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ENGAGE Tour our plant on Friday, April 11 Deltec Homes RSVP 800.642.2508 Ext 801 deltechomes.com 69 Bingham Rd Asheville Visit our Model Home in Mars Hill, NC Tel 800.642.2508 Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm 828-253-0483

Mother Earth News Fair 3 CONTENTS A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Sponsors and Partners 5-6 Dear Friends, Keynote Speakers 7 Grit Stage 8 One of the best things about our work here at Mother Earth The Livestock Conservancy Stage 9 News is sharing time with our passionate and engaged community. Your energy and imagination lead us on one adventure after Modern Homesteading Stage 10 another. We’re thrilled to have you join us at the Mother Earth Mother Earth Living Stage 11 News Fairs! Organic Gardening Stage 12 Real Food Stage 13 This weekend promises to be inspiring, stimulating and fun. People Renewable Energy Stage 14 all over the world are looking for solutions to the sustainability Seed Stage 15 puzzle these days and the participants in our Mother Earth News Utne Reader Stage 16 Fairs are the sorts of people who help, in myriad ways, to make our existence on this miraculous planet not only ecologically sound but Kids’ Treehouse Stage 17 prosperous and enjoyable. Food at the Fair 18 Map 19 I would like to extend my personal thanks to the many supportive Saturday Stage Schedule 20 organizations that have invested their time and effort into joining us at this event, and the many Sunday Stage Schedule 21 innovative exhibitors who have chosen to participate. Major sponsors this year include Deltec Homes, Off-Stage Demonstrations 22-23 Ford Motor Company, Nature’s Flavors, Purina Animal Nutrition and Yanmar. We are particularly Exhibitors by Name 27-32 grateful to the extraordinary individuals who have agreed to join us as speakers, including headliners Sherri Brooks Vinton, Sandor Katz, Joel Salatin and Stephanie Tourles. They represent some of the most Exhibitors by Booth Number 33 influential and visionary minds in the realm of sustainability and conscientious lifestyles, and we are Marketplace 37-38 honored by their commitment.

I hope you thoroughly enjoy your weekend here with us in North Carolina and can come to our other Workshops 7-17 Mother Earth News Fairs around the country.

Enjoy your weekend! Sincerely,

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Purina Animal Nutrition is a national Yanmar, started in 1912, has from its very beginning organization serving producers, animal owners been dedicated to the small farmer. Their mission has and their families through more than 4,700 local always been to support and make the daily life of the cooperatives, independent dealers and other large rural farmer working in his fields easier.T oday Yanmar retailers throughout the United States. With an is known for several product lines, including diesel uncompromising commitment to animal excellence, engines, but their agricultural equipment is known as Purina Animal Nutrition conducts industry-leading being among the best in the world. Yanmar tractors R&D initiatives that create and sustain a valued harness immense power, with great efficiency, making portfolio of complete feeds, supplements, premixes, the daily routine of working on the land not only ingredients and specialty technologies for the livestock more manageable, but also more enjoyable. and lifestyle animal markets. Species served by Purina www.YanmarTractor.com Animal Nutrition include both large and small Booth #5013, #5014, #5113 & #5114 animals, including cattle, horses, swine, chickens, hamsters, gerbils and rabbits. Headquartered in Shoreview, Minn., Purina Animal Nutrition is a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes. www.PurinaMills.com Booth F-62

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Botanical Interests is a family-owned business Brushy Mountain Bee Farm was established in 1977. Earthineer is a social site for sustainable living: founded in 1995. It offers more than 500 dependable Since the beginning, we have served thousands of gardening, preserving and canning, seasonal cooking, varieties of certified organic, heirloom, non-GMO, beekeepers across the country with the best beekeeping beer and wine making, beekeeping, crafts, keeping untreated and responsibly produced hybrid vegetable, equipment in the industry. As a part of the beekeeping livestock, homesteading, and everything in between. herb and flower seeds. Our goal is to inspire and community, we are committed to manufacturing Whether you’re an accomplished gardener, an educate so you can create beautiful and successful top-quality equipment, providing the best service orchardist, a small-scale farm, a homebrewer, or a gardens. Our packets contain a wealth of information, and support, and are devoted to helping beekeepers beginner looking for advice, Earthineer is meant to inside and out. Seeds are available for purchase at succeed. This is the year to become a beekeeper, and connect you with people who share your interests. independent garden centers, gourmet grocers and Brushy Mountain Bee Farm is the source that will help Features include: wall posts and news feed, messaging, health food stores throughout the United States. you get started! photos, blogs, pinning, search and trading. www.BotanicalInterests.com www.BrushyMountainBeeFarm.com www.Earthineer.com Booth #1200 & #1300 Booth #2902-#2904 Booth #1400 & #1500

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Put ’Em Up! Your Preserving Fermentation: An everyday miracle DIY Solar Panels Questions Answered Sandor Katz – Chelsea Green Publishing Dan and Don Adams – Earthineer Sherri Brooks Vinton – Storey Publishing Fermented foods and beverages We all would like to be off the grid, Can you pickle that? Or can it? are produced and enjoyed in every but the costs for solar panels are Infuse it, dry it, freeze it or ferment part of the world. There is a certain prohibitive ... or are they? Follow it? Join author Sherri Brooks Vinton inevitability to microbial change to Dan and Don Adams through their for a presentation on the many our food, and for millennia people latest project: building solar panels! different ways to preserve your own have harnessed that inevitable force They’ll discuss the steps they took, the food. A great session for experienced in order to make alcohol and to make decisions they made, and how they preservers looking for new ideas as well as anyone who has food more stable for storage, more delicious, and more trimmed thousands off the price by building their own. been thinking about doing a little preserving but doesn’t digestible. This keynote presentation is a broad overview of This presentation has been updated with their current know where to jump in. fermentation and makes the case that this ancient practice projects, including flexible panels and DIY Saturday 10:00-11:00 is more relevant to our lives now than ever before. monitoring solutions. Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 at the Mother Saturday 1:00-2:00 Saturday 4:00-5:00 Earth News Stage & Sunday 3:30-4:00 at the Bookstore Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 at the Mother Earth News Stage Aquaponic Gardening: Growing Successful Management of fish and vegetables together Honeybees in Spring and Summer Herbal Remedies for Pain Relief Sylvia Bernstein – The Aquaponic Kim Flottum – Bee Culture Magazine Stephanie Tourles – Storey Publishing Source and New Society Publishers Your bees have negotiated their Author, herbalist and licensed holistic Aquaponics is a revolutionary first winter and now it’s time to get aesthetician Stephanie Tourles combination of the best of growing. Beekeepers can harness that discusses soothing herbal remedies aquaculture and hydroponics — energy all spring and summer so both that will help ease the pain associated and an amazingly fun and easy way the bees and the beekeeper benefit. with backache, arthritis, headaches to raise fish together with organic Here’s how. and sore, stiff muscles, from her latest vegetables, greens, herbs and fruits. Starting with an Saturday 11:30-12:30 book Hands-On Healing Remedies. overview of this emerging global movement, author Sylvia Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 at the Mother She’ll highlight 15 herbs to promote blessed pain relief, Bernstein will discuss system options and alternatives, Earth News Stage comfort and healing. Learn how these aromatic, topically designing systems and selecting components, the living applied herbal remedies are made and used. Samples will elements (fish, plants, bacteria and worms), and starting be available for everyone to experience. A question and and maintaining a healthy system. Anyone interested answer session will follow, if time allows. in taking the next step toward self-sufficiency will be Saturday 2:30-3:30 fascinated by this entertaining, practical, accessible Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 at the Mother Earth gardening method. News Stage & 6:30-7:00 at the Bookstore Saturday 5:30-6:30 Book signing Saturday 6:30-7:00 at the Mother Earth News Stage

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Live Poultry Processing Demo What It Takes to Be a Beekeeper Heretics Unite David Schafer – Featherman Equipment; Shane Gebauer – Brushy Mountain Joel Salatin – Polyface Farms Joel Salatin – Polyface Farms Bee Farm Mother Earth News Fair visitors are Learn everything you need to know Learn what it means to be a beekeeper part of an integrity living tsunami that about humane chicken slaughtering and how to become one. Before getting threatens Wall Street and governmental from experts David Schafer of started in beekeeping, you need to orthodoxy. That’s a good thing. Featherman Equipment and Joel consider the big picture to decide if Modern American orthodoxy assumes Salatin of Polyface Farms, including it is for you. We will look at the time that the Dow Jones Industrial Average handling, bleeding, scalding, plucking commitment, location needed for a is far more important than dancing and eviscerating. Honor the bird and hive, training and education, and start-up costs. Then, we earthworms. That exports are more valuable than functional hone your stewardship skills in this will get more detailed and discuss the needed equipment aquifers. That food convenience is far more important live, hands-on demonstration. and how to get the bees. By the end of the workshop, you than food knowledge. That health comes from drugs and Sunday 9:30-11:00 will have enough information to get started. personal satisfaction comes from Hollywood entertainment. Book signing Sunday 5:00-5:30 at Sunday 1:00-2:00 Heretics question all of these axiomatic untruths. This the Mother Earth News Stage hard-hitting but humorous performance by farmer, author Beautiful and Abundant: TheM other and entertainer Joel Salatin identifies these outrageous Earth News community and its vision orthodoxies, explains the heresy antidote, and calls for all of Future of Alternative Fuels: Ford for the future us to chart a different path for integrity living. sustainability panel Bryan Welch – Mother Earth News Sunday 4:00-5:00 Stephanie Janczak – Ford Motor Mother Earth News’ positive Book signing Sunday 5:00-5:30 at the Mother Earth Company; Bill Eaker – Land of message brings together a community News Stage Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition; Lyle of working visionaries. In his Estill – Piedmont Biofuels; Richard award-winning book, Beautiful and Freudenberger – BackHome magazine; Abundant: Building the World We Bryan Welch – Ogden Publications Want, Mother Earth News publisher Bryan Welch explores Take part in a progressive panel the power of human visualization and offers an engaging focused on alternative fuels, how they work, and their and practical method for building a collective vision of human and ecological benefits. Featuring topics submitted human sustainability one person – and one endeavor – at by our Facebook community and moderated by Mother a time. Earth News Publisher Bryan Welch, this presentation Sunday 2:30-3:30 brings together notable enthusiasts, authors, managers Book signing Sunday 3:30-4:00 at the Mother Earth and industry experts to explore and enlighten with their News Stage knowledge and experience. Sunday 11:30-12:30 Mother Earth News Fair 7 grit stage Sheep Butchering and the Merits of Making Hay Let Your Honeybees Pay Their Way The Three-Legged Stool of Sustainability Mature Meat Ann Larkin Hansen – Storey Publishing Kim Flottum – Bee Culture Magazine Lee Walker Warren – Organic Growers School Adam Danforth – Storey Publishing Cut, dry, rake, gather and store: We’ll define Over and above the benefits of your garden and The three-legged stool of sustainability— Once upon a time, the meat we consumed was these simple steps, discuss the more complicated orchard pollination, honeybees can pay their Social, Environmental, and Economic. full of flavor, harvested from animals on a farm, details involved in doing each one successfully, way with a bounty of products to use Without all three, any business, any system, and cooked in a continuum of tradition and and cover the various tools and techniques you and sell. any community, any relationship is doomed wisdom. Today we revere meat coming from can choose among to put up hay in a way that’s Saturday 5:30-6:30 to struggle or fail. We’ll look at the basics younger and younger animals, having lost our suited to your farm, your budget and Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 at the of economics, breaking large concepts such connection to a time and place of harvesting, your livestock. Mother Earth News Stage as specialization, economies of scale, and and we have no clue how to maximize the Saturday 1:00-2:00 externalizing costs, down to understandable utility of a carcass. In this workshop, learn Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 Marketing Mindset: Selling yourself and your pieces. And we’ll have a deeper understanding about why prioritizing youth and tenderness products successfully of what we’re up against, how we can get more results in bland meat, why on-farm slaughtering DIY Aquaponics Ryan Walker – The Livestock Conservancy aware, and most importantly, how to balance and humane handling result in the best-quality Dan and Don Adams – Earthineer Marketing is often one of the most overlooked our approach. meat, and how to utilize traditional and modern Aquaponics combines aquaculture, for raising segments of running a small farm. Whether Sunday 1:00-2:00 techniques of food preparation to maximize the fish, and hydroponics, for growing plants. Join you’re just selling from your homestead to results from properly matured meat. Two-hour Earthineer’s Dan and Don Adams in their latest family and friends, or looking to get your Your First Season of Beekeeping: Things workshop with carcass breakdown. DIY project. This presentation will cover the products into the grocery store, this workshop to know Saturday 9:30-11:00 basics, and you’ll learn how you can build your will help you determine marketing strategies Shane Gebauer – Brushy Mountain Bee Farm Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 at own starter system. that will allow you to reap the financial benefits You have decided to become a beekeeper, the Bookstore Saturday 2:30-3:30 your farm can provide. now what? During this workshop we will take Sunday 10:00-11:00 you through the installation of bees into your Whole Hog Butchery for Home Chefs Fats and Flavor: The art of butchering equipment, growing the hive, and what to look Meredith McKissick and Matt Helms – Foothills Adam Danforth – Storey Publishing The Right Tools for the Job: Proper use, care for during inspections. Farm and Butchery Poor fats, they are so misunderstood. The little and selection of hand gardening tools Sunday 2:30-3:30 Join the butchers from Foothills Farm and guys are just trying to do good things like Joel Dufour – Earth Tools Butchery for an informative session on breaking efficiently storing (or delivering) energy and, You want gardening to be as easy and fun as Tapping Maple and Birch Trees Using down a pig. They will discuss technique, upon cooking, provide the vast majority of possible, but with the tools commonly available Natural Sumac Spiles and Taps process, and cooking uses for all parts of flavors that the eater experiences. Unfairly, they to us these days, this is darn near impossible. Alan and Susan Fox – The Mushroom Hut @ Fox the animal. are the vilified component in the meat trifecta Learn how to identify, find, use and maintain Farms and Studio Saturday 11:30-12:30 of protein, collagen and fat. In this workshop high-quality tools that will not only last for Learn how and when to tap trees without we will discuss the three main types of fat, how years, but will also make gardening less work having to buy equipment. Learn how to make they play a role in flavor and shelf life, and how and more enjoyable. Many unique tools will be natural spiles from sumac, recycle jugs and jars to butcher for maximum fat advantage. at the workshop to get your hands on ... This for collecting sap, and get started with simple Saturday 4:00-5:00 isn’t just a slideshow! outside boiling down. Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 at Sunday 11:30-12:30 Sunday 4:00-5:00 the Bookstore

