Super Saturday: How to Build a Sustainable Off-Grid Homestead

About this event

Classes by experienced homesteaders:

9:00 - Morning Classes

• Welcome (5 min)- Sarah Garlick, Coslor Cove off-grid community caretaker
• The Operation Self-Reliance Initiative (30 min) - Philip Gleason, OSR Green, LLC
• Keynote Speaker (60 minute presentation + 30 min. Q&A): Joel Skousen via Zoom
• Off-Grid Communities vs Going it Alone (30 min) - Jesse Fisher, Academy of Self-Reliance
• Earth: Planning Your 2+ Acre Homestead (30 min) - Philip Gleason

12:00 - Lunch (BYOL)

1:00 - Afternoon Classes

• Food : Achieving Your Nutritional Needs (30 min) - Philip
• Shelter: Understanding Passive Solar Homes (30 min) - Jesse Fisher

• Power: Harnessing Solar Energy (30 min) - Larry Jones, OSR Land Co-ops
• Water: Harvesting & Maintaining Your Own Water (30 min) - Larry Jones
• Sanitation: Creating Clean, Approved Sanitation Solutions (30 min) - Jesse

4:00 - Munch & Mingle

• Chili with Crackers & Cheese
  

IMPORTANT: RSVP by registering for a free "ticket" so we can inform you if we have to postpone the event due to weather or... a zombie apocalypse.

Travel tips:

• Use your phone's map app to find: 1900 Bourdon Ranch Rd, Show Low, AZ

• Please register. But if all the free tickets are taken, just email [email protected] and let him know how many are in your party.

About our Presenters:

Philip Gleason -
Founder of the OSR Initiative and the Utah OSR Land Cooperative. Currently CEO of OSR Green,LLC and the Arizona OSR Land Co-op known as Coslor Cove, a 2nd off-grid agricultural land co-op. In addition a board member of the Academy of Self-Reliance. Currently resides on his 2 acre off-grid homestead at Riverbed Ranch.

Larry Jones -
He's a former chairman of the Utah OSR Land Co-op and current chairman of the Arizona OSR Land Co-op, has been instrumental in developing off-grid homesteads in both states. He and his wife, Jenny, are avid preppers and are building their own off-grid homestead at the Utah OSR Land Co-op. Larry also manages the Utah OSR Land Co-op Water Company, helping shareholders secure water shares and start well drilling.
Jesse Fisher -
A 7th generation Texan! He's a long-term gardener and business owner and now a homesteader and staff writer for the Academy of Self-Reliance. He's the author of the ebook, “Your Matrix Exit Plan” and enjoys gardening, launching private schools and now off-grid, self-reliance communities. Happily married father of 5 and “Grandpa” to 5 more.

^^^ White Mountain Airpark - Enter that door you see there.

Philip Gleason in front of his solar array on his homestead at Riverbed Ranch, Utah.

Philip hosting a tour of his off-grid homestead. Here he is explaining the attributes of his passive-solar home.

Jesse Fisher interviewing the 125th shareholders at their lot at the Utah OSR Land Co-op's Riverbed Ranch off-grid community.

Host or Publisher Riverbed Ranch