No charge for parking. When you arrive please look for a parking director.

This is a rain or shine event! Either way, we will have a great time learning homesteading skills.

If the weather looks horrible we will reschedule for June 26th.

We are a working farm with guardian dogs. We ask that only service dogs join us on the farm.

Yes! We want this to be a family event!

Yes! There will be enough time to see around 5 demos.

There will be a lunch break. You can buy lunch from the event or bring your own.

Yes! We are going to limit each demo to around 10-15 people. We want to make sure your questions get answered! AND want to make sure you can see.

I've been a natural living #crunchymama  for decades--and I'm committed to helping others find answers for their health + lifestyle that are good, honest, clean + powerful. Oils, herbs and food-based nutrition are fundamental!

Are you ready to uplevel your life and embrace natural + non-toxic living? 

“Pork” Rhyne is a “pork evangelist” known across the country and even overseas in East Africa for his work as an international agricultural educator and niche meat marketing expert.

For over 5 years, Rhyne has dedicated his life to training and educating experienced and beginner farmers, primarily on small-scale livestock production, business, and marketing.

Rhyne has been featured on Mother Earth News, Applegate, “Farming While Black” by Leah Penniman, The Good Meat Breakdown, Zingerman’s Camp Bacon, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, California Certified Organic Farmers, and much more.

Dancer by training, butcher by trade, and homesteader by permacultural necessity.

Biologist, focusing on Black Soldier Fly Cultivation since 2007

Holistic focused approach to homesteading Trained in Permaculture, Holistic Management, and Regenerative Agriculture

My name is Emanuel, I have been farming and homesteading a various levels over the years. Went to A&T University studying soil science, Working on the university farm building high tunnels, research farming, growing moringa, establishing agroforestry farms. Currently I am a farmer and handyman. I’ll be presenting how to setup solar panels, meaning, talk about site consideration, talk about new vs used solar panels. Ill have solar panel(s) —> charge controler —>a meter to test power coming from panels, then use the same meter to test power coming from charge controler, then connect to a battery, and finish off with an inverter running a light bulb. Ill offer visitors a free onsite consultation for setting non grid tied solar. Ill bring photos from 3 locations i upkeep that are currently using solar for 80% or more of their power needs.

The Carolina Homeplace Farm, LLC is primarily a managed grazing microdairy built on small piece of a former large conventional dairy. Matt is a farmer and professional educator with nearly two decades of experience teaching, gardening, and raising livestock all in the context of providing for a growing family.
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The Carolina Homeplace Farm, LLC is primarily a managed grazing microdairy built on small piece of a former large conventional dairy. Matt is a farmer and professional educator with nearly two decades of experience teaching, gardening, and raising livestock all in the context of providing for a growing family.

Seven years ago, my husband and I bought our 15 acre farm with a goal of building a sustainable and healthy food base to support our family. Bit by bit we've built a regenerative farm on which we raise all of our meat and most of our vegetables. It continues to be a labor of love as we add more variety and more health to our land each year.

Today we raise grass fed beef cattle for ourselves and for sale under the 7 Smiths' Farm brand. We keep organically fed pigs and meat chickens for our own use and harvest all on the farm. We freeze, cure, and can the meat using traditional methods that honor the whole animal. Laying hens and bees round out our livestock.

We ensure each animal enjoys a healthy, happy life with the freedom to live as God intended for each one. The cows, pigs, and meat birds are moved to fresh grass daily allowing their manure and urine to naturally fertilize the soil and giving the pastures recovery time between each rotation.

My husband manages the animals while I lead in the garden and the kitchen. We have a dozen raised beds, a traditional garden, and multiple fruit trees and vines. Growing enough produce to feed our family year-round requires solid preservation practices for preservation. I have been canning for 7 + years and utilize pressure canning, water bath canning, dehydrating, salt curing and fermenting techniques extensively. I love learning new skills and love teaching to others so that they can ensure food stability for their family as well.

I have been involved in the fiber arts for over 30 years. Sewing, Waldorf Doll Maker, Knitter, Spinner, Weaver and using Natural dyes to dye wool. Trained in sheep to yarn and natural dyeing at John C Campbell Folk School in 2019. My passion is in training the next generation to carry on the handcrafts.

First generation homesteaders raising our food to heal our bodies from the inside out. We raise KuneKune pigs, meat rabbits, chickens, dairy goats and Australian Shepherds as well as operate a market-garden style garden using regenerative practices and rotational grazing.

I have been raising chickens and gardening for 10 years, starting in Florida. Once we moved up here, I began raising larger livestock to achieve a more sustainable and simpler lifestyle for me and my family. I love being able to share these experiences with others and help them on their journeys.

We are a family fiber farm in northern Alamance County, North Carolina. We raise Colored Angora goats and French Angora rabbits for fiber, as well as honeybees, chickens, and whatever else crawls/creeps/galumphs into our world. We produce Mohair, Angora, honey, eggs (when the chickens aren't slacking - we do not cull for age), and other fiber products as time/resources allow.
Caitlin has been a fiber arts folk for as long as she can remember, and is active in several regional fiber and agricultural organizations.

Millboro and Co. is a no-till organic vegetable farm. Our growing practices involve human scale methods that allow us to focus on the health of the soil. We use cover cropping and mulching to build soil that supports microbial life and nutrient-dense plants.Caitlin has been a fiber arts folk for as long as she can remember, and is active in several regional fiber and agricultural organizations.

I am a family homemaker whose goal is to be more self sufficient, with less reliance on the world market system. I am proficient at growing vegetables, canning food, process animals, bake all types of bread, and largely turning raw milk into cheeses and yogurts. Cheddar, Gouda, Asiago, Butterkauser, and Colby/Monterey/Pepperjack are all cheeses I regularly make.

With more than 25 years of nonprofit management and fundraising experience, Wendy supports organizations starting their nonprofit journey from forming a 501c3 through creating fundraising plans, grants writing, and research and board training. Wendy has raised millions of dollars for small to midsize nonprofits and supported strategic planning, led executive coaching, and worked with boards and leaders to catapult missions to the next level. Wendy currently operates Chutzpah Hollow, a 10 acre farm with an aquaponics greenhouse and gardens where she raises mini cows and Barbados Blackbelly sheep.

I've been growing for over 20 years organically and well versed in hydroponics. I also have been growing recently using the KNF (Korean Natural Farming) method as well, which is all about using nature to create all local indigenous microorganisms for your soils.