2023 conference handout

Here is our list of references, resources, and events for 2023; this uses less paper than carrying handouts. Cheers!

Dougherty MENFair Texas Resource Page

Our mission is to help you get past the hurdles that are preventing you from homesteading successfully.

                        Texas Speaking Schedule for the Doughertys
The Cow-Powered Homestead:  Cows Harvest Solar Energy for the Whole Farm  // Saturday 10:00-11:00 a.m. //  Sustainable Agriculture Stage

Planning the Farm Year // Saturday 11:30-12:30 p.m. // Mother Earth News Stage

Book signing // Saturday 12:30 – 1:00pm

Fencing Strategies for the Rotational Grazier:  Taking the Mystery Out of Grazing // Saturday  5:00-6:00 p.m.  // Sustainable Agriculture Stage

Building the Inputs-Free Farmstead: Ten Steps to Food Independence  // Sunday 10:00-11:00 a.m.  // Countryside Stage

Bed and Breakfast Nuts and Bolts // Sunday 11:30-12:30 p.m. // Building and Energy Stage

DIY Water Systems for the Homesteader  // Sunday 2:00-3:00 p.m. // Sustainable Agriculture Stage

 Our 2023 speaking engagements           

• Marbleseed Organic Farming Conference, February 25 (La Crosse, Wisconsin)
• Women’s Retreat, March 25, (Hohenwald, Tennessee)
• Ecology and the Theology of Creation - St. Basil Institute - On line conference, April 22
• Mother Earth News Fair Kansas, April 29-30 (Lawrence, Kansas)
• New Polity Conference, May 5-6 (Steubenville, Ohio)
• Old School Survival Conference May 12-14 (McArthur, Ohio)
• Healing Land Homesteading Skills Festival, May 26-27 (Bergholtz, Ohio)
• Rory Feek’s Homestead Festival June 2-3 (Columbia, Tennessee)
• Lehmans Hardware June 17 (Kidron, Ohio)
• Mother Earth News Fair Pennsylvania, July 15-16 (Erie, Pennsylvania)
• Ozark Homesteading Conference August 25-26 (Marshfield, Missouri) (pending)
• Mother Earth News Fair Wisconsin, September 16-17 (West Bend, Wisconsin)
• Homesteaders of America October 12-14 (Front Royal, Virginia) 
  
  

Where you can find us online

• One Cow Revolution Website blog
• The Healing Land
• The Living Web (6-part video on farming methods)
• Justin Rhodes Master classes and Abundance+
• Homesteaders of America on-line classes
• New Polity
• Coming soon
  • Documentary with Life Site News
  • Master classes from “School of Traditional Skills”

Where you can find us in print  

• The Independent Farmstead by Shawn and Beth Dougherty
• The Independent Farmstead Field Guides to Inputs-Free Farming and Homesteading by Shawn and Beth Dougherty, Illustrated by Anna Dougherty (Lulu.com, or order from us at our website)
• Magazines – Hobby Farms, Plain Values, Mother Earth News, Grit

On Farm Workshops at the Sow’s Ear Farm (Toronto, Ohio), 2023
(for more information and to sign up visit thehealingland.com or contact us by email)

• Building an Independent Farmstead workshop March 17-18 (Sold Out)
• Dairy Cow workshop (April 14-15)
• Chicken workshop (June 23-24)
• Feeding the Farm from the Farm workshop (August 11-12)
• Dairy Cow workshop (September 1-2)

The Healing Land Homesteading Skills Festival, May 26-27, 2023 (Elkhorn Valley Christian Service Camp, Bergholtz, Ohio)  more information at thehealingland.com

Other and Contact Information

The Doughertys are available for farm consultations, design-your-own workshops, and farm tours – contact us at shawnandbeth1960@gmail.com for more information.

Homesteading questions and problems – email us at shawnandbeth1960@gmail.com  - we want to help you over your homesteading hurdles.

Visit our airbnb – The Cozy Cabin in Toronto, Ohio.

List of books we recommend

• anything by Wendell Berry (but especially Home Economics and The Unsettling of America)
• A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
• An Agricultural Testament, by Sir Albert Howard
• Salad Bar Beef, by Joel Salatin
• Comeback Farms, by Greg Judy
• Feeding Farm Animals, by Thomas Shaw
• The Winter Harvest Handbook, by Eliot Coleman
• Four Season Harvest, by Eliot Coleman
• Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, by Will Bonsall
• The Art of Natural Cheesemaking, by David Asher
• The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, by Harvey Ussery
• Keeping Bees in Horizontal Hives by Georges de Layens (edited by Dr. Leo Sharashkin)

List of movies we recommend

• Food, Inc.
• Alan Savory TEDtalk2013