American Farmstead Convention Join us for the 2nd Annual American Farmstead Convention on Saturday, May 31 and June 1, 2025 at the Clay County Fair Grounds in Green Cove Springs, Fl. The first day will be a full day packed with homesteading and farming skill demonstrations, educational speakers, a farmers market, and food trucks. The second day will be for hands-on/intensive workshops only. Several local farms and experienced homesteaders will be sharing their knowledge with you to encourage you to raise, grow, process, and preserve your own food. Hope to see you there! 2025 American Farmstead Convention Tickets American Farmstead Convention tickets will be on sale early 2025. We are in the early planning stages of the convention and will bring you more details as soon as we can! So, for now… Here’s a look at the 2024 American Farmstead Convention Gates open at 8:30. Demonstrations start at 9:00 with Dairy Cow Milking. Demos will continue throughout the day in the arena. Demonstrations that will be going on throughout the day are butchering meat chickens, milking dairy goats, canning, fermentation, rendering lard, growing microgreens, growing mushrooms, beekeeping education, Black Soldier Fly education, seed starting, aeroponic farming, soap making, raising & butchering quail, small game processing, and medicinal herb education. Both the market and the kids tent will be open all day. In the vendor’s market, you can shop produce, meat, plants, honey, herbal teas, sourdough bread, jams & jellies, goat’s milk soap, baked goods, painted buffalo skulls, baby chicks and much more! For lunch you can enjoy wood fired pizza, barbecue, and lemonade! Guest speakers will be Wayne Hobbs, Raised Bed Gardening @ 10:00. Tiffiny Sanders, The Satisfaction of Raising Everything on Your Plate @11:30. Tim W/ Eat Your Yard Jax, Growing a Food Forest @ 1:30. Followed by Nathan aka Man In Overalls, Cultivating Community Agriculture Ecosystems @ 3:00, and David the Good with Grocery Row Gardening in Florida at 4:00 on the main stage in the arena.