Joel Salatin, 64, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson.  Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate.

With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 15 published books, and a thriving multi-generational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world.  He’s as comfortable moving cows in a pasture as addressing CEOs in a Wall Street business conference.

His wide-ranging topics include nitty-gritty how-to for profitable regenerative farming as well as cultural philosophy like orthodoxy vs. heresy.  A wordsmith and master communicator, he moves audiences from laughs one minute to tears the next, from frustration to hopefulness.  Often receiving standing ovations, he prefers the word performance rather than presentation to describe his lectures.  His favorite activity?–Q&A. “I love the interaction,” he says.

He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia.  Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products.  When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.

Salatin is the editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer, granddaddy catalyst for the grass farming movement. He writes the "Confessions of a Steward" monthly column for Plain Values magazine, the "Homestead Abundance" column for Homestead Living magazine, and three columns a month for the e-magazine Manward. He also co-hosts a podcast titled BEYOND LABELS with co-author of that book Dr. Sina McCullough.

A frequent guest on radio programs and podcasts targeting preppers, homesteaders, and foodies, Salatin’s practical, can-do solutions tied to passionate soliloquies for sustainability offer everyone food for thought and plans for action.

Mixing mischievous humor with hard-hitting information, Salatin both entertains and moves people. Seldom using a power-point and often speaking from an outline scribbled in a yellow legal pad, he depends on theatrics, style, and compelling content to hold attention and defend innovative positions.  The rare combination of prophet and practitioner makes him both a must-read and must-hear in a time desperate for integrity leadership and example.

Judith D. Schwartz is an author and speaker whose work focuses on nature-inspired solutions to global crises, particularly those that hover beneath the radar. Her books include Cows Save the Planet, Water In Plain Sight, and The Reindeer Chronicles. She lives with her husband and hound on the side of a mountain in Southern Vermont.

Anne Biklé is a science writer and public speaker drawing on her background in biology and environmental planning to explore humanity’s long and tangled relationship with nature through the lens of agriculture, soil, and food. She is particularly enthralled with the botanical world and has used a multitude of mulches and microbes to help her coax plants into rambunctious growth or nurse them back from the edge of death.

Her latest book, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal the Land and Reclaim our Health, explores connections between soil health and human health. The book is another collaboration with husband, geologist David Montgomery and builds on The Hidden Half of Nature, the middle volume of their Dirt Trilogy.

Her writing has appeared in in print and digital media including Nautilus, Natural History, and Best Health. Her regenerative gardening practices have been featured in independent and documentary films and her talks can be found on a range of podcasts and radio programs that focus on farming, food, and human health.

www.dig2grow.com

Daniel Firth Griffith is a storyteller, a hunter-husbandman, and a lover of the wildwoods. He is an undeserving father to three wonderful children and an unworthy husband to the best partner this world has to give. An award-winning author of best-selling books such as Dark Cloud Country, Wild Like Flowers, and Boone, Daniel’s work focuses on regenerating relationship, seeking to reawaken the wild by becoming the wild itself.

Daniel co-founded Timshel Wildland in 2015, an emergent wilding project in Central Virginia that is pioneering the modern convergence of regenerative agriculture and wildly autonomous living systems; he founded the Robinia Institute in 2018, a center for regeneration’s social emergence that is now a Savory Institute Hub and educational and outreach center; and in 2020, he co-founded Commons Provisions and its Common Wealth Network, a large community of human-scale and verified regenerative farms that serve their broader communities via the flagrantly decentralized and entirely disruptive distribution of locally-aggregated provisions and foods.

Kate Kavanaugh is an entrepreneur, farmer, butcher, nutrition therapist, and host of the Ground Work Podcast. She saw first hand the power of meat to heal her own body and in seeking out farmers and ranchers raising meat with holistic practices, she found the power of meat to heal land, too. In 2013, she opened Western Daughters Butcher Shop in Denver, Colorado with her now-husband, Josh Curtiss, where they source grass-fed and pasture-raised whole animals from local regenerative farmers and ranchers. Kate is now host of the Ground Work podcast where she is devoted to digging in deep with guests to find the heart of connection in mind, body, and soil. When she’s not running her businesses, you can find Kate raising low-PUFA pork and poultry and grass-fed goats and cows on her 65-acre farm in New York.

