Dr. Bill Schindler
archeaologist, chef
Dr. Bill Schindler is an internationally recognized archaeologist, primitive technologist, chef, educator, and author of Eat Like a Human. As founder of the Modern Stone Age Food Lab, he teaches how ancestral food traditions—including fermentation, sourdough, hunting, foraging, and whole-animal utilization—can improve health, strengthen communities, and reconnect people with nourishing, traditional foods. Website.
Being fully nourished as a human is more than just the macro and micro nutrients in your food.
RuthAnn Zimmerman
homesteader
RuthAnn Zimmerman lives with her family on a 21-acre homestead in Northeast Iowa, where she and her husband, Elvin, have been homesteading since 2001. Rooted in their Mennonite heritage, RuthAnn is passionate about self-sufficiency and hands-on homestead life. Through this way of living, she seeks to cultivate character, integrity, and strong family relationships, all while bringing glory and honor to their Heavenly Father. Website.
Empowering families to walk with God, raise Godly children, and live a self-sustaining lifestyle.
Joel Salatin
lunatic farmer
Joel Salatin, 68, 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. Website
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
Justin Rhodes
crazy chicken ninja
Justin Rhodes, creator of Abundance Plus and pioneer of modern homesteading, tends his North Carolina homestead with his wife Rebekah and their children, raising livestock, gardens, and community. Through daily practice and teaching, he champions regenerative, family-centered living. His work shows how ordinary families can reclaim food freedom and abundance through simple, sustainable practices. Website.
“The best way to find freedom isn’t to escape the system—it’s to grow something that makes the system irrelevant.”
Calley Means
health advocate, entrepreneur, author
Calley Means played a key role in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s work on health policy, advising on key issues. Co-author of Good Energy and founder of TrueMed, he advocates for healthcare reform. A Stanford and Harvard graduate, he’s appeared on major podcasts, pushing for systemic change in healthcare and metabolic health. Website
My mission is to steer more healthcare dollars to incentivize metabolic habits at the root of disease (healthy food, exercise, sleep, stress management). This is where the rubber hits the road to change our current trajectory.
Julian Douwes, M.D.
visionary, scientific director
Julian Douwes, from Clinicum St. Georg in Bad Aibling, Germany, will keynote on treating Lyme disease with hyperthermia and nutrition. He’ll also lead workshops throughout the summit. Clinicum St. Georg cured event co-founder John Miller’s chronic Lyme. We’re thrilled to bring this expertise to our Seed to Spoon Summit community battling Lyme disease. Website.
Health does not just happen. It is a journey; a decision, and sometimes a challenge. Our philosophy is clear: We believe in the incredible power of nature and the infinite possibilities of science.
Del Bigtree
TV and video producer, informed consent advocate
Del Bigtree is the founder of the Informed Consent Action Network and host of The HighWire, a popular internet talk show. A former producer on The Doctors, he became a leading voice in vaccine risk awareness after directing Vaxxed. Del advocates through media, legal, and legislative efforts, challenging pharmaceutical influence on public health. Video
Don’t give authority more credit—do your own research, don’t just follow.
David Stelzer
organic food and healthy soil pioneer
David Stelzer is the founder and CEO of Azure Farm and Azure Standard, a leading nationwide distributor of natural, organic, and non-GMO foods. Building on more than 100 years of family farming in the Pacific Northwest, David is passionate about regenerative agriculture, wholesome nutrition, and making high-quality food accessible to families across the country. Website
It’s the responsibility of the farmer to be the guardian of the health of the people.
John Kemp
agronomist
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture and host of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. A leader in regenerative agronomy, he develops crop nutrition systems designed to improve yields and profitability while reducing fertilizer and pesticide use. For 15 years, John has taught growers worldwide, working toward making regenerative agriculture the global mainstream by 2040. Website
“My vision is to have regenerative agriculture become mainstream globally by 2040.”
Sarah Thrush
the crazy canning lady
Sarah Thrush’s mission is to help others achieve a lifestyle of self-sufficiency through subsistence agriculture, home food preservation techniques & naturalism. Guiding others to get “back to the basics” of living in today’s world. Website
I think everyone should experience the reward of growing and preserving your own food at least once in your life.
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
homesteaders
Shawn and Beth Dougherty have been farming since the 1980s, managing 90 acres in eastern Ohio using intensive grazing to sustain dairy, beef, pigs, and poultry. Authors of The Independent Farmstead, they focus on self-sufficient, regenerative agriculture, minimizing off-farm inputs. Their work demonstrates how small-scale farming can thrive with nature’s cycles and traditional methods. Website
The principle behind the Revolution is simply that the dairy cow is the original solar battery.
Edwin Shank
farmer
Edwin Shank is a farmer, teacher, writer, and founder of The Family Cow, a certified organic, pasture-based farm in Chambersburg, PA. With his family and team, he produces raw milk, pastured meats, and other “healing foods” for 55 drop-point tribes across Pennsylvania and nationwide. Partnering with 60+ farm families, The Family Cow thrives through community. Website
“We can still decide, every day, what we’re going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in.”
