medicine Walk every stage of life gaiwan, gong fu style, Moroccan green tea Qigong: Ancient secrets, modern ways Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows Rosemary Gladstar – Storey Publishing with fresh mint, matcha, English style), Judith Boice – Seven Winds Institute Inc. Want access to free, nutrient-dense food Using herbs and simple common sense some health benefi ts, and cooking with tea. “Qi” means vitality and “gong” means skill and medicine? Don’t have a tiller or time practices, you can restore and maintain At this presentation, we include a small or practice, so “qigong” is the practice of to carry water? Get to know the weeds that vitality — whatever your age. We discuss demonstration and tasting group, as well as building health and vitality. Th is ancient are all around us! Nutrition and medicine herbs used around the world that have time for questions. practice of restorative medicine has roots are everywhere, from city to farmland. Join earned a reputation for improving and Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 that span more than 10,000 years. Explore our virtual tour and learn to identify these maintaining energy, vitality and health. the origins of qigong and its eff ect on important, hardy allies. Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 Creating an Allergy- and Toxin-Free chronic disease, and learn a qigong exercise Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 Book signing Sunday 2:00 – 2:30 Home that you can practice at home. Shaylee Oleson – Eco Shaylee LLC Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 Homeopathic Remedies for the Whole Essential Oils for Home Health Care Th is revealing talk covers the “6 Elements” Family Judith Boice – Seven Winds Institute Inc. in your home where you’ll fi nd allergens Herbal Balance Judith Boice – Seven Winds Institute Inc. Essential oils are incredibly potent forms of and toxins lurking. Th ese common culprits Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows Explore the top 15 homeopathic remedies plant medicine. One drop of an essential can cause many health issues, but easy In today’s society it is easy to get our for caring for your family’s fi rst aid and oil is roughly equivalent to 30 cups of tea! solutions exist for ridding them from your hormones out of balance, which can health care needs. Discover the principles Explore 10 essential oils and how to use home! cause issues such as infertility, insomnia, of homeopathic prescribing and practice them safely and eff ectively for common Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 imbalanced cycles, weight gain and individualizing remedy choices. Learn fi rst aid and home health care conditions. menopausal symptoms. Learn about the the basics of how to make homeopathic Learn which oils are appropriate to use Herbs for Depression, Anxiety and natural strategies and herbal allies that are remedies. for children and infants and how to use Stress: Chasing the blues away available to help attain balance. Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 essential oils in a variety of forms. Rosemary Gladstar – Storey Publishing Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 Stress has become a hot topic in our frantic world as more and more people fall under