Josh Curtiss is a carpenter, butcher, farmer, problem solver, and entrepreneur. A collector of skills, Josh set out to learn carpentry and woodwork while working for his BFA in sculpture. He framed houses, built cabinets, and upon graduating ran a full production workshop that built interactive early learning spaces in children’s libraries. Quipping that he “used to put things together, and now I take them apart”, Josh learned to butcher and opened up a butcher shop, Western Daughters in Colorado, with his wife, Kate Kavanaugh, in 2013. Almost 8 years later, the two of them moved to a farm in upstate New York where they raise all of their own meat and experiment with regenerative farming practices. In his down time, Josh enjoys building furniture, fixing things around the farm, working horses, and playing with all of his goats, but especially his goat Bun Bun.

Kelly LeVeque is a certified clinical nutritionist, wellness expert, celebrity health coach, and the best-selling author of Body Love and Body Love Every Day. Her deep desire to help her clients, her passion for human nutrition, and her curiosity about how and why the body works drive Kelly to diligently study the latest research, evaluate competing theories and use this information to make individualized recommendations for her clients. Most importantly, Kelly’s practical and always optimistic approach to nutrition and wellness helps her readers improve their health, achieve their goals, and develop sustainable habits to live healthy and balanced lives.

Kelly’s website serves as a resource for her readers to find the latest research and rationale behind important nutrition principles, as well as delicious recipes and recommended products to fuel them well. In 2020, she launched the Be Well By Kelly Podcast to further provide listeners with her nutrition and wellness wisdom and to introduce them to other health professionals with a wide array of experience and insights. To date, the podcast has garnered 8.5M downloads and an average of 300,000 listeners per month. With the desire to provide her coaching expertise to the public, Kelly also developed the Fab 4 Fundamentals course, in which she simplifies the science of nutrition and empowers participants to take charge of their health confidently. She has expanded her nutrition curriculum to include the Fab 4 Pregnancy, to provide moms-to-be with the wisdom, encouragement, and thoroughly researched recommendations they need to nourish themselves before, during, and after pregnancy the fab 4 under four, a course dedicated to educating parents on how to introduce nutrient-dense food early to prevent deficiencies, decrease picky eating and improve diversity. This course teaches caregivers to serve up blood suagr balancing meals to their children and look out for sugar. Her newest course, the Fab 4 Smoothie Basics, is a mini course that gets to the heart of why the #fab4smoothie is the perfect way to break your fast.  Additionally, Kelly released the Fab 4 Be Well by Kelly Protein Powder to round out the Body Love toolkit. This protein powder harnesses the power and benefits of simple yet wholesome protein and can easily be used in one of Kelly’s favorite tools, the #fab4smoothie. With a minimalistic yet delicious recipe of organic ingredients and grass-fed beef, this 100% chemical-free extraction of this complete protein it’s an absolute game-changer in the marketplace. Through all of these resources, Kelly seeks to provide men and women with the tools they need to transform their health and their lives through nourishing whole foods and body-loving practices.

Ali Miller is an integrative functional medicine practitioner with a background in naturopathic medicine. She is a Registered Dietitian, Licensed Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator, recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in her field.

Through her private practice, Naturally Nourished, Ali has combined the strengths of both the naturopathic and conventional medical fields, practicing functional medicine that is guided by nature yet grounded in scientific discovery. Ali has dedicated her career to revolutionizing health with Food-As-Medicine in the treatment and prevention of chronic illness and disease.

Ali’s expertise has been sought out by distinguished medical institutions including MD Anderson, Baylor, and UT Health. She served as developer of a Food-As-Medicine protocol in a Stage-3 Breast Cancer Research Study through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at MD Anderson Cancer Center. In addition to institutional recognition, Ali has seen enthusiastic support from clinicians including primary care physicians and innumerable specialists through educational webinars, referrals, participation in group programs and in-practice development of treatment protocols. She also has the pleasure of working with many highly regarded medical professionals including neonatal specialists, surgeons, oncologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists, and more as clients and members of her Virtual Food-as-Medicine Ketosis Program.

