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*Please note that this schedule is subject to change at any time.

Saturday

Stage 10:00 a.m.10:30 a.m.11:00 a.m.11:30 a.m.12:00 p.m.12:30 p.m.1:00 p.m.1:30 p.m.2:00 p.m.2:30 p.m.3:00 p.m.3:30 p.m.4:00 p.m.4:30 p.m.5:00 p.m.5:30 p.m.6:00 p.m.6:30 p.m.
Mother Earth Living Stage
Countryside Stage
Farmer's Friend Stage
Hands-On Workshops Room

A ticket is required to participate in Hands-On workshops

Mother Earth News Stage
Building and Energy Stage
Grit Stage
The Livestock Conservancy Stage
Organic Gardening Stage
Real Food Stage
Sustainable Agriculture Stage
Kids Treehouse Stage
Building with Natural Materials
Cat Taylor
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Discover the Truth About Micro Plastics
Kashava Holt
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud
Uncle Mud & Family
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Build Your Own Wood-Fired Pizza Oven from Dirt
Uncle Mud & Family
2:00-3:00 p.m.
How To Build Your Own Mortgage-Free Home
Cat Taylor
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Nano Technology: Industrial Purposes
Kashava Holt
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Homestead Money Makeover Q&A
Pork Rhyne
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Backyard Poultry Hatchery Production and Choosing the Right Genetics
Tony Halsted
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Generating Homestead Profit While Home-Schooling
Cyndi Ball
2:00-3:00 p.m.
No Cash? No Problem: Barter Markets and Cashless Commerce
Kyle Ferlemann
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Securing Food and Seed Sustainability
Randy and Terri Brim
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Creating Local Farm Community Partnerships
April Jones
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Transform Your Yard into an Edible Oasis
Crystal Stevens
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Getting Started Beekeeping: Everything you Need to Know!
Tara Chapman
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Starting and Growing a Community Garden
Karena Poke
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Seasonal Beekeeping in Texas
Tara Chapman
3:30-4:30 p.m.
How To Grow Food in Small Spaces
Nicky Schauder
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Starting at Square One: Exploring Markets and Profits for your Farm Business
Amyrose Foll
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Soil Detox, Improvement, and Management for Natural Organic Growing of Medicinal, Culinary, and Other Crops
Howard Garrett
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Natural Beekeeping That Works
Leo Sharashkin
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Off-Grid Energy: Becoming Energy Independent in 2023
Hoss Boyd
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Market Opportunities With Values and Added Products
April Jones
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Growing in Small Spaces Hands-on Workshop
Karena Poke
Buy Now
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Confused by Medicare? You Are Not Alone
Noelle Uhler
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Garden Herbs and Flowers for Health and Beauty Hands-on Workshop
Janice Cox
Buy Now
2:00-3:00 p.m.
My Chicken Family: Author YOU!
Melissa Caughey
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Nature's Healthy Sodas: Probioitic Beverages on a Budget
Hannah Crum
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Growing Seedlings for Kids
Tanzia Karim
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud
Uncle Mud & Family
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Junior Poultry Scientist: Nest Box Building
Kelsey Spotts
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Making Soap Balls
Connie Jacoby
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Soil Layer Dessert
Un-Included Club Youth Leaders
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Beautiful Luffa
Janice Cox
10:00-11:00 a.m.
GROW UP! Elevate Your Garden Beds and Stop Being a Pain in Your Own Neck
Shawna Coronado
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Natural Clays: Ancient Solutions for Modern Ailments
Darryl Bosshardt
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Vital Immunity: Herbs to Get You Better and Keep You Well!
Nicole Telkes
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Homegrown Apothecary
Crystal Stevens
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Beautiful Lavender
Janice Cox
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Growing Herbs for Health and Happiness
Bevin Cohen
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Planning the Farm Year
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Poultry Q and A
Melissa Caughey
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Christine Heinrichs
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Summer Planting for an Abundant Fall and Winter Harvest
Ira Wallace
2:00-3:00 p.m.
What the Cluck? Treating Common Backyard Chicken Health Issues
Melissa Caughey
3:30-4:30 p.m.
How to Use Beneficial Insects (and Other Innovations) to Control Insects, Diseases, and Weeds Naturally and Organically!
Howard Garrett
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Food Forests Texas Style
Darrell Frey
10:00-11:00 a.m.
10 Crucial Steps Most Organic Gardeners Forget About
Nicky Schauder
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Seven Steps to Homesteading
Leah Webb
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Secret Blow-Your-Mind Organic Gardening Hacks
Shawna Coronado
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Grow More, Work Less: Expert Tips for Your Vegetable Garden
Ira Wallace
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Natural Salts and the Mistake of the Low-Salt Diet
Darryl Bosshardt
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Belly Biochemistry
Leah Webb
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Kombucha & the Human Microbiome
Hannah Crum
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Let's Talk Tomatoes: America's Favorite Fruit
Bevin Cohen
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Meat Matters! How to Raise Meat Birds Successfully
Matt Wilkinson
5:00-6:00 p.m.
The Cow-Powered Homestead: Cows Harvest Solar Energy for the Whole Farm
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Making New Opportunities for Small Farmers and Producers
Judith McGeary
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Permaculture Design for Small Farms
Darrell Frey
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Farm Woodlot Management
Amyrose Foll
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Fencing Strategies for the Rotational Grazier:  Taking the Mystery Out of Grazing
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Sustainable Beef Production with Heritage Breed Cattle
Richard Browning Jr.
10:00-11:00 a.m.
How and Why to Add Guineas to Your Farm
Cindy Gibson
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Pasture Pig Q&A
Pork Rhyne
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Here's the Scoop From the Coop
Daniel Dalton
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Keeping a Mixed Poultry Flock
Cindy Gibson
5:00-6:00 p.m.