Sally Fallon Morell
ancestral diet advocate
Sally Fallon Morell is the founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring nutrient‑dense traditional foods to American diets through education, research, and activism. She also founded A Campaign for Real Milk, edits the quarterly magazine Wise Traditions, and publishes the Nourishing Traditions series. Website.
The diet dictocrats’ advice is wrong.
Teresa Holler
physician assistant
Teresa Holler, MS, PA-C, FMAPS, is a Family Practice Physician Assistant, Medical Director of Sheltering Wings Refuge, and Fellow of the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs. Author of Cardiology Essentials, Holler for Your Health, and On Medicine and Miracles, she has spoken nationally and been featured on NPR, FOX, Good Morning Arizona, and more. Website.
Teresa’s passion for treating the most complex chronic health problems coupled with her talent for distilling complicated medicine into simple practical steps will help you incorporate safe, novel, and effective solutions immediately after listening.
Doc Jacque
chiropractor
Dr. Jacque is a Doctor of Chiropractic and natural health expert specializing in uncovering the root causes of chronic illness through functional medicine. Having overcome his own health challenges, he has helped more than 5,000 people restore their health through personalized testing and natural treatment strategies. At the Summit, he will share practical approaches to mold toxicity and infertility. Website.
“I don’t treat symptoms. I don’t treat disease. I find the root cause.”
Dr. Kelly A. Farrell-Emley
doctor of chiropractic
Dr. Kelly opened up her Emley Family Chiropractic in 2006 with her husband, Dr. William W. Emley, Jr. Dr. Kelly treats patients for Lyme Disease and works closely with the staff at Clinicum St. Georg in Bad Aibling, Germany. She is an advocate for eradicating Lyme Disease and will be speaking at the Seed to Spoon Summit on the cases she has treated and the rise of this disease to epidemic levels. Website.
Don’t give authority more credit—do your own research, don’t just follow.
Kelly McKenna
chronic disease advocate
Kelly McKenna is CEO of End Chronic Disease, a nonprofit dedicated to ending chronic illness through prevention-first education and advocacy. She has held leadership roles at Stanford University’s Initiative on Learning Differences and at ArtLifting, and previously worked in finance at J.P. Morgan and Cliffwater. Kelly earned degrees from Stanford and Harvard Business School. Website.
Neal Kinsey
agronomist
Neal Kinsey, a Soil Fertility Specialist since 1973, trained under Dr. William A. Albrecht. His consultations range from small gardens to large farms, focusing on soil chemistry to enhance soil structure and plant health. Neal has advised clients in over 75 countries, both conventional and no-till farming. Website
By the time you can see a deficiency, it has already hurt you.
Max Kane
ag tech founder, local food activist, and survivor of degenerative crohn’s disease
Max Kane is the host of TheFOODCAST, founder/CEO of FarmMatch.com, farm food marketing expert, FDA whistleblower, author of several books on natural health and local food activism, and is known for being the first person in US history to voluntarily remove himself from permanent federal disability for degenerative crohn’s disease. Max has pushed over $100M in food sales revenue to small farms that sell direct. Article
My goal is to create a decentralized local food system that is easy to access, so that our planet and its inhabitants have a chance at a future.
Codi & Michelle Knox
homesteaders, youtubers
Michelle and Codi are the creators of the YouTube channel “More Than Farmers”. They’ve been homesteading for over a decade, and their mission is to empower others to achieve their own homesteading goals and dreams without burning out in the process. YouTube
We believe in homesteading that’s sustainable for YOU, not just sustainable homesteading.
John Moody
author, homesteader
The Moodys began homesteading in 2010 to raise their own food and provide their kids with skills over possessions. They transformed a barren farm into a thriving homestead and now help others build productive households and communities. They are authors of six books, parents of six kids, and founders of six businesses. Website
Most folks don’t need to do more, they need to do better. Doing more leads to burnout, doing better leads to abundance, whether in the garden, in the coop, or in the kitchen.
Maureen Diaz
teacher, writer, cook
Maureen lives a full life sharing the encouraging message of health, healing & hope through timeless principles rooted in God’s word. She is Outreach Coordinator for Weston A. Price Foundation and also has her own organization and website: God’s Good Table. Website
People often incorrectly assume that before the age of modern medicine people just suffered and died, in multitudes, from the same afflictions we do today. Nothing could be further from the truth!
John Miller—Event Co-Founder, MC
product developer
After the canning lid shortage in 2021, John Miller took personal responsibility and was committed to bringing US made canning lids to the home canner. Superb developed a high-quality canning lid in 2021 and brought it to market. John has decades of experience in product development and marketing. Website
I’m telling you, you can can!
Marcus Wengerd—Event Co-Founder
seed evangelist
Marcus Wengerd owns Berlin Seeds of Berlin, Ohio. He is a strong advocate of the truth that all of life is in the seed and that we must not ignore the power of seeds for life sustenance of ourselves and our families. Website
Seed is the only currency of the planet.
VENUE
TIMBERCREST
Timbercrest is a natural environment of wide open meadows, campgrounds, and woodlands, just outside the
village of Walnut Creek, smack dab in Amish Country, Holmes County, Ohio.