In the broader medical community, Ali has made an impression through her integrative approaches to treating people vs. diseases. As healthcare costs continue to rise, Ali addresses the shifts within the patient and doctor dynamic as patients more actively and independently seek medical information. Ali serves as a liaison, closing the gap of the proactive individual and the conventional American medical model.

Ali’s message has influenced millions through media with television segments, features in MindBodyGreen, O The Oprah Magazine, Women's Health, Prevention Magazine, Women’s World, and more! Her award winning podcast, Naturally Nourished, was named Top Keto Podcasts in 2017 and exceeds over 100,000 downloads. Her Food-As- Medicine philosophy is supported by up-to-date scientific research for a functional approach to healing the body and preventing disease. This unique approach and impact was acknowledged in 2015 when Ali was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Women in Houston” by Houston Woman Magazine. Ali’s expertise can be accessed through her website: www.alimillerRD.com offering her blog, podcasts, virtual learning, and access to her practice Naturally Nourished.

Ashley and Sarah Armstrong are sisters and first generation farmers who own and operate Angel Acres, a regenerative farm in Southwest Michigan. Along their health journey, it became abundantly clear to Ashley and Sarah that the way your food is grown and raised impacts your health.

Their motivation to start a farm stems from this understanding, as well as the recognition that industrial agriculture (and the current food system) focuses on maximizing yield with toxic chemicals at the expense of nutrients, human health and soil health. Starting Angel Acres in the fall of 2020 has allowed them to pursue regenerative agriculture while sharing the journey and bringing awareness to the topic via social media

Considering the emphasis on health, it is important to Ashley and Sarah to ensure their animals receive species appropriate and incredibly nutritious food, considering that the fatty acid profile of an animal (and human!) and thus, the meat/eggs/milk, directly reflects the feed they're consuming. Through experimentation and research, they've successfully transformed the fatty acid profile of their hen's eggs to reflect a higher saturated fat content, lower PUFA (lower is more desirable), as well as higher retinol, and several other vitamins and nutrients through supplemental foods provided to the animals.

They now ship their corn and soy free, low PUFA eggs to all 50 states, and offer 100% grass-fed lamb, raw goats milk, and in the spring will add corn and soy free, pastured pork. What they bring to the conversation is marketing and outreach (informing about regen ag., encouraging support of local farmers, selling online & reaching customers as a small scare farm, etc.), connecting the health component to farming and creating truly unique and niche products, as well as experience as first generation, female farmers and all that's brought with it.

Ashley and Sarah Armstrong are sisters and first generation farmers who own and operate Angel Acres, a regenerative farm in Southwest Michigan. Along their health journey, it became abundantly clear to Ashley and Sarah that the way your food is grown and raised impacts your health.

Their motivation to start a farm stems from this understanding, as well as the recognition that industrial agriculture (and the current food system) focuses on maximizing yield with toxic chemicals at the expense of nutrients, human health and soil health. Starting Angel Acres in the fall of 2020 has allowed them to pursue regenerative agriculture while sharing the journey and bringing awareness to the topic via social media

Considering the emphasis on health, it is important to Ashley and Sarah to ensure their animals receive species appropriate and incredibly nutritious food, considering that the fatty acid profile of an animal (and human!) and thus, the meat/eggs/milk, directly reflects the feed they're consuming. Through experimentation and research, they've successfully transformed the fatty acid profile of their hen's eggs to reflect a higher saturated fat content, lower PUFA (lower is more desirable), as well as higher retinol, and several other vitamins and nutrients through supplemental foods provided to the animals.

They now ship their corn and soy free, low PUFA eggs to all 50 states, and offer 100% grass-fed lamb, raw goats milk, and in the spring will add corn and soy free, pastured pork. What they bring to the conversation is marketing and outreach (informing about regen ag., encouraging support of local farmers, selling online & reaching customers as a small scare farm, etc.), connecting the health component to farming and creating truly unique and niche products, as well as experience as first generation, female farmers and all that's brought with it.