Sunday

Stage 10:00 a.m.10:30 a.m.11:00 a.m.11:30 a.m.12:00 p.m.12:30 p.m.1:00 p.m.1:30 p.m.2:00 p.m.2:30 p.m.3:00 p.m.3:30 p.m.4:00 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Mother Earth Living Stage
Countryside Stage
Farmer's Friend Stage
Hands-On Workshops Room

A ticket is required to participate in Hands-On workshops

Mother Earth News Stage
Building and Energy Stage
Grit Stage
The Livestock Conservancy Stage
Organic Gardening Stage
Real Food Stage
Sustainable Agriculture Stage
Kids Treehouse Stage
Make a Reciprocal Roof
Cat Taylor
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Bed and Breakfast Nuts and Bolts
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Matt Wilkinson
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud
Uncle Mud & Family
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Making Cob: How to Build with Mud
Uncle Mud & Family
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Build a Rocket Mass Heater
Uncle Mud & Family
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Building the Inputs-Free Farmstead: Ten Steps to Food Independence
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
10:00-11:00 a.m.
How to Maximize Your Backyard Harvest
Nicky Schauder
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Recycling in Your Landscape
Tim Miller
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Local Food and Farming Laws
Judith McGeary
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Find Better Ways to Filter the Air, Soil, and Water
Kashava Holt
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Gardening with Limited Space
Tanzia Karim
10:00-11:00 a.m.
The Southeast Medicinal Forest Garden
Joanna Mann
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Achieving Food Sovereignty
April Jones
2:00-3:00 p.m.
DIY Market Gardening
Keith Arkenberg
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Native Plants for Honeybees and Other Pollinators
Leo Sharashkin
10:00-11:00 a.m.
DIY Farm Tools
Keith Arkenberg
11:30-12:30 p.m.
How to Plant and Maintain Trees for Maximum Health and Production Using Cost-Effective Natural, Organic Techniques
Howard Garrett
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Effective Emergency Plans: The 20 Percent Plan Is the 80 Percent Solution
Kyle Ferlemann
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Natural First-Aid Kit: Crafting Your Own Bitters Hands-On Workshop
Nicole Telkes
Buy Now
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Harvesting Honey Hands-on Workshop
Tara Chapman
Buy Now
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Meal Plan Your Way to Better Health
Leah Webb
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Confused by Medicare? You Are Not Alone
Noelle Uhler
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Soil and Seeds, Sprouts to Success
Un-Included Club Youth Leaders
10:00-11:00 a.m.
DIY Bubbling Bath Bombs
Janice Cox
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Kids Can Build with Sticks and Mud
Uncle Mud & Family
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Basic Homestead Knot-Tying
Matt Stephens
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Kid's Workshop: Fly the Coop with Flying Chickens!
Melissa Caughey
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Create Partnerships and Profit
Karena Poke
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Plant-based Healing, Essential Oils in Motion
Connie Jacoby
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Planning your Garden for Seed Saving
Bevin Cohen
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Supporting Native Bees and other Pollinators
Tara Chapman
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Regenerative Practices for the Home Gardener
Leah Webb
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Homestead Money Makeover Q&A
Pork Rhyne
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Poultry Q and A
Melissa Caughey
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Christine Heinrichs
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Top 10 Springtime Medicinal Plants for Central Texas
Nicole Telkes
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Berry Paradise: Growing Blueberries and Blackberries Organically
Amyrose Foll
3:30-4:30 p.m.
How to Grow Perennial Onions, Leeks and Other Unusual Alliums
Ira Wallace
10:00-11:00 a.m.
The Truth About Deserts: Rural and Urban
Kashava Holt
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Making Compost Tea for Gardening
Nicky Schauder
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Building Sustainable Gardens
Karena Poke
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Stewarding Endangered Corn Cultivars
Amyrose Foll
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Cold-Pressed Oils: Home-Scale Extraction for the Farm or Homestead
Bevin Cohen
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Be the Butcher! Homestead Beef Harvest
Shawn Kelly
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Stacked in Your Flavor; How to Build an Anti-Inflammatory Meal Plan Fueled with a Flavor Explosion
Shawna Coronado
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Advocating for Farmer's Land Access and Food Systems
April Jones
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Resilience Farming: Strengthening Your Farm Income by Adding and Growing with Agritourism
Matt Stephens
11:30-12:30 p.m.
DIY Water Systems for the Homesteader
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Simplify Your Homestead Plan
Cyndi Ball
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Gardening with Chickens in Central Texas
Melissa Caughey
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Raising Turkeys on Pasture
Christine Heinrichs
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Raising Honeybee Queens and Making Royal Jelly
Leo Sharashkin
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Pasture Pig Q&A
Pork Rhyne
3:30-4:30 p.m.