October 1st & 2nd, 2022*
Camden, Tennessee
*PLUS! pre-event tree guild
workshop on September 30th
The Self-Reliance Festival will give you the skills and knowledge to be independent, prepared, and equipped for anything. Demos include emergency medical training, aquaponics, defense dogs, canning, blacksmithing, spinning, and
permaculture design.
This year's lineup includes:
Nicole Sauce
Take Heart and Get Going
We don’t know exactly what’s coming, but that’s no excuse for spinning in place. Pull up your work
boots and start doing.
Jack Spirko
Aquaponics
The practical facts, feasible yields, and how-to when you grow plants in nutrient-rich
water.
John Willis
Dependence or DIY? Your Choice
No one knows how to make a serious topic both deep and engrossing the way John Willis does.
Billy Bond
Raise All of Your Meat for Free
How to transform waste streams into pork,
chicken, eggs, and
compost
Ken Eash
Bridging the Personality Gap
How to understand, adapt, and relate to others to strengthen your network whether times get tough, or even if they don’t.
Joel Ryals
Protection K9s
In many situations, just having a gun is not
enough. Adding a Protection Dog to your defense makes you, your family, and your home safer. Joel will demonstrate his dogs’ capability.
Dr. Ken Berry
Principles of a Proper Human Diet
Eileen Wirsig with Stephanie Hostetter and members of the Murray
Art Guild
Weaving on a 4 Harness Loom
Weave a Scarf in Twill with Wool and Silk. Give weaving a try. Learn to spin yarn. Demonstrations continue all weekend.
Chuck Peoples
Dealing with Emergency When There Is No Doctor
Do you have what it really takes to deal with a medical or traumatic emergency? Equipment and training on what is necessary when no conventional medical care is available.
Andy Higginbotham
Homeschooling: Teach Mental Freedom
Learn the simple tools to educate your children, no matter your education or
experience.
Matthew Sercely
Avoiding the Tax Man Legally
Quick and dirty explanation about how anyone with a business can save money on their taxes if they just plan ahead.[/center]
As well as:
Construction Skills for the Homestead - Jason Sparks
Canning for Beginners - Dawn Gorham
Build a Vortex Tea Brewer - Brian Norton
Building the Future with Hemp - Imani Mamalution and River Richardson
The Overlooked but Critical Prep: Fitness - Stephen Boone
Distilling for Fuel - Jason Rautbort
Traditional Blacksmithing - Dakota Lobato
Raising Rabbits Sustainably - Nick Ferguson
Turning Content into Currency - Toolman Tim Cook
And much more!
PLUS!
The folks at Perma Pastures Farm are hosting a special pre-event workshop on September 30th on
planting trees and tree guilds!
Check it out here!
Learn:
What is a plant guild?
How do you choose what to plant where?
When to plant what
How to prepare the ground from bare
root plants
Bare root vs potted plants
Successful seeding
Maintaining
swale plantins
Maintaining swales
Draft Schedule – Includes lunch
(subject to refinement!)
Friday, 10AM-2PMpm
* Two hours of classroom work discussing trees and why guilds are necessary. We will also discuss how the events of the day will unfold.
* Seed the swales with clover and chop and drop the buckwheat and cow
pea on top of it
* Demonstrate how to properly plant a potted tree.
* Demonstrate how to plant a bare root plant (and why now is the wrong time to plant)
* Demonstrate how/where to situate other plants within the guild
* Supervise students doing the work
* Q&A
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