Christy and Aras Baskauskas are the founders of Christy Dawn, the modern world’s first regenerative clothing company.  Through their Farm-To-Closet initiative, Christy Dawn now stewards 120 acres of farm land and has sequestered over 2,000,000 lbs of atmospheric carbon through regenerative practices. Christy and Aras view their clothing as a Trojan horse, offering the opportunity to shift consciousness and subsequently the world through the life-force woven into each piece.

Christy and Aras Baskauskas are the founders of Christy Dawn, the modern world’s first regenerative clothing company.  Through their Farm-To-Closet initiative, Christy Dawn now stewards 120 acres of farm land and has sequestered over 2,000,000 lbs of atmospheric carbon through regenerative practices. Christy and Aras view their clothing as a Trojan horse, offering the opportunity to shift consciousness and subsequently the world through the life-force woven into each piece.

Mansal Denton "Little Beaver" is the founder of Sacred Hunting, author, & show host of Blood and Spirit, exploring indigenous cultures, their spiritual beliefs, & charismatic animals.

As part of his non-profit, Mansal leads hundreds of men through in-person transformational retreats connecting them to the land, the spirit of the animals, and nature all around them. His work revives an animistic eco-spiritualism that enriches life with meaning and wonder.

His indigenous name comes from a Crow Sun Dance chief. His spiritual lineage is derived from 8 years of mentorship from a Muskogee medicine man named Will "Star Heart".

Kyle Kingsbury is a former football player (Arizona State), a retired American professional mixed martial artist (UFC six years), former director of Human Optimization at Onnit and host of The Kyle Kingsbury Podcast. While fighting at the highest level, Kyle became fascinated with nutrition, performance, and recovery. Since his MMA retirement, his focus has shifted to learning more about longevity, plant medicines, inner peace and sovereignty. Food and health sovereignty are extremely important aspects of freedom. Kyle has spent the last year turning 120 acres into a regenerative farm to help attain personal autonomy.

Chris Kerston ranched full time for nearly 15 years before joining the Savory Institute. With a longstanding passion for regenerative agricultural and better food distribution systems, Chris has dedicated his life to helping connect ranchers with consumers in ways that create synergistic value for both sides. With formal training and instinctive talent, Chris utilizes media in concert with traditional marketing techniques to help ranchers share their stories and build long-lasting relationships with partners based upon common goals. For 6 years Chris co-managed a 2,000 acre diversified farm based on holistic grazing and permaculture in the Sacramento Valley. The farm is comprised of old growth olive orchards, heirloom stone fruits and citrus groves, and also raises grass fed cattle, sheep, goats, and pasture-raised chickens for both meat and eggs. Through creative positioning, the farm quickly attracted national notoriety and the attention from public figures such as Joel Salatin and Michael Pollan.

Chris has also been recognized as a leader in the emerging agri-tourism market and he facilitated a partnership with a European-based hospitality company and the farm he managed. The resulting farmstays provided urban dwellers a recreational, but also educational, outlet to see first-hand how food could be produced in abundance outside the realm of conventional industrial systems. Chris has become a recognized public speaker championing for stronger connections between grower and eater and providing training to help build those connections. He has been on the forefront of the collaborative process with state and federal regulators, advocating for the recognition of alternative agricultural models as well as the consumers’ right to access healthy local foods. Chris is also very enthusiastic about developing opportunities for young ranchers. Fostering creative solutions to removing barriers of available land and capital will ultimately help cultivate the next generation of holistic land stewards.

Taylor Collins and his wife Katie Forrest Collins are the Co-Founders of Force of Nature, a regeneratively sourced company with the mission to reclaim the legacy of meat.

Prior to Force of Nature, Taylor and Katie Co-founded EPIC Provisions, a category creating company that pioneered the first 100% grass fed meat, fruit, and nut bar. The couple sold the business to General Mills in 2016 and have been active in helping to grow regenerative supply chains at the new parent company.

In 2017, Taylor and Katie founded Roam Ranch, a multispecies regenerative agriculture experiment in Fredericksburg Texas. The ranch is now one of the largest grass-fed bison operations in the state and serves as an educational facility to teaching land managers and consumers the principles of regenerative agriculture.

