FALL 2024 SELF RELIANCE FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 5-6
TWO-DAY PASS: $95
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FALL 2024 SELF RELIANCE FESTIVAL
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$450
ACCELERATE YOUR HOMESTEAD PREPRAREDNESS BUSINESS
LOCATION: 4631 Highway 70 E, Camden, TN 38320
GATES OPEN AT: 8:00 AM
Join us for presentations, demonstrations, vendor exhibits, community, and music!
The Self-Reliance Festival at Special Operations Equipment gives you a close-up view of homesteading, preparedness and building a better tomorrow. Thoroughly practical demonstrations include emergency medical training, growing food, defense dogs, spinning, food preservation, self defense, music, and — most importantly — building strong communities.
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BUILD YOUR HOMESTEAD RIGHT THE FIRST TIME – ZAC BAUER
Explore key pillars and best practices for getting your homestead set up without losing your mind.
BUY THE BEANS – NICOLE SAUCE
Not taking action guarantees failure every time. This talk outlines how to navigate your future and that of your business through good times and bad. Nicole’s homestead business, Holler Roast Coffee, was built through deep recession and booming recovery.
BACK YARD COVER CROPS AND SOIL SECRETS – JACK SPIRKO
Learn to improve soil health naturally with cover crops. This session covers selecting, planting, and managing cover crops to improve soil and inputs. Perfect for gardeners and farmers, you’ll discover how to enhance your soil and achieve healthier crops by partnering with nature.
FITNESS AND SURVIVAL – ANGRY PREPPER
STAND STRONG – JOHN WILLIS
This interactive session revolves around self sufficiency, homesteading, building your business and taking ownership for your future. Come and get motivated to make a better future.
NO EXCUSES – AMANDA WILLIS
You can only control yourself – and your reaction to what happens around you. This interactive session explores how to move beyond excuses to action and create your homestead, your health, and your community.
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST REVOLUTION – BEAR INDEPENDENT
Discover how community strength is crucial in a crisis. We’ll explore practical ways to build strong communities, support each other, and improve communication. Learn from historical events where suburban and rural areas faced challenges and find out how to leave dangerous cities for safer, close-knit communities.
This session tells the story of how Delinquent’s Gully has grown from an idea to thriving community of doers working together to build out a remote property in Tennessee.
OFF-GRID DEVELOPMENT THROUGH COMMUNITY – TOOLMAN TIM COOK
SO YOU WANT A BIG D? – SONNY PUZIKAS
Embrace the tough love of discipline. Discover a blueprint for implementing fundamental self-discipline, essential for fulfilling your purpose. Why? Because being a “bad – ass” doesn’t just happen from your sofa – and integrating discipline into your training set the foundation for your success.
HOMESTEAD RESOURCES: THE NEW HR – KIRI TORGLER
Master the resources of your homestead. Discover practical strategies to optimize your land, time, and efforts for peak productivity. Learn to turn your homestead into a thriving, self-sustaining haven. Let’s rethink resource management and unlock the full potential of your homestead together.
SURVIVIN JOB’S TRIALS – CJ KILLMER
Learn practical strategies for resilience and perseverance to help you emerge stronger from any trial. Transform adversity into personal growth and find strength in the face of hardship.
It’s up to you to set yourself and your family up for success in a world with riding crime rates. How can you do this? When is somsone most liley to strike? how can you look like a hard target and deter things before they get spicy? This session addresses the tangible things you can do to improve home security
PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM RISING CRIME – JOEL RYALS
BUILDING REAL WEALTH WITH LOCAL FOOD – ALAN BOOKER
How can you preserve genetic control of your food and the freedom to grow what is most important to you? Join us for a discussion of food sovereignty, community, saving seeds, livestock genetics, and more.
Join this two day program for children 5 through 12 years old centered on both fun and educational activities such as cooking without electricity and more.
SELF RELIANCE KIDS – BECKY COOK
HOW TO BUILD YOUR TIKTOK PRESENCE – KYLE PERRAULT
Discover tips for creating engaging content, growing your follower base, and leveraging TikTok’s features to boost visibility. Unlock the secrets to becoming a TikTok influencer and maximizing your impact on the platform.
DISTILLING FOR TINCTURES – JASON RAUTBORT
How will you make your tinctures if you can’t get your hands on distilled alcohol? Learn how to make alcohol for tinctures.
