The Independent American Gardener

09/19/2026

Help bring the Apiary Home, and we'll support you for LIFE!

A Whopping 13+ Benefits totalling over $2,500+ in retail value,
included FREE, in exchange for your help!

Help us bring the hives home. 🐝

Rianna and I have 31 Layens hives and 30 swarm traps waiting in Utah. Now we need help getting them to our family’s farm in the Missouri Ozarks.

We’re raising $7,500 to finish the remaining balance and cover pickup and transport.

These hives are part of something we’re building together: a regenerative demonstration farm where our family—and yours—can learn how bees, healthy soil, diverse plantings and thoughtful land stewardship work together.

We want to share the whole process: what works, what doesn’t, and what we learn along the way.

A $500 Founding Sponsorship helps bring this work home. In return, sponsors receive lifetime education and community access, a private 90-minute consultation, permanent recognition and additional benefits detailed on our website.

See the plans, photographs and full sponsorship details here:

https://mysliwiecfamilyfarm.com/apiary

Smaller contributions help, too. And if you can’t contribute, sharing this with someone who cares about bees, family farms or practical education would mean a lot to us.

We’re raising generations of bees and beekeepers—and it starts on the farm.

Thank you,
Jamon & Rianna Mysliwiec
The Independent American Gardener & The Independent American Mama

The Independent American Gardener Rianna Mysliwiec Independent American Mama Jamon Myśliwiec

Help Jamon, Rianna and their family bring natural beekeeping home. Support a regenerative demonstration sponsored by TIAG initiatives and designed through Haven Permaculture.

09/18/2026

TIAG Community (The Independent American Gardener community) is a regenerative living and permaculture community focused on family self-sufficiency and sustainable homesteading.

Core Focus & Mission

Founders:
Founded by Jamon and Rianna Mysliwiec, who began with an urban project called Lulu's Garden before expanding into a North American network.

Goal:
To help families grow their own food, build sustainable systems, and transform their properties into productive homesteads ("havens").

Core Initiatives:

TIAG Community:
The primary membership network and educational aggregator.

Lulu's Garden:
A marketplace and cooperative initiative facilitating group buys and the exchange of member-grown surplus.

Haven Permaculture:
A branch providing design consultancy, workshops, and land development programs.

TIAG.app:
An online platform offering courses, live webinars, and resources covering food, water, and shelter self-sufficiency.

Would you like to know more about joining the private membership, hosting a local workshop, or accessing their self-sufficiency courses?

09/12/2026

BIG Apairy Update Coming Later Today!


Jamon