8 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com the livestock conservancy stage presented by Adding a Cow to Your Family Hopping for Fun and Profit With The Return of the Family Milk Cow Pig Pickin’ – An Introduction to Ryan Walker – The Livestock Conservancy Heritage Rabbits Faith Schlabach – Misty Morning Farm Heritage Breeds Learn everything about cows from an expert Alison Martin – The Livestock Conservancy Topics of this workshop will revolve around Jeannette Beranger – The Livestock Conservancy from The Livestock Conservancy. This Rabbits can be easy, versatile and quiet animals the return of the family cow, fed for optimum Heritage pigs are hot with today’s consumers introductory workshop will prepare the small to raise on your small property. Heritage breeds health, rumen development, a long life and and a welcome addition to small-scale farmer or homesteader for a useful bovine offer a chance to set yourself apart from other grazing potential—not the highest production sustainable farms. Learn about the breeds to addition to the family. Topics covered include rabbitries and provide value-added product for possible. Learn how to minimize and avoid choose from and how they compare with each breed selection, purchasing, infrastructure, both home use and sale. Get acquainted with problems such as milk fever, ketosis and other for personality, adaptability, dress out, feeding, breeding, milking, processing and more. breeds and the basics of raising rabbits. mastitis. Learn how easy it is to have your own and more. Mooove over Fido, Bessie’s here to stay! Saturday 2:30-3:30 source of dairy products, meat and fertilizer. No Sunday 2:30-3:30 Saturday 10:00-11:00 Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 at time to milk twice a day? Learn how you can Book signing Sunday 3:30-4:00 at the Bookstore milk once a day or even once a week. the Bookstore Choosing Livestock for Your Homestead Sunday 10:00-11:00 Deborah Niemann – New Society Publishers Wonderful Attributes of Heritage Pig Pickin’ Part 2: The husbandry and We’ll start with an overview of livestock and Duck Breeds Raising Goats Naturally marketing of heritage hogs talk about how to choose the right animals Andrew Frank and Tommy Poole-Frank – Duck Deborah Niemann – New Society Publishers Gra Moore – Carolina Heritage Farms for your homestead and your life, depending Dance Farm Learn to raise dairy goats naturally to produce Now that you have decided on a heritage upon your property, your personality and This workshop will explore the value of heritage your own milk, meat, cheese, soap and more. hog breed for your farm, learn the basics of your goals. breeds of ducks for farmers and families. Some We’ll discuss how to follow nature’s example husbandry, reproduction, processing and Saturday 11:30-12:30 of the best egg-laying breeds of ducks are rare or and let moms raise their own babies to have marketing that will make your endeavor Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 at endangered (and unfamiliar to most folks). We healthier goats that produce more milk and a success. We will discuss innovative feed the Bookstore will compare breeds and provide an overview of meat. Presented by Premier1. resources to improve your bottom line and how duck-rearing practices, including information Sunday 11:30-12:30 direct marketing to consumers can be a win-win Get Started With Family Flocks on feed, yards, housing, predator protection, Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 at for both sides. Patricia Foreman – Gossamer Foundation incubation and other topics. the Bookstore Sunday 4:00-5:00 Many folks feel there is too much effort Saturday 4:00-5:00 involved in keeping chickens, and that the Raw Milk Production – Doing It Right learning curve is too steep. This workshop Pickin’ Chickens – An Introduction to Gianaclis Caldwell – Chelsea Green Publishing simplifies and demystifies family flocks, Heritage Breeds Whether for home use or local sales, raw showing it’s so easy and simple that kids can Jeannette Beranger – The Livestock Conservancy milk can be produced and harvested in a way do it—inexpensively. We will cover chick and There is an amazing array of heritage that makes it as wholesome and nutritious as hen behavior, handling, health care, nutrition, chicken breeds available today, and it can be possible. A growing appreciation and demand and more. By the end, you will know the basics complicated deciding which is most appropriate for whole, unprocessed, living foods makes of successfully raising your own baby chicks for your land, climate and needs. Learn which raw milk a highly desirable product, but its from day one to productive adult chickens. questions to ask before committing to a breed, production must be done right. In this session Co-presented with chicken celebrity Oprah and explore the diversity of chickens to you will learn the basic principles, science and Hen-Free. choose from. practices that make the small-scale dairy Saturday 1:00-2:00 Saturday 5:30-6:30 a success. Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 at Book signing Sunday 3:30-4:00 at Sunday 1:00-2:00 the Bookstore the Bookstore Book signing Sunday 2:00-2:30 at the Bookstore Awaken Life! with Dr. Frank King, Naturopath and Chiropractor

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Mother Earth News Fair 9 modern homesteading stage presented by What the Cluck?! Getting Started on Save the Forest: Manage your woods Bioshelters: Design and management of Making Better Buildings: Your sustainable Gardening With Chickens Ann Larkin Hansen – Storey Publishing solar greenhouses home come true Jessi Bloom - NW Bloom EcoLogical Landscapes Healthy trees, great wildlife habitat, firewood and Darrell Frey – New Society Publishing Chris Magwood – Endeavour Centre Come learn the basics of how to integrate other forest products, and income from timber This workshop presents a detailed study of The dream of building and owning your own chickens into your garden! Jessi Bloom, best- sales are all possible when you understand how several bioshelters, or ecologically managed sustainable home quickly runs into many reality selling author of Free-Range Chicken Gardens, to sustainably manage your woods. We’ll discuss solar greenhouses. These include the original checks. This workshop helps you to set realistic will bust chicken raising myths, talk about projects you can do yourself, and how to work bioshelter, the New Alchemy Ark, Solviva sustainable goals. Using a system that has designing habitat that’s beneficial for cluckers with a forester and a logger when you Bioshelter, and the bioshelter at Three helped many eager homebuilders prioritize and and keepers alike, and will also share her top 10 need them. Sisters Farm. rationalize their goals, this workshop puts you favorite chicken garden plants! Saturday 2:30-3:30 Sunday 10:00-11:00 on the path to better understanding the kind Saturday 10:00-11:00 Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 at of home you want and how to move forward to Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 at the Bookstore achieve your dream sustainable home. the Bookstore Soil Blocks for Vegetable Production Sunday 2:30-3:30 Tom Elmore – Organic Growers School A Bio-Intensive Market Garden Book signing Sunday 3:30-4:00 at Plants With Benefits: An uninhibited guide Soil blocks allow growers at any scale to Jean-Martin Fortier – Les Jardins de la the Bookstore to the aphrodisiac herbs, fruits, flowers and produce quality transplants with minimal Grelinette veggies in your garden investment in containers. Soil block starts Jean-Martin Fortier is the author of a handbook Finding Good Farmland Helen Yoest – Gardening With Confidence®/ St. are easier to transplant and often produce for small-scale organic farming and in this Ann Larkin Hansen – Storey Publishing Lynn’s Press healthier plants. This workshop describes a soil conference, he will share in detail the techniques, Good soil, enough water, farmable terrain, and Are some plants aphrodisiacs, or is that just a mix recipe, getting the moisture right, sowing tools and appropriate technology that make his access to markets and jobs are your primary myth? Garden expert and plant detective Helen techniques, and how to manage soil blocks for market garden productive and profitable. criteria when looking for a farm. Figuring out Yoest takes us on a romp through history, lore great vegetable transplants. Sunday 11:30-12:30 how to get onto the land once you’ve found and ethnobotany to find out how 50 plants Saturday 4:00-5:00 Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 at a good place requires either cash or creativity. got their “hot” reputation – and what modern the Bookstore Ann Larkin Hansen will cover both finding and science has to say about it. Discover which Grow Your Own Woodland Botanicals for obtaining the farm that’s right for you. common garden plants and favorite edibles have Fun or Profit, or Both! 6 Inches of Soil in 6 Months and Sunday 4:00-5:00 that “something extra” and why. Jeanine Davis – New Society Publishers 600,000 Bugs Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 at Saturday 11:30-12:30 If you have even a little bit of shade on your John W. Moody – Some Small Farm/Farm-to- the Bookstore Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 at property, you can grow some of your own forest Consumer Legal Defense Fund the Bookstore medicine. Jeanine Davis will cover the basics Everyone wants great soil, but not everyone about the plants, their conservation status, and has it. So, how can you build great soil while Ecothrifty Living how to grow them. Davis will demonstrate how also capturing waste streams to reincorporate Deborah Niemann – New Society Publishers to propagate some of these plants, so you will into the natural earth cycles (and generate free Make greener, healthier choices while saving gain the confidence to start growing medicinal food for your flocks and other animals)? Some money. You’ll be surprised at all the artificial herbs of your own. Small Farm started four years ago with less than chemicals hiding in your home, food and Saturday 5:30-6:30 1% organic matter soil, on land that had been personal care products, but you can easily replace overgrazed year after year into little more than them with less expensive, natural alternatives! solid clay. 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10 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com mother earth living stage Aromatherapy for Wellness Best Methods to Preserve Your Herbs Adrenal Health: Fertility, menopause, sleep Dissolving Your Sugar Habit Billy Galloway – Natural Options Aromatherapy Jessica Kellner – Mother Earth Living/ and beyond Sharon Greenspan – Wild Success This fun, hands-on class focuses on making Ogden Publications Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows Discover the truth about your sugar or carb aromatherapy simple and easy to use. Learn about the various ways to preserve You may have heard a lot about these once cravings! Learn the secret to gain control Experience and discuss 17 essential oils. We your favorite herbs: drying techniques; herbal little-known glands over the past couple years. (without feeling deprived) and which food will talk about what the oils do and how to vinegars, oils, salts and sugars; freezable recipes; Whether you are male or female, they are very choices increase your energy, health and joy. use them to achieve desired outcomes. You crafts; and more. important in the maintenance of hormonal Hear proven strategies to break your habit and will learn how to use aromatherapy to assist Saturday 2:30-3:30 balance and so much more. Learn how to keep balance your life. issues including sleeplessness, psoriasis, restless Book signing Saturday 3:30-4:00 at them healthy with whole food and whole Sunday 2:30-3:30 leg syndrome, hot flashes, lack of energy or the Bookstore plant strategies. focus, sinus problems, arthritis, fibromyalgia Sunday 10:00-11:00 DIY Herbal First Aid and depression. Come and learn about this Homestead Health Care Linda Conroy – Moonwise Herbs wonderful natural healing modality. Joseph Alton, M.D., and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P. – Make Your Own Laundry Soap, Wet Join herbalist and wilderness first responder Saturday 10:00-11:00 Doom and Bloom or Dry! Linda Conroy for this inspiring presentation. Learn what it takes to be a medical asset to Robin Bedford – Possum Hollow Farm Whether preparing for a backcountry Virtual Medicine Walk your family in remote or austere settings, using Soap, LLC experience or dealing with everyday life, Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows both conventional and alternative methods of Robin and Jim Bedford will teach you how to participants will receive an overview of what Self-sufficiency is at our feet almost every day healing. Joseph and Amy Alton will discuss make your own liquid or powdered laundry to include in an herbal first aid kit. The items if we begin to know the weeds that grow in likely medical issues and how to deal with them soap safely. All-natural ingredients equal discussed will help you feel more confident in abundance. Come on a virtual walk to learn in the absence of modern technology. clean clothes! dealing with basic injuries and ailments. what can be used for general health, what must Saturday 4:00-5:00 Sunday 11:30-12:30 Sunday 4:00-5:00 be maintained for our soil and pollinators, and what is just plain tasty! Herbal Hair Care Now That You’ve Grown Your Own Medicinal Saturday 11:30-12:30 Stephanie Tourles – Storey Publishing Plants, What Do You Do With Them? Come hear author, herbalist and licensed Maureen Burns-Hooker – Herbal Sage Farms & Soap Making in 30 Minutes holistic aesthetician Stephanie Tourles discuss The Herbal Sage Tea Company Robin Bedford – Possum Hollow Farm herbal hair care recipes from her best-selling This class will cover a step-by-step process for Soap, LLC books Organic Body Care Recipes and Hands-On determining optimum times for harvesting We will make a batch of soap in 30 minutes, Healing Remedies. She’ll highlight 15 herbs to herbs, by creating a customized harvesting emphasizing safety and simplicity. We will share promote beautiful, lustrous, healthy hair. Learn schedule. Be it the root, the bark, flowers or our simple technique and give you a recipe to how chemical-free, totally natural hair care seed pods, you will learn the best times to try at home! products are made and used. Samples will be harvest your plants. We will also learn what to Saturday 1:00-2:00 available for everyone to experience. A question do with each herb to preserve its health benefits. and answer session will follow, if Examples of drying herbs, preparing tinctures time allows. or extracts, making salves or medicinal balms, Saturday 5:30-6:30 as well as some unusual ways of storing your Book signing Saturday 6:30-7:00 at the bounty will be discussed. This class will help to Bookstore & 3:30-4:00 at the Mother Earth take away the fear of not using the abundance News Stage that you have grown. Sunday 1:00-2:00

Mother Earth News Fair 11 organic gardening stage presented by Saving Seeds From Your Garden Growing Berries in Your Yard Sprout Happy! Grow Fruits and Nuts at Home Steve Carlson – Seed Savers Exchange Debbie Lienhart – Organic Growers School Sharon Greenspan – Wild Success Debbie Lienhart – Organic Growers School Before seed catalogs, collecting and saving seeds Who doesn’t love fresh berries? Berries are easy Come learn about sprouting and how you can Discover the basics of growing fruits and for the next year’s garden was essential. Today, to grow in Western North Carolina, and they’re grow live, organic food in your kitchen for just nuts in your yard, starting with identifying seed saving plays a critical role in preserving highly nutritious and delicious. Whether you’re pennies! Sharon Greenspan will demonstrate the best planting locations, and planting and rare, heirloom varieties and the garden heritage putting in a whole berry patch, tucking a few several systems and explain the benefits and maintaining for highest production. Learn they represent. Join Seed Savers Exchange to plants into your landscape, or even a pot or pitfalls of each. She’ll also explain where to buy strategies for easing fruit- and nut-bearing discuss the process of saving seed and learn how hanging basket on your porch, identify the best organic, sproutable seeds. plants into an ornamental landscape. If you’re to participate in this backyard preservation. planting locations, selecting types and varieties, Sunday 10:00-11:00 new to growing fruits and nuts, this is the Saturday 10:00-11:00 and plant for a productive yield. workshop for you! Saturday 2:30-3:30 Pollinator-Friendly Gardening Sunday 2:30-3:30 Organic Gardening for Newbies – Avoiding Ruth Gonzalez – Reems Creek Nursery Beginner Mistakes Growing Unusual Fruits & Landscaping Herbs, Plain and Fancy: A talk Barbara Pleasant – Mother Earth News John Holzwart – Moonwise Herbs Bee and butterfly populations are dwindling at and tasting The first three seasons challenge new gardeners Everyone enjoys the sensual pleasure of tasting an alarming rate. Learn about the challenges Ira Wallace – Southern Exposure because there’s so much to learn. Which a new and exotic tropical fruit, but few people our pollinators are facing, easy steps you can Seed Exchange mistakes are you most likely to make, and how realize that they can taste these delicious fruits take to be a pollinator-friendly gardener, and Come and enjoy an assortment of sweet and can you avoid them? Mother Earth News in their own backyard. Join John Holzwart of how to create a season-long smorgasbord of savory herbal delights, then learn how to grow contributing editor Barbara Pleasant, author of Moonwise Herbs as he shares tips for growing beautiful blooming plants that benefit our them in your garden, use them in your kitchen, Starter Vegetable Gardens, will explore the top 10 and preserving unusual fruit. Fruit that we will pollinators and bring you pleasure throughout save their seeds, and increase your pitfalls for organic gardening newbies, and share discuss may include edible dogwoods, aronia, the year. self-sufficiency. proven strategies for success. elderberries, sea buckthorn, autumn olives, Sunday 11:30-12:30 Sunday 4:00-5:00 Saturday 11:30-12:30 pawpaws, figs and many more! Book signing Saturday 5:00-5:30 at Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 at Saturday 4:00-5:00 Crop Rotations for Vegetables and the Bookstore the Bookstore Cover Crops Intro to Seed Saving Pam Dawling – Twin Oaks Community Permaculture: Design for regeneration Matthew Goldfarb and Petra Page-Mann – We will provide design ideas to help maximize Darrell Frey – New Society Publishers Fruition Seeds the chance to grow good cover crops and reduce This presentation will provide an overview of From how we approach global biodiversity pests and disease, and discuss formal rotations Permaculture Design through a study of Three to how we choose our afternoon snack, every as well as ad hoc systems for shoehorning minor Sisters Farm and several other projects. Three decision we make impacts what and how seeds crops into available spaces. The workshop will Sisters Farm is a 5-acre market garden that are planted around the world. Come learn discuss cover crops suitable at various times of strives to promote biodiversity and conserve about the history, significance and techniques year, particularly winter cover crops between energy and resources, caring for the earth while of seed saving. Though much has been lost, vegetable crops in successive years. We will producing farm products. each seed evidences the extraordinary hope that include examples of undersowing and of Saturday 1:00-2:00 exists in every crack in the sidewalk! no-till options. Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 at Saturday 5:30-6:30 Sunday 1:00-2:00 the Bookstore Book signing Saturday 6:30-7:00 at the Bookstore e Evolution of Ice Cream • Dairy Free • Soy Free • Gluten Free • Non-GMO