USING BUSINESS STRUCTURES FOR OPTING OUT OF REGULATIONS – ALAN BOOKER
We hear buzz words like “PMA” and other things. Join this small group discussion on what has been tried and ways that people are learning to protect themselves from regulation through legal structures. This is not a snake oil “buy my course” discussion nor is it legal advice – merely an exporation of what is possible.
Is your digital garden vibrant? Or has it been taken over by invasive big tech software? Hakeem Anwar, Founder & CEO of Above will give you the scoop on easy-to-use private software that has helped thousands of people take their communications and data back into their own hands. He will do a live demo of the Above Phone and Above Book, showing you what’s possible with off-grid open-source technology, and these devices will be available for purchase.
HOMESTEAD YOUR SOFTWARE – HAKEEM ANWAR
CHOOSING YOUR MEDICAL PREPS – CHUCK PEOPLES
Avoiding the pitfalls in your medical preps. What you actually need and will use. How to be properly prepared medically.
- What you need and what you don’t need
- What to prepare fo
- The training you really need
Don the bite suit and see what a well trained defense dog can do. Joel will walk the dogs through an obstacle course and bite demonstrations.
DEFENSE DOG DEMONSTRATIONS – JOEL RYALS
RABBIT PROCESSING OR SHEEP PROCESSING – KYLE PERRAULT
Learn best practices for processing animals, no matter how small or large, from Backwoods Butcher!
Are you interested in making your own medicinal vinegars?
MAKING MEDICINAL VINEGARS – GARREN & ANGELA ALLARD
HOW TO TAP A TREE – TREVOR & KIM BALLARD
Do you have trees you want to tap or are not sure how long to render down sap for syrup?
Do you know what you need for body armor and protection shield?
UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT TYPES OF BODY ARMORS – BRIAN COLLINS
TRADITIONAL VERSUS MODERN SHARPENING – SHANE GABLES
Feeling like you have no edge anymore? Join Edgy American Bladeworks for a Demo of Traditional vs. Modern Sharpening Systems.
Out of butter? Got milk and a jar? Start shaking!
HOW TO MAKE BUTTER – DAWN GORHAM
FORGING WITH FIRE – MIKE LEONIDO
How to build a forge in a day and use fire to forge metal.
Want to see how to get access to your well if power goes out? Flojak Hand Well pumps will be doing a demo on How To Use Off Grid Well Pumps.
HOW TO USE OFF-GRID WELL PUMPS – CODY MCAMIS
OFF-GRID COMPUTER – SHAWN MILLS
Come heard Jordan spin a yarn WHILE spinning yarn.
SPINNING DEMONSTRATIONS – JORDAN SMITH
DIRECT SOLAR: DIY SOLAR FOR REMOTE LOCATIONS – RYAN STEVA
Time for some practical home skills! Join Ryan as he shows you how to tackle a common, yet intimidating homestead project.
Join Landstruck for a conversation about off grid land w/owner financing. This includes land that is very real & deep in the woods, but without all the restrictions.
HOW TO FIND LAND – GLEN MIZE
Signature Solar
Solar is for everyone! Check out our solar supplies.
Holler Roast Coffee
Holler Roast Coffee provides much of the event management for Self-Reliance Festival and runs a couple of giant urns of brew.
Special Operations Equipment
SOE hosts Self-Reliance Festival in and around their factory.
Living Free in Tennessee
The podcast that entertains, educates, and empowers you to live the life you choose.
Bearings, Belts & Chain, Inc.
Premier resource for ball bearing and power transmission parts for more than 20 years.
Above Phone
Step Above to friendly apps, operating systems, and communications that give you privacy and control. A phone that does everything you want and more. Its easy to learn and we’ll help you every step of the way.
Simmer Well Bone Broth
All natural nutritious bone broth made in small batches. Capturing the fresh goodness of Montana air.
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The LOTS Project: Join Brian and the Workshop Crew in the Creator’s Tent for livestreams, interviews, and more.
Grumpy Acres Farm: Garren and Angela have been supplying our community with amazing freeze-dried meals, solar ovens and homestead medicinals since the early days. Come see what new goodies and treats are in store for you at SRF.
Above Phone: Step Above to friendly apps, operating systems, and communications that give you privacy and control. A phone that does everything you want and more. It’s easy to learn and we’ll help you every step of the way.
