Your 2025 Homesteading Conference of the South

Look no further for your homesteading conference of the South.  The 2025 American Farmstead Convention is a two-day event in Green Cove Springs, Florida, May 31- June 1, 2025. Join in on learning how to build a sustainable homestead and community by learning to grow, raise, process, and preserve your own food.  

Learn to Live a More Self-Sufficient Lifestyle

Day 1 of the American Farmstead Convention will be full of live demonstrations of traditional skills, educational speakers, round-table discussions with local experts and passionate homesteaders, food trucks, live music, fun at the kid’s corral, and shopping at the Farmers market. This is an outdoor event, held in the open air, covered, Cattleman’s Arena at the Clay County Fair Grounds. 

With a wide variety of presentations on Day 1, you can learn new skills by watching live demonstrations:

• Chicken Butchering
• Quail Butchering
• Meat Rabbit Butchering
• Food Preservation through Canning & Fermentation
• Watch & Learn About Milking Dairy Goats & Dairy Cows
• ​Mushroom Cultivation
• Growing Microgreens
• Propagation of Fruit Trees to Increase Food Production
• Herbal Medicine

While you are at the convention, be sure to stop by and see the highland cattle, livestock guardian dogs, and Kune Kune pigs. Bring all your questions, as these homesteaders, small farmers, and educators are ready to share their knowledge with you.

Enjoy Educational Speakers on Day 1

Grab a seat and listen in to The Survival Gardener, David the Good, along with Elise Pickett from The Urban Harvest as they talk about growing food in the South and ways to compost effectively to feed your garden and build soil health. You can also join the round-table discussions at the homesteading conference with local experts like Man in Overalls, Mark Bailey, Nassau County Foood Sytems Agent, and Tim Armstrong from Eat Your Yard Jax.

Live Music & Food Trucks for Day 1

Throughout Day 1, you can enjoy live music from Blossomin’ Bone with Florida Man on banjo and the Georgia Girl on guitar.  You can also visit the food trucks and enjoy your lunch at the picnic tables in the covered, shady arena. 

Fun at the Kids Corral

Join Emily with The Crafty Taxi for some painting along with farm arts & crafts. You can also stop by and play some games or sit in on storytime. Listen in on the live music from Blossomin’ Bone, while your kids play, as they will be playing right by the Kids Corral. 

Shop at the Farmers Market

The farmers market is on Day 1 ONLY and will be FULL of farm fresh goods. You’ll be able to shop for meat (bring your cooler), sourdough, honey, herbal remedies, produce, mushrooms, skin care products, aprons, custom wooden planters, moringa, sugar cane, CBD products, locally adapted seeds, microgreens, seasoning salts, along with a LARGE selection of plants for your garden and food forest.

Feel free to bring your wagon, coolers, and shopping bags. We will also have a plant holding area so you don’t have to tote all those plants around. Re-entry is available if you’d like to take your purchases out to your car.

Day 2 will Start with Sunday Morning Church Service

Join us at 8:30 in the Cattleman’s Arena for a good ol’ fashioned Christian community church service with Pastor Jeromy Larson. He will lead us into a full day of intensive, hands-on workshops.

Intensive Hands-On Workshops

Day 2 of the American Farmstead Convention will be a hands-on event to learn practical skills to take your homestead to the next level. Tickets are sold separately for Day 2 and are limited for each educational session.

You can curate the perfect day of hands-on workshops at the homesteading conference, as tickets are sold separately for each class. Join together with like-minded folks to learn the skills you need for a productive homestead.  

Gain Practical Knowledge in These Intensive, Hands-on Workshops for Day 2 

• Chicken Butchering with Charley’s Chicks
• Quail Butchering with Bailey Acre Farms
• Meat Rabbit Butchering with the Lovoy Homestead
• Milking & Caring for Dairy Goats with Bridge Acres Farm
• Pressure Canning with Anna from NE FL Homesteading & Prepping Ladies
• Fermenting in the Kitchen with Nikki from Rocky’s People Farm
• Growing Mushrooms with Sunrise Harvest Mushrooms
• Learn Hands-on Livestock Management with Aimee from The Salty Heifer
• Making Herbal Remedies with Norah from Dancing Pines Apothecary

​Gain Valuable Insights in these Day 2 Breakout Sessions

• Vermicomposting with Elise Pickett from The Urban Harvest
• Learn to Make Soap with Sunny from Grits N Gravy
• What to do With All That Milk with Donna from Hazel Belle Farm
• Cast Iron Care with Sunny from Lodge
• Custom Hog Butchering and Pork Belly Curing with the Butchers from Droptine Processing
• Hunter Safety & Skills with Tiffiny from Sanders Heritage Farms

Come to the Homesteading Conference of the South

Last year’s homesteading conference was full of like-minded people eager to learn and grow their family homestead, which is why we are doing it again.  Gather together with us to build new relationships while learning more about sustainable living, which in turn will lead to a more sustainable community.  If you are in the South, or anywhere for that matter, we do hope you’ll join us!

Buy Tickets for the Homesteading Conference of the South

Tickets for the 2025 American Farmstead Convention go on sale on December 1, 2024.  You can find them on our website americanfarmsteadconvention.com. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for the best deal on tickets.  You can also join us on social media, on our podcast, and our blog at americanfarmsteadhers.com.

Hope to See You at the Premier Homesteading Conference of the South,

Jenny & Donna

Jenny Graham FarmSteadHer, Leading Lady of Much at The GrahamStead Family Farm. Podcaster, Blogger, Educator for the American FarmSteadHers, and Co-FOunder of the American Farmstead Convention.

Jenny and her family have been homesteading for more than two decades. They currently live on a 10-acre farm in Northeast Florida, which they built from the ground up, nine years ago.

On their farm, they grow 100% of their meat and most of their vegetables. With a small herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle, pastured poultry, sheep, and seasonal pigs, they not only meet their family’s meat needs but also sell their surplus to the local community. They are dedicated to sustainable farming practices like rotational grazing, making compost, seed saving, and processing much of their garden and animal harvests at home. You can find Jenny wandering through her garden, making herbal tinctures, preserving food, making bone broth, and one of Jenny’s favorite hobbies, tanning all types of hides.

Donna Larson, FarmSteadHer, grower, and milk-maid at Hazel Belle Farm. Podcaster, blogger, educator at the American FarmSteadHers, and Co-Founder of the American Farmstead Convention.

Donna and her family have been homesteading for most of their 20+ plus years together in some shape or fashion. She currently lives on their 20 acre farm where they grow as much food as possible. Donna’s favorite part of the family farm is her self-built micro-dairy, where she gets to love on dairy cows while serving her local community.