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12 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com real food stage Flower Essence Jellies Intro to Sausage and Charcuterie for You’ve Got It, So Cook It! Put ’Em Up! Preserving Pears in Alan and Susan Fox – The Mushroom Hut @ Fox Home Chefs Linda Watson – Cook for Good Honey Syrup Farms and Studio Meredith McKissick and Matt Helms – Foothills Squeeze every last drop of flavor and nutrition Sherri Brooks Vinton – Storey Publishing Learn how to turn beautiful flowers into Farm and Butchery out of the food you grow or buy. Learn to make Sherri Brooks Vinton, author of Put ’Em delicious jellies using an infusion of the We will discuss utilization of the pork carcass delicious dishes out of food that many people Up!, Put ’Em Up! Fruit, and The Put ’Em Up! petals (and know the safety issues involved). for sausage and other charcuterie. We will throw away. It’s the best way to afford and Preserving Answer Book will demonstrate how to Some flowers and herbs serve as medicinals; make sausage on site, and cover recipes, ratios, honor local, sustainably grown, and organic preserve pears in honey syrup. She will walk the preserving and serving them up with a bit of seasoning, equipment and more. ingredients. Develop new habits that will audience through the Boiling Water Method, sweetness makes them go down better! These Saturday 2:30-3:30 provide you with “free” meals every month. the basic method for canning pears and other make great gifts. Save hundreds of dollars a year and up your whole fruits, as well as jams, jellies, sauces, Saturday 10:00-11:00 Wildly Affordable Solar Cooking Wherever locavore score by making the best use of your pickles and more. You Go freezer. You can afford to eat like it matters! Sunday 2:30-3:30 Garden-Fresh Drinks Linda Watson – Cook for Good Sunday 10:00-11:00 Book signing Saturday 11:00-11:30 at the Hannah Kincaid – Mother Earth News Use the sun’s energy to cook delicious, organic Mother Earth News Stage and Sunday Nothing beats lemonade on a summer day, meals at home or while traveling. Get started Cheesemaking: Quick and simple cheeses 3:30-4:00 at the Bookstore or a steaming mug of herbal tea in winter. with a homemade solar oven made from little Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm Learn how to transform your garden bounty, more than cardboard and foil. Get faster results You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to make three Farmstead Chef: Organic eating on including fruits, vegetables, leaves and roots, with less sunlight using the latest in portable types of cheese from the same simple process. In a dime into libations for all occasions. solar cookers. See how to cook delectable stews, this workshop, cheesemaker and author Gianaclis Lisa Kivirist – New Society Publishers Saturday 11:30-12:30 roast vegetables, steam quinoa, bake biscuits, Caldwell will show you how to make cheeses at What’s the key ingredient to eating healthy, brew coffee, and more. You’ll save money, home (even from store-bought milk) and how to saving money and stewarding the planet? Yogurt: Marvels and making shrink your carbon footprint, and be just a use them in delicious, nutritious ways. A return to our nation’s farmstead roots of Gianaclis Caldwell – Pholia Farm sunbeam away from a fab meal. Sunday 11:30-12:30 independence, self-sufficiency and frugality. If there ever was a food worthy of the title Saturday 4:00-5:00 Book signing Sunday 2:00-2:30 at Learn simple, creative tips for rethinking “superfood” it might just be yogurt. 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Mother Earth News Fair 13 renewable energy stage Renewable Natural Gas Building the Home of Tomorrow, Today The Greened House Effect: Part one The No-Mortgage Natural Cottage Paul Scheckel – Storey Publishing Steve Linton – Deltec Homes Jeff Wilson – The Greened House Effect, Chelsea Chris McClellan – Natural Cottage Project Make and use your own renewable natural gas What will the homes of our grandchildren be Green Publishing Today’s houses might be bigger and more from farm and kitchen wastes or wood, using a like? Explore the evolution of home design Remodel your home with a deep energy retrofit comfortable, but they’re also often toxic and small biogas digester and simple wood-gas camp and how it can put us back in balance with (DER). Part one of The Greened House Effect expensive. For all sorts of good reasons, basic stove. This workshop introduces the basics of our world. Discover the key attributes of follows the story of the Wilson family’s retrofit DIY shelter is making a comeback. Almost biogas and wood gas, and the fundamentals of tomorrow’s practical, sustainable and resilient of their 70-year-old home to reduce their energy anyone can build their own home with low-cost both anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis. dwellings. Attendees will leave with the tools to bills by 85% while making their home a more natural and scrounged materials for Saturday 10:00-11:00 design tomorrow’s home, today. comfortable and healthier place to live. under $10,000. Book signing Saturday 5:00-5:30 at Saturday 2:30-3:30 Sunday 10:00-11:00 Sunday 1:00-2:00 the Bookstore Book signing Sunday 12:30-1:00 at Book signing Sunday 2:00-2:30 at Renewables and Efficiency: Choices the Bookstore the Bookstore Is Solar Electricity Right for You? and options Dan Chiras – The Evergreen Institute Paul Scheckel – Storey Publishing The Greened House Effect: Part two Powering Your Homestead With Homeowners and business owners alike can Prioritize your energy improvement investments Jeff Wilson – The Greened House Effect, Chelsea Renewable Energy explore solar energy and electric systems, by understanding the energy, environment and Green Publishing John Ivanko – New Society Publishers learning about: how photovoltaic systems economic impacts. Participants will learn the Part two broadens out to the macro perspective, Whether you want to go off-grid or supply work, options, costs, mounting, and how much basics of various renewable energy systems, and to show how powerful deep energy efficiency it with renewable energy and make energy electricity can be produced. why efficiency is always the most practical first can be to solve major problems in our economy, a positive cash flow for your business or Saturday 11:30-12:30 step. We’ll also take a short side trip to Cuba! environment and energy security. Information- homestead, explore your many options to power Book signing Saturday 12:30-1:00 at Saturday 4:00-5:00 packed and entertaining, learn why the up with renewable energy. Explore wind, solar the Bookstore Book signing Saturday 5:00-5:30 at Audubon Society supports wind power, why electric, solar thermal, geothermal, wood heating the Bookstore fracking isn’t as good (or bad) as you think, and and other aspects of sustainable living. Small Stories, Big Changes: Agents of change what Harvard Medical School is doing dabbling Sunday 2:30-3:30 on the frontlines of sustainability Small-Scale Alcohol Fuel in the economics of coal power ... all through Book signing Sunday 3:30-4:00 at Lyle Estill – Piedmont Biofuels; Eric Henry – TS Richard Freudenberger – BackHome Magazine/ the lens of how deep energy retrofits on older the Bookstore Designs; and Bryan Welch – Ogden Publications New Society Publishers homes and buildings beat all three sources of This is a salon-style discussion with the An overview of small-scale alcohol fuel energy as the cheapest, cleanest, safest power on Free Cooling for Life audience. No speeches, no slides, just straight production. 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14 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com seed stage Permaculture and Human Nutrition Downy Mildew Trials – Looking for Growing and Storing Cold-Hardy Irrigation Basics for Production Gardeners Chuck Marsh – Organic Growers School cucumber, melon and squash varieties to Winter Vegetables Stacey Murphy – Ashevillage Institute As food security issues deepen, vegetables resist the new strains of Downy Mildew Pam Dawling – Twin Oaks Community Water is life. Finding ease and predictability are not enough. Explore what foods we need Edmund Frost and Sapphyre Miria – Twin Oaks Get the details on crops, timing, protection with irrigation makes growing so much more to grow to thrive nutritionally in our local Seed Farm/Common Wealth Seed Growers and storage. Why farm in winter? Here’s the pleasurable! Learn how to take advantage foodsheds, and how permaculturally In the past 10 years Downy Mildew (DM) information to succeed: tables of cold-hardiness, of rainwater, easy plumbing basics, three informed food growing strategies can support has emerged as the No. 1 problem affecting details of four ranges of cold-hardy crops (fall basic rules of thumb to figure out how much the growth of a complete local and regional cucumber, melon and squash crops in the crops to harvest before serious cold, crops to irrigation you need, when each type of crop food supply. Southeast, mid-Atlantic and parts of the keep growing into winter, crops for all-winter likes to take its biggest drink of water and what Saturday 10:00-11:00 Northeast and Midwest.In this workshop, harvests, overwintering crops for spring harvests), level of irrigation investment is worth it for Edmund Frost and Sapphyre Miria will review scheduling, weather prediction and protection, your growing space. Tomato Grafting for Plant Vigor the basics of the Downy Mildew problem and hoophouse growing, and vegetable storage. Sunday 1:00-2:00 Tom Elmore – Organic Growers School disease cycle. They will look at the results of Saturday 5:30-6:30 Seed catalogs are starting to offer dozens of Twin Oaks Seed Farm’s trials. Hear about their Book signing Saturday 6:30-7:00 at You Can Grow Your Own Hops rootstocks that impart soil disease resistance ongoing efforts to find DM-resistant seed strains the Bookstore Jeanine Davis – New Society Publishers and improved plant vigor to tomato plants. and to breed new DM-resistant varieties. Most of the hops grown in the United States are This workshop will describe the surgical process Saturday 2:30-3:30 Advanced Seed Saving and Vegetable grown in the Pacific Northwest, but contrary to for placing your favorite tomato scion on one Breeding for the Home Gardener popular belief, we can grow them on the East of these emerging rootstocks, a home-scale Growing Great Garlic and and Farmer Coast, too. Learn how to grow hops on a small- “recovery room,” as well as how to decide Perennial Onions Matthew Goldfarb and Petra Page-Mann scale in your backyard for home brewing or on whether the benefits are worth it. Ira Wallace – Southern Exposure – Fruition Seeds a larger scale to supply local craft breweries. Saturday 11:30-12:30 Seed Exchange Learn about how you can start breeding your Sunday 2:30-3:30 Learn about heirloom garlic and perennial own vegetables and saving those hard-to-figure- Heirlooms, Hybrids or GMOs? onion varieties, from planting to cultivation and out biennials. We will teach the same methods Compost Your Way to Better Soil Cheryl Long, Barbara Pleasant and Thaddeus harvesting at home. This workshop covers soil humans have been using for 14,000 years to Barbara Pleasant – Mother Earth News Christian – Mother Earth News preparation, weed control, disease prevention, create the wondrous array of food we have Home composting expert Barbara Pleasant Join Mother Earth News Editors Cheryl harvesting, curing, and storage requirements today. If you have a working knowledge of seed shares dozens of practical composting Long, Barbara Pleasant and Thaddeus Christian for adding these culinary essentials to saving, you will get the most out of this class, techniques for turning kitchen and garden as they explain the pros and cons of hybrid, your garden. but all are welcome to be inspired. waste into an essential soil amendment for any genetically modified, open-pollinated and Saturday 4:00-5:00 Sunday 10:00-11:00 type of garden. 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Mother Earth News Fair 15 utne reader stage Pond Management Dynamics Farming Cooperatively: The benefits Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods Grow a Sustainable Diet Kenneth Rust – Kasco Marine and challenges Dan Chiras – The Evergreen Institute Cindy Conner – New Society Publishers Ponds and small lakes are a dynamic web of Lee Warren – School of Integrated Living To build a sustainable society, we need much Cindy Conner combines her experience with ecology. Pond management choices will affect Is it possible to combine the seemingly more self-sufficient urban and suburban GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini- other parts of the pond’s ecology and behavior. opposite intelligences of math, mechanics and neighborhoods. See how you can transform farming with what she’s learned through study This presentation will touch on the major naturalism needed for farming as well as the your neighborhood into a model of and practice in organic gardening, soil building components of managing ponds: aquatic plants, communication and interpersonal skills needed sustainability that practices conservation and and nutrition since her first garden in 1974. erosion, stocking, algae and raising for effective cooperation? Learn about the recycling, utilizes renewable energy, composts Learn how she has put it all together in a way healthy fish. multiple intelligences needed for both farming its waste, grows its own fruits and vegetables, that works for her and get valuable tips for Saturday 10:00-11:00 and cooperation and the pros and cons of and feels like a tightly knit community. growing your own sustainable diet. farming in a cooperative setting. 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In the second, he examines Saturday 4:00-5:00 Janell Kapoor – Ashevillage Institute and This workshop will demonstrate how to cook the building blocks of community and Book signing Saturday 5:00-5:30 at Kleiwerks International food and make biochar at the same time, using sustainability. In this workshop, he’ll cover both the Bookstore This dynamic presentation spotlights earthen a small Champion top-lit updraft (TLUD) in an inspiring presentation. buildings from around the globe (and the gasifier. Learn about biochar and gasifiers while Saturday 1:00-2:00 communities that built them). Natural building watching biochar being created as a large pot of Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 at provides a path to happy, debt-free living in food is steamed. the Bookstore harmony with community and nature. Hear Sunday 4:00-5:00 step-by-step suggestions to make it happen where you live. Sunday 11:30-12:30 The local food movement is thriving in Asheville!

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n Dine at Appalachian Grown restaurants n Buy Appalachian Grown at farmers markets n Shop for Appalachian Grown at groceries n Visit Appalachian Grown u-pick farms n Find Appalachian Grown roadside stands

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16 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com kids’ treehouse stage Kids Can Save Seeds Too! Ethnobotany for Kids Backpacking and Scouting: An effective Ducks and Puppets Petra Page-Mann – Fruition Seeds Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows method for keeping nature in our kids’ lives Andrew Frank and Tommy Poole-Frank – Duck Come make a mess and learn how to save Are you curious about the weeds on the Daniel Rogers – Daniel Boone Council, Boy Dance Farm seeds in your own garden! This is a hands-on, playground? When you go to the park do you Scouts of America This fun presentation for children covers participatory class. We will discover simple ways look for the plants hidden under the trees The nature deficit disorder theory asserts that domestic heritage duck breeds, including rare to grow, clean and save seeds from tomatoes, before the swings and slides? There is food, today’s youth are spending less time outdoors, and endangered ducks. Come see puppets and zucchini, sunflowers and beans. You will get medicine, clothing and beauty growing all resulting in a wide range of behavioral ducklings! Father-and-son team Andrew Frank to take seed home with you to plant for next around us. How do we look for it? Bring an problems. The Boy Scouts have long been a and Tommy Poole-Frank will share digital season. adult along as we learn basic skills for safely and leader in teaching young people about the images of various breeds of ducks, as well as Saturday 10:00-11:00 sustainably exploring and studying our plant outdoors. Dan Rogers will present a slide show scenes from their farm (including ponds and friends. covering 11,000 miles of backpacking and wetland areas). Families That Cook and EAT Together, Stay Saturday 2:30-3:30 discuss lightweight backpacking techniques as Sunday 1:00-2:00 Together! well as Scouting in Western North Carolina. Karen Leonetti – Yummy Tummy Rainbow Kids and Chicks With Oprah Hen-Free Saturday 5:30-6:30 Kids Can Milk Too Garden Patricia Foreman – Gossamer Foundation Faith Schlabach – Misty Morning Farm Fresh Food Family Fun Table Time! Come This hens-on workshop shows kids (and adults) Building With Mud Learn about cows and how on earth they can DIG in to live demonstrations of easy ways how to responsibly, and safely, handle a chicken. Chris McClellan – Natural Cottage Project turn green grass into wonderful white milk. to create healthy FUN foods together. Join Learn tips, tricks and traps about how to keep Come get muddy with Mother in this hands- Learn how to make butter, learn about the Karen Leonetti as she shares creative, proven interacting with chickens ... a fun experience on, interactive demonstration. See why more process of turning yummy liquid milk into techniques and gadgets to involve the whole that can last a lifetime. We will cover how than half of the houses in the world are built curds and then into heavenly cheese. Learn family. Think outside the box for memorable chickens offer more than just eggs; they also from local clay soil. Get your hands (and feet) savvy cow facts to impress your friends, put meal spots in and around your home. The have skills, acting as pesticiders, kitchen waste into the mix in our kid-friendly clay pit or try your name into an antique butter churn for kitchen is the heart of the home, where lifelong recyclers and compost creators. Understand sculpting your own miniature earthen house a chance at a few fun door prizes. Meet Patty memories are made. Leonetti loves bringing why chickens are truly pets with benefits. A at our play table. Regional natural building Cake and her baby, who are among some of the families back together “one bite at a time.” question-and-answer session to follow. experts will be on hand to answer questions. smallest Miniature Jersey Cows in the U.S. Saturday 11:30-12:30 Saturday 4:00-5:00 Sunday 10:00-11:00 Sunday 2:30-3:30 Book signing Saturday 2:00-2:30 at Book signing Sunday 2:00-2:30 Seed Starting for Kids the Bookstore Animal Neighbors Hannah Kincaid – Mother Earth News Wild Edibles of Western North Carolina Lindsay Green – Muddy Sneakers This workshop provides a hands-on experience Marc Williams – Plants and Healers International Wildlife is everywhere! We share our terrestrial for kids interested in becoming gardening We will focus wild foraged foods including ecosystem with lots of different critters. experts. We’ll discuss preparing seed starting some of the most common and easily identified Participants will learn about a few species of soil mix, all the materials needed to get seeds edible plants that occur in Western North wildlife and play a game that will illustrate off to a good start and the basics of caring for Carolina. We will look at the plants in the flesh the effects of various limiting factors on their young plants before putting them out in the and also taste a tea made from plants that are population. garden. Participants will then assist with the featured. Come learn more about the abundant Sunday 4:00-5:00 entire seed starting process. (Hands will likely botanical resources surrounding us. get dirty!) Sunday 11:30-12:30 Saturday 1:00-2:00

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Mother Earth News Fair 17 Food 1 Choo Choo Express Serving breakfast and lunch. Try our BBQ Pulled at the Pork Sandwich smoked with hickory wood, slow cooked and basted with our special Eastern-style sauce. Inside the Davis Event Center. Cash only.