Ballard Maple: Tap into nature’s sugar – pure maple goodness! Stock up on some important pantry essentials: maple syrup, maple sugar and maple sauces to sweeten up your meals.
The Libertarian Party of Tennessee: The Libertarian Party of Tennessee is dedicated to the preservation and defense of our individual rights. Come visit us at SRF and learn more about our networking project focused on rural communities and homesteads and people like you.
An American Homestead/Perfect Pickler: Looking for the perfect fermented pickle? Look no further than An American Homestead and Perfect Pickler for your home fermenting kits!
Ready Made Resources: Get ready for night vision, thermal optics and so much more at Ready Made Resources’ booth at SRF. We have you covered for off grid options for your homestead food, water and power.
SimmerWell: Nutrition is key for homesteaders – real food that is easy to consume, made by real people is what you will find at the SimmerWell booth. These single serving packs of freeze-dried bone broth are an easy way to stay on top of your health.
Suburban Homesteading Solutions: Staying connected is key and Suburban Homesteading Solutions is here to help. If you are looking for a specialized radio antenna, radio related books or other specialized homesteading items, come see us at our booth at SRF.
Bo’s Tractor Works: Bo’s Tractor Works grows hemp products and combines them with all natural ingredients to make a pain cream and a skin cream that really works.
FloJack Hand Well Pumps: Do you have a well at your homestead? Do you have options for if the power goes out? Flojak Hand Well pumps are on the cutting edge of keeping your water flowing during an unexpected outage.
Kangen Water Collective: Kangen Water is sweeping across the land and you can taste the difference at SRF! Kangen Water is Antioxidant-Rich, Healthy Water for Revitalized Cells and a Healthy Alternative to Regular Tap and Bottled Water.
Landstruck: Looking for your next property or your forever homestead? Landstruck is here to help you locate or even sell land.
Homestead Medical: Homestead Medical is here to help you make sure you are ready for any medical emergency. Get your supplies and kits from our booth at SRF and sign up for some training with our experts.
Forward Training Concepts: Sonny Puzikas has trained with the best and is one of the premier instructors in our country. Fighting, martial arts, dealing with and understanding violence… knowing it intimately has been his passion for 40 years.
Fortress K9: Man’s best friend, loyal protector and constant companion is what you get with Fortress K9 dogs. If you are looking for a top tier performance animal and the support of world class trainers, come visit our booth outside at SRF. We also have merchandise available onsite for all your canine needs.
Holler Roast: Coffee so fresh, it’s cheeky – straight to you! We all know that best tasting and freshest coffee we know of comes from Holler Roast Coffee. Get rid of that bitter brew and taste the difference at our SRF booth.
Homestead Glamour: Natural beauty products straight from the garden. Homestead Glamour leads the way with body products made with a garden of homegrown botanicals. A delight to the senses and an impressive gift for the folks holding down the fort while you are gone.
AMSOIL/LubeDirect: So many ways to win with affordable and trusted lubricant products that we all need. Come visit Michael at the AMSOIL / Lube-Direct table inside at SRF in October.
The Homestead Consultant: The Homestead Consultant provides consultation assistance to homesteaders, aspiring homesteaders and small-scale farmers. Ryan Steva is passionate about building regenerative and resilient homesteads across the country.
ThunderHill Farm: Revolutionize Your Cooking, Your Life, & Your World! Find your inspiration with our homemade sweet & savory sauces from our gardens & orchard in Northern Wisconsin. Visit ThunderHill Farm’s table at SRF in October and find your new favorite flavors.
Amanda’s Mercantile: We still make ‘em like they used to, because we never stopped. Special Operations Equipment is the platinum level for gear and you can try it first hand. Come inside the factory at SRF and see what your newest addiction looks like.
Visions of Bounty: Visions of Bounty is focused on increasing liberty through the production of goods from our homestead and sharing them with you. Come get your fresh baked goods, handmade soaps and body products at our SRF booth. Our homemade cinnamon rolls are just one of things we are famous for!
Yates Innovations: We are busy bees at Yates Innovations and we can’t wait to share our homemade sweets with you. Come visit our table at SRF for honey, hive products and wax – not to mention lip balms, candies and craft items. We have something for everyone!
The Torah Tent: Find your Torah Tribe at the Torah Tent. Come and visit us at SRF for prayer, encouragement, and fellowship and maybe we can help you find other Bear Nation and New2Torah Neighbors!
