Mysliwiec Family Farm — A Family Building a Regenerative Demonstration Farm

Our Family

Nine of us, and a blue barn on a hill

Our farm, mission and family are spearheaded by Jamon Mysliwiec — Independent American Gardener — and Rianna Mysliwiec — Independent American Mama. Together, we're raising the next generation of The Independent American Family. This is our family home and the regenerative demonstration site we're building for our own children, with a conviction that a family should own the source of its own food and water.

The farm is sponsored by TIAG initiatives and designed through Haven Permaculture, through Jamon and Rianna's personal design work and hands-on implementation. We build, test and document the systems on our own land so other families can learn from the results.

We need support to reach our goals, and we welcome conversations with investors who want to help this farm grow. Our natural-beekeeping sponsorship campaign is the immediate priority. For the wider farm plan, talk with us about investing.

"Nobody should own the source of your family's food and water but you."

The blue barndominium and workshop on the Mysliwiec Family Farm

Our Priority Now · Natural Beekeeping

Help bring natural beekeeping home

Thank you!

Thirty-one hives and thirty swarm traps are cut and sitting at our partner's CNC shop right now, every one of them our own design. $12,000 is already paid in — approximately $7,500 more covers the remaining balance and transport home.

The Generational Hive is an insulated horizontal hive built for families, not commodity beekeeping: seven pounds of raw sheep's wool insulation, a built-in swarm-catch system, and doors simple enough that a child can work them. We assemble them in the container we're turning into a proper hive shop.

Insulated with 7 lbs of raw sheep's wool
Built-in swarm-catch system
Cut at our partner CNC shop, assembled here

Become a Founding Apiary Sponsor — $500, one time. Help establish the whole farm demonstration and receive lifetime learning and TIAG access, a private 90-minute consultation, shareable discounts, recognition and founders-first surplus purchase opportunities.

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Sponsorship supports the demonstration as a whole. It does not purchase or reserve a hive or create ownership, lien, equity or harvest rights. More sponsors than hives are welcome.

Track Record

The work our family brings home

Years of building hives, teaching in family homes and traveling together inform what we're creating here. This farm is where that shared experience becomes a place other families can learn from.

300+hives placed into family homes

27states and two countries taught in

1,000+families and individuals served through live events, design, consultancy, membership and collaboration

From a community effort to a family craft

Jamon didn't start that first one. He was called by his stake presidency to spearhead it and led it for two years, while a church and community put two hundred hives into family homes across roughly five counties. In his words: "All I did was drive. I didn't build the car."

What came after was ours. Another hundred or so hives of our own custom design — built, assembled and delivered by hand, every single step, by Jamon, Rianna and the kids — as far east as the Carolinas and as far west as Orange County, California, and back again.

Four years on the road followed: four figure-eight loops across the US and into Canada, with our family of seven and a husky named Blue living full-time in a camper (three campers, by the end). Rianna — The Independent American Mama — has taught beside Jamon throughout that journey, including hands-on object lessons in family homes across the country. Our children have been part of the building, traveling and daily work along the way.

Teaching from homes to public events

Jamon's speaking work as The Independent American Gardener includes an Iowa event where he and Joel Salatin were the only two keynote speakers, and a featured appearance at Baker Creek's May Planting Festival. At the 2026 Ozarks Homesteading Expo, Jamon introduced Rianna on stage and she joined him to help teach an object lesson — bringing their familiar way of teaching together to that audience.

TIAG meets Polyface Farms — Jamon Mysliwiec keynoting alongside Joel Salatin

Think we're crazy? You should see what we did last year.

P.S. — it worked.

And crazier things are ahead of us.

Completed · September 2026

Ozarks Homesteading Expo 2026

At the September 4–5 event in Marshfield, Missouri, Jamon spoke as The Independent American Gardener. During his featured session, he brought Rianna — The Independent American Mama — on stage, introduced her and taught an object lesson with her. Rianna joined the session as his teaching partner; the speaker spotlight pictured here was Jamon's.

Thank you to everyone who learned with us. That same family work continues here on the farm.

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The People Doing the Work

Jamon & Rianna, building together

Together, we spearhead the farm, the mission and our family, raising the next generation of The Independent American Family. TIAG initiatives sponsor the demonstration; Haven Permaculture is its design home. Our personal design work, implementation, teaching and professional services help us keep building.

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Jamon Mysliwiec

The Independent American Gardener

Jamon leads the farm, mission and family alongside Rianna. Founder of TIAG and lead designer at Haven Permaculture, he brings permaculture design, natural beekeeping and years of teaching into the systems they are designing and implementing for their own family. He also offers speaking, consultation and design services.

Visit independentamericangardener.com

Rianna Mysliwiec

The Independent American Mama

Rianna leads the farm, mission and family alongside Jamon. Co-founder of TIAG and founder of the IAM community, she shares in the farm's design and implementation and has taught beside Jamon in family homes across the country and at the Ozarks Homesteading Expo. She homeschools their children, runs I AM Imagery and shares the lived experience of raising the next generation of The Independent American Family.