2 Hanna Vista Organic Farm Fresh and hot Liege Belgian Waffles and baked treats along with gluten-free cocoas and mixes.

FairSee map on page 19 for locations. 3 The Hit-N-Miss Ice Cream Company All-natural, hormone-free and wheat-free ice cream.

4 Farm to Fender Farm to Fender specializes in serving a locally produced, sustainable cuisine with minimal impact on our planet.

5 Gypsy Queen Cuisine Lebanese cuisine, vegan options, hummus, falafel, tabbouleh, yum-yum wraps and lots more.

6 The Bom Bus Portuguese-inspired food.

7 The Hop Ice Cream Premium-quality homemade ice cream in Asheville, N.C., since 1978. From- scratch vegan and gluten-free options made with local ingredients will be available.

8 The Velvet Cup Serving Fair Trade, organic espresso, 100% fruit smoothies and locally baked wholesome munchies.

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Mother Earth Put ’Em Up! Successful Fermentation: An Herbal Remedies DIY Solar Panels Aquaponic Your Preserving Management of everyday miracle for Pain Relief Gardening: News Stage Dan and Don Honeybees in Spring Growing fish and Presented by Nature’s Flavors Questions Sandor Katz Stephanie Tourles Adams Answered and Summer vegetables together Page 7 Sherri Brooks Vinton Kim Flottum Sylvia Bernstein

GRIT Stage STARTS AT 9:30 Whole Hog Making Hay DIY Aquaponics Fats and Flavor: Let Your Page 8 Sheep Butchering Butchery for Home Ann Larkin Hansen Dan and Don The art of Honeybees Pay and the Merits of Chefs Adams butchering Their Way Mature Meat Meredith McKissick Adam Danforth Kim Flottum Adam Danforth and Matt Helms

The Livestock Adding a Cow to Choosing Get Started With Hopping for Fun Wonderful Attributes Pickin’ Chickens – Conservancy Your Family Livestock for Your Family Flocks and Profit With of Heritage Duck An Introduction to Ryan Walker Homestead Patricia Foreman Heritage Rabbits Breeds Andrew Frank Heritage Breeds Stage Deborah Niemann Alison Martin and Tommy Poole- Jeannette Beranger Presented by Purina Frank Page 9 Modern What the Cluck?! Plants With Ecothrifty Living Save the Forest: Soil Blocks Grow Your Homesteading Getting Started on Benefits Deborah Niemann Manage your for Vegetable Own Woodland Gardening With woods Production Botanicals for Fun Stage Presented by Helen Yoest Chickens or Profit, or Both! Brushy Mountain Bee Ann Larkin Hansen Tom Elmore Jessi Bloom Jeanine Davis Farm Page 10 Mother Earth Aromatherapy for Virtual Medicine Soap Making in Best Methods Homestead Herbal Hair Care Living Stage Wellness Walk 30 Minutes to Preserve Your Health Care Stephanie Tourles Page 11 Billy Galloway Dawn Combs Robin Bedford Herbs Joseph Alton, Jessica Kellner M.D., and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P.

Organic Saving Seeds From Organic Gardening Permaculture: Growing Berries Growing Unusual Intro to Seed Gardening Stage Your Garden for Newbies – Design for in Your Yard Fruits Saving Presented by Yanmar Steve Carlson Avoiding Beginner regeneration Debbie Lienhart John Holzwart Matthew Goldfarb Page 12 Mistakes Darrell Frey and Petra Page- Barbara Pleasant Mann

Real Food Stage Flower Essence Garden-Fresh Yogurt: Marvels Intro to Sausage Wildly Affordable Make Mead Like a Jellies Drinks and making and Charcuterie Solar Cooking Viking! Page 13 Alan and Susan Fox Hannah Kincaid Gianaclis Caldwell for Home Chefs Wherever You Go Jereme Zimmerman Meredith McKissick Linda Watson and Matt Helms

Renewable Renewable Natural Is Solar Electricity Small Stories, Big Building the Renewables and Small-Scale Gas Right for You? Changes Home of Efficiency: Alcohol Fuel Energy Stage Paul Scheckel Dan Chiras Lyle Estill, Eric Henry Tomorrow, Today Choices and Richard Page 14 and Bryan Welch Steve Linton options Freudenberger Paul Scheckel

Seed Stage Permaculture and Tomato Grafting Heirlooms, Hybrids Downy Mildew Growing Great Growing and Page 15 Human Nutrition for Plant Vigor or GMOs? Cheryl Trials - Looking for Garlic and Storing Cold- Chuck Marsh Tom Elmore Long, Barbara varieties to resist the Perennial Onions Hardy Winter Pleasant and new strains of Downy Ira Wallace Vegetables Thaddeus Christian Mildew Edmund Frost Pam Dawling and Sapphyre Miria Utne Reader Pond Management Sustainable Living Creating a Farming Financing Our Creating Stage Dynamics Simplified Permaculture Cooperatively: Foodshed Sustainable Page 16 Kenneth Rust John Ivanko Ecovillage The benefits and Carol Peppe Hewitt Neighborhoods Douglas Stevenson challenges Dan Chiras Lee Walker Warren

Kids’ Treehouse Kids Can Save Families That Cook Seed Starting for Ethnobotany for Kids and Chicks Backpacking and Seeds Too! and EAT Together, Kids Kids With Oprah Hen- Scouting Stage Petra Page-Mann Stay Together! Hannah Kincaid Dawn Combs Free Daniel Rogers Page 17 Karen Leonetti Patricia Foreman

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS STARTS AT 9:30 Future of Alternative What It Takes to Be Beautiful and Heretics Unite Stage Live Poultry Fuels Stephanie Janczak, a Beekeeper Abundant Joel Salatin Bill Eaker, Lyle Estill, Presented by Nature’s Flavors Processing Demo Shane Gebauer Bryan Welch Richard Freudenberger Page 7 David Schafer and Joel Salatin and Bryan Welch

GRIT Stage Marketing Mindset: The Right Tools for The Three- Your First Season of Tapping Maple and Page 8 Selling yourself the Job Legged Stool of Beekeeping: Things Birch Trees Using and your products Joel Dufour Sustainability to know Natural Sumac successfully Lee Walker Warren Shane Gebauer Spiles and Taps Ryan Walker Alan and Susan Fox

The Livestock The Return of the Raising Goats Raw Milk Pig Pickin’ – An Pig Pickin’ Part Conservancy Stage Family Milk Cow Naturally Production – Doing Introduction to 2: The husbandry Faith Schlabach Deborah Niemann It Right Heritage Breeds and marketing of Presented by Purina Gianaclis Caldwell Jeannette Beranger heritage hogs Page 9 Gra Moore

Modern Bioshelters: Design A Bio-Intensive 6 Inches of Soil Making Better Finding Good Homesteading and management of Market Garden in 6 Months and Buildings: Your Farmland solar greenhouses Jean-Martin Fortier 600,000 Bugs sustainable home Ann Larkin Hansen Stage Presented by Brushy Darrell Frey John W. Moody come true Mountain Bee Farm Chris Magwood Page 10 Mother Earth Adrenal Health: Make Your Own Now That You’ve Grown Dissolving Your DIY Herbal First Living Stage Fertility, Laundry Soap, Wet Your Own Medicinal Sugar Habit Aid Page 11 menopause, sleep or Dry! Plants, What Do Sharon Greenspan Linda Conroy and beyond Robin Bedford You Do With Them? Dawn Combs Maureen Burns-Hooker

Organic Sprout Happy! Pollinator-Friendly Crop Rotations Grow Fruits and Herbs, Plain and Gardening Stage Sharon Greenspan Gardening for Vegetables and Nuts at Home Fancy: A talk and Presented by Yanmar Ruth Gonzalez Cover Crops Debbie Lienhart tasting Page 12 Pam Dawling Ira Wallace

Real Food Stage You’ve Got It, So Cheesemaking: Vegetable Put ’Em Up! Farmstead Chef: Cook It! Quick and simple Fermentation Preserving Pears in Organic eating on a Page 13 Linda Watson cheeses Workshop Honey Syrup dime Gianaclis Caldwell Sandor Katz Sherri Brooks Vinton Lisa Kivirist

Renewable Energy The Greened House The Greened House The No-Mortgage Powering Your Free Cooling for Effect: Part one Effect: Part two Natural Cottage Homestead With Life Stage Jeff Wilson Jeff Wilson Chris McClellan Renewable Energy Dan Chiras Page 14 John Ivanko

Seed Stage Advanced Seed Saving Growing and Saving Irrigation Basics You Can Grow Your Compost Your Way Page 15 and Vegetable Breeding Heirloom Seeds for Production Own Hops to Better Soil for the Home Gardener Jere Gettle Gardeners Jeanine Davis Barbara Pleasant and Farmer Matthew Stacey Murphy Goldfarb and Petra Page- Mann Utne Reader Stage See Jane Grow: Using dirt to build Grow a Sustainable Backyard Biodiesel Biochar-Making Page 16 How women are communities – Diet Lyle Estill Cookstove transforming food Awesome earthen Cindy Conner Chris Farmer Lisa Kivirist buildings worldwide – How to do it yourself Janell Kapoor

Kids’ Treehouse Building With Mud Wild Edibles of Ducks and Puppets Kids Can Milk Too Animal Neighbors Chris McClellan Western North Andrew Frank and Faith Schlabach Lindsay Green Stage Carolina Tommy Poole-Frank Page 17 Marc Williams

Mother Earth News Fair 21 off-stage demonstrations ANIMAL HUSBANDRY MODERN HOMESTEADING Spinning Cotton on the Gandhi Coconuts About Natural Health and Wheel – #1310 Beauty – #1702 From Sheep to Yarn – F-6 and F-7 Blacksmithing – #6024 Eileen Hallman – New World Textiles Quancidine Hinson-Gribble Elizabeth Strub – Hobbyknob Farm Paul Garrett – John C. Campbell Gandhi called for the development Demonstrations will be done on one hand Hobbyknob Farm will spin cleaned wool Folk School of a portable spinning wheel to help to show the healing power of coconut oil. from her sheep using a modern spinning Paul Garrett, a resident artist at the John India peacefully gain independence. Ongoing wheel. She also will have her carder, so C. Campbell Folk School, will be on hand Eileen Hallman will demonstrate visitors can see one of the ways a cleaned to demonstrate various blacksmithing spinning organic cotton on a book-sized Isha Kriya Guided Meditation – #1002 fleece is prepared for the spinning process. skills and processes. Using a small forge charkha. Alison Murry – Isha Institute of Ongoing and anvil, he will show how many items Ongoing Inner-Sciences are forged from raw materials using the Learn a simple, but powerful kriya practice Goat Hoof Trimming Demo – F-12 ancient techniques that are still in use Spinning and Dyeing – #6024 that aligns your mind, body and inner Siegfried Forster – Sunrise Farm today and taught at the Folk School’s Martha Owen – John C. Campbell energies to easily and naturally become Sunrise Farm will demonstrate how to trim blacksmithing program. There will be Folk School meditative. Once meditative, your goat hooves. Regular trimming of your a wide variety of hand-forged items for See all the steps necessary to make a experience of the life within you and the goat’s hooves is required to keep them in viewing and handling, and for sale. garment from the animal to individual world around you becomes much deeper sound condition for a long, healthy and Ongoing colorful thread to original garments. and richer. Daily life becomes effortless productive life. Information on milking Watch a dye pot demo using natural dye and joyful. goats as well as general goat care will also Broom Making – #6024 materials, spinning from the back of a Ongoing be available. Marlow Gate – John C. Campbell rabbit, carding fibers and spinning sheep’s Both days 11:00, 3:00 and 6:00 Folk School wool on a spinning wheel. Making an Herbal Infusion – #2201 Using traditional Shaker and Appalachian Ongoing Red Moon Herbs staff Horse Logging and Tiny Cabin methods, natural wood handles Unlock this simple source of vitamins and Construction – #6505, F-40 and and broomcorn, Marlow Gates will Traditional Broom Making minerals for the body by learning how to South Arena demonstrate the skills needed to make your Demonstration – #5033 & #5034 make your own herbal infusions. So much Ian Snider – Mountain Works own brooms. This simple style of broom Little John Holzwart – Lil John’s Brooms better than a 15-minute steep! Sustainable Development making, currently being taught at the John Broom making is a traditional art. Ongoing Mountain Works Sustainable C. Campbell Folk School, requires no During these demonstrations Little John Development will host sessions regarding special tools or equipment yet yields one- Holzwart will delight you with broom- Making an Herbal Salve – #2201 draft animal power, sustainable forestry, of-a-kind works of functional art. making techniques and stories about the Red Moon Herbs staff and handcrafted Tiny Cabins. Showcasing Ongoing broomcorn plant. Learn how to make an herbal salve from the rare Suffolk Punch draft horse, these Ongoing fresh plants growing in your yard! field demos will be a highlight for horse Carving Spoons – #2616 Ongoing lovers, homesteaders, woodworkers, Amy Umbel – Fiddlehead Woodworking Weaving – #6024 forestland owners, and anyone interested This ongoing demonstration of spoon- Pam Howard – John C. Campbell NATURE AND COMMUNITY in small-scale living in the Southeast. carving basics shows the process from Folk School Morning and afternoon field sessions roughed-out spoon blank to finishing cuts. The John C. Campbell Folk School’s Migration of the Ruby-Throated on Saturday Ongoing resident in weaving, Pam Howard Hummingbird – #1805 Morning field session on Sunday and will demonstrate weaving textiles on a Montessori Cooperative School Sunday evening Teamster’s Roundtable Chair Making – #6024 loom. Learn the ancient craft of making Come and join this demonstration of with audience participation in Davis Lyle Wheeler – John C. Campbell Folk functional and beautiful textiles such as the life and habits of the ruby-throated Lecture Hall School rugs, scarves, coverlets, and weaving cloth hummingbird, which reaches its migratory Woodworker Lyle Wheeler will used for items such as clothing, dish towels passage through Western North Carolina GREEN BUILDING demonstrate ladderback chair making and curtains. beginning April 12. techniques: shaping red oak wood on Ongoing Ongoing Building your Hemp House – #6028 a shaving horse with drawknife and Karen Vizzina - True Nature Country Fair spokeshave and assembly with a brace-and- Wheel Throwing and Hand-Building ORGANIC GARDENING Industrial hemp is one of the most bit and mortise chisel. Rectangular Bowls – #5138 renewable building materials on Earth, is Ongoing Alan Stegall, Nancy Stegall and Crew – All About Herbs – #7010-#7015 very durable and has excellent insulation Stegall’s Stoneware Pottery Ira Wallace, Alan Salmon and Jeanine qualities. We will be mixing up a batch Foot-Powered Mechanized Grain Stegall’s Stoneware Pottery will Davis – Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and demonstrating the installation process. Threshing for Small-Scale demonstrate wheel throwing next to their Wildwood Herbal, and the NC State Come by and get your hands in Growers – #1402 booth, #5138. Also, rectangular bowls will University Alternative Crops and some hemp! Sharon Howard – Sylvan Foot-Powered be made using hand-building techniques. Organics Program Ongoing Wheat Threshers Ongoing Stop by throughout the day and learn how Come see a live demonstration of human- to save your own herb and flower seeds, DIY LED Grow Lights – #1400 & powered wheat threshing using a foot- Wood-fired Cooking – 6024 grow culinary herbs, use fresh herbs in #1500 powered grain thresher. Attendees will also John C. Campbell Folk School – everyday meals, and propagate bloodroot Don Adams – Earthineer have the opportunity to actually operate a Nanette Davidson and black cohosh for your woodland To coincide with their DIY Aquaponics foot-powered thresher themselves. Discover the art of cooking with fire. See garden. workshop, Earthineer will be displaying Ongoing a simply constructed outdoor wood-fired Ongoing their LED grow lights. Learn how to build brick oven in use, and sample freshly your own for pennies on the dollar! Goat Milking Demo – F-12 baked biscuits topped with butter and Black Soldier Fly: Grubs 101 – #5126 Ongoing Siegfried Forster – Sunrise Farm homemade jams. Karl Warkomski – Prota Culture Sunrise Farm will demonstrate how to Ongoing Black soldier flies are a nutritious, live feed DIY Solar Panels – #1400 & #1500 hand-milk a dairy goat. Information on that can be produced sustainably on your Don Adams – Earthineer machine milking and general goat care will NATURAL HEALTH property, lessening your dependency on To coincide with their DIY Solar Panels also be available. store-bought foods for your animals. Learn workshop, Earthineer will run an off-stage Both days at 10:00, 2:00 and 5:00 Applying Hair and Scalp how to attract, raise, harvest and store demonstration. See what is required Preparations – #2005 black soldier flies. to build your own ... from framing to Jeannie Wrightson – Green Hare Mud Saturday and Sunday 10:00 tabbing to encapsulation. Try your hand at Learn about proper hair partings for even tabbing solar cells, and have your questions application of hair and scalp preparations. answered by Earthineer’s resident Ongoing crazy engineer. Ongoing

