BREAK FREE from relying on others for your food and health!
Join 4,000+ homesteaders for a weekend of real skills, real food, and real freedom—whether you’re just getting started or leveling up your land at the Modern Homesteading Conference in Coeur D'alene, ID June 26 & 27th, 2026 (with a morning church service Sunday the 28th).
Learn directly from Joel Salatin, Sally Fallon Morell, Mary Heffernan, Carolyn Thomas, Joel L'ampl and 30+ experts sharing hands-on homestead wisdom on stage!
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🎤 Learn from 30+ of the Nation’s Leading Homesteading Experts
You don’t need to figure it out alone. These speakers have walked the path of modern homesteading—growing food, raising animals, preserving the harvest, and building resilient communities. Now they’re sharing it all with you, in person.
Joel Salatin – America's Favorite Farmer, Co-Owner Polyface Farm • Regenerative Agriculture Pioneer
Melissa K Norris 5th‑Generation Homesteader • Author • Food Preservation Specialist
Trevor Hollenback – Internationally-Trained Sheep Shearer & Hoof Care Specialist
Sally Fallon Morell – Founder & President, Weston A. Price Foundation • Author of Nourishing Traditions®
Cassidy Cornell – Author of The One Acre Homestead and expert in small-scale, sustainable living
Pete Strayer – Chief Marketing Officer at Azure Standard & Strategic Business Consultant
Bethany Hudson – Educator Turned Homeschool Mom | 6 Years Teaching English | Passionate About Purposeful Learning
Kelsey Harms – Former English Teacher Turned Homeschool Mom | National Board Certified | Master’s in Teaching
Nathan & Michelle Stelzer – Heritage Grain Growers & Heirloom Seed Stewards at Azure Farm
Book Your Seats
Learn from experienced homesteaders and find your community all at the same LIVE event June 26th & 27th, 2026 in Idaho!
General Admission
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VIP Admission
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Why Thousands of Homesteaders Say This Conference Changed Everything
✔️ Learn the skills to grow food, raise animals, and live independently
✔️ Get real-time answers from experts who've done it themselves
✔️ Discover tools, products, and techniques that work in the real world
✔️ Leave inspired, equipped, and surrounded by a like-minded community
June 26-27th, 2026
Grow Your Homestead
action plans. inspiration. community
Actional Plan
The Modern Homesteading Conference is 2 full days of actionable, strategic, and time-tested presentations from experienced experts that have been where you are and created thriving homesteads.
Everything you hear at the conference is from people who have been using these techniques for years (usually decades) in the gardens, fields, and kitchens of their homes. You'll also experience live demonstrations!
You'll leave the conference with confidence, answers, and a notebook of strategies to implement immediately.
Inspiration
It's one thing to dream of a homestead and watch YouTube videos about it. It's another to truly commit and do it. That's why we're bringing you speakers who aren't spouting theory, they've lived this lifestyle for decades. Speakers who also understand a northern climate with short warm-weather growing seasons, long winters, and then two months of no rain in July and August. Speakers who feed their family year-round from their homestead and provide not only for themselves, but many of them offer sustainable and pasture-raised livestock to others.
You'll leave the Modern Homesteading Conference inspired to take your homestead to the next level, with a PLAN, from growing more food, using herbs for yourself and your animals, implementing livestock, and preserving it for year-round eating.
Community
Find others who have been in your boots, faced the same challenges, and found how to overcome them.
Homesteading can be lonely and while it lessens our dependency on a larger system it shouldn't be done alone. Homesteaders should be community-sufficiency, where we have those in our corner who help us when we need them, share ideas, and support one another.
You'll leave the conference with new relationships with the speakers, sponsors, vendors, and most importantly- other attendees who are just like you.
Here's What's Included
2026 Schedule & Topics!
Note: When the schedule is finalized, we will create a printable PDF version, AND a full schedule will be included in your printed program, handed out at your arrival to the conference.