Visit independentamericanmama.com

Year One · What's Actually Here

What a year bought

Everything on this list exists today — the foundation everything else gets built on.

The 20kW ground-mounted solar array from the air

20kW Solar Array Pre-Built

Sixty ground-mounted panels. Our power is our own.

The blue barndominium's timber-framed front porch

The Blue Barndominium Pre-Built

A large family home built to European passive-solar, off-grid standards.

The wellhead on the land, with the barndominium going up behind it

The Well Pre-Built

Our own water, straight off the land — no utility between us and it.

The 40ft high-cube container with hives lined along it, the blue barn behind

40ft High-Cube Container Purchased

We build hives and run farm work out of it today. The proper hive-shop build-out inside is still to come.

Thirty-one hives stacked at the partner CNC shop, awaiting pickup

31 Hives + 30 Traps Awaiting Pickup

$12,000 paid toward the equipment at our partner CNC shop — approximately $7,500 still needed for the remaining balance and transport home.

The family's dairy cow and her calf on the farm

A Dairy Cow & Her Calf Here

Milk for nine, and the first of our livestock.

The farmstead at golden hour — container, barn, and open pasture

Twenty Acres Paying It Off

With expansion plans the moment we can finance it.

Professional Feasibility Studies Complete

Three commissioned reports on our exact twenty acres — a Regenerative Lens Report & Action Plan, a Landscape Health Report, and a Biodiversity Report — covering ecological site, watershed, land form, slope, solar, wind, precipitation, frost period and vegetation. The data is in hand and paid for. The full permaculture masterplan is what's next.

Feasibility studies: ecological site, watershed, land form, slope, solar energy, water drainage, wind energy, vegetation types

Feasibility studies: biodiversity, diversity hotspots, land form, existing assets, frost period, wind rose, precipitation, solar insulation

Still to come: the masterplan, the hive-shop build-out, the swales, the orchard rows, the market garden, the food forest. The masterplan is the next step.

The blue barndominium and shipping container from the air — **The barn & the container**Home on the left, the 40ft high-cube behind it.

Aerial view across the twenty acres and surrounding Ozark hills — **The neighboring opportunity**The forty next door — we share cattle rotation on it today, and intend to buy it the moment funding allows, for silvopasture and contour-farming systems.

Coming homeTwenty acres, the solar, and the blue barn we live in — a couple months after we moved in.

Our farm, May 2025. Twenty acres, and a lot of room to build.

What This Is For

This farm isn't the point. It's the prototype.

Every system we build here is designed to leave this property — as hives on other people's land, as food on other people's tables, as a business model other families can run, as education we teach across the country.

We deliver

Beehives, and how to keep them

We build the Generational Hive, ship it across the country, and teach natural beekeeping alongside it. Modern commodity beekeeping is degenerative and toxic to the bee — we're ending that cycle one family at a time. Our apiary will demonstrate the alternative in real time.

A real harvest from the Mysliwiec family's own garden

We feed

Real food, back to the family table

Holistic, real food has to return to the family table. The silvopasture systems and market garden in the plan are designed to feed far more than the nine of us — starting with the people nearest to us.

The container workshop with hives lined along it

We hand over

A business model, not a secret

Our container workshop is built to be duplicated. Take rights to our hive design files, find your own CNC access or partner the way we found ours, and run a home-based business right on your farm — up to a 40% margin, with a regenerative benchmark from the bees and trees down to the land and soil.

We give

The honor system

Blue Barn Dough's farm stand concept is built around unmanned, self-pay stands — no cashier, no gatekeeper. Everything is made fresh weekly and already selling, whatever doesn't sell goes to local shelters — and $3,000 builds the stand itself.

Jamon teaching a seated audience in a barn venue

We teach

Documented, and given away

The feasibility studies and the design of this property are being recorded and documented into science-backed, real-world education — taught across North America through TIAG and Haven Permaculture, and from stages coast to coast and into Canada.

The farm acreage in golden evening light

We return

Then we fund the next family

Our only limitation is financial. Once these systems are funded and built, they pay for themselves — and then we stop asking and start funding other families instead, through TIAG's circular economic models.

We've done bigger things with less, and we've got a road map — we just need help making it happen. Share the work. Meeting our goal is simultaneously our way of helping you, and thousands of other families, meet yours.

We are catalysts, and proud to be it. We're building the world we want to see, not waiting for it to change.

The mission we're building toward: Certified TIAG Hub status. Yes — we have to qualify for our own certification, and we don't meet the qualifiers yet. That's the point: the standard is real, and this farm earns it the same way anyone else's would. See what a TIAG Hub is and how a farm qualifies →

What's Next

The studies are done. The masterplan is next.

The feasibility work gave us the data for our exact acreage — watershed, land form, slope, solar, wind, frost, vegetation. What it doesn't give us yet is the full permaculture masterplan: the phased, costed design that turns that data into a working farm. That plan is the next thing we build.

The map beside this is our working concept — where things want to go. The masterplan turns it into a phased, costed build.