22 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com off-stage demonstrations Companion Planting From Seed – Using Fresh Herbs in Everyday Meals – Top 10 Wild Edibles – #6503 How to Awaken Your Highest Health #1200 & #1300 #7010-#7015 No Taste Like Home Potential – Davis Lecture Hall Susan Berry – Itzy Bitzy Farm, care of Alan Salmon – Wildwood Herbal Join No Taste Like Home in discovering Dr. Frank King – King Bio Inc. and Botanical Interests Seeds Alan Salmon will teach about easy-to-grow some of the most common wild foods in Carolina Bison Learn the basics of how to choose plants fresh herbs you can add to everyday meals the area. They will have samples of plants Dr. Frank King, author of The Healing that complement each other and how to to put a little zing in your wingding. and mushrooms to look at, and they will Revolution, shares powerful stories from grow them from seed. Saturday and Sunday 4:00 talk about how to incorporate them into his private practice. He believes modern Formal presentations on both days your diet. Wild foods are abundant in the life is turning us into zombies, deprived at 12:00 Veggie Gardening 101: 10-minute area, and No Taste Like Home feels that of nourishment, exercise, sunlight, Ongoing for informal advice talk – #1708 everyone has a right to know them! relationships, and life-giving benefits that Reems Creek Nursery and Landscaping Ongoing he calls the Eight Essentials of Life. The Growing Herbs Is a Snap! – Here’s all the basic info you need to get amazing thing about restoring balance to #7010-#7015 growing! Topics will include: siting your KIDS’ PROGRAMMING these essentials is that you don’t have to Alan Salmon – Wildwood Herbal garden for success, soil improvement, run marathons, starve and burn yourself Using the letters in “SNAP” as a simple determining garden size, soil amendments, Bottle Cap Mandalas: “Create from the out. Small changes in each of these eight reminder, Alan Salmon will teach you how water considerations, tools, and more. stream, return to the stream” – #1805 areas allow you to accomplish more by to grow herbs successfully. Saturday 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, 4:00 Montessori Cooperative School doing less. You can work smarter, not Saturday and Sunday 12:00 and 6:00 Draw from hundreds of colorful bottle harder. King shares practical healing tools Sunday 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 and 4:00 caps to create an in-the-moment design. that are safe, effective, and freely available Herb and Flower Seed Saving – Before returning the caps to the recycle to all. Fill the holes in your wholeness by #7010-#7015 REAL FOOD stream, we will photograph you with your awakening the healing power within. Ira Wallace – Southern Exposure creation and email it to you after the Fair. Saturday 1:00-2:00 Seed Exchange Gluten- and Dairy-Free Meals in Ongoing Book signing Sunday 2:00-2:30 Saturday and Sunday 10:00 Minutes! – #2304 Sharon Greenspan – Wild Success Eat the Rainbow Craft Make ‘n Take Blessings of the Bison: A genetic revival How Montessori Education Is Participants will learn several fast, simple and Gardening Giveaway – #1800 – Davis Lecture Hall Permacultural – #1805 recipes that kids of all ages will love! Come Karen Leonetti CDA, CDS – Yummy Dr. Frank King – King Bio Inc. and Montessori Cooperative School have spirooli fun! Tummy Rainbow Garden Carolina Bison An interactive skit parallels the long-range Saturday 12:00, 2:00 and 4:00 Is your child a picky, fussy eater? Visit Dr. Frank King, author of The Healing vision of permaculture and the long-range with author Karen Leonetti for easy ways Revolution, sees tremendous benefits vision of Montessori education with a Homemade Bread Made Easy! – #2507 to create healthy foods together in fun, through the restoration of bison. In the common eye toward sustainability. Ginny Perkins – EZ DOH interesting ways! She will share proven 1980s, he began interbreeding the plains Ongoing The simplicity of making bread dough techniques and gadgets to involve the bison with the woods bison, producing with the EZ DOH manual bread dough whole family in the kitchen. Her new book some of the largest, most vigorous animals How to Propagate Bloodroot and Black maker will be demonstrated, along with has four easy gluten-, sugar- and dairy-free in the world. Recently, he introduced Cohosh for Your Woodland Garden – creative recipes and serving suggestions for recipes in the back that families can make wisent – the European bison – to further #7010-#7015 homemade bread. Samples will be served. together. Children can create their own enrich the genetic stock. Genetically Jeanine Davis – North Carolina State Ongoing “Tabletop Rainbows” to remind them to superior bison will help restore and enrich University - Alternative Crops and eat a rainbow every day! Karen will raffle a our human genetic potential, leading us Organics Program Homemade, Healthy Herbal Gardening Kit at the end of each day! closer to our paleo-, primal roots. And we Learn how to propagate your native Snacks – #2712 Ongoing receive super-health benefits from many woodland botanicals in this hands-on Dawn Combs – Mockingbird Meadows wild foods, such as camel’s milk from demonstration and take home your It can be challenging to use herbs to Fresh Food Family Fun! – #1800 King’s herd here in Western “lesson” to plant in your own maintain the health of your household if Karen Leonetti CDA, CDS – Yummy North Carolina. shade garden. you have someone in the family who is Tummy Rainbow Garden Sunday 1:00-2:00 Saturday and Sunday 2:00 resistant to new tastes. Come learn how to Come DIG into live demonstrations of Book signing Sunday 2:00-2:30 make simple, delicious, no-bake cookies easy ways to create healthy foods together. Scheduling Plant and Harvest Times for that can be used to treat a variety of issues. The kitchen is the heart of the home, Why a Deltec Home? – Davis Your Garden – 2806 & 2807 Ongoing where lifelong memories are made. Your Lecture Hall Cindy Conner – New Society Publishers family can create, eat and thrive together Joseph Schlenk – Deltec Homes Cindy Conner will demonstrate how to Mead Making – #1400 & #1500 from fresh foods. Join Karen Leonetti as This presentation will feature a basic develop a planting and harvesting schedule Jereme Zimmerman, aka “the she shares FUN, proven techniques and description and slideshow about the value that will show you what is happening Yeti” – Earthineer gadgets to involve the whole family in and benefits of building a Deltec home. in your garden all season. It is based on To coincide with his “Make Mead Like kitchen and Family Table Time. She’s Saturday 11:30-12:30 the Plant/Harvest Schedule form that is a Viking!” workshop, Earthineer’s own bringing families back together “one bite available as a free PDF on her website at “RedHeadedYeti” will run an off-stage at a time.” www.HomplaceEarth.com and her book demo. Learn to make your own mead Ongoing Grow a Sustainable Diet. using wild fermentation techniques! Saturday 11:30 Ongoing SPONSOR PROGRAMMING

Seed Saving and Apple Propagation – Stock the Frugal, Self-sufficient Pantry – High Performance and Net-Zero Home #6001 & #6002 #2806 & 2807 Building – Davis Lecture Hall Seed Savers Exchange Lisa Kivirist – New Society Publishers Leigha Dickens – Deltec Homes Join Seed Savers Exchange to discuss the Learn how to stock your home pantry! Learn about building high-performance processes of saving seeds from garden Lisa will cover bulk buying, pantry and net-zero-energy homes with Deltec, fruits and vegetables, and grafting organization and making your own hot including what energy-efficient design scions from orchard fruit such as apples. cocoa, vanilla extract and more. features set a truly high-performance home Demonstrations will include threshing, Saturday 4:00 and Sunday 1:30 apart, how to integrate renewable energy, winnowing, fermenting and grafting. and a little bit about the six designs in Ongoing Deltec’s new Renew Collection. Sunday 11:30-12:30