| Friday June 26th, 2026 | 8:30 to 8:45 am | 9:00 to 10:00 am | 10:30 am to 12:00 pm | 12:00 to 1:00 pm Lunch | 1:00 to 2:00 pm | 2:00 to 3:00 pm | 3:30 to 4:30 pm | 5:00 to 6:00 pm |
| Arena | Opening Ceremonies | RuthAnn Zimmerman – Topic TBD | Joel Salatin Topic TBD | Meet & Greet | Sally Fallon Morell – Healthy Babies | Mary Heffernan – From Pasture to Plate – Building a Ranch-to-Table Business | KEYNOTE – Joel Salatin | |
| Trademark Tent | VIP Lunch & Special Chat | Pete Strayer -Take Back Your Table: The Real Power of Choosing Organic | ||||||
| Building 25 | Dr. Ken Berry – Reversing Disease Naturally | Daniel Salatin- Topic TBD | Carolyn Thomas – Topic TBD | Health Expert Q&A Doc Jones, Kaylee Richardson, Sally Fallon Morell | ||||
| Building 1 | Don Tipping -Fall Gardening | Dr. Patrick Jones- Autoimmune Disease – The Modern Medical Crisis | Joe L'ampl- Raised Bed Gardening | Trevor Hollenback – Sheep Shearing (Demo) | ||||
| Building 2/ Youth Track | Karson Rippstein -Soil Lab | Abigail and Brianna Thomas – Topic TBD | Don Tipping – Topic TBD | Nathan Kromer -Leather working | ||||
| Building 3 | Kaylee Richardson – The Beekeeper’s Apothecary: How to Turn Honey & More Into Healing Traditions (demo) | Karsen Rippstein – Putting Bentonite Clay to Use in Your Natural Medicine Cabinet | Juan Penzini-Granier – Artisan Conserves: Fruits and Vegetables Part 1 (demo) | Juan Penzini-Granier – Artisan Conserves: Fruits and Vegetables Part 2 (demo) | ||||
| Jacklin Square | Matthew Tuller – GOAT REARING: How to Raise a Thriving Herd | Bethany Hudson & Kelsey Harms – Confidently Homeschooling on the Homestead | Tim Eng – Topic TBD | Anne of All Trades- How to Run a Chainsaw/Woodworking | ||||
| Park | Kevin Trosclair – From Side to Freezer: Breaking Down a Pig Part 1 (demo) | Kevin Trosclair – From Side to Freezer: Breaking Down a Pig Part 2 (demo) | Matt Richards – Hide Tanning on the Homestead | |||||
| Building 22 | Cassidy Cornell Suburban homesteading | Seth Smith – The Complete Elderberry Workshop: Cultivation, Harvesting & Healing Uses | Daniel Salatin – How to Butcher a Chicken (Demo) |
| Saturday June 27th, 2026 | 8:30 to 8:45 am | 9:00 to 10:00 am | 10:30 am to 12:00 pm | 12:00 to 1:30 pm Lunch | 1:30 to 2:30 pm | 3:00 to 4:30 pm |
| Arena | Opening Ceremonies | Dr. Ken Berry – Health Freedom & Medical Self-Reliance | Melissa K Norris – Topic TBD | Joel Salatin – Topic TBD | Q&A Panel Homestead Joel Salatin, Melissa K Norris, RuthAnn Zimmerman, Daniel Salatin, Ken Berry, Carolyn Thomas | |
| Trademark Tent | David Stelzer – Rooted Wellness: How Healthy Soil Grows a Healthy You | David Stelzer, Nathan Stelzer & Michelle Stelzer (Panel, Moderated by Pete Strayer) Heirloom Seeds: Saving Tradition, Building Resilience | Pete Strayer – Homestead Marketing Made Simple: Stand Out & Sell With Heart | David Stelzer – Faith Over Fear: Rooted Decisions in Uncertain Times | ||
| Building 25 | Carolyn Thomas – Freeze drying food – modern preservation (demo) | Mary Heffernan–The Business of Homesteading / Ranching – Turning Passion Into Profit | RuthAnn Zimmerman – Topic TBD | Dr. Patrick Jones – Livestock Health: Principles, Practices and Natural Interventions | ||
| Building 1 | Daniel Salatin – Topic TBD | Sally Fallon Morell – Nourishing Diets | Don Tipping Growing Herbs Successfully for Food & Medicine | Joe L'ampl- Ecological Gardening-Natural Methods for Management & Pests | ||
| Building 2/ Youth Track | Karson – Getting baby animals off to a healthy start | TBD | Malia Steffen – Soap making demo | Young Entrepreneur – Board Q& A | ||
| Building 3 | Kaylee Richardson – Lessons from the Hive: Real-World Beekeeping for Every Homesteader | Matthew Tuller – Turning Fresh Goat Milk Into Delicious Chèvre (demo) | Cassidy Cornell – topic TBD | Trevor Hollenback – Sheep Hoof Trimming – (Demo) | ||
| Jacklin Square | Anne of All Trades- Growing Mushrooms | Tim Eng – Topic TBD | Juan Penzini-Granier – Artisan Bread Making Part 1 | Juan Penzini-Granier – Artisan Bread Making Part 2 | ||
| Park | Kevin Trosclair & Juan Penzini – Natural and old world meat curing Part 1 (demo) | Kevin Trosclair & Juan Penzini – Natural and old world meat curing Part 2 (demo) | Matt Richards – Hair-on Hide Tanning (Demo) | |||
| Building 22 | Seth Smith – Planning Your Orchard & Fruit Production | Seth Smith – Growing Figs & Fruit Trees | Daniel Salatin- Butchering Rabbits (Demo) | Harrel – How to Raise Rabbits |
| Sunday June 28th, 2026 | 8:00 to 8:30 am | 8:30 to 10:00 am |
| Arena | Arena gates open | Worship, Sermon by Joel Salatin, Closing prayers |
Location
Kootenai County Fairgrounds
The fourth annual Modern Homesteading Conference 2026 is taking at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d’Alene, ID. These beautiful grounds are spacious and provide plenty of room!
Coeur d'Alene is known for its gorgeous lake, mountains, ranches, and hiking trails. Perfect for exploring before or after the conference or extending your stay for some rest and relaxation or an adventure!
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