Alan Seiler has been farming for the last 15 years at BetterTogether Farm in a certified organic vegetable production in Oklahoma. He specializes in soil science, infrastructure development, and consulting. Alan enjoys creating innovations in soil fertility, water management, and farm infrastructure. He is passionate about his family, soil science, history, philosophy, and popcorn.

Anna lives in northeast Texas and has been breeding and training Labradors and Brittanys for over 10 years. Her love for the working dog has led her to develop Big Tooth Kennels where her breeding program has produced dogs sold all across the nation. Her passion is to instill knowledge and admiration for these intelligent breeds to her children and the future generations.

Beverly has enjoyed East Texas country living for 40+ years and gardening for 50+ years. She keeps busy growing veggies, fruits, herbs and flowers; saving seeds; organizing a monthly garden group, and staying active at church. She encourages others to experience the joy and blessings of country living and gardening!

Brenda Adams and husband Milton live in Tennessee. They are grateful parents of Elena, Kenton (and Cristina), Weston (and Jasmin). As a stay-at-home wife and mother, Brenda feels that she has been right where the action is. After 15 years of homeschooling and 13 years of homesteading, she is...still learning!

Brianna enjoys working at Bountiful Blessings Farm in Middle Tennessee. She is passionate about agriculture and its opportunities to daily walk with God. You’ll often find her experimenting in the kitchen or feeding her curiosity for plant breeding.

Caleb Dysinger was born and raised on Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm in middle Ten­nessee where he farms with his parents and brother. As he grew up, farming turned from a burden into his career choice. He loves the chal­lenge of stream lining and making things run more efficiently.

Chad and Fadia Kreuzer share seminars on the gut-brain connection, health, and natural remedies. They have a YouTube channel called Health and Homestead. They are directing a wellness center in the second largest Amish community in the U.S. called Foresthill Wellness Center. Foresthillcenter.com

Chett and Melissa own and operate Hillside Harvest Farm in Northern Michigan. Over the last eight years, they have built a profitable homestead from the ground up, while raising and homeschooling their two boys.

Chris Palafox was raised in Loma Linda, California, where his mother at a young age taught him lessons about agriculture. He has been the Wildwood Natural Farm manager since 2020. His passion is teaching how to use a farm for ministry and his moto is "The Goal is the Soul".

Cristina is a certified herbalist, wellness educator, and the founder of Arukah Apothecary and The Restorative Herbalism School. Since 2015, she’s traveled throughout the United States teaching others about healthy living and how to use medicinal herbs wisely, safely and for aiding the restoration and healing of our bodies. She currently lives in Tennessee with her husband, Kenton, where she runs her herbal business, Arukah Apothecary.

Daniel Nicholls has had an interest in gar­den­ing since his late teens. Shortly after joining the Adven­tist church in 2013, he began to work on farms. Currently, he has found his place in ministry as the Agri­cul­ture Direc­tor at Hol­brook Indian School where he and his wife, Olga, have had the blessing of starting their family.

Darlene is a home gardener with a love for getting her hands in the dirt! She and her husband, Lew, grow fruits, vegetables, grains, herbs, and flowers on a small homestead in Tennessee. She is especially excited about experimenting with new varieties, seed-saving, and encouraging others to garden.

Dulce Perez’s love for gardening and greenhouses took root as a freshman in high school working on the farm. Since then she has always been involved in gardening as a hobby. Recently, she has combined her passions for self supporting ministries and gardening by working at Eden Valley Institute and Wellness as the Harvesting manager in the Farm.

El amor de Dulce Pérez por la jardinería y los invernaderos echó raíces como estudiante de primer año en la escuela secundaria trabajando en la granja. Desde entonces, siempre ha estado involucrada en la jardinería como un pasatiempo. Recientemente, ha combinado sus pasiones por los ministerios adventistas y la jardinería trabajando en Eden Valley Institute and Wellness como gerente de Cosecha en la Granja.

Edwin and Jen­nifer Dysinger and their chil­dren spent 16 years pio­neer­ing in Sudan, Tan­za­nia and Yemen with ADRA and OCI, working to improve the lives of poor and rural fam­i­lies. That was fol­lowed by 10 years of growing produce with Boun­ti­ful Bless­ings Farm. They enjoy devel­op­ing their home­stead on the family farm, working with son Paul on Seed­time, and spend­ing time with their parents, sib­lings, and 11 grandchildren!

Elias & Yumara Acevedo, whose family calling has been service, have been involved with medical mis­sion­ary work since 2009. Lifestyle edu­ca­tors with expe­ri­ence in mis­sions, herbal & natural reme­dies, Bible work, mid­wifery, car­pen­try and WFR train­ing, they with their chil­dren have been blessed to min­is­ter together wher­ever God has led.

Ester farms full-time with her husband Seth on their family’s market farm in Tennessee. With experience farming in New Zealand and Australia on a large variety of crops and farm animals, specifically breeding sheep and rabbits for over 20 years. She loves to share and meet with people passionate about agriculture.