Once the masterplan is drawn, implementation runs in this order:

Water first — swales and water-holding earthworks on contour
Then the trees — orchard rows and the beginnings of a food forest
Then the garden — a market garden that starts paying its own way
Then the pasture — rotational grazing and silvopasture

None of it is in the ground yet. This is the order it happens in.

Working concept overlay for Mysliwiec Family Farm — **Working concept** — contours, water lines and where things want to sit. The masterplan turns this into a phased, costed build.

The Farm Stand

Bread from the blue barn

Blue Barn Dough is our family's farm stand — bread and rolls, cinnamon rolls, brownies, treats, facial scrubs, bath salts, homemade crafts and seasonal produce, made fresh weekly in the barn we live in.

It will run on the honor system. Unmanned stands, real food, self-pay — and whatever doesn't sell goes to local shelters. That's the model from day one. The goods already sell every week — the stand is designed, and $3,000 builds it.

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The Farm Stand

Blue Barn Dough

Handcrafted on our family farm

Real food from the blue barn we call home, made fresh weekly. What doesn't sell goes to local shelters.

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Mysliwiec Family Farm · Ozarks

The Land · The Numbers

Where we are with the land

Our family has been investing in this land steadily since April 2025, and we're building on it every month. Here's where things stand, and what support goes toward, so you can see exactly where it would land.

Right now · Every month

Keep building, month by month

$1,700

per month

Updates automatically as monthly support comes in.

Recurring support funds the development itself — tractor, farm stand, chicken coop, fencing, ponds, workshop, apiary, market garden, hoop houses, greenhouses. A community model, with this farm as the operating proof of concept.

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The finish line

Secure the land for good

$120,000

land goal · the amount that secures this land for our children

Updates automatically as gifts and land investment come in.

Reaching this goal secures the land itself. For an investor who wants the whole picture, the land and the full ecosystem we're building, we'd love to talk. The plan holds at a larger scale too, and meeting it means this land belongs to our children.

Talk to Us About Investing

The Build List · Straight Estimates

What the money actually builds

Every dollar of support goes at this list. The first two numbers are exact; the rest are our working estimates for our corner of the Ozarks — not quotes, and we'll tighten them as real bids come in.

Already invested

Invested in the land to datefixed to the landexact

31 hives + 30 traps, paid inmovable assetexact

40ft shipping container / hive shopmovable assetexact

Our own six working hives — $625 eachmovable assetexact

A dairy cow & her calfmovable assetexact

In so far

Still to build

Bring the 31 hives home — remaining balance & transportmovable assetest.

Build the Blue Barn Dough farm standmovable assetexact

Dig the one-acre pondfixed to the landest.

300 fruit trees — planted, staked, guardedfixed to the landest.

Skid steer or tractormovable assetest.

Attachments — auger, buckets, forks, brush hogmovable assetest.

Perimeter & paddock fencing for rotationfixed to the landest.

Chicken coop — built mobile for rotationmovable assetest.

Hive-shop build-out inside the containermovable assetest.

Market garden — beds, irrigation, toolsfixed to the landest.

Two hoop housesmovable assetest.

Greenhousefixed to the landest.

Seed for all twenty acres — cover crops, pasture, perennials, pollinators, nitrogen fixersfixed to the landest.

Full permaculture masterplan — drawn, phased, costedfixed to the landest.

Still to build

Fund a Piece of It Donate Seed, Plants & Equipment

Cash isn't the only way. If you have the thing itself — seed, trees, a tractor, an attachment — we'd often rather have that. And we love trades: permaculture design and consultancy in exchange for what you've got.

Wondering what's on these twenty acres? It isn't raw land — it's a fully custom, off-grid, passive-solar barndominium sitting on it. If you love what we're building, want to support it, follow along, or talk investing, the full build case study breaks down exactly what's here: the ICF walls, the R-values, the systems, the numbers.

Ways to Support

Every one of these helps us build

Help our family turn this land into a working regenerative demonstration. Natural-beekeeping sponsorship is our immediate priority; recurring support and investment conversations help us build the wider farm plan.

Natural Beekeeping Sponsorship

A one-time $500 sponsorship supports the demonstration and brings lifetime education, TIAG access, a private consultation, shareable benefits and plaque recognition. No hive ownership or guaranteed harvest.

See the offer & become a founder

Monthly Supporter

Recurring support sustains the wider farm plan — the farm stand, natural beekeeping, the market garden and the systems we document so other families can learn from them.

Support Monthly

Donate Once

No commitment, no account — slide to any amount and send it once. Even $1 genuinely helps, and it all lands on the same two numbers above.

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Invest in the Farm

We're actively looking for investors to help us reach the farm's goals. Talk with Jamon and Rianna about the land, hive workshop, farm stand and wider demonstration plan.

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Buy Our Bread

Blue Barn Dough — sourdough, cinnamon rolls, and honey. A simple trade: you get food, we build.

Follow the Stand

Spread the Word

Free, and genuinely the thing that's moved the needle most. Share our story. Introduce us to someone who'd care.

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Learn With Us

Learn from our family's work through TIAG: natural beekeeping, regenerative design and the daily practice of building a home and farm. Our education work helps fund the demonstration.

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Our family. Our farm.A living demonstration for the next family.