The Anyone Can Farm Tribe Day July 12 and 13, 2025
You’re not alone!
Alternative ways of schooling, homesteading and farming, learning, and living simply require an alternative community.
What is The Anyone Can Farm Tribe Day?
Don’t be a Lonely Homesteader
If you’re ready to really elevate your homestead game, and to do it in the company of other serious homesteaders, you’re in the right place.
Spend a weekend, or just the day, with like-minded homesteading folks to learn homesteading skills, talk around the campfire, and share good food. Participate in workshops designed to help you gain self-sufficiency and independence by learning about homesteading skills for the beginner through advanced homestead farmer.
Workshops for 2025!
- Farm water systems: moving water where you want it (Mark Baker)
- Gluten free baking with soaked and sprouted grains (Rachel Jamison)
- Alternative Health Options (Matt Pekrul)**products available
- Alternative Animal Feeding and Balancing the Homemade Ration (Jordan Buck)
- Parasite Proof your farm (Soil) (Andrew Cross)
- tour of Baker’s Green Acres with Mark
and so much more!
Children are welcome! There are activities planned for them, plus the fun of just hanging out with other farm kids and having fun.
Lunch will be potluck around a pig roast. We’ll provide table service. Our on farm “cafe” will be open for meals other than Saturday lunch.
Limited rustic camping sites are available on the farm with a reservation.
Ready for some intense, varied, fun, and no holds barred conversation? Join us around the campfire Friday and Saturday evenings for some homestead farm fellowship.
The Cafe will be open to serve farm fresh food for meals other than the potluck on Saturday!
Meet our speakers!
- Organic Healing with Matt Pekrul
- Farm Water Systems with Mark Baker
- Gluten Free Baking with Rachel Jamison
- Creating a parasite resistant ecosystem with Andrew Cross
- Balancing a Homemade Feed Ration with Alternative Feeds by Jordan Buck
God made you to heal and we have amazing resources to do so naturally. Matt Pekrul will share a few resources that we can all use to keep ourselves, our families, our animals, and our land healthy and vital. Matt Pekrul is a trustee and founder of Project FarmSTAND Ministries, an unincorporated 508(c)(1)(a) ministry dedicated to faith, regenerative farming, and holistic stewardship. With over 30 years of experience as a plastics engineer specializing in chemistry, biology, and physics across industries like automotive, pharmaceutical, and aerospace, Matt brings a problem-solving mindset to sustainable agriculture and alternative medicine. Project FarmSTAND reflects his commitment to self-sufficiency, food as medicine, and biblical stewardship, empowering individuals to take responsibility for their health, land, and community under God’s guidance. “Whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do it for the glory of God.” — 1 Corinthians 10:31
Matt will have resources available for sale at the Tribe Day Gathering, so come prepared to take home knowledge and resources for improved natural health.
Mark Baker took to heart Joel Salatin’s advice that the two most valuable pieces of infrastructure for a farm are fences and running water. He will show you exactly how he has created a water delivery system all over Baker’s Green Acres stemming from one well. This method is simple and cost effective to allow you to water all your animals without worrying about them running out on a hot, dry summer day.
Mark is an Air Force veteran who has been farming full time since retiring in 2004. He has built the systems on Baker’s Green Acres to create secure and nurturing environments for all the different animals and humans who live here.
Want to expand your “clean” baking skills? Looking to lighten the gluten load, or at least do a bit better with your grains? Or maybe your body has you on the ropes over gluten and going gluten free isn’t optional for you. Rachel Jamison has, of neccessity, been strictly gluten free for many years. She’s developed techniques and skills to sprout many grains and use them to make exquisite baked goods. In this workshop she’ll spill the beans on how you can do this in your kitchen, too. And if the workshop doesn’t answer all your questions, she’ll be here all weekend to talk grains, digestion, and this kind of lifestyle.
Parasites are part of farm life, but Andrew will tell you exactly how to set up your farm to resist them. It all starts in the soil and healthy soil repels the unwelcome guests, leaving your animals (and you) parasite free. Last year Andrew used these techniques to beat Black Head Disease, which is usually fatal, in his turkey flock. Come learn his secrets and make your farm a strong and vital, parasite free paradise!
Jordan has been working his northern Michigan homestead toward self sufficiency for many years. Along with his wife and kids, he raises vegetables for sale and animals to feed his growing family. Jordan has a passion for raising healthy things from the ground (soil) on up, which has led him into biochar, composting, and now using alternative feeds and creating balanced feed rations for his animals.
Stuff for the kids!
There will be much more coming as we develop the schedule, so please be sure to check back! These activities are for older kids. There will be activities for the littles, too!
Amy Stumpo is back with fun games for the kids to help them get into the spirit of Tribe Day and make sure no one is a stranger.
With Mark Baker. Emphasis is on skill and on safety. Parent permission will be required.
Basic Schedule:
Friday
Campground check-in starting at 4 pm
Campfire at the farm starting about 6.
Cafe open for dinner
Saturday
8:30 am: coffee and tea are hot! Checkins start. Cafe open for breakfast at 7:30.
9 am: Welcome
9:30 am: first workshops
11:00 Workshop
12:30 LUNCH: Pig roast from Baker’s Green Acres. Bring a dish to share! Table service provided.
1:30 pm: Workshops
3 pm: Workshops
4:30 pm: Tour of Baker’s Green Acres
5:30 pm: Campfire! Stay and hang out with us! Cafe will be open.
Sunday
7:30 am: Cafe opens
Skill Share (optional): sign up to share your skill or passion with the group
Can’t make it, or want to watch ALL the sessions and be one person?
We’ve gotcha covered! Nomadic Media Company will be recording the sessions and they will be available for Tribe+ members. We will not be making them available otherwise, so grab your membership today so you’re all set when the recordings come out. You can also check out previous years’ workshops in the membership, and so much more to get 10x growth in your self sufficiency, food security, independance and life directed homesteading pursuit.