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10 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com ORGANIC GARDENING STAGE Getting Started in Organic Vegetable The Right Garden Tools Mean Less Work Organic Gardening for Newbies – Intro to Market Gardening Gardening Cheryl Long – Editor-in-Chief, MOTHER Avoiding Beginner Mistakes Lynn Byczynski – Growing for Market Barbara Pleasant – Storey Publishing EARTH NEWS Barbara Pleasant – Storey Publishing magazine Ready to get serious about growing Garden bed prep, weeding and irrigation For new gardeners, the first three seasons Interested in making money from your your own food? Mother Earth News can all be easier if you have the best are especially challenging because there garden? This workshop is designed to help Contributing Editor Barbara Pleasant hand tools and learn how to use them. is so much to learn. Which mistakes are you convert your backyard hobby into a shows you how to plan a successful This session demonstrates several styles you most likely to make, and how can profitable business. Get the inside scoop vegetable garden, your very first year. From of broadforks, hoes and rakes that are you avoid them? Mother Earth News on farmers markets and other places to choosing the best crops to making the guaranteed to make your gardening chores Contributing Editor Barbara Pleasant sell your produce, plus advice on choosing most of limited space, this is a crash course easier. explores the top 10 sources of aggravation crops, setting prices, hiring help, and more. in starting a new organic garden. Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 for organic gardening newbies, and shares Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 proven strategies for success. Book signing Sunday 3:30 – 4:00 Book signing Sunday 11:00 – 11:30 Urban Agriculture: Saving the world one Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 carrot at a time Book signing Sunday 11:00 – 11:30 Extending the Harvest Growing Great Garlic David Tracey – Tree City Ira Wallace – Southern Exposure Seed Ira Wallace – Southern Exposure Seed Cities are the problem when it comes to a Carbon Farming With Biochar Exchange Exchange hot and hungry Earth, so they must also be Albert Bates – New Society Publishers Learn how cool season vegetable gardening Learn about heirloom garlic and perennial the solution. Learning to grow your own Build a gasifying stove and get a rich in the spring and fall can be just as prolific onion varieties from planting to cultivation food at home, in spaces from the kitchen fertilizer for your garden that sequesters as in the heart of growing season. Explore and harvesting at home. Sample these tasty window to the urban farm, can be your carbon from the atmosphere. Learn about growing techniques and suggestions for and hardy perennials raw and roasted. contribution to the great shift to a greener organic no-till, mob grazing, compost teas extending your vegetable gardening season. Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 planet. and keyline management from the author Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 of The Biochar Solution. Bioshelter Design and Management Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00 Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 Darrell Frey – Three Sisters Permaculture Book signing Sunday 2:00 – 2:30 Design / New Society Publishers Introduction to Growing Mushrooms Discover the details of the design and Matt Trammell – Trammell Treasures Permaculture: Design for regeneration management of an ecologically managed Mushroom Farm Darrell Frey – Three Sisters Permaculture solar greenhouse. Darrell Frey draws on Discover the basics of mushroom growing Design / New Society Publishers 25 years of experience growing crops indoors and out. We then discuss the Take a close look at the application of for market year-round in an integrated benefits of mushroom growing, for the permaculture design to several projects, agricultural ecosystem. environment as well as our health. The including Three Sisters Farm, a small-scale Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 workshop concludes with a step-by-step market garden; the redesign of a historic Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 inoculation of a log with plug spawn. urban building in Pittsburgh, Pa.; and a Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 suburban home landscape. Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 11 REAL FOOD STAGE Farmstead Chef: Organic eating on a Ecothrifty Bread teaching cheesemaking for more than 30 Yogurt: Marvels and making dime Deborah Niemann – New Society Publishers years and will show you how easy and fun Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Creamery Lisa Kivirist – Inn Serendipity Farm and Does bread scare you? It doesn’t have to! making feta can be. Th is is the perfect If there ever was a food worthy of the title B&B Bread is not hard to make, and you only introduction for anyone interested in “superfood,” it might just be yogurt. In What’s the key ingredient to eating need three recipes to make almost every making cheese. this class you not only learn how to make healthy, saving money and stewarding the yeast bread imaginable from a simple, Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 several styles of healthy, simple, heritage planet? A return to our nation’s farmstead crusty French bread to pizza to decadent Book signing Sunday 5:00 – 5:30 yogurts, you also learn of the latest research roots of independence, self-suffi ciency cinnamon rolls. Save hundreds of dollars showing yogurt’s health benefi ts, from and frugality. Learn simple, creative tips a year and impress your friends by making Soapmaking 101 boosting the immune system to enhancing for rethinking household food budgets, your own hot, fresh bread! Mary Jane Toth – Hoegger Supply mood. from preserving the homegrown harvest to Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 Not only is soapmaking a fun project for Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 stocking the kitchen pantry. Book signing Saturday 3:30 – 4:00 the whole family, it is also very practical. Book signing Saturday 12:30 – 1:00 Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 Mary Jane Toth shares her tips and tricks Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00 Preserving – Put ‘Em Up! Fruit: Creative for soapmaking and shows you just how Fermentation Basics Ways to Put ‘Em Up!, Tasty Ways to Use fun and easy making your own soap can Jennifer Kongs – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Quick and Simple Cheeses ‘Em Up! be. Th is is an introduction to fermentation, Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Creamery Sherri Brooks Vinton – Storey Publishing Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 with a short demonstration of how to Learn how to quickly turn milk into In this demonstration by Sherri Brooks Book signing Sunday 5:00 – 5:30 make one of the easiest and most basic several types of delicious homemade Vinton, author of Put ‘Em Up! and the of all ferments: sauerkraut. We cover the cheeses. In this workshop, cheesemaker new book, Put ‘Em Up! Fruit, teaches you Fearless Pressure Cooking: Th e new fast basic steps in the fermentation process, the and author Gianaclis Caldwell shows you to make and preserve cranberry jelly, a food pieces of equipment you’ll need, and go how to make several easy cheeses at home, perfect fall recipe that is a holiday staple Jill Nussinow – Th e Veggie Queen over recipe variations that include other even from store-bought milk. and makes a great gift. Th is versatile recipe Do you want great food fast? Are you vegetables and fruits. Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 is both easy for beginners and interesting afraid of using a pressure cooker because Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 Book signing Saturday 12:30 – 1:00 for seasoned canners. Vinton also it might blow up? Fear not: Jill Nussinow, demonstrates how to use your jelly to make the Veggie Queen, has successfully taught Quick Mozzarella How to Cure Your Own Bacon cranberry mayonnaise, which is delicious pressure cooking for more than 15 years. Mary Jane Toth – Hoegger Supply Robin Mather – MOTHER EARTH NEWS on sandwiches! Taste explosions are all you’ll get. Cook the Learn how to make your own delicious Curing your own bacon is so easy, and it Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 pressure cooker way to save energy, money mozzarella cheese with the author of A takes just a few minutes of active time. All Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00 and your health. Cheesemaker’s Journey. Toth has been you need is a pork belly, some curing salts Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 teaching cheesemaking for more than 30 and a little time. Learn How to Make Feta Cheese Book signing Sunday 12:30 – 1:00 years and will show you how easy and Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 Mary Jane Toth – Hoegger Supply fun making mozzarella can be. Th is is the Learn how to make your own delicious perfect introduction to making cheese. feta cheese with Mary Jane Toth, author Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 of A Cheesemaker’s Journey. Toth has been Book signing Sunday 5:00 – 5:30