In 2019, along with their friend, Robby Sansom, the power couple launched their new consumer packaged goods brand, Force of Nature, and continue to focus their energy on building supply chains of grass fed and regeneratively managed livestock.

When not building brands focused on global regenerative supply chains, Taylor and Katie are often found spending time at ROAM Ranch, exploring, exercising, and adventuring with their 3-year-old daughter, Scout.

www.roamranch.com

Entrepreneur Adrian Bota is the co-founder and CEO of ORIGIN Milk. Adrian is committed to leading the shift away from“big dairy, ” which is reliant on legacy cows, to a regenerative, organic, always local model of “clean dairy.” Adrian’s roots in farming go back to his father working on a farm in Romania. Adrian’s parents and four siblings escaped from Romania right before the fall of Communism, immigrating to the U.S. and arriving in Cleveland in 1991. While Adrian’s father imagined his children would seek careers in medicine or law, Adrian drew on his background in business and health to enter the farming industry.

Prior to launching ORIGIN, Adrian began his career in business and health, helping to define Pfizer Pharmaceuticals’ approach to the changing healthcare marketplace in the U.S. He also worked at Cleveland Clinic Innovations Group to manage new ventures in healthcare technology, genetics, and health and wellness.

Led by his passion for nutrition and innovation, coupled with searching for the best options in nutrition for his new child, Adrian embarked on the journey of utilizing his background in the pharma/biotech sector to rethink human nutrition from the ground up. In 2015, Adrian shifted from biotech and pharma to wholesome, nature-led nutrition. Adrian established ORIGIN, a trailblazing regenerative A2 Guernsey dairy brand. Adrian founded ORIGIN in Cleveland, Ohio, first partnering with small farmers in ORIGIN. He has since grown the operation, partnering with small, family-owned farms in Pennsylvania and Colorado. Adrian Bota’s deep expertise in product development and knowledge of emerging consumer demands has led ORIGIN to expand its portfolio into multiple verticals.

Hobbs Magaret is a rancher and Zen Buddhist based in the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas. He is dedicated to clarifying our ‘original nature’ through Zen and regenerative practices.

As founder of Nutiva, John has sourced and formulated $1B in retail sales of organic superfoods. John is a serial entrepreneur, investor, writer, philanthropist, and executive producer of the Netflix blockbuster regenerative agriculture film Kiss the Ground. John has founded six non-profit organizations, including Great Plains Regeneration, Agroforestry Regeneration Communities (ARC), and Forests Forever.

JARED WILL BE LEADING THE OPTIONAL MORNING NATURE WALK - HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING ON A PANEL

Jared is an American Ecologist and Zoologist. He has authored scientific papers, pamphlets, manuals and technical documents on a variety of subjects dealing with the natural world and in the field of science education. He has been a contributing scientist on the PBS Show NOVA, featured in TV episodes on the Outdoor Channel, and on various podcasts. More importantly he has been educating landowners and underserved children for over 15 years on the importance of nature and ethical land stewardship.

Jared has a passion for connectivity. Getting landowners/stewards (and anyone who wants to listen) to feel and understand their landscape, how to work with it, not against it the way nature intends. He is also the lead biologist for Origin Ranch, a 350 acre regenerative ranch and rangeland restoration project where they have been raising and grazing in Mother Nature's image since 2020.

EBEN WILL LEADING THE OPTIONAL MORNING MOVEMENT AND YOGA - HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING ON A PANEL

The Eben Flow is a very practical application of breath work and yogic movement to energize, revitalize and awaken the mind-body senses.

Eben, a former NFL starter (Jacksonville Jaguars, Chicago Bears) is a nuts-and-bolts guy. Author of "The Eben Flow: Basic Tools to Transform Your Life" and and the host of The Eben Flow podcast, he shares about how his grueling training on the gridiron and his yogic training in the Anusara and Bishnu Gosh lineages brought him through excruciating emotional and physical pain to love and service. His expertise in pranayama, athletic training and yogic practices are practical, fun and profoundly applicable to life on life’s terms—the way he lives.