Cur­rently licensed to prac­tice med­i­cine in 5 states, Dr. Cobos is board cer­ti­fied in both Anes­the­si­ol­ogy and Lifestyle Med­i­cine. His log home in the woods is used as a part-time san­i­tar­ium, well­ness edu­ca­tion center, and lifestyle med­i­cine prac­tice loca­tion. The year round garden serves as the pharmacy.

Fred is pas­sion­ate about family, mis­sions, prac­ti­cal country living, and gar­den­ing; is married to Marie, and is father to three of the finest young people ever. He has been involved in agri­cul­ture since a very young age, and start­ing at age 15, he has led out in various insti­tu­tional farms.

Isaac lives in middle Tennessee where he works on his family's farm, runs a sawmill business, and dabbles with tree work on the side. He loves hard work, the outdoors, climbing trees and giving Bible studies.

Jace Addison was born and raised in Hico, TX and spent most of his childhood on the family farm. He is now serving as a pastor in the Hico and Joshua Cowboy churches and lives on his family farm with his wife, Kayla, and their son, Malcom.

John Dysinger, along with his wife Pam and their 5 children built Bountiful Blessings Farm (in Middle TN) from the ground up — starting 27 years ago. He has made every mistake in the book and would love to help you avoid some of those! Even greater than his passion for the agrarian life is his passion to help people learn how to walk with God in the garden!

Joy Kauffman, MPH, is a public health nutritionist, speaker, Jesus follower, non-profit leader, Johns Hopkins and Virginia Tech graduate. She's the Founder and Executive Director of FARM STEW International, which is leading families from extreme poverty to abundant life! She's been married for 26 years and has two grown girls.

Keith Hankins became fascinated with the beauty of agriculture at the age of 16 and since then has gained valuable experience working on different farms and homesteads across the US and Canada. His greatest desire is to learn how to be cultivated by the Master Gardener, Jesus Christ.

Kenny Point is a farmer, bee­keeper, and writer living in Central West Vir­ginia. He raises a variety of crops for market that include ginger, turmeric, leafy greens, garlic, med­i­c­i­nal herbs, and gourmet mush­rooms. In addi­tion to his agri­cul­tural pur­suits, his back­ground includes Medical Mis­sion­ary, herbal, nutri­tional, and prim­i­tive skills training.

Kevin Brown currently serves as the President of Andrews Service Corporation, (an affiliate of Andrews University) in Berrien Springs, MI, and the Chief Financial Officer at Farmers Friend in Centerville, TN.

Laurence Burn serves as Training Director at Adventist Frontier Missions, where he’s worked for 20 years. Originally from South Africa, he’s a passionate disciple-maker and visionary leader. Laurence and his wife Lois have two children: Ruth, married to Pastor Jeff Bradburn, and Jonathan, a mechanical engineering graduate from Walla Walla University.

For almost three decades my wife and I served in organizations dedicated to health ministry. We retired in 2021. Recently celebrated 45 years of marriage; we find great joy in cooking and working together in the garden.

Dr. Lois G. Lello, MD, is a board‑certified pediatrician with 35 years’ experience, serving infants through teens at Corewell Health’s Southwestern Medical Clinic in Niles, Michigan. A graduate of Loma Linda University (MD 1990), she combines trauma‑informed care with a passion for therapeutic gardening through her LifeBlooms initiative.

Mark has loved the garden all his life and now farms in middle Tennessee. His passion is to use agriculture as an entering wedge to reach hearts. His favorite topics to talk about and study are farming and witnessing.

The Adams family lives on a 100-acre homesteading/homeschooling/home churching laboratory. After reading the book "Country Living," we made significant changes. Our goals: 1) To save our own children, 2) to find and disciple people whose hearts are open to God, and 3) to live in the country (without bringing the city with us).

Narlon Edwards' ministry began in urban evangelism in New York in the late 90s. In 2009, he left a successful career to enter full-time ministry, focusing on medical missionary work, counseling, family life, youth ministry, evangelism, and church planting. His wife Samantha teaches nutrition and authored "The Better Way" cookbook and is the founder and CEO of New Breed Meats. Together they have traveled the world with a shared passion to spread the Three Angels’ Messages and establish Outpost Centers. Narlon currently directs Red River Outpost.

Two city slickers living in the shadow of downtown Houston, who by God’s mercy began to dimly understand God’s ideal for His people, and by faith left the comfortable life they knew to start a family and by God’s grace do the work He has called His people to do.

There are two things that Pam has always loved--the gospel and food preservation. Therefore, she wanted to combine them for ministry. Through much prayer and study God revealed to her biblical principles for food preservation. As a result, in 2008, Preserving Life Ministries was formed to teach the biblical, historical and practical art of preserving food to preserve life.

Paul Dysinger enjoys teach­ing people all over the world how to grow their own healthy, nutri­ent-dense, organic food through online garden train­ing and soft­ware — www​.seed​time​.us. He is the blessed husband to his wife Natasha and father of three sons and one daugh­ter. They cur­rently live in TN and enjoy seeing how much food they can grow on their small homestead.

Mindi is a follower of Jesus, wife of Philip, a teacher, a gardener, an global service enthusiast, and loves praising God with scripture songs. Philip met Mindi through starting a farm at her father's school in Haiti. He is a teacher, farmer, and mechanic.