Mother Earth News Fair 23 24 YAN_TR14_002_ad_p2_MoEarth_mech.inddwww.MotherEarthNewsFair.com 1 3/14/14 12:23 PM Mother Earth News Fair 25 26 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com Exhibitors Exhibitors participating in the sustainability trail sponsored by AdvantageWest. American Craftsman Inc.- #1104 Bath Fitter – #2710 Bom Bus – #6 CHARGROW – #5121 & #5122 American Craftsman Inc. system serves as a solution Bath Fitter offers the stylish, permanent bathtub The Bom Bus is a Portuguese-inspired short food bus. BioChar: Improving plant productivity by increasing for numerous issues our environment and community replacement solution that is installed in about a day They get their food from good people to feed all the the nutrient, water and microbial resources of your face today, including green-building, commercial and enjoyed for years. Relax and bathe in beauty. other good people. garden. Build soil carbon for generations to come. agriculture operations, food systems and www.bathfitter.com www.carbonchar.com environment remediation. Book Publishing Company – #2618 www.americancraftsmeninc.com BB Barns Garden - Gift & Landscape Co. – #1001 Book Publishing, member of the Green Press Chelsea Green – #2802 & #2803 BB Barns is a 4-acre destination garden, gift and Initiative, publishes books on health and vegan Chelsea Green is a leading publisher of books on AdvantageWest - #2308 landscape company hosting an exotic plant collection cooking. Also look for books on alternative energy sustainable living. They are a founding member of the AdvantageWest is a nonprofit regional economic and a unique gift gallery with surprises around and environmental issues. Green Press Initiative and have been printing books development organization serving Western North every corner! www.bookpubco.com on recycled paper since 1985, when their first list of Carolina, focused on entrepreneurship, the green www.bbbarns.com books appeared. They lead the industry both in terms economy, agribusiness, the film industry and Botanical Interests – #1200 & #1300 of content – foundational books on renewable energy, advanced manufacturing. BCS America – #1412 & #1512 Botanical Interests is a family-owned business green building, organic agriculture, eco-cuisine and www.advantagewest.com BCS offers all-gear-driven, rear-tine tillers that founded in 1995. It offers more than 500 dependable ethical business – and in terms of environmental provide professional results, the industry’s best varieties of certified organic, heirloom, non- practice, printing 95 percent of their books on Air Head Composting Toilets – #2107 warranty, and power other seasonal attachments GMO, untreated and responsibly produced hybrid recycled paper. The Air Head composting toilet is the most compact including brush mowers, shredder/chippers and vegetable, herb and flower seeds. Their goal is to www.chelseagreen.com composting toilet in the world. It’s the original, snow throwers. inspire and educate so you can create beautiful and since 2001. www.bcsamerica.com successful gardens. Their packets contain a wealth of Chicken Fountain™, The – #2406 www.airheadtoilet.com information, inside and out. Seeds are available for The Chicken Fountain™, clean water by design. Let Beaty Fertilizer Inc.– #2610 & #2611 purchase at independent garden centers, gourmet their small family company located in Davidson, N.C., AirRestore – #1309 Beaty Fertilizer blends and sells traditional, natural grocers and health food stores throughout the provide your flock with a worry-free watering system. Stop by booth 1309 and get a breath of fresh air, and natural-based fertilizers. They also carry a variety United States. www.chickenfountain.com something you don’t often get inside a building, of gardening products, including tools and gloves. www.botanicalinterests.com sometimes not even outside. www.millsmix.com Choo Choo Express – #1 www.airrestoreusa.com/dennis Branstock Inc. – #5109 Serving breakfast and lunch. Try the BBQ Pulled Bee Culture Magazine – #2901 Solar Photovoltaic Roofing:W ith their flexible solar Pork Sandwich smoked with hickory wood, slow Alpaca Trading Post – F-53 Bee Culture, the magazine of American beekeeping, panels, Branstock can equip almost any flat expanse of cooked and basted with their special Eastern-style The Alpaca Trading Post consists of sustainable is for beginning, sideline and commercial beekeepers southerly exposure to produce solar-electric power. sauce. Inside the Davis Events Center. Cash only. farmers and fiber artists ... Their alpacas will have you who want the latest information on the science and www.branstockbuildings.com spinning! Come feel exquisiteness. One touch will art of beekeeping. Cobrahead LLC – #1405 take your breath away! www.beeculture.com Brooms and Boxes – #5009 Featuring the award-winning CobraHead Weeder and www.alpacatradingpost.net Brooms and walking sticks, handmade in the shaker Cultivator, the CobraHead Long Handle, and other Bee Thinking LLC – #1505 tradition of simplicity with durability reflected in excellent gardening products. CobraHead tools make Ann Bee’s Naturals LLC – #1005 Bee Thinking is the world’s natural beekeeping their construction. Harwood handles bring function gardening easier. Gardeners love CobraHead! Ann Bee’s Naturals is an eco-friendly company whose supplier, specializing in horizontal top bar hives and the beauty of nature in a product that is as old as www.cobrahead.com goal is to make all-natural products for body and and Warré hives made from Western red cedar in our country’s founding. home with wholesome ingredients you can trust. Portland, Ore. www.broomsandboxes.com Coconut Bliss – #2715 www.annbeesnaturals.com www.beethinking.com As a company, Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss comes Brushy Mountain Bee Farm – #2902-#2904 from the heart. It shows in everything they do from Appalachian Seeds Farm & Nursery – #5128 Bell Aquaculture LLC – #2519 Brushy Mountain Bee Farm was established in 1977. their sourcing of the finest organic ingredients to a Appalachian Seeds is a certified organic, 24-acre Bell Aquaculture, the nation’s largest sustainable Since the beginning, they have served thousands conscious awareness of their impact on the lives of family farm using biodynamic methods in the Blue yellow perch fish farming operation, will feature its of beekeepers across the country with the best everyone they touch. Close your eyes and feel it in Ridge Mountains. Producing medicinal herbs, OMRI-listed “Fish Rich 2-2-2 Organic” fertilizer at beekeeping equipment in the industry. As a part of every bite. Just one taste of this luscious, non-dairy heirloom tomatoes and superb plant starts. the Fair. the beekeeping community, they are committed to dessert and you will understand what they mean www.appalachianseeds.com www.fishrich.com manufacturing top-quality equipment, providing the when they say, “This is Bliss!” best service and support, and are devoted to helping www.coconutbliss.com Aquaponics Association – #2102 Bernice’s Tea & Spice – #5006 beekeepers succeed. This is the year to become a The Aquaponics Association promotes growing fish Stop by Bernice’s to sample their tasty Mama Mia’s beekeeper, and Brushy Mountain Bee Farm is the Common Wealth Seed Growers – #1011 and plants together. Aquaponics allows 90% water olive oil bread dipper, organic poppy seed salad source that will help you get started! Common Wealth Seed Growers is a cooperative savings and enables farms or gardens in urban spaces dressing, no-salt garlic veggie dip and more! www.brushymountainbeefarm.com project of three Virginia seed farm. Their regionally and small lots. www.BernicesOnline.com adapted seeds are backed by variety trails and www.aquaponicsassociation.org Buchi – #2706 careful selection. Better Garden Tools – #2003 Buchi is a community-centered, women-founded and commonwealthseeds.com ASAP – #1307 Better Garden Tools’ inventory of products includes worker-owned business continuing the ancient folk ASAP’s mission is to help local farms thrive, link ratchet pruners, ratchet loppers, pole pruners and tradition of brewing a living probiotic-rich beverage. Copper Creek Ranch – F-3 & F-4 farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy folding root saws. www.drinkbuchi.com Copper Creek Ranch is a small woman-owned communities through connections to local food. www.bettergardentools.com farm located in Southwest Virginia focusing on www.asapconnections.org Butterflies From Heather – #1801 conservation breeding of heritage livestock. Blo-Glo Inc. – #2206 Live educational butterfly exhibit, free to enter. www.coppercreekranch.org Asheville Mushroom Club – #6015 Janay’s Herbal Products make your outer beauty Take home butterfly kits, nets and gazing balls Stop by to see their mushroom display and learn match your inner beauty. made with real butterfly wings. Something for every Cornerstone Farm Ventures – #6013 about membership information. www.janaysherbal.com butterfly enthusiast. Cornerstone Farm Ventures provides sales and www.ashevillemushroomclub.com www.butterfliesfromheather.com consulting assistance to the meat and poultry trade. Blue Ridge Brittle Co. – #1103 They have production and processing equipment for Asheville Scooter Company – #5200 Blue Ridge Brittle Co., of Brevard, N.C., specializes Canterbury Cobblers – #1207 one bird or thousands. Mobility scooter, wheelchair and baby stroller rentals. in making rich, buttery nut brittles: delightfully light Canterbury Cobblers is a one-man woodworking www.cornerstone-farm.com www.ashevillescooterrental.com and crunchy, made the old-fashioned way! shop in the Great Smokey Mountains, specializing in 928-978-3718 artistic heirloom cutting boards made from natural Cornerstone Morgan Horse Club – F-37 ATH Cattle Company – F-43-F-45 hardwoods. Cornerstone Morgan Horse Club seeks to promote ATH Cattle Company is dedicated to the Blue Ridge Food Ventures – #2308 and encourage the continued genetic purity of advancement and preservation of the Percheron breed An 11,000-square-feet shared-use agribusiness Cape Fear – #2002 Foundation/Traditional bred Morgans with no and the Corolla Wild Horses. incubator in Asheville providing equipment and Cape Fear offers Lifestraws, MREs (Meals, Ready-to- modern outcrosses. They promote all families of resources for food entrepreneurs and natural products Eat), knives, multi tools and various survival goods. Foundation/Traditional bred Morgans without Atomic Solar LLC – #2101 manufacturers to perfect, produce, package and sell There will be an author in person to autograph her prejudice nor judgment regarding color, gait or Atomic Solar provides its customers renewable energy their dream ideas. recently released children’s book. Foundation bloodline, as a celebration of the solutions such as photovoltaic systems, solar thermal, www.blueridgefoodventures.org Foundation/Traditional Morgans’ versatility radiant floors, rainwater harvesting, micro hydro, and Carolina Bee Company, The – #5118 and diversity. district heating. Blue Ridge Naturally™ – #2200 This North Carolina family-owned, sustainability- www.cornerstonemorganclub.com www.atomicsolar.biz Blue Ridge Naturally™ highlights the superiority focused beekeeping operation produces high-quality of botanical raw materials and quality natural raw honey, award-winning soaps and body products, Country Home Products/DR Power Equipment – BackHome Magazine – #1208 products from the Blue Ridge Mountains region of handcrafted beeswax candles and more. #5115 & #5116 For 24 years, BackHome magazine has served as a North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Naturally™ seal lets www.carolinabees.com See the newest property maintenance products in hands-on guide to sustainable living. Bimonthly customers know that ingredients have been reviewed, development at DR Power Equipment. “Pick” those features on renewable energy, organic gardening, are traceable, safely made/grown, and tested, if Carolina Bison – #6006 you love ... “Kill” those you hate ... And earn a natural building, cooking, small livestock and crafts. necessary. Blue Ridge Naturally™ supports local At Carolina Bison, their mission is to promote a free pickle! www.backhomemagazine.com companies crafting high-quality natural products healthy lifestyle by offering the highest quality meat www.drpower.com and develops the Western North Carolina natural while honoring the life and history of the Bad Dog Tools – #2208 products industry. Blue Ridge Naturally™ is American Bison. Countryside Organics – #5119 With Bad Dog Multi-Purpose Tools you’ll always a program of the North Carolina Natural www.carolinabison.com Countryside Organics manufactures certified organic have the right tool. Tools guaranteed for life or they’ll Products Association. feeds in Virginia’s only certified organic feed mill. replace them. See ‘em in action at the Fair. www.blueridgenaturally.org Carolina Bunny Berries – #5028 Their feeds are high-quality, nutritionally complete, www.baddogtools.com Garden aficionados and rose enthusiasts, rejoice! eco-friendly, soy-free, probiotic and organic. Blue Ridge Now Carolina Bunny Berries provides plant-friendly cold www.countrysideorganics.com Bahama Baby Lotion – #1003 TheT imes-News is the local source of news for manure. A unique gift and the possibility to win a All-natural handmade lotions, rubs and soaks made Henderson, Polk and Transylvania Counties: Your stuffed bunny! with herbs, essential oils and love to help you get news when you want it. www.carolinabunnyberries.com through your busy day! www.blueridgenow.com www.bahamababylotion.com

Mother Earth News Fair 27 Exhibitors Exhibitors participating in the sustainability trail sponsored by AdvantageWest. Cousin Mary Jane & Lady Jane Seed Co. – #2100 Doom and Bloom, LLC – #2607 & #2608 Earth & Spirit Design – #1703 Elbee’s Garlic Seasoning – #1203 Cousin Mary Jane and Lady Jane Gourmet Seed Co. Doom and Bloom provides medical kits, dental kits, Earth & Spirit Design’s experienced team uses Fresh garlic-based, all-natural, MSG- and gluten-free. bring to you delicious and nutritious hemp food essential oils, salves and other medical products for ecological and permaculture principles to create Eight unique flavors, two with heat. Use in any meal, products. Now you can stop bad snacking! homesteaders, hikers and those in austere settings. sustainable, food-producing landscapes. They consult, comes with recipes. www.cousinmaryjane.com www.doomandbloom.net design, install and teach. www.ellbeesgarlic.com www.earthandspiritdesign.com Creekwater Alpacas – #2300 & #2301 DoTerra – #2606 Equal Exchange – #2204 Frequently compared to cashmere, warmer and Essential Oils – Vitamins – Weight Loss – Education – Earth & Turf – #1607 & 1707 Equal Exchange offers delicious wholesale, FairT rade stronger than wool, alpaca fiber is hollow, making it Diffusers – Opportunity. Self-care wellness alternative, Earth & Turf has been providing the industry with coffee, tea, chocolate, and snacks from small farmers very light with remarkable insulating and replacing synthetic drugs using nature’s cures. compost topdressing equipment and compact tractor for serving, selling and fundraising with your school wicking qualities. Complimentary wellness consultation. $119 Lotus attachments since 1997. “Simple, Well-Built Products.” or congregation. www.creekwateralpacas.com diffuser drawing. www.earthandturf.com www.equalexchange.coop www.timelessoils.com Cutco Cutlery – #2305 Earth Water Conservation – #1408 Evergreen Institute – #1209-#1210 Cutco, “TheW orld’s Finest Cutlery,” made in America Dr. Earth – #1312 Chemical-free restructured water device penetrates The Evergreen Institute offers workshops on since 1949 and guaranteed forever, offers kitchen Dr. Earth organic innovations have set the standard for plants inside, outside, root systems and holds in soil, residential renewable energy and green building taught knives, blocks, gadgets, gift sets, cookware, flatware more than 20 years. Healthy and beautiful gardens are using less water, eliminating hard water buildup on by Dan Chiras, who will be staffing the booth and and sporting knives. simple and easy with great products. plants and equipment. selling books. www.cutco.com www.drearth.com www.guardianangelmineral.com www.evergreeninstitute.org

Deltec Homes – #2419-#2422 Dripping Springs Ollas – #1212 Earthineer – #1400 & #1500 EZ Animal Products – #1509 Deltec Homes has been the world leader in panelized An unglazed clay pot, buried to the neck, and filled Earthineer is a social site for sustainable living: Ultimate EZ Milker: a new faster way to milk your high-performance structures ideal for residential or with water to provide irrigation. An ancient technique gardening, preserving and canning, seasonal cooking, livestock. Your #1 source for innovative dairy and commercial use since 1968. Deltec carries an extensive for use in-ground, in raised beds or in containers. beer and wine making, beekeeping, crafts, keeping equine products. line of designs from modest to high-end custom www.drippingspringsollas.com livestock, homesteading, and everything in between. www.udderlyez.com homes, and offers a builder-friendly, eco-friendly Whether you’re an accomplished gardener, an system that is wind-resistant, seismic-resistant and Duck Dance Farm – #6502 orchardist, a small-scale farm, a homebrewer, or a EZ Doh – #2507 adaptable to any setting. In 2007, Deltec installed A heritage poultry farm in Western North Carolina, beginner looking for advice, Earthineer is meant to Bread-making made easy! EZ Doh is a manual, non- 273 photovoltaic panels on the roof of its production focusing on egg and meat production, education, connect you with people who share your interests. electric bread dough-maker that makes the process facility, enabling the company to build all Deltec demonstration, and the preservation of endangered Features include: wall posts and news feed, messaging, neat, easy, quick and fun! homes with 100% renewable energy. domestic duck breeds. photos, blogs, pinning, search and trading. www.ezdoh.com www.deltechomes.com www.duckdancefarm.com www.earthineer.com Fab Ferments – #2707 Dependable Equine Alternatives LLC – #1508 Eagledove Greenhouse and Farm – #1110 Echoview Fiber Mill and Farm – #2717 Fab Ferments is a rockin’ raw food business Dependable Equine Alternatives produce all-natural An organic farm offering heirloom veggie and herb Pursuing sustainable fiber processing and farming, established in 2008. They specialize in handcrafted feed supplements and herbal treatments. They never plants, organic eggs, u-pick veggie and flower gardens, Echoview is the largest producer and processor of hops cultured foods using ancient preservation techniques use chemicals or synthetics just as Mother and landscape services. Countryside organic farm in North Carolina and the first Gold LEED-certified and high-quality ingredients. Nature intended. feeds available. mill of its kind. www.fabferments.com www.deanutrition.com www.eagledovegreenhouse.com www.echoviewnc.com Faith Wellness Center, LLC – #1308 Designs by Kathy – #6003 & #6004 Eagle Log Cabins – #6026 Edible Yard & Garden – #2205 The MediMassager is approved by the FDA as a Using a combination of recycled, vintage and new Simple to build. Renewable. Seven generations of Edible Yard & Garden is a full-service edible medical device and the American Diabetes Association material, Designs by Kathy crafts handmade artisan thinking. Off-grid living with comfort and style! landscaping company incorporating ecological design. to help reverse neuropathy. Noninvasive, immediate rag quilts, handbags, tote bags, baskets, children’s and Quality products at affordable prices. They also install rainwater harvesting cisterns and pain relief! adult’s aprons, and more. www.eaglelogcabins.com earthworks and fix drainage issues. www.medmassager.com www.edibleyardandgarden.com