12 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com RENEWABLE ENERGY STAGE Small Stories, Big Changes DIY Solar Panels: Overview Building the Home of Tomorrow, Today how to size a system, mounting options, Lyle Estill – New Society Publishers Daniel and Don Adams – Earthineer Steve Linton – Deltec Homes fi nancial incentives, and more. Lyle Estill’s journey into the sustainability We all would like to be off the grid, but What will the homes of our grandchildren Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 movement began with biodiesel, and has the costs for solar panels are prohibitive ... be like? Explore the evolution of home Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 led him into adventures in hydroponics, or are they? Follow Dan and Don Adams design and how it can put us back in aquaponics, bio products, vermiculture, through their latest project: building balance with the world around us. Make a MAX 100-MPG Sports Car solar double cropping and more. Come solar panels! Th ey’ll discuss the steps they Discover the key attributes of tomorrow’s Jack McCornack – Kinetic Vehicles hear his tales of community resilience took, the decisions they made, and how practical, sustainable and resilient Learn how to build your own MAX and of how his small Southern town has they trimmed thousands off the price by dwellings. Come away with the tools to (Mother’s Automotive eXperiment) and worked to feed, fuel and fi nance itself. building their own. design tomorrow’s home, today. other high-effi ciency cars and trucks. Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 Focus on streamlining, weight reduction Book signing Saturday 11:00 – 11:30 and “right sizing” the power plant to the DIY Solar Panels: In depth Earth, Straw and Wood: Build a vehicle’s task, whether it’s commuting to Building With Reclaimed Materials Daniel and Don Adams – Earthineer mortgage-free natural cottage work or carrying produce to your local Jessica Kellner – Mother Earth Living We all would like to be off the grid, but Chris McClellan – Natural Building farmers market. Th is workshop will be Mother Earth Living Editor-in-Chief and the costs for solar panels are prohibitive ... Network followed by a Q&A session. Housing Reclaimed author Jessica Kellner or are they? Follow Dan and Don Adams Before the Industrial Revolution our Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 shows you how to think creatively about through their latest project: building ancestors generally lived in small houses building materials for a home or secondary solar panels! Th ey’ll discuss the steps they they built for themselves from local earth, Renewable Agriculture structure. Using examples from across the took, the decisions they made, and how stone, straw and wood, mainly because Rachel Myslivy and Dorothy Barnett – nation, Kellner helps you envision how they trimmed thousands off the price by the materials were cheap or free and didn’t Climate + Energy Project out-of-the-box construction materials building their own. require a great deal of specialized skill. Water + Energy Progress Awards identify can create a unique and beautiful space. Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 With a little guidance almost anyone can and highlight innovations in agriculture Information on how to source reclaimed still build their own home with low-cost that save water, energy and money. Using building materials is also included. Powering Your Homestead With natural and scrounged materials for under examples from Kansas farms and ranches, Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 Renewable Energy $10,000 and opt out of the industrial we discuss how incorporating renewable John Ivanko – Inn Serendipity Farm and building and mortgage rat race. energy sources off ers more fl exibility, Is Small Wind Right for You? B&B Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 provides long-term money savings, Dan Chiras – New Society Publishers Whether you want to go off grid or supply Book signing Sunday 12:30 – 1:00 and multiplies environmental benefi ts. Wind energy is an abundant resource in it with renewable energy and make energy Supporting renewable energy yields many Kansas and can make good economic a positive cash fl ow for your business or Is Solar Electricity Right for You? rewards for individuals, communities and sense, but you need to know what you are homestead, explore your many options to Dan Chiras – New Society Publishers the environment. doing. Dan Chiras helps you answer the power up with renewable energy. Discover Solar electricity works in all climate zones Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 question “Is wind right for you?” and helps wind, solar electric, solar thermal, and and prices have never been lower. In this you learn what you need to know. other aspects of sustainable living. workshop, learn all about solar energy and Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 solar electric systems, including types of Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00 systems, components, types of modules,

