Dates: June 20-24, 2016 (Monday – Friday)

Price: $795 (2nd registration @ $695)
$495 (Children ages 9-13)

Class Location: Stone Garden Farm, Richfield, Ohio (12 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio)

Prerequisites: None

The BEST Prepper Training in the Nation!

All hands-on classes with highly-qualified instructors

WILDERNESS TRAINING with Tom Laskowski

SURVIVAL MEDICINE with Dr. Cynthia Koelker

HOMESTEADING SELF-RELIANCE with Laura Fry

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Under the guidance of prize-winning teacher, Tom Laskowski of Midwest Native Skills Institute,  learn the principles of:

Fire-making

• 1-match fires
• Fire lays
• Flint and steel
• Bow drills

Water procurement & purification

Shelter and shelter building

• Natural shelters
• Tarp and poncho shelters
• Debris huts

Trapping

• Deadfalls
• Snares
• Spring Snares

Fish filet & game cleaning & preparing

Natural navigation

• Correct use of a compass
• Understand topographic maps
• Take bearings from maps & in the woods
• Measure distance without equipment

and much more…

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Learn how to be your own doctor when there’s no other choice, with family physician and survival medicine instructor Cynthia J. Koelker, MD  author of Armageddon Medicine

Hands-on suturing and wound closure

• Surgical knot-tying
• Suturing
• Stapling
• Minor surgery

Splinting and casting workshop

• Arm splints and casts
• Leg splints and casts
• Upper extremity injuries

Lab tests and procedures you can do at home

• Strep testing
• Urine testing
• Ear examination and treatment
• Emergency aids – hearing & vision
• Blood count testing

Antibiotic use and treating infection

• Fish antibiotics
• Respiratory infections
• Urine infections
• Wound infections
• Intestinal infections
• Bioterrorism
• Alternatives to antibiotics

Treating illness without a doctor

• Acute illness
• Chronic disease
• Using OTC medicines like Rx drugs
• When antibiotics don’t work

and much more…

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Learn homesteading skills with Laura Fry, sustainable-living expert and one who lives the dream:

Lye soap & candle-making

• Render your own tallow
• Practice hot & cold process soap-making
• Learn how to make your own lye in a survival situation

Cow and/or goat milking

• Butter making
• Mozzarella and soft cheese making
• Pros and cons of pasteurization

Animal husbandry for the homestead

• Choosing the right livestock
• Caring for your animals in a sustainable way

Wild edible & medicinal plants

• Plant identification walk
• Use wild edible plants in a meal
• Herbal salves and tinctures

Food preservation

• Fermentation, including sauerkraut and basic wine making
• Water-bath canning
• Jams & pickling
• Dehydration
• Root-cellaring

Year-round organic gardening

Old-fashioned taffy-pulling

Permaculture

and much more…

PLUS FEATURED SPEAKERS with extensive knowledge to share:

Jim Fry – homesteader extraordinaire & museum curator; moved and renovated 40 historic buildings, creating his own 19th century village with every shop and trade necessary for survival and non-electric self-reliance; knowledgeable in almost every aspect of non-electric and homestead living, from animal husbandry to deciding which grain grinder to buy.

Glen “Rum” Roth – A master at how to live off the land, from trapping, wine-making, hide-tanning, wild edible identification, mushroom finding, hog butchering, jack-of-all-trades.  Glen will be sharing his display of 300+ edible plants.

Nicole Oney – Home-birthing Midwife for 20 years, servicing many Amish families.  Knowledgeable about herbal remedies and alternative methods for improving the prenatal, postnatal, and birth experience.