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28 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com Exhibitors Exhibitors participating in the sustainability trail sponsored by AdvantageWest. Falling Bark LLC DBA – #1404 Fruition Seeds – #1305 Hanna Vista Organic Farm – #2 Ingles Markets – #2520 & #5140 A tasty syrup using hickory bark, the highest plant source Local organic food begins with local organic seed. Yummy, organic/fair trade foods made on their farm, Stop by to meet local farmers and vendors that of magnesium. A tradition steeped in Native American Fruition Seeds grows and provides organic, regionally now for their 30th year! Products include Appalachian supply Ingles and sample their products: Moon history. Uses: gifts, breakfast, cocktails, glazes, grilling. adapted vegetable, flower and herb seed for Mountain gluten-free cocoas and mixes; chili starter; Rabbit Gluten Free Baked Goods, MILKCO (Laura www.fallingbarkfarm.com the Northeast. granola; Goodbatter baked treats, pancake and baking Lynn milk), Hickory Nut Gap Meats, Sunny Creek www.fruitionseeds.com mixes; fresh and hot Liege Belgian Waffles; lovely fair Sprout Farm, Biltmore Smoked Salmon (Seven Seas Farm Credit Associations of North Carolina – #2612 trade African baskets; and weaving items. International), Sunburst Trout Farm, Roots Hummus, The Farm Credit Associations of North Carolina are Fungi Perfecti – #2303 www.hannavista.com Shelton Family Farms Hydroponic Lettuce, and Bee borrower-owned lending cooperatives. Their mission Fungi Perfecti is a family-owned, environmentally City USA. is to provide a reliable source of credit for American friendly company specializing in using gourmet and Hasegawa USA – #2104 & #2105 www.ingles-markets.com agriculture and rural America by making loans to medicinal mushrooms to improve the health of the Best quality, safest, most stable practical lightweight qualified borrowers at competitive rates and providing planet and its people. aluminum, tripod garden ladders in use today. Stop by Insight Toolworks – #1107 insurance and related financial services. www.fungi.com and try it out. Table saw precision with your circular saw. The www.farmcreditofnc.com www.hasegawaladders.com TrueTrac Track saw system is accurate and easy to use. Gaia Blends – #5131 Cut sheet goods or dimensional lumber. Farm Fairy, The – #1301 The Gaia Blends family handcrafts all natural and Heller-Aller Pumps by Hitzer – #5016 www.insighttoolworks.com The Farm Fairy makes handmade artisan aged cheeses organic skin salves, 100% pure beeswax candles, and Hitzer is the manufacturer the Heller-Aller deep well/ and sauces, honoring their European grandparents’ (for all kids, big and small) Willow’s Hoops. windmill hand water pumps. Hitzer is also one of the Isha Yoga – #1002 traditions, in Burlington, the heart of North www.gaiablends.com leading manufactures of clean-burning coal stoves For more than 30 years, Isha Foundation has offered Carolina Piedmont. and fireplaces. classical yoga and meditation around the globe, www.thefarmfairy.com GalloLea Pizza Kits and Dolci di Maria – #1604 www.hitzer.com touching the lives of more than 7 million people. Sample it all: gluten-free or wheat Italian or BBQ Pizza www.ishafoundation.org/us/ FarmTek/FodderPro – #6007-#6009 Kits; GF Italian Desserts, Brownies, Biscotti, Pancake Hempzels – #1612 & #1712 Take control of your livestock feed costs and grow your mixes! Morning Chai, Chocolate Cherry Nibble, more! From Lancaster County, Pa., come hemp soft pretzels, Jehovah Jireh Woolmill – #2004 own healthy, fresh, hydroponic fodder year-round with www.gallolea.com & www.dolcidimarie.com hemp mustard from Hempzels, Natalie’s hemp nut-less Jehovah Jireh Woolmill: Producers of fine wool and a FodderPro Feed System from FarmTek. butter, jams and granola bars. Part of the Just Say wool/alpaca blend hand-spun yarn, roving and felt. www.foddersystems.com Garden of No Weeden – #1410 Know campaign for hemp cultivation in the Serving fiber artisans and hand crafters. Custom A reusable, wedge-shaped shield that keeps the ground United States. processing of raw fleece. Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund – #1211 warm and moist. www.lancastertradinghouse.com www.woolmill.com The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund defends www.gardenofnoweeden.com the rights and broadens the freedoms of family farms Herbal Lodge – #2424 Jewel Haus, The – #6022 and protects consumer access to raw milk and nutrient- Garden Tea Co. – #6005 All-natural Native American salves, wild harvested teas Come see the Jewel Haus’ tiny jewelry studio! They dense foods. Nourishing Earth, Plant & People: Tea for plants, and natural lip balm. use rocks, fossils, minerals and even meteorites from www.farmtoconsumer.org organic fertilizers, compost tea and vermicomposting www.herballodge.com around the world to showcase one-of-a-kind wearable supplies. fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide solutions. art pieces. Farm to Fender – #4 www.gardenteacompany.com Herbal Sage Tea Company – #2506 www.thejewelhaus.com The Farm to Fender FoodT ruck prepares the highest Join owner Maureen Burns-Hooker, educator, quality ingredients, sourced from local farmers. They Go Sun Stove – #5137 entrepreneur and herbalist. Handcrafted organic green, John C. Campbell Folk School – #6024 strive to support the local economy and have a small The lightest, fastest, easiest and most efficient solar black and herbal therapeutic blends to soothe the At John C. Campbell Folk School, they still make environmental footprint. cooker – it’s portable and practical. Part of the mind, body and soul. things. They still make real bread, music, yarn, poetry www.simplydonecuisine.com/farm-to-fender worldwide effort to reduce dirty fuels, such as wood www.herbalsage.com and friends. Since 1925 they have helped to preserve and charcoal, for cooking. the traditions, tools and techniques of Southern Featherman – #1711 www.gosunstove.com High Castle Solar – #5026 Appalachia, and they have shared them with the Featherman Equipment empowers farmers, consumers Solar cell phone chargers, solar power stations and world. They offer classes in more than 50 subject areas, and communities by providing efficient and affordable Green Bee Cleaning Company – #1511 residential solar installers. including craft, music, cooking, gardening and writing. solutions for local poultry processing. All-natural handmade cleaning products. www.highmowingseeds.com Their noncompetitive environment makes for a unique www.featherman.net www.greenbeeclean.com experience. Come enjoy making crafts and good High Fiber, The – #1004 friends on 300 natural, scenic acres in Western Fertrell Company – #5015 Green Hare Salon LLC – #2005 The High Fiber – hand-printed nostalgic farm and North Carolina. The Fertrell Company is the oldest organic fertilizer Green Hare Hair Mud™ is 100% natural, nonchemical, garden inspired home goods and kitchen linens with a www.folkschool.org manufacturer in the United States, established in cruelty-free hair color with serious gray coverage that is focus on environmentally smart fibers and practices. 1946. Fertrell manufactures all-natural fertilizers and truly healthy, shiny, silky and sexy. www.thehighfiberco.etsy.com Johnny’s Selected Seeds – #1510 livestock supplements. www.greenhare.com Johnny’s contributes to the success of their growers by www.fertrell.com High Mowing Seeds – #1102 providing the highest quality seeds of the best varieties Green Label Organic – #2006 & #2007 An independently owned, farm-based seed company of vegetables, flowers and herbs. Fiddlehead Woodworking – #2616 Green Label Organic offers organic cotton clothing for dedicated to supporting sustainable agriculture and www.johnnyseeds.com Fiddlehead Woodworking provides wooden products men, women and children. Made in the United States, providing farmers and gardeners with the highest with sustainability in mind. All wood is milled on site socially responsible and environmentally sustainable quality certified organic seed. Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Bio- and great care is taken in maintaining a healthy forest clothing that is easy to wear, fun, and has a point www.highcastlesolar.com Dynamics – #2306 for future generations. of view. Biodynamic preparations, books and educational www.fiddleheadwoodworking.com www.greenlabel.com Highlander Farm – F-10 & F-11 materials for healing the Earth through the practice of Highlander Farm began 40 years ago. They have raised biodynamic gardening and farming. Restoring health Fields of Gold Farm – #2619 Green Prints – #2307 sheep all these years, choosing Katahdin for their and vitality. Gourmet gelato! Artisan, farm-fresh goat milk Stop by Booth #2307 and say, “Hi” to, Pat Stone, mothering, parasite resistance and ability to finish www.jpibiodynamics.org/home at Fields of Gold Farm in Hendersonville, N.C.! former editor of Mother Earth News ... from waaaay on grass. Frequency-enhanced goat milk soaps too! Come by back in the day. He’d love to meet you! (And you can Kapstone Farm – #1407 & #1507 for samples! see “TheW eeder’s Digest” I’m doing now!) Hit-N-Miss Ice Cream Company, The – #3 Kapstone Farm is a family-owned, free-ranging www.fieldsofgoldfarm.com www.greenprints.com The Hit-N-Miss Ice Cream Company, from homestead in Rock Hill, S.C. From animal Northwestern Pennsylvania, has been making all- husbandry to gardening to agritourism, they offer a Fifth Seasoning Gardening Company – #1704 Fifth Green River Picklers – #1008 natural hormone-free and wheat-free ice cream for diversity of farm experiences and products to their Season Gardening specializes in organic gardening, Green River Picklers is a locally sourced, consciously nine years. local community. At the Fair this year, they will be hydroponics, homebrew and urban DIY products, produced, small batch pickling company with featuring the Tower Garden – a state-of-the-art vertical enabling customers to grow, brew and make their own. dedication to promoting the tradition of food Hobbyknob Farm – F-6 & F-7 aeroponic growing system from The Juice Plus+ Five locations in the Carolinas and Virginia, including preservation and sustainable practices. Hobbyknob Farm Jacob sheep: tough feet, excellent Company. 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Foxgloves offers seven styles of fabulous gloves for all tasks Gypsy Wind Farms – F-5 quality homemade ice cream in Asheville, N.C., since King Bio’s founder and president, Dr. Frank King, has around the garden and barn. They also sell an assortment Naturally disease and parasite resistant, Barbados 1978. From-scratch vegan and gluten-free options dedicated his life to creating effective, natural therapies of hand-crocheted, all-cotton hats that are as comfortable Blackbelly sheep are an ideal breed for the small farm made with local ingredients will be available. that empower the whole person. His newest book, as they are practical. Plus, Felco pruners from Switzerland or homesteader. And no shearing is required! 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Mother Earth News Fair 29 Exhibitors Exhibitors participating in the sustainability trail sponsored by AdvantageWest. Knee Pain Guru, The – #5029 Lucky 3 Farm – #1009 Moonacre Soap – #5017 Nature’s Head – #2508 Knee Pain Guru offers holistic solutions for knee pain. Lucky 3 Farm is a small N.C. farm raising sustainable Moonacre Soap offers an enticing array of aromatic, The Nature’s Head Composting Toilet is the latest Mission: “Make knee replacement surgery obsolete meats and some new products – Back to Basics beautifully handcrafted artisan soaps and bath design, the best value, and the most reliable choice for so you can have strong healthy knee joints for life.” Skincare: Nourishing tallow body balms, lard lip products. Providing your body with healthy, self-contained, urine-separating dry toilets. www.thekneepainguru.com balms, tallow soaps, salves. Pet Treats: dehydrated livers nourishing alternative products, contributing to a www.natureshead.net and pig ear chews. Free samples! sustainable lifestyle. Kohler Farms – F-46-F-48 www.lucky3farm.com www.moonacresoap.com Nature’s Renewable Products – #5021 & #5022 Dayla Kohler will feature her Shires, one of the largest A-maize-ing heat biomass forced air furnace, adjustable horses in the world, Shires are used for show, pleasure, Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss – #2715 Moonwise Herbs/Lil John’s Brooms – BTU input, environmentally friendly, quality riding and driving – Western and English! As a company, Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss comes #5033 & #5034 construction, thermostat controlled, low maintenance, www.facebook.com/KohlerFarmsADivisionOf from the heart. It shows in everything they do from Visit Moonwise Herbs and Brooms for handcrafted large fuel hopper, up to 40% fuel savings! KohlerFarmsAndContracting their sourcing of the finest organic ingredients to a herbal wares, herbal- and earth-centered education, www.accscompressor.com conscious awareness of their impact on the lives of and creatively hand-woven brooms made from locally Kokoon Homes – #5136 everyone they touch. Close your eyes and feel it in grown broom corn. New Society Publishers – #2806-#2807 BUILD YOUR OWN HOME – Your Plan OK. every bite. Just one taste of this luscious, non-dairy www.moonwiseherbs.com New Society Publishers’ mission is to publish books FREE CABIN GIVEAWAY ! Drawing for a 12 x 12 dessert and you will understand what they mean when that contribute in fundamental ways to building an steel, soy, insulated home kit. $5,800.00 value. Stop they say, “This is Bliss!” Mountain Works Sustainable Development – ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so and register! www.coconutbliss.com #6505, #1804, F-38, F-39 and South Arena with the least possible impact on the environment, in a www.kokoonhomes.com Mountain Works Sustainable Development creates manner that models this vision. Lustre Craft – #2000 & #2001 horse-logged forest products, including handcrafted www.newsociety.com Krista’s Cups – #1302 Cooking with waterless cookware allows you to preserve tiny cabins. “Forest to Finish” harvest and build Ecological, convenient and empowering products for flavor and color, reduce shrinkage, and retain the craftsmen offer millwork, kits or custom projects from New Sprout Organic Farms – #1504 women and transgender men. Stand up and pee with greatest possible amount of vitamins and minerals. your land. New Sprout Organic Farms, based in Asheville, N.C., the pStyle. Finally, a better menstrual product – www.cookforlife.com www.mtnworks.org grows about 100 acres of produce annually and offers The DivaCup. organic seed, starts and fertilizer to commercial and www.thepstyle.com Made in House DIY Food Kits – #5107 Mountain Xpress – #6000 backyard growers. Made in House DIY Food Kits offer the know-how Building community and strengthening democracy www.newsproutfarms.com Land of Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition – Alternative of years of sustainable living in an off-grid monastery. by serving an active, thoughtful readership at the local Energy Car Show Easily make mozzarella, pickles, and more! level — where the impact of citizen action is greatest. New Sun – #2207 The Land of Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition was www.madeinhouse.co www.mountainx.com New Sun, established in 1987, specializes in quality designated in July 2012 by the Department of Energy proprietary herbal blends complemented with a as the 85th designated Clean Cities Coalition in the Maitri Organics – #5032 Mountainvapure Renewable Energy Products – complete line of vitamins, minerals and essential oils nation. Their Vehicle Showcase at the Fair will include DW Enterprises dba Maitri Organics strives to create #1502 created to promote optimal health. vehicles that run on biodiesel, natural gas, propane high-quality, eco-friendly clothing in a sustainable Densified Biomass Firelogs: renewable, sustainable, www.mynewsun.com autogas and electricity. manner, and still make something beautiful that you’ll green. Produced from recycled hardwood with no www.cleanvehiclescoalition.org love to wear day after day. additives, they burn hotter, longer, and cleaner than New World Textiles LLC – #1310