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DELTEC GREEN BUILDING HOME TOUR Joe Schlenk, Director of Sales & Marketing, Deltec Homes Saturday, 3 - 5pm VIP Lounge for presentation, followed by tour of a Deltec home in Lawrence, Kansas Limited space for the home tour - pre-registration required Visit us at www.deltechomes.com Booths 130 /134 800.642.2508

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 13 SEED STAGE (Off site location – Saturday only)

Th e Principles of Pigs Managing Your Homegrown Food Th e Renewable Energy Revolution W 6th St Jeannette Beranger – American Livestock Supply Has Begun Breeds Conservancy Barbara Pleasant – Storey Publishing Dan Chiras – New Society Publishers Heritage hogs are one of the fastest Wouldn’t it be great to eat from your Th e renewable energy revolution many growing niche markets for small-scale garden every day of the year? Learn of us have been dreaming about and farmers. Join us and learn about breed proven strategies for growing, eating, working toward has begun. Costs selection and husbandry basics for storing and preserving your harvest have plummeted dramatically, making keeping these remarkable animals on from someone who is doing it: award- solar and other renewable energy your farm, and explore how processing winning garden writer and Mother technologies highly cost-competitive. and marketing will be key to your total Earth News Contributing Editor Th e United States and many other success. Barbara Pleasant. countries are well on their way to a Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 renewable energy economy. W 7th St Book signing Sunday 11:00 – 11:30 Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 Watson Park Ready, Set, Go! Raising Meat Goats Book signing Saturday 2:00 – 2:30 for Benefi t Renewable Agriculture Vermont St. Vermont Kentucky St Kentucky Yvonne Zweede-Tucker – Smoke Ridge Rachel Myslivy and Dorothy Barnett – Virtual Medicine Walk St Tennessee

Raising meat goats can benefi t your Climate + Energy Project Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows St. Massachusetts land, your heart, your health and your Water + Energy Progress Awards Want access to free, nutrient-dense wallet. How to establish goals, be identify and highlight innovations food and medicine? Don’t have a prepared BEFORE the goats arrive, in agriculture that save water, energy tiller, or time to carry water? Get to choosing and purchasing goats that and money. Using examples from know the weeds that are all around Lawrence Aquatic Lawrence See will work for you, and bringing your Kansas farms and ranches, we discuss us! Nutrition and medicine are Center Fire Station No. 1 page 28 goats home to begin the mutually how incorporating renewable energy everywhere, from city to farmland. W 8th St for benefi cial partnership are covered with sources off ers more fl exibility, provides Join our virtual tour and learn to dining humor as well as helpful checklists. long-term money savings, and identify these important, hardy allies. options Sponsored by Premier 1. multiplies environmental benefi ts. Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 Supporting renewable energy yields Book signing Saturday 12:30 – 1:00 many rewards for all. Saturday 2:30 – 3:30

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS Why Standard Beautiful and Nothing Is Herbs for Family Slow Money: Put ’Em Up! The Stage Breed Birds? Abundant Impossible Health Investing as if ways and whys Frank Reese Jr. Bryan Welch Eliot Coleman Rosemary Gladstar food, farms and of home food fertility matter preservation Woody Tasch Sherri Brooks Vinton

