Montana Homesteaders Festival

04/29/2026

2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival
Sanders County Fairgrounds
Plains, Montana
September 25 & 26, 2026
https://www.montana-homesteadersfestival.com/

The 2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival Speaker lineup.

We are honored to welcome Dr. Paul Adams of Matz Family Chiropractic to be part of the Montana Homesteaders Festival Family.

https://matzfamilychiropractic.com/

Dr. Paul Adams is an Upper Cervical Chiropractor passionate about helping individuals and families stay healthy, active and resilient through natural healthcare. Specializing in the Blair Upper Cervical technique, Dr. Adams focuses on the relationship between the spine, nervous system and overall body function. Helping patients address issues such as headaches, neck pain, dizziness and chronic tension without unnecessary medications or invasive procedures.

Practicing in Montana Dr. Adams has a special appreciation for the hardworking lifestyle of homesteaders, ranchers, outdoorsmen and active families. His approach emphasizes education, prevention and long-term health strategies that allow people to continue doing the work and activities they love.

Beyond clinical practice Dr. Adams is involved in advancing chiropractic education and research, with a passion for making complex health concepts practical and understandable for everyday people. His mission is to help communities build stronger, healthier lives from the inside out.

04/28/2026

Speaker Lineup for the 2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival
Sanders County Fairgrounds
September 25 & 26, 2026
https://www.montana-homesteadersfestival.com/

Hardy & Jessie Reichel
Abraxas Farms
https://www.abraxasfarm.com/


Abraxas Farm is a holistic, birth-to-finish livestock operation in Big Arm, MT. We proliferate healthy pastures to feed our growing herd of heritage pigs, dual purpose sheep, and dairy-cross cattle. With our truly pasture raised organic meats, we hope to deliver maximum flavor and nutrition to the plate for your vitality. In addition to our holistic management of the aforementioned stock, we enjoy our work with chickens, goats, fiber and natural dying, gardens, fruit trees and creative infrastructure. We are constantly cooking with our meat! We spend time home butchering, processing byproducts, dry curing and recipe testing.

Hardy will be giving an informative talk on:
*Grazing plans/Regenerative Strategies for raising hogs organically.

*Hardy & Jessie will also be discussing and introducing their new Montana Feed Mill and their line of Montana grown livestock feeds.

Far Out Feeds.
https://faroutfeeds.com/
Far Our Feeds was built from our own struggle to source the right feed for our pasture-raised Mangalitsa herd.
Now, we’re here to support our herd and yours by offering the most carefully sourced and best milled feed option in Western Montana, a region with few commercial feed options.

04/28/2026

Hands-On Workshop Speaker Lineup for the 2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival
Sanders County Fairgrounds
September 25 & 26, 2026
https://www.montana-homesteadersfestival.com/

Annie Bernauer - Montana Homesteader
Annie will be conducting 2 hands-on workshops during the 2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival:
*How to make a simple worm compost bin for vermicomposting.
*How to naturally tan fish skins into leather.

https://montanahomesteader.com/
Annie Bernauer is a Montana Master Gardener and Master Naturalist. Annie was raised in an old farmhouse in the country and taught by three generations of women in her family how to cook from scratch, can and preserve food, nurture plants to grow and live a simple, meaningful life. Now she’s passing on these skills to her own children on their Montana homestead. Annie writes about her family’s adventures in modern day homesteading on their website, MontanaHomesteader.com. There you will find helpful how-to articles about gardening, raising chickens, beekeeping, canning and preserving, vermicomposting, foraging, DIY projects, from-scratch recipes, homeschooling and more!

04/21/2026

Please listen to last years interview with Mark Cometti of Flathead Permaculture. Grab a seat and a cup of coffee to journey with Monica & Mark Cometti. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

Welcome to Natural Liberty Podcast!This interview is the first in a series of five interviews conducted at the Montana Homesteaders Festival in Plains, Montana in June of 2025.Our guest, Mark Cometti, is an expert in permaculture design with a lif...

04/21/2026

We are honored and blessed have Mark Cometti of Flathead Permaculture joining us again at the 2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival.

https://www.flatheadpermaculture.com/

We will have many hands-on workshops & demos this year for everyone to get personally involved in learning new skills.

Mark will be conducting hands-on workshops and speaking sessions this year.

We are thrilled that Mark will be conducting a hands-on Apple C***r Pressing Workshop with his c***r press.

He will also be conducting a hands-on seed cleaning workshop and will be speaking about Staple Food Gardens.

Come join us for an amazing Fall Montana Homesteaders Festival!!!
Tickets are available on our website.

2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival
Sanders County Fairgrounds
Plains, Montana
September 25 & 26, 2026

https://www.montana-homesteadersfestival.com/

04/21/2026

We are honored and blessed have Natural Liberty Podcast joining us again at the 2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival.

An interview style show featuring conversations with amazing Montanans from all walks of life. We’ll talk with Organic Farmers of all kinds, Dairy producers, Cattle Ranchers, Holistic Health Practitioners, Beekeepers, Permaculturists, Teachers, Hunters and everyone in between. Join us as we develop a community built on our love of The Treasure State and our Natural Liberties. We hope to provide insight and knowledge to nurture our families, friends and neighbors and foster the preservation of our magnificent home.

You will be able to sit down with Monica and record your homesteading story with her to share with our Montana Homesteading family. We will be posting the interviews from our Festival last year all this week. Grab a cup of coffee and listen to some wonderful stories. 🥰

Natural Liberty Podcast FB
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Natural Liberty Podcast Episodes
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2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival
Sanders County Fairgrounds
Plains, Montana
September 25 & 26, 2026
https://www.montana-homesteadersfestival.com/

04/04/2026

Our new 2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival website is now up!

Tickets are available for purchase on the website.

The annual Montana Homesteaders Festival is an event for Montana homesteaders, farmers & ranchers who work the land and raise livestock WITHOUT the use of chemicals, pesticides and herbicides. An event for those who support these local food producers that bring Montana Organic Food to your table.

01/03/2026

2026 Montana Homesteaders Festival
Sanders County Fairgrounds
Plains, Montana
September 25 & 26, 2026

We are excited to announce the 2026 dates for the Montana Homesteaders Festival.

We are now accepting applications for vendors, guest speakers, Hands-on workshop educators & demo presenters.

For information please send an email to:
[email protected]