www.earthcreations.net cordwood, with reduced CO2 emissions. Indian book charkhas, organic and Dye-Lishus® cotton Lazarus Woks – #2524 fiber, yarn, & fabric, kits with cotton and natural dyes Lazarus Woks, rescued from heaps of scrap after a life Massaging Insoles – #2407 Mr & Mrs FeelGood – #1610 & #1611 with bleeding tissue paper, cotton and dyeplant seeds, of agricultural service, have been cleaned, welded and World’s best therapeutic massaging insoles. A natural Mr & Mrs FeelGood are a husband and wife team handspun hand-woven scarves and fabrics, and silk polished and will give a lifetime of cooking enjoyment! approach to foot, leg and back pain relief. Pedorthic offering all-natural and digital therapy items for aches scarves dyed with natural dyes. www.lazaruswoks.com Footcare Association approved. and pains, as well as relaxation: portable reusable www.newworldtextiles.com www.massaginginsoles.com heating pads, tens units, and massagers. Leaffilter North – #2008 No Taste Like Home – #6503 LeafFilter is the nation’s best gutter protection system. Meade Tractor – #1007 Mushroom Hut @ Fox Farms & Studio, No Taste Like Home is an educational nonprofit that Call 1-800-290-6106 for a free estimate, and find out Meade Tractor is an authorized John Deere dealer The – #1311 reconnects people with nature, focusing on their areas why LeafFilter is gutter protection perfection! with seven family-owned locations in Virginia, West Small-scale diversified/teaching farm. Naturally grown most common edible and medicinal wild plants www.leaffilternorth.com Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. All locations products include in-season produce and berries, flower and fungi. offer sales, parts and service. essence/traditional jellies, bloody butcher cornmeal, www.notastelikehome.org Lenoir-Rhyne University Center for Graduate www.meadetractor.com hops and shiitake mushrooms. Also offering clayworks, Studies of Asheville (Sustainability Studies) – #6020 Mountain/Native American crafts and more. North American Rain Systems – #2522 LRU-Asheville is helping society build a more Melaleuca – #5132 http://themushroomhutfoxfarms.webs.com North American Rain Systems provides tanks, pumps, sustainable future by offering 10 graduate programs, EcoSense: the safety you want, the cleaning power filters and accessories for modern rainwater harvesting including an M.S. in Sustainability Studies, located you need. Without chlorine bleach, ammonia or My Pillow, Inc. – #2716 systems. 864-316-5200 near downtown Asheville. formaldehyde, these products are super concentrated My Pillow stays cool, conforms to your needs www.raincollectionsupplies.com http://asheville.lr.edu/ and naturally derived. regardless of sleep position, is dust mite-resistant, www.melaleuca.com nonallergenic, washable and dryable. 60-day money North Carolina State University – Alternative Crops Live the Life you Love Clothing – #5005 back guarantee, 10-year warranty. and Organics Program – #7012 Live the Life you Love Clothing features inspired Metalledwith – #5106 www.mypillow.com Providing research and education on organic and apparel for passionate living; offering men’s and Metalledwith jewelry incorporates organic elements biodynamic agriculture, and commercial production of women’s organic cotton and bamboo fashion, made into handcrafted metalwork. The ideas are original, Natural Approach Farm Store – #5117 vegetables, hops, medicinal herbs, truffles, stevia, and responsibly in USA. wearable art made from trees that grow in the Natural Approach Farm Store has alpacas and the other specialty crops for Western North Carolina. www.HookedProductions.com Appalachian Mountains. beautiful clothing their fiber produces, all-natural www.cals.ncsu.edu/specialty_crops www.metalledwith.com liquids and capsulated herbs for health, as well as Livestock Conservancy, The – F-56 essence remedies for emotional healing. Northern Sun – #1100-#1101 The Livestock Conservancy is a nonprofit membership Millner-Haufen Tool Co. – #1000 www.naturalapproachtohealth.com For more than 30 years, Northern Sun has provided organization working to protect more than 170 breeds Millner-Haufen Tool Company manufactures and environmental and social messages on T-shirts, bumper of livestock and poultry from extinction. Founded distributes tools for many applications. Multi-material Natural Building Network – #1803 stickers, buttons and more. Online and mail order in 1977, the Livestock Conservancy is the pioneer drill bits, metal cutting and grinding equipment, and Naturalcottageproject.com and Natural Building catalogs available. organization in the United States working to conserve more. Visit their live demonstrations. Network demonstrate the use of local dirt as a low- www.northernsun.com historic breeds and genetic diversity in livestock. www.millnertools.com cost, beautiful, durable and fun building material. Get www.livestockconservancy.org muddy with them as they mix clay, sand and straw by Norwex – #1205 Misty Morning Farm – F-51 hand and by foot to sculpt beautiful walls. Antibacterial microfiber cloths and mops, Living Systems Design – #1601 Misty Morning Farm is a natural grazing-based farm www.nbnetwork.org biodegradable soaps, enzyme-based household Living Systems Design is a permaculture design group that raises Miniature and Small Standard Once a Day cleaning agents. dedicated to creating unique, productive environments Jersey Milk cows with A2 genetics. Natural Options Aromatherapy – #1201-#1202 www.terricook.com for humans while restoring abundance, health and www.mistymorningfarmva.com Natural Options Aromatherapy sells essential oils, diversity to the landscape. creams, bath salts, roll-ons, shower gels, and mists Nuwati Herbals Inc – #1503 www.usefulplants.org Mockingbird Meadows – #2712 along with aromatherapy diffusers. They also offer Ion Unique line of Natural Herbal Products proudly made Mockingbird Meadows is a honey and herb farm using Infra Ionic Detox Machines and sessions. in the USA and inspired by the founder, Rod Jackson’s, Living Web Farms – #6017 biodynamic principles to blur the line between food www.naturaloptions.us Cherokee Ancestors. Living Web Farms: educational farms where hands-on and medicine. With healing intent for their land, their www.nuwatiherbals.com learning comes to life with organic gardening and bees and their customer, they craft chemical-free herbal Natures Aquatics – #5129 & #5130 farm workshops. Videos of everything are online at the health aides, bodycare and nationally recognized herbal Enjoy year-round family gardening. “Live” home-sized NYR Organic – #1112 Living Web Farms website. infused honeys. They believe you should eat your aquaponic and hydroponic setups. Systems, plants, NYR Organic offers certified organic skin care and www.livingwebfarms.org medicine, not take it! Their delicious, easy-to-take raw organic nutrients and water garden supplies available. aromatherapy products, hand-crafted using sustainably honey spreads make that possible for everything from Don’t miss them! harvested and fairly traded ingredients: safe, ethical Logangate Timber Homes – #2423 immunity to sleep issues to daily detox. www.naturesaquatics.com and beneficial. More than 45 years of timber home green www.mockingbirdmeadows.com www.us.nyrorganic.com/shop/jennifercampbell building excellence. Panelized Post & Beam Home Nature’s Flavors – #2905-#2907 manufacturer with two customizable designs delivered Montessori Cooperative School – #1805 Ed and Rachelle Begley’s passion for the environment Oceana Naturals LLC – #2202 to your building site. Montessori Cooperative School works in partnership together with The Flavor Guy’s passion for Mother MelanSol® helps you experience a healthier and more www.logangate.com with children and their families using the Montessori Nature’s gifts have come together to create Begley’s fulfilling life! MelanSol® is safe, healthy, protective, philosophy with a focus on responsible communication and Bill’s Soda. This great-tasting, sugar-free soda is a non-irritating, soothing, rejuvenating, biodegradable, Love at First Sit – #2617 and deep ecological studies. new addition to Nature’s Flavors, creating more than nontoxic, and made in the USA. Portable, fair trade, ergonomic back support systems www.montessoricooperativeschool.com 8,000 natural and organic products from the essence www.puresunscreen.com made of organic cotton and hemp. Ten percent of of nature for more than 34 years. Every product at profits support social, cultural, educational and Nature’s Flavors is vegan, gluten- and allergen-free, and environmental causes. made with the environment in mind. www.loveatfirstsit.com www.begleysandbills.com

30 www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com Exhibitors Exhibitors participating in the sustainability trail sponsored by AdvantageWest. Olea Estates – #1700 Quail Manufacturing/Egg Cart’n– #6500 & #6501 From a small Greek estate, certified organic Greek The Egg Cart’n chicken tractor is designed for utility extra virgin olive oil and olives. Hand picked, cold and longevity. It is easy to move, simple to use and pressed immediately. One varietal raw, kept below made to withstand the elements. 78 degrees. www.eggcartn.com www.oleaestates.com Quarto – #2108 On a Roll Screenprinting & Embroidery – #5008 Quayside Publishing Group represents a dynamic On A Roll Screenprinting & Embroidery is an group of imprints dedicated to providing quality and independently owned shop in downtown Asheville. excellence to its readers. Look for pride and peace flags flying at their booth www.quaysidepub.com to see original designs promoting peace, equality and support of N.C.’s Moral Mondays movement. Ramble & Root LLC – #1603 www.camp-shirts.com Ramble & Root create personal, healthy and high- yielding organic vegetable gardens for their clients, One of a Kind – #1602 providing them with fresh produce as local as their One of a Kind is a four-generation extended family own backyard. working together to craft, recycle, refurbish and www.rambleandroot.org repurpose unusual materials and odd pieces, making functional art. Their motto: “We make cool stuff!” Red Moon Herbs – #2201 Red Moon Herbs, an Asheville-based herbal extracts Organic Growers School – #1010 company, processes fresh herbs in small batches from Organic Growers School has been offering organic wildcrafted sources and area growers. education in the Southern Appalachians since 1993. www.redmoonherbs.com Their mission is to inspire, educate, and support people in their region to farm, garden and Reedy Fork Organic Farm – #5120 live organically. Reedy Fork Farm milks about 100 Holstein and www.organicgrowersschool.org Holstein/Jersey cross cows, and prides itself on high- quality, delicious organic milk. The wonderful taste Osa Mountain & Serenity Gardens comes from cows rotationally grazing on lush green EcoVillage – #5105 pastures – the way nature intended. Osa Mountain Village & Serenity Gardens EcoVillage: www.reedyforkfarm.com Two sustainable communities in the Southern Pacific Zone of Costa Rica. Contact us today for Reems Creek Nursery & Landscaping Inc. – #1708 immediate information. Reems Creek Nursery offers sustainably raised veggie www.serenitygardensecovillage.com plants, organic gardening supplies, soil amendments, seeds, herbs, annuals, perennials, fruits and edibles, Pete Tucker Wood Carving – #5030 natives, shrubs, and trees. They are located 10 minutes Pete’s carvings start with unique pieces of wood from north of downtown Asheville. the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. All are one- www.reemscreek.com of-a-kind and handcarved; whimsical stump heads, beautiful walking sticks and stylized wildlife. River Hills Harvest – #1501 www.petetuckerwoodcarving.com River Hills Harvest develops, produces and distributes elderberry products for both the retail and wholesale Phoenix Landing Foundation – #5134 markets in order to provide easier market access for Parrot adoption, care and supplies. their increasing number of grower members. www.phoenixlanding.org www.riverhillsharvest.com

Piedmont Dairy Goat Association – F-55 River Oaks Cattle Company – #6504 The Piedmont Dairy Goat Association (PDGA) Ankole Watusi cattle are the largest horned cattle in is a nonprofit organization composed of about 80 the world, dating back more than 5,000 years to the members who are interested in owning, breeding, African continent. showing, and promoting the dairy goat. www.riveroakscattle.com www.piedmontdairygoats.com Rockachick Farm – F-50 Pioneer Project, The – #6018 For 20 years, Rockachick Farm has produced fresh, The Pioneer Project is a gap-year program for college- high-quality eggs from heritage breed hens. Current age students. Living on an organic farm in Brasstown, focus is on education and consultation for backyard N.C., students experience homesteading, wilderness poultry. expeditions and crafting. www.pioneerproject.org Royalty Hives – #5133 Royalty Hives introduces a rotatable beehive that Possum Hollow Farm Soap , LLC – #5135 will open the world of beekeeping to thousands of Possum Hollow Farm Soap is a family business individuals, and aid current beekeepers with creating milk-based and vegan soaps and toiletries. physical challenges. www.possumhollowfarmsoap.com www.royaltyhives.com

Premier1 – #6604 & #6605 Rusty Crab Creations – #1701 At Premier1 they have been providing electric fence, Rusty Crab Creations produces handcrafted, 100% electric netting, sheep, goat and poultry supplies plus American-made, affordable art that reflects the beauty expert advice for almost 35 years! Speak with one and culture of North Carolina. Their motto is A“ rt of their consultants at the booth and pick up their with a Purpose.” informational Poultry, Equipment and www.facebook.com/rustycrabcreations Fencing catalogs. www.premier1supplies.com Sanix LLC – #1012 Sanix LLC is an organics solution company Prota Culture, LLC DBA Compost Mania – #5126 providing the highest quality Bokashi and beneficial Compost bins, grub bins, worm bins, chicken coops, microorganisms. Nourish and recycle the way Mother compost accessories. Nature intended, cultivate abundance! www.compostmania.com School of Integrated Living (SOIL) – #6014 Purina – F-62 SOIL’s mission is to inspire and empower people Purina Animal Nutrition is a national to live responsible and creative lives by providing organization serving producers, animal owners experiential education in integrated living and and their families through more than 4,700 local regenerative systems. cooperatives, independent dealers and other large www.schoolofintegratedliving.org retailers throughout the United States. With an uncompromising commitment to animal excellence, School of Natural Healing – #2302 Purina Animal Nutrition conducts industry-leading The School of Natural Healing is the premier herbal R&D initiatives that create and sustain a valued school in America, founded in 1953 by Dr. John R. portfolio of complete feeds, supplements, premixes, Christopher to teach people to heal themselves and ingredients and specialty technologies for the livestock their families naturally. and lifestyle animal markets. Species served by Purina www.schoolofnaturalhealing.com Animal Nutrition include both large and small animals, including cattle, horses, swine, chickens, SeaAgri, Inc. – #1411 hamsters, gerbils and rabbits. Headquartered in Sustainable Organic Ocean Products: SEA-90 Ag Shoreview, Minn., Purina Animal Nutrition is a Mineral and Seasons-90 Baja Gold Gourmet Sea Salt wholly owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes. are for home, garden, and livestock. www.purinamills.com www.seaagri.com

Mother Earth News Fair 31 Exhibitors Exhibitors participating in the sustainability trail sponsored by AdvantageWest. Seed Savers Exchange – #6001 & #6002 Storey Publishing – #2800 & #2801 True Nature Country Fair – #6028 Wishbone Tiny Homes – #6028 Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit, member- Storey Publishing’s books are printed on recycled paper True Nature Country Fair is a celebration of life in Wishbone Tiny Homes offers handcrafted dwellings supported organization that saves and shares the using soy-based inks. connection with the Earth, and includes music, dance, ranging from 120 square feet to 500 square feet heirloom seeds of their garden heritage, forming a www.storey.com food and classes on all aspects of sustainable living, that serve the diverse needs of the next-generation living legacy that can be passed down lakeside at Highland Lake Cove. homebuyer. There will be a model on site! through generations. Sun Oven International – #5139 www.truenaturecountryfair.org www.wishbonetinyhomes.com www.seedsavers.org Sun Oven is the Ultimate Solar Appliance! Bake, boil, steam or dehydrate naturally with the sun. There’s no TS Designs – #2718 Wood-Mizer – #1802 Selina Naturally® Celtic Sea Salt® – #2900 energy costs, no pollution ... just fresh, succulent food. TS Designs is an innovative screen printing Stop by Wood-Mizer’s booth to get hands-on with How is Selina Naturally® Celtic Sea Salt® different than www.sunoven.com company in Burlington, N.C. They are the creator of their line of portable sawmills, and see how easy other sea salts? Precious micro elements are locked REHANCE, an eco-friendly printing technology, and it is to mill your own lumber from your own logs. within the salt crystals as they are being formed in Sun-Mar – #1409 the Cotton of the Carolinas T-shirt. Offering entry-level sawmills for the hobbyist to the ocean matrix, adding to the salt’s effectiveness Self-contained and central system composting toilets www.tsdesigns.com high-production portable mills, Wood-Mizer has a mill as biological regulators of their body’s functions. and garden composters. for anyone looking to start saving money by sawing Consistent personal inspection is done by owner Selina www.sun-mar.com UliMana – #1109 lumber. Also ask about the limited-time offers on DeLangre. The company builds personal relationship UliMana is an Asheville-based company that makes certain models. with all suppliers, and produces a product that is hand- Sundance Power Systems – #7017 raw, organic chocolate truffles and organic cotton bras www.woodmizer.com harvested, hand-packaged and kosher-certified. 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Organic Farming and Gardening Supplies systems) solar hot water, radiant floor heat, micro- www.urthealer.com W.R. Case & Sons – #2106 Catalog; animal supplements, cover crop seed, pest hydro and wind energy. W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company is an American management, growing mixes, row covers, deer fencing. www.sundancepower.com Usborne Books and More – #1608 manufacturer of premium hand-crafted knives that are Nationwide shipping, online ordering. Award-winning, fantastic fiction and innovative passed down for generations. Case’s offerings cover a www.7springsfarm.com Sunrise Farm – F-12 nonfiction books for every age and subject. wide range of products from traditional folding pocket Sunrise Farm is a premier breeder of dairy goats in Entertaining, multicultural and Internet-linked. knives and fixed blade sporting knives to limited Singer Farm Naturals – #2609 Western North Carolina for home milkers, commercial www.UsborneBookSTOP.com production commemoratives and collectibles. Growing 70 varieties of organic gourmet garlic along dairies, show and export sales. They are home to www.wrcase.com the western New York shore of Lake Ontario. They a USDA-certified and accredited herd, and are an Useful Plants Nursery – #1600 also produce Tart Cherry Juice Concentrate from their ADGAPlus member. Useful Plants Nursery, located near Asheville, N.C., Wright’s Hearth, Heat & Home – #2203 family orchards. www.sunrisefarmnc.com grows fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and other Wright’s Hearth, Heat & Home offers chimney www.singerfarmnaturals.com useful plants for the Southern Appalachian and sweeping, gas service, repairs and more. Family-owned Super-Sod – #2103 Piedmont bioregions. and operated for more than 20 years, Wright’s is proud Smugtown Mushrooms – #1304 Super-Sod’s “Doc’s Raised Garden Kits” include www.usefulplants.org to serve more than 7,000 customers in Western Smugtown Mushrooms offers organically grown certified organic compost (made with recycled grass North Carolina. fresh gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, as well from sod production); their “Drivable Grass” creates UV Paqlite – #5007 www.wrightsfireplaces.com as cultivation supplies and grow materials for the the healthiest grassy parking lots. UV Paqlite, the amazing light, is a sustainable light beginner and veteran cultivator. www.supersod.com source that does not use batteries, bulbs or electricity. 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