Renee Simone Hankins, a homeschooling mom of five (14 years and counting!), knows the joys and hilarious realities of country living with teens. With 28 years married to Keith, her family's decade-long gardening journey cultivated unexpected agricultural passions, even leading one son to author a gardening book. She promises a whimsical, optimistic look at rural transitions—ups, downs, and beautiful victories, even with teens!

Growing up in Texas, Ricky Seil­er’s expe­ri­ence with gar­den­ing was growing pithy weedy radishes. He never dreamed someday he and his wife would join their adult chil­dren to start Bet­ter­To­gether Farm, a small market garden, in South­ern Okla­homa. Now the family grows a variety of veg­eta­bles and flowers on their year-round farm.

Robert has been an educator for the past 35 years, teaching on a wide variety of topics that include plant propagation, beekeeping, county living, disaster preparedness, wilderness survival and Bible. Rob lives in Washington state with his wife Jeanne and produces plant starts and honey for the local farmers market.

Robert is a tree service professional from Stanton, Kentucky. Six years ago, he started Sure Notch Tree Service, which specializes in the safe pruning, removal, and planting of trees. Outside of tree work, he enjoys farming, hiking, playing guitar, and developing his country property.

Scott and Linda both graduated from Southern Missionary College with education degrees and taught for several years in SDA schools. But before starting their family they were convicted to depart from their teaching careers and move to the country where they owned and operated their own cabinet shop. They enjoyed gardening together as they raised their three children, who are now grown, married and active in their SDA churches. Two years ago the Learneds retired and moved to the Ozarks in Arkansas where they live on a 30 acre homestead.

Sherri Neuroh and her husband Kyle homestead in Middle TN with their two boys. She believes that God has the practical wisdom she needs for life as a wife and homeschooling mom, as well as for gardening, serving in their local church and being a good neighbor. Her heart’s desire is to see a crown of life placed on the heads of each family member…and others besides! Fun fact: In the 90’s, both Sherri’s parents and Brenda Adam’s parents were serving at Maluti Mission Hospital in Lesotho, Africa.

In the 35 years since his conversion, Skip Dodson has labored in teaching the Bible and with his hands as a builder. Skip is married to Renee (30 happy years!); the couple and their two young adult children are serving as self-supporting missionaries in the mountains of western Colorado.

Spencer Scott is Commercial Grower with many years of growing experience in US markets and crop production overseas. Specialty areas are greenhouse growing and management Tree fruit, vegetable crops, converting fresh product to cash.

Timo is a former heavy metal guitarist whose love for missions was kindled after his conversion. For several years he and his wife ran the 1st pure-plant organic store in Germany where they served people through medical missionary work. Their love for horticulture grew steadily during this time. They are currently setting up their own market garden in Germany.

Tony Fuentes is the Farm Manager, Agri­cul­ture Teacher, and Men’s Dean at Hart­land College, as well as the Direc­tor of the Pied­mont Bible Camp. With over a decade of farming expe­ri­ence, he is ded­i­cated to edu­cat­ing and inspir­ing fam­i­lies to embrace a country lifestyle. Tony has a deep passion for working with youth and teenagers, taking annual mis­sion­ary trips to various coun­tries to share his love for service. He is happily married to his wife, Kenya, and is a proud father of three chil­dren: Yetzley, Jabneel, and Yetzraim.

Vita is an educator, lifestyle coach, content creator/influencer for the NEW-START program for health & wellness. She has enjoyed soap making for over 20 years! Her other loves & hobbies include lotion making, bread making, preparing raw vegan & vegan meals for lifestyle centers, gardening & foraging herbs, nature, her family & Jesus.

West­on’s home­steading began at age 13 when his parents moved to central Ten­nessee. He devel­oped a passion for peren­nial fruit crops, which he main­tains to this day. Weston com­pleted a BS in Sus­tain­able Food and Farming in 2022 and presently works at the Baker Creek Heir­loom Seeds research farm.

Whitmar has been growing produce and spe­cialty crops for 33 years. For 21 years he’s pro­vided soil fer­til­ity and edu­ca­tion ser­vices through­out North America and beyond to growers of every scale from back­yard gar­den­ers to growers farming several thou­sand acres. He’s been married to his wife Lisa for 35 years, is dad to 8 chil­dren and ​“Gramps” to 3 grand­chil­dren (soon to be 4). He loves helping people to ​“taste and see that the Lord is good”.

Wilshaw Stevens and his wife Lynn and their two children, Abigail and Enoch, have been building up a homestead in SE Oklahoma for the past three years. Since the move to a rural county, they have expanded in different business ventures including SE OK Small Engine Repair LLC.

Zach is a Market Gardener at Bountiful Blessings Farm in Williamsport, TN, where he grows vegetables for a CSA, farmers markets, and local grocery stores. Formerly a data analyst at Amazon, he felt a strong call from the Holy Spirit to pursue a simpler, more purposeful life through country living. He also has five years of experience in flower bed installation, including nursery work and planting annual flowers throughout the Southeast.