American Poultry 101 Talking Turkey, Everybody Duck! Rabbit Is a Heritage Beef Meat Goats Are Livestock Breeds Glenn Drowns Part 1 The basics of Husbandry: Enterprise Right Great Jeannette Beranger raising ducks Keeping it for You? Yvonne Zweede- Conservancy Stage Victoria Miller hopping! Alison Martin Tucker Callene and Eric Rapp GRIT Stage Electric Fencing Beginning Organic Farming Beekeeping Top Bar Hives: Agents of Change Essentials Beekeeping 101 Basics It’s all about the Albert Bates, Bryan Ann Larkin Matt Reed Ann Larkin Northeastern wax! Welch and Lyle Hansen Hansen Kansas Beekeepers’ Christy Hemenway Estill Association

Kids’ Treehouse Bandana Bash Primitive Bead- Learn How to Kids and Chicks Seed-Starting for An Introduction Stage Heidi Hunt Making for Kids! Make Soft Cheese Patricia Foreman Kids to Youth Wade Myslivy Mary Jane Toth Jennifer Kongs and Livestock Hannah Kincaid Showing Ryan Walker

Mother Earth The Healing Herb Virtual Medicine Homeopathic Creating Salves Herbs for Essential Oils for Living Stage Garden Walk Remedies for the and Balms: Home Longevity and Home Health Lori Trojan Dawn Combs Whole Family remedies made Well-Being Care Judith Boice simple Rosemary Gladstar Judith Boice Lori Trojan

Organic Getting Started Growing Great Bioshelter Design The Right Garden Urban Introduction Gardening Stage in Organic Garlic and Management Tools Mean Less Agriculture: to Growing Vegetable Ira Wallace Darrell Frey Work Saving the world Mushrooms Gardening Cheryl Long one carrot at a Matt Trammell Barbara Pleasant time David Tracey Real Food Stage Farmstead Chef: Quick and How to Cure Ecothrifty Bread Preserving – Put Learn How to Organic eating Simple Cheeses Your Own Bacon Deborah Niemann ‘Em Up! Fruit Make Feta Cheese on a dime Gianaclis Caldwell Robin Mather Sherri Brooks Mary Jane Toth Lisa Kivirist Vinton

Renewable Energy Small Stories, Big Building With Is Small Wind DIY Solar Panels: DIY Solar Panels: Powering Your Stage Changes Reclaimed Right for You? Overview In depth Homestead Lyle Estill Materials Dan Chiras Daniel and Don Daniel and Don With Renewable Jessica Kellner Adams Adams Energy John Ivanko

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Utne Reader Stage Turkeys Aren’t Cutting Up Small Farm, Big The GMO Food How to Grow Guerrilla Chickens: The and Deboning Exposure Threat and What Food on Your Gardening basics of keeping Chicken Ryan Walker You Can Do Roof! David Tracey turkeys Rosanna Bauman About It Lauren Mandel Victoria Miller Ken Roseboro

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS STARTS AT 9:30 Improving 12:30–1:00 Live Simply So Wild, Native Foods Don’t Be Scared, Be Stage Live Poultry Animal The World’s That Others and Medicine Strange Processing Demo Welfare: A Easiest Can Simply Kelly Kindscher Joel Salatin Joel Salatin and David practical Cheese Live Schafer approach Cheryl Long Ed Begley Jr. Temple Grandin Presented by Envirolet American Heritage Breeds Raising Goats Reconnecting to the Talking Turkey, Primary Poultry Livestock Breeds Marketing 101 Naturally for Milk, Homestead (with Part 2 Health Care Alison Martin Meat and More Q&A) Jeannette Beranger Patricia Foreman Conservancy Stage Deborah Niemann Amy and Dan Saunders

GRIT Stage See Jane Grow: Living the Dream: Finding Good Compost Your Way Sustainable Living How women are Building a small Farmland to Better Soil Simplified transforming food cheese dairy Ann Larkin Hansen Barbara Pleasant John Ivanko and Lisa Lisa Kivirist Gianaclis Caldwell Kivirist

Kids’ Treehouse Poultry Basics for Making Lotion Build Your Own Grass Head Seed-Starting for Stage Youth Family Workshop Douglas Co. K-State Research and Extension Kids Glenn Drowns Amanda Sorell Jennifer Kongs and Hannah Kincaid

