🌱 Seed Swap, Homestead & Permaculture Gathering

Hosted by Jamon & Rianna Mysliwiec
Haven Permaculture LLC & The Independent American Gardener (TIAG)
📅 Saturday, November 15th (Let us know if you can't make it this time, we'll have other dates coming)
📍 20 minutes outside Ava, Missouri — address provided after registration
📩 support@TIAGcommunities.org

🧭 About the Event

Just like our events held across the United States and Parts of Canada, you can now Join us for a day of hands-on learning, connection, and regenerative inspiration — hosted at our very own off-grid Family Havenstead just west of Ava, Missouri!

This Permaculture & Seed Swap Gathering brings together gardeners, homesteaders, and families who want to build resilient, self-sufficient systems right where they live.

Led by Regenerative Consultant and Permaculture Designer Jamon Mysliwiec, this event combines a 3-hour educational session, a community seed swap, and an optional mastermind for those pursuing deeper mentorship.

Whether you’re new to permaculture or already building your homestead, you’ll walk away with tools, clarity, and local connections to keep growing forward with a deeper connection to community, and insight into how we can all bridge the divides of our society by finding common ground, in the Ground itself with the TIAG Framework.

👥 About the Hosts

Jamon Mysliwiec is a regenerative land consultant, Certified Permaculture Designer, and founder of Haven Permaculture LLC and The Independent American Gardener (TIAG).
He has taught and designed projects across 27 U.S. states and 2 countries, collaborating with respected leaders such as Joel Salatin, Rob Avis, and Dr. Leo Sharashkin.

Rianna Mysliwiec is a devoted mother, homesteader, homeschooler, Certified Permaculture Designer, artist, and photographer. She is the co-founder of The Independent American Gardener, and the author and voice behind The I.A.M. Podcast and The Independent American Mamma.

Together, Jamon and Rianna help families and communities reconnect with their land, grow their own food, and live more freely through regenerative design and practical homesteading.
Their shared mission is simple — to help ordinary people take back their power through education, creativity, and real-world application.

📚 What You’ll Learn

A focused 3-hour session covering practical, family-scale design and implementation strategies.

Topics Include:

• Foundations of Permaculture Design

• Food Forests & perennial food systems

• Rain catchment and small-scale water management

• Soil regeneration & Hügelkultur techniques

• Barter, trade, and regenerative local economies

• TIAG’s Framework — “The Plan to Feed Your Family”

🕘 Schedule Overview

9:00 AM — Doors Open
Arrive early, grab a refreshment, and get settled.

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM — Indoor Micro-Class + Group Q&A
An interactive session with live teaching, visual examples, and community discussion.

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM — Snack & Networking Break
Light snacks and refreshments provided. You're encouraged to bring your own packed lunch for the break.

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM — Seed Swap & Community Connections
Trade heirloom seeds, plants, or surplus produce while connecting with local growers, homeschool families, and fellow homesteaders.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM — Private VIP Mastermind (Optional Upgrade)
A small-group mastermind focused on land design planning, regenerative business models, and TIAG mentorship opportunities.

5:00 PM — Doors Close

🌾 What to Bring

• Notebook and pen for notes and ideas

• Seeds, plants, or surplus items to trade during the Seed Swap

• Water bottle and weather-appropriate outdoor clothing (we’ll spend some time outside)

• Optional: your own lunch if you’d like something more than light snacks and refreshments

👨‍👩‍👧 Family Safety Notice

Children are absolutely welcome and encouraged to participate!

Please note that this is an active home and project site with livestock, developing ponds, uneven terrain, gravel, and natural vegetation such as thorns and poison hemlock.

Our home is also 100% off-grid, and for safety reasons, children are not permitted near the solar array or other restricted areas.

During the outdoor segments — weather permitting — kids love to get involved, and we encourage it!
We have 20 acres they’re welcome to explore during the micro-class, and large back windows that provide a view of the trampoline, swingset, and back-acreage “fort” areas.

While we encourage youth participation, parents and guardians are responsible for the direct supervision and safety of their children at all times. Please be considerate of thrown rocks, windows, solar panels, and livestock.

🎟️ Ticket Options

🌱 Community Pass — $7/person
Covers Lunch Hour & Seed Swap Only

• Access from 1:00–3:00 PM (Snack & Networking + Seed Swap (2hr social))

• Includes light refreshments and participation in the community seed exchange.

• Ideal for locals who can’t attend the morning class but want to connect and trade.

🌿 General Admission — $25/person

• Access to the morning micro-class (10 AM – 1 PM) with Q&A.

• Includes afternoon refreshments, seed swap, and networking.

• Great for individuals wanting to learn, connect, and participate in the full day (excluding VIP).

👨‍👩‍🌾 Family Pass (up to 4 people) — $47

• Includes all sessions and activities for your household.

• Perfect for families attending together.

• Does not include VIP Mastermind.

🔥 VIP Mastermind Upgrade — $97/person

• Includes all other sessions plus the private 3–5 PM Mastermind with Jamon.

• Personalized design feedback, deeper strategy discussions, and access to exclusive digital resources.

• Comes with a trial membership to the official TIAG Community Network.

Refund Policy:
Tickets are transferable but non-refundable within 14 days of the event.
In case of severe weather, the event will be rescheduled and all tickets will remain valid.

🌎 Our Mission

After years of traveling, consulting and teaching across North America, we’re bringing it all together at our home in the Ozarks — sharing the tools, systems, and community models we've learned along the way that help families grow food, store energy, catch rain, produce a surplus, and and live with greater independence.

We’ve seen the divide and the conquering of our nation — by force and by bloodshed. And like a frog in a pot of cold water being slowly braught to a boil, the slow erosion of the family, the home, our inherent divine identity as sons and daughters of God, and the disolution and seperation of a "local 1st" community; We want a way out.
We’re not willing to stand by and watch as our children inherit a broken system designed to enslave them to perpetuate itself on their life-force.

One of the controling Elite families of the world, John D. Rockefeller once said:

“I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.”

But we believe in independent, free thought and expression and entrepreneurship.

R. Buckminster Fuller said:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

So, we are. But How?

Enter Permaculture Design:

“Permaculture is a revolution disguised as gardening.”
— Bill Mollison, Co-Founder of Permaculture

Permaculture is a design science to arrive at solutions. But we needed more than design.
We needed a framework that could overlay the existing system — one that integrates rather than separates, and offers a practical, common-sense alternative to the modern lifestyle, economy, and infrastructure of today’s world. One that is as adaptable as the existing rituals of society would demand it to be, something simple, but complete.

Enter: The Overlay-Framework.

“TIAG is a whole-community approach to family self-sufficiency.”

We seek to be the change we want to see in the world — so our kids don’t have to fight the wars of their fathers.

The Independent American Gardener (TIAG) is built on a simple but powerful framework:
help families master the four essentials of self-sufficiency — Food, Water, Shelter, and Surplus — and then connect those families into local, cooperative networks that strengthen whole communities in a circular economic model that puts the family at its core, regenerates land and planet, and prepares against the future and time of need.

Through design education, mentorship, and practical demonstration, TIAG empowers ordinary people to create regenerative systems that serve both family and community — systems that feed, sustain, and protect future generations.

Join us to learn, connect, and plant the seeds of a stronger community — one family, one home, and one garden at a time.

Become, the Independent American Gardener