Prepper Festival Workshops
Workshops are first come, first seated. Attendees may stand as long as safety precautions for emergency exit and fire codes are observed.
All workshops will be held in the Consignment Shop to the right of The Hutch on Main restaurant (in past years, it was referred to as the bingo hall).
Workshop schedule
| Start | End | Speaker | Topic |
| 9:00 | 9:55 | Hank Wallace | Ham Radio for Preparedness |
| 10:00 | 10:55 | Sara Muncy | Essential Oils for Preparedness |
| 11:00 | 11:55 | David Jones | A Practical Guide to Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare |
| 12:00pm | 12:55pm | John Ainsworth | A Call to Thrive, not just Survive |
| 1:00pm | 1:55pm | Prepper Cookoff | |
| 2:00pm | 2:55pm | Jason Matyas | Build Food Storage that Your Family will Eat (and Love) |
| 3:00pm | 3:55pm | John Ratliff | Suturing and Wound Closure: Classroom |
| 4:00pm | 4:55pm | John Ratliff | Suturing and Wound Closure: Lab |
Workshop Details
Build Food Storage that Your Family will Eat (and Love)
We’ve lost the strength of our grandparents – Food Storage – and this workshop will educate you on how you can regain that strength by building your own food storage system, as well as provide easy, practical options for building your food storage with your existing food budget.
Foraging For Wild Edibles in the Southeast
Learn to identify, harvest and prepare some of the most readily available and easily identifiable edible plants native to the Southeastern U.S.
A Call to Thrive, Not Just Survive
Historian and legal activist, John Ainsworth, brings a unique legal remedy, already in progress, to unite the people and restore America and her founding principles of limited government and state-rights.
Herbal First Aid – Remedies You Can Find In The Wild
Learn to identify, harvest and prepare several common medicinal wild plants native to the Southeastern region of the United States.
Ham Radio for Preparedness
Preparedness Radio Communications teaches how to use licensed and unlicensed communications options to extend and strengthen your community in times of emergency.
A Practical Guide to Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare
How you can protect yourself and your loved ones with the items you have in your house right now if you are in a Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Attack.
Suturing and Wound Closure
Imagine yourself in a grid down situation where you or a loved one suffers a serious laceration. What would you do? This workshop is designed to give you the knowledge and skills to perform basic wound closure.
Essential Oils for Emergency Preparedness
At this workshop, you’ll learn why essential oils are an important, yet often overlooked, aspect of a prepper’s prep, and how easy it is to incorporate into your plan.