Mother Earth Tea 101 and Beyond! Creating an Allergy- Herbs for Depression, Qigong: Ancient Herbal Balance Living Stage Paula Winchester and Toxin-Free Home Anxiety and Stress: secrets, modern ways Dawn Combs Shaylee Oleson Chasing the blues Judith Boice away Rosemary Gladstar

Organic Organic Gardening Carbon Farming Permaculture: Design Intro to Market Extending the Gardening Stage for Newbies – With Biochar for regeneration Gardening Harvest Avoiding Beginner Albert Bates Darrell Frey Lynn Byczynski Ira Wallace Mistakes Barbara Pleasant

Real Food Stage Soapmaking 101 Fearless Pressure Yogurt: Marvels and Fermentation Basics Quick Mozzarella Mary Jane Toth Cooking: The new making Jennifer Kongs Mary Jane Toth fast food Gianaclis Caldwell Jill Nussinow

Renewable Energy Building the Home Earth, Straw and Is Solar Electricity Make a MAX 100- Renewable Stage of Tomorrow, Today Wood: Build a Right for You? MPG Sports Car Agriculture Steve Linton mortgage-free natural Dan Chiras Jack McCornack Rachel Myslivy and cottage Dorothy Barnett Chris McClellan

Utne Reader Stage Bokashi Composting: Top Bar Hives: It’s all 40 Years of The Farm Ecothrifty Living Conduct a Home One month from about the wax! Albert Bates Deborah Niemann Energy Audit and kitchen to garden Christy Hemenway Basic Energy- Daniel Adams Efficient Retrofits Kale Roberts

MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR 17 OFF-STAGE DEMONSTRATIONS Cloth Diapering 101 Class How to Re-Hydrate and Use Freeze- Castration of Livestock How to Trap Grasshoppers Heather Berry – Teeny Greeny Dried Foods Tom King – Callicrate Banders Jenny Christensen – Farm Naked at Turtle Using cloth diapers saves more than $2000 Arden Czaszewicz – Thrive Life Callicrate Bander – delayed castration for Creek Farm and keeps about 9,000 disposables out of Learn how to re-hydrate foods used every older animals. Callicrate ‘WEE’ Bander – Learn how to catch destructive the landfill, per baby! Find out if it’s right day like celery, onions, and chicken and early castration for younger animals. grasshoppers in your flower or vegetable for your family! prepare chicken salad. Booth 345 garden without the use of bait or harmful Booth 434 Booth 125 Ongoing chemicals using a Hopper Stopper™ Saturday and Sunday 11:00; 2:00; 4:00 Saturday 11:30-12:00; 1:30-2:00; 3:30- grasshopper trap. 4:00; 5:30-6:00 Circulation 101 Booth 225 Cooking in a Big Green Egg/Wood-Fired Sunday 11:30-12:00; 1:30-2:00; 3:30- Jan King – J&K B Green Ongoing Oven 4:00 The Medi-Massager circulates the blood The Fire Place throughout the whole body providing pain Inside the Hive Preparation, start-up, cooking and tasting Packgoats: The thrill of it all relief and healing. It can be used on any Northeastern Kansas Beekeepers’ Association food cooked in a Big Green Egg/wood- Paradise Ranch Packgoats part (except the head). Take a peek inside a beehive. Observe fired oven. Join Paradise Ranch to learn about the Booth 316 workers, drones and try to find the queen! Booth 201 beginning of goat packing and why goats Ongoing Master Beekeepers will answer your Saturday – All day are the best pack animals on this planet. beekeeping questions. Discover what makes a good pack goat and Filter Dirty Water Booth 101 Designing an Urban Farm why. Meet the members of the “All-Wether Jim McConnell – Water With Blessings Ongoing Christine Faith – Right to Thrive Marching Band” (a wether is a neutered Water With Blessings demonstrates a water Things to consider when designing an male goat) and see their equipment, such filtration system that takes contaminated The Mud Pit: DIY earthen (cob) urban farm. Regulations, highest and best as saddles and pannier bags. Also see how water and make it as clean as U.S. bottled building demo use of space, micro-climates, livestock to pack up a pack goat the right way. The water. Requires no plumbing or electricity. Natural Building Network comfort and care, and convenience for the presenters discuss amazing facts about Booth 342 NaturalCottageProject.com and Natural farmer. goats that few people know and answer all Ongoing Building Network demonstrate the use Booth 123 questions. This is a hands-on workshop of local dirt as a low cost, beautiful, Saturday and Sunday 11:00; 3:00 and an experience that you will never Healing With Reflexology durable and fun building material. Come forget! These large, docile, horned “boys” John Thompson – Illumination Arts get muddy with us as we mix clay, sand How Our Wonder Laundry Ball Works will win you over! If you have health challenges or are healing and straw by hand and by foot to sculpt Fern Gunderson – Mystic Wonders Inc. Booth 12 from an injury, John Thompson will beautiful walls. Watch the minerals in a bottle being Saturday and Sunday 1:00 help you learn how to speed your healing Booth 500 agitated to create energy that takes away process through hand and foot reflexology. Ongoing the surface tension of water molecules in Soil – More Than Just Dirt Booth 168 the washing machine. Jim Weaver – Douglas County Conservation Ongoing Re-purposing Furniture Booth 222 District Lauren DeFore – CeCe Caldwell’s Paints Saturday and Sunday 10:00; 2:00 A guided tour over, under, around and How to Garden Anywhere With Turn that piece of old furniture into through a museum-quality representation Compost something new with eco-friendly mineral How to Cook, Clean and Heal With of the many facets of soil. See what Kristin Nix – GardenSoxx paints. Lavender wonders lie beneath the surface. Learn the benefits of gardening in 100% Booths 274 & 276 Mary Hamer – Loess Hills Lavender Farm Booth 298 yard waste compost. Learn how to plant Ongoing Mary Hamer shares her knowledge of Saturday 10:00; 12:00; 2:00; 4:00; 6:00 six tomato plants in a 2-square-foot space lavender’s amazing attributes, and how to Sunday 12:00; 2:00; 4:00 using 100% compost! Solar Panel Build use it in everyday life. It’s not just your Booth 223 Daniel and Don Adams – Earthineer gramma’s perfume. Therapeutic Massager Ongoing To coincide with their DIY Solar Panels Booth 110 Jan King – J&K B Green workshop, Earthineer will conduct a live Saturday 11:00; 2:00 Therapeutic massager that promotes blood How to Make 24-Hour Refrigerator solar panel build during the FAIR. See Sunday 1:30 flow to the feet, calves and body. Aids in Pickles what is required to build your own – from prevention of leg cramps. Assists diabetic Dave Elsner, Susan Elsner and Rick Wolfe – framing, to tabbing, to encapsulation. Try How to Make a Reusable Plastic Wrap neuropathy. Reduces pain. Spring Valley Farm your hand at tabbing solar cells, and ask Alternative Booth 316 Tasting four types of pickling brines for questions from our resident crazy engineer. Dotty Sharp – Smoky Hills Farm, LLC Saturday and Sunday 11:00; 2:00; 4:00 REAL pickled veggies in 24 hours. A While you’re at it, sign up to Earthineer for Learn to make a washable, reusable demonstration of how to make Backyard a chance to win a solar panel kit. replacement for the plastic wrap in your Spinning Yarn on a Spinning Wheel Farmer Pickles in 24 hours, plus a simple Booths 270 & 272 kitchen using cotton fabric and beeswax. Marta Howe – Alpacas of Wildcat Hollow way to add flavor variety to brines. Ongoing Booth 157 Marta Howe will be demonstrating Booth 159 Saturday 10:00; 4:00 spinning yarn from alpaca raw fiber and Ongoing Sunday 1:00 from alpaca rovings. Booth 219 How to Make Stevia Cuttings How to Make Fruit Vinegar Saturday and Sunday even hours Steve Marsden – Herbal Advantage Inc. Dotty Sharp – Smoky Hills Farm, LLC Steve Marsden will demonstrate the Demonstrating the process of turning any Aeroponic Gardening method he uses to make stevia cuttings. He kind of fruit into vinegar. Kit Landkamer – Juice Plus+ / NSA Garden will show the materials used and explain Booth 157 Tower the conditions and timing required to Saturday 2:00 See a working aeroponic gardening system develop a stevia plant ready to go to the Sunday 3:00; 5:00 in operation and learn the concepts behind garden. growing food without soil. Booth 333 How to Make Simple Country Wines, Booth 233 Ongoing Ciders and Meads Ongoing Dotty Sharp – Smoky Hills Farm, LLC Demonstrating the steps to making a Broom Making Demonstrations simple fruit wine or cider. John Holzwart – Brooms by Little John Booth 157 John Holzwart shares the history of broom Saturday 12:00; 6:00 corn and broom making will be shared. Sunday 3:00 Booth 239 Ongoing

