Super Saturday – a free, all-day event!
Sponsored by OSR Green, founders of 2 non-profit, off-grid, self-reliance communities,
and by the educational non-profit, Academy of Self-Reliance.
About this event
Classes by real homesteaders:
9:00 – Morning Classes
- Welcome (5 min)- Sarah Garlick, Coslor Cove off-grid community caretaker
- The Operation Self-Reliance Initiative – Philip Gleason, OSR Green, LLC
- Off-Grid Communities vs Going it Alone – Jesse Fisher, Academy of Self-Reliance
- Earth: Planning Your 2+ Acre Homestead – Philip Gleason
12:00 – Lunch (BYOL)
1:00 – Afternoon Classes
- Food : Achieving Your Nutritional Needs – Philip
- Shelter: Understanding Passive Solar Homes – Jesse Fisher
- Power: Harnessing Solar Energy – Larry Jones, OSR Land Co-ops
- Water: Harvesting & Maintaining Your Own Water – Larry Jones
- Sanitation: Creating Clean, Approved Sanitation Solutions – 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 jfisher@academyosr.com 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.