Guest Speakers

We will have a line up of interesting and knowledgeable people coming to talk
about what they do and how you can live off grid and gain freedom over your life.

SPEAKER APPLICATION

Off Grid Lifestyle Expo – Speaker Line up 2024

We have a vast array of knowledgeable people in our region, who are happy to share their wisdom and experiences with us so we can learn to be better caretakers of our land.

Most run workshops and courses so you can gain hands on experience and learn the skills required to improve your soil health and grow a productive permaculture garden or food forest. Bring your land back to life with proper planning and implementation of no spray weed control, landscaping and water capture.

Create a frog pond or habitat to attract birds, bees and native animals, including koalas. Our koalas are unfortunately now listed as endangered due to habitat loss through fires and land clearing. Learn how and what to plant for food and shelter for these beautiful animals. Planting trees, shrubs, and native flowers also encourage important pollinators to your patch of land, regardless of size.

Holistic farming methods and self-care are important aspects of living win harmony with the land. We need healthy people to assist with our mission to bring people and the land into a better balance and understanding of what is needed for both to be happy and healthy.

All speaker events are included in the cost of your ticket.
Many of our speakers have an Exhibitors Stand as well.
Visit Our Exhibitors Page

Saturday 2023

Speakers Pavilion

Easy Microgreens

Saturday 10am with Rudy Pauwels
Speakers Pavilion

The benefits of microgreens, we will provide tasting to show the variety of flavours, talk about preparing food, making an off grid income stream – all with microgreens.

One Earth Landscaping

Saturday 11am with Sean Morrow
Speakers Pavilion

Sean will talk about the importance of creating frog ponds and habitat gardens. They add a lovely space to your gardens and invite native birds and animals to your land.

Holistic Farming

Saturday 12pm with Heinz Gugger
Speakers Pavilion

How to use dowsing tools to clear and neutralize any detrimental energies on the land. How to find water for a water bore and how to move water lines which are under the house using earth acupuncture.

MAD Year Experiences

Saturday 1pm with Elli Webb
Speakers Pavilion

Elli will talk about her MAD Year experiences, good and bad.

(MAD – Making A Difference)

1 year of ‘low impact’ living following four rules:

* No Landfill Waste/Rubbish

* Purchase Food Within 250km Radius

* Lower Greenhouse Emissions

* No New Purchases

She will also go through the process of what happens to the waste which is placed into the Red/Green and Yellow lidded bins re: Landfill and Recycling.

Permeco

Saturday 2pm with Tom Kendall
Speakers Pavilion

Good design implementation for creating food abundance.
Implementation of a good property design which is able to produce food sustainably, very quickly and at a low cost.

Aircrete Domes Australia

Saturday 3:00pm with Kathy
Speakers Pavilion

We will discuss the merits of aircrete, and describe some of the benefits and DIY processes as to how this method can apply to off-grid, tiny homes, and residential housing options.

Sunday Speakers for 2023

Speakers Pavilion

Grass Roots Self Sufficient Living

Sunday 10am with Shakya Jemison
Speakers Pavilion

Where do you begin? You’ve bought land and you want to be more self sufficient, how to do this without paying a fortune and making all the mistakes I made at the beginning.

Easy, inexpensive ways to start growing your own food and improving your land. Learn to love your soil and your weeds.

Amrita Park Meadery

Sunday 11am with Andy Coates
Speakers Pavilion

Mead educational talk explaining history, types and techniques for making mead.

Question and answer session.

Fraser Coast Microbats

Sunday 12pm with John Parsons
Speakers Pavilion

Pollinators of the night. Microbats are Australia’s ONLY nocturnal, long distance pollinators and seed dispersers.

Microbats play an important role in controlling insect numbers, including a range of pest species and disease carrying mosquitoes, as they eat around 40% of their body weight of insects each night.

Off Grid Container Home

Off Grid Container Home – The Dreams and The Reality
Sunday 1pm with Ian & Linda
Speakers Pavilion

We have 3 different off grid setups. The main house is a stand alone 5kw solar array with 9.6kwh of storage bought as a full setup. The cottage is a much smaller setup which has been pieced together with salvaged and new components. The 3rd is our traveling one which is extremely simple with just one panel and one small battery. We offer real world lived experience for people confused about what they need, what a system can do and if it will work in their circumstances. We will discuss the experience and costs all of our “Grand Designs” moments.