18 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com UTNE READER STAGE Turkeys Aren’t Chickens: The basics of The GMO Food Threat and What You Bokashi Composting: One month from author Albert Bates, as he tells the story of keeping turkeys Can Do About It kitchen to garden a special place that now sustains a fourth Victoria Miller – New Society Publishers Ken Roseboro – The Organic & Non-GMO Daniel Adams – Earthineer generation of residents on their mission of Turkeys have quirky personalities and can Report Bokashi composting decreases the amount peace, love and rock ‘n roll. be a lot of fun to raise, but it’s important Genetically modified foods pose threats to of time that it takes to finish compost, and Sunday 1:00 – 2:00 to know some basics before you start. human health and the environment, yet it allows you to compost fish, meat and Book signing Sunday 2:00 – 2:30 Victoria Miller discusses reasons for raising these foods are widespread in the U.S. food dairy products without special precautions turkeys, breed considerations, housing and supply. Ken Roseboro gives an overview of for scavenging or rotting. This workshop Ecothrifty Living nutritional needs, predator concerns, and GM foods and their risks, and he provides covers composting basics and an intro to Deborah Niemann – New Society Publishers more. Plenty of question-and-answer time practical steps you can take to avoid them bokashi. We’ll build a bin and learn how to Make greener, healthier choices while as well. and support non-GMO food production. make the bran. saving money. You’ll be surprised to Saturday 10:00 – 11:00 Saturday 2:30 – 3:30 Sunday 10:00 – 11:00 discover all the artificial chemicals hiding Book signing Saturday 11:00 – 11:30 in your home, food and personal care How to Grow Food on Your Roof! Top Bar Hives: It’s all about the wax! products, but you can easily replace them Cutting Up and Deboning chicken Lauren Mandel – EAT UP, LLC Christy Hemenway – New Society Publishers with natural alternatives that cost far less! Rosanna Bauman – ANCO Poultry Rooftop agriculture is taking root in cities Top bar hives work to support the natural Sunday 2:30 – 3:30 Processing DBF Bauman’s Cedar Valley across North America. This talk explores systems at work inside a beehive. The Book signing Saturday 3:30 – 4:00 Farms the four primary rooftop agricultural building of natural beeswax honeycomb This local chicken processor demonstrates production strategies: container gardening, is the most important of these systems, Conduct a Home Energy Audit and seven ways to piece-out poultry. raised bed production, row farming and integral to the health of these very Basic Energy-Efficient Retrofits Saturday 11:30 – 12:30 hydroponics. Case studies and photographs important bugs! Clean, natural comb Kale Roberts – MOTHER EARTH NEWS will illustrate this burgeoning movement. helps the bees be healthy without adding Learn the basics of conducting a home Small Farm, Big Exposure: Inexpensive Saturday 4:00 – 5:00 toxic pesticides and antibiotics to their energy audit before you contract the work marketing solutions Book signing Saturday 11:00 – 11:30 environment. Learn how to support bees out — track your appliances’ energy use, Ryan Walker – American Livestock Breeds naturally in top bar hives. demo the tools of the trade, and discover Conservancy Guerrilla Gardening Sunday 11:30 – 12:30 “phantom loads.” Then, learn what low- Having a small farm and small budget David Tracey – Tree City Book signing Saturday 5:00 – 5:30 hanging fruit of energy efficiency you can doesn’t mean you’re restricted to a small Learn the art and science of planting apply to your home based on the audit, customer base. Learn how to effectively public space with or without permission. 40 Years of The Farm from caulking to attic insulation. market your animals and products, tell Resistance is fertile! Albert Bates – New Society Publishers Sunday 4:00 – 5:00 your story, and grow your farm fan base Saturday 5:30 – 6:30 In 1971, several hundred hippies founded without wasting time or money – and have Book signing Saturday 6:30 – 7:00 The Farm. In its heyday, the community fun doing it! was home to more than 1,500 members. Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 The Farm remains a vibrant, working environment for change. Why has it lasted so long? Discover the answers with

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