SPONSORS
Manna Pro - Title Sponsor
At Manna Pro®, we believe in Nurturing Life™. Since 1985 with roots dating back to 1842, Manna Pro has been committed to providing high-quality, nutritionally wholesome feeds, supplements and treats to your flock at every stage of their lives. As a company comprised of animal lovers we understand the desire to provide your flock with the very best. Our passion is happy, healthy pets and we are your trusted partner to provide just that.
Cedar Mountain Herb School - Contributing Sponsor
Cedar Mountain Herb School is one of the longest-running herbal schools in the Pacific Northwest. Serving herbal students for over 30 years, we provide the highest quality in herbal medicine education, all-natural living, herbal healing and more. Whether you are learning about herbalism for personal use or building your own herb business, we offer you the full range of enthusiasm and education!
Earth Tools - Contributing Sponsor
Earth Tools is North America's leading supplier of walk-behind small-scale agricultural equipment, specifically walk-behind tractors and implements. We ship nationwide, we stock all spare parts, and we have dedicated in-house service staff for technical support. We also offer a full selection of top-quality hand-held gardening tools; some European-made, some American-made.
Fair Shake Environmental - Contributing Sponsor
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services is a nonprofit environmental law firm that brings decision-making and conflict resolution tools to people in place. We do that by fostering equal access to environmental justice and the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people through direct client representation, the provision of free legal clinics and community empowerment services, and educating attorneys in legal services entrepreneurship.
Hoover’s Hatchery/www.flockjourney.com - Contributing Sponsor
Hoover’s Hatchery has come a long way in 74 years, from starting as part of a creamery (and only hatching white leghorns) to offering a full catalog that now includes more than 100 breeds. They have a passion for backyard poultry. Most importantly, they have a passion for serving their customers and their communities. Hoover's realizes that without their customers, they wouldn’t be where they are today!
Lehman’s - Contributing Sponsor
Be prepared, not scared. Find products for self-sufficiency, from gardening and food preservation, to living without electricity, at Lehmans.com. With a retail store in Kidron, OH and thousands of practical products on line, let Lehman’s help you take the next step on your journey to a simpler life.
Mann Lake Ltd./Stromberg’s Chick & Game Birds Unlimited - Contributing Sponsor
Murray McMurray Hatchery - Contributing Sponsor
McMurray Hatchery has been a trusted, family-owned company dedicated to hatching the highest quality poultry, and hand-packing each order with care, for 104 years. They offer the widest selection of rare and heritage breeds, low minimums, and the supplies you need to raise a successful flock.
Premier 1 - Contributing Sponsor
For over 40 years, Premier 1 has been providing electric fence and netting; sheep, goat, and poultry supplies; as well as expert advice! Speak with one of the consultants at their booth and pick up informational poultry, equipment, and fencing catalogs.
Roots & Harvest - Contributing Sponsor
From time-honored tools to exclusive innovations to expert know-how, Roots & Harvest has everything you need to enjoy the pride and satisfaction of your homemade lifestyle. Whether you're fermenting cabbage, churning butter, or crafting artisan cheese, rest assured that our carefully selected, staff-tested products will deliver top-notch results every time. Spend more time doing what you love, and remember: There's no place like homemade!
Ardisam - Contributing Sponsor
There are multiple reasons for wanting to start your own backyard chicken farming operation such as the nutritious value of knowing where your food came from and avoiding food that’s been pumped with chemicals or other unnatural items. In the past, the only options were hand-plucking, a homemade chicken plucker or an industrial chicken plucker that is not very affordable to the average backyard chicken farmer. The Yardbird Chicken Plucker is the complete package and perfect for those who choose to do it themselves.
Farm to Table Western PA - Contributing Sponsor
Farm to Table Buy Local promotes local agriculture and improves access to fresh, healthy food for underserved individuals, seniors and families. We are the Buy Fresh Buy Local chapter for the 30 counties of Western Pennsylvania. We publish the digital and print Western PA Local Food Guide and work with farms and growers to promote their products to consumers and wholesale buyers. Find us at community events and the Farm to Table Expo & Tastings.
Central Boiler/Altoz - Associate Sponsor
Privately owned Central Boiler is located in northern Minnesota. They're North America's largest manufacturer of outdoor furnaces and provide a clean, safe, efficient way to heat with renewable energy and coal. Based on a desire to create the most efficient heating products, the company’s designs and patents have established it as a leader in the industry.
DE-source/Absorbant Products - Associate Sponsor
Absorbent Products Ltd. is the secure source of organic, earth-friendly minerals that people – and the animals they love – depend on. Whether you want to clean up a spill, control insects without chemicals, or make life more comfortable for your family cat, backyard flock, horses, or barn animals, we have an all - natural solution. We let our products speak for themselves in helping you create a healthy life for your family and animals.
Diamond Pet Foods - Associate Sponsor
For fifty years, family-owned Diamond® Pet Foods has believed that every pet deserves the very best. That's why they use only high-quality ingredients they'd be proud to give their own cats and dogs. Their family of brands — including Taste of the Wild®, Taste of the Wild with Ancient Grains and Taste of the Wild PREY® — offers a wide variety of formulas to suit different taste preferences, dietary needs and pet parent budgets. Booth #1100
Superior Sleep - Associate Sponsor
Superior Sleep Experience is committed to providing you with the best comfort and best sleep experience possible, at the guaranteed lowest price! They do something that no one else does: They offer high-quality beds at a discounted price, one they guarantee won’t be beat (or they will give you the difference).
Appalachian Botanical Co - Associate Sponsor
Founded in 2018, Appalachian Botanical Co is proud to grow lavender and raise bees on reclaimed coal mine land in Boone Co, W.V. We use the steam-distilled lavender oil, hydrosol and dried buds and stems to make organic, custom-formulated aromatherapy, body care, culinary and home goods products. We are also pleased to employ local residents who may otherwise have trouble finding good-paying jobs in their community.
Chelsea Green - Supporting Partner
Chelsea Green Publishing is recognized as a leading publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living, publishing authors who bring in-depth, practical knowledge to life, and give readers hands-on information related to organic farming and gardening, ecology and the environment, healthy food, sustainable economics, progressive politics, and, most recently, integrative health and wellness.
Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund - Supporting Partner
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund defends the rights and freedoms of farmers, homesteaders, producers, and consumers to grow, obtain, share, exchange, and sell nutrient-dense, local, and artisanal foods.
National Ladies Homestead Gathering - Supporting Partner
Ladies Homestead Gathering is a non-profit, active in bringing like-minded women together in local community; giving opportunity for doing life together while learning all aspects of homesteading.
New Society - Supporting Partner
New Society Publishers' mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that models this vision.
School of Permaculture - Supporting Partner
The School of Permaculture is a nonprofit that educates people about permaculture by combining sustainable ancient wisdom with appropriate technology and sharing it through courses, consultations and aid work.
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - Supporting Partner
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange offers more than 700 heirloom, organic, and open-pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower varieties, plus garlic, perennial onions, and seed saving supplies. Their mission is to ensure that people retain control of their food supply and conserve genetic resources, and they offer gardeners the option of saving their own seeds.
Storey Publishing - Supporting Partner
Storey Publishing helps readers enjoy simpler, more satisfying lives through an array of how-to books on do-it-yourself topics including gardening, cooking, well-being, crafts, farming, sustainable living, animal care, building, and home improvement.
The Livestock Conservancy - Supporting Partner
The Livestock Conservancy works to save nearly 200 heritage breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction. Modern agriculture favors only a handful of highly specialized breeds at the expense of biodiversity. The Conservancy protects breeds that are wonderful choices for today’s small-scale, sustainable farms and homesteads.
Un-Included Club - Supporting Partner
The Un-included Club encourages youth to be un-included from negativity, obesity and illiteracy. They are growing super foods and using them to grow healthier bodies and communities
Central Texas Master Naturalist - Supporting Partner
Central Texas Master Naturalists is a nonprofit, volunteer organization that provides education, outreach and service dedicated to beneficial management of their local natural resources.
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance - Supporting Partner
Get the latest information about the laws affecting sustainable farming and local food. The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) works to support family farmers and promote common-sense policies for local, diversified agricultural systems.
Texas Organic Research Center - Supporting Partner
The mission of TORC is to provide research and information to homeowners, farmers, ranchers and other decision makers with the goal of helping stop the broad scale use of toxic chemical pesticides and fertilizers which are currently being sold and used in the futile attempt to grow crops and control insect pests and diseases.
Three Rivers EVA (Alternative Energy Car Show) - Supporting Partner
The Three Rivers EVA is a Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Electric Auto Association. The Electric Auto Association was founded in 1967 and is North America’s leading nonprofit with over 100 chapters and thousands of members. They are helping to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles by supporting its chapters and members as they talk neighbor-to-neighbor in their communities about the benefits of driving electric.
Guinea Fowl International - Supporting Partner
The Guinea Fowl International Association (GFIA) is a nonprofit organization based in Texas that has been serving the needs of guinea fowl keepers from around the world since 2006.
Pasa - Supporting Partner
Pasa is a Pennsylvania-based sustainable agriculture association founded in 1992.
They work to cultivate environmentally sound, economically viable, and community-focused farms and food systems through education, research, policy, and marketing initiatives.
Uncle Mud & Family - Supporting Partner
Play in the mud with Uncle Mud and friends. Use clay, straw, and sticks to build little houses and sculpt beautiful objects from your wild imagination. This is a "hands-in" workshop: hands and feet squishing and mixing and making a big mess. Talk about how we can use these same materials to build benches, ovens, and even houses. You can use the water at this workshop to wash off with, but be prepared to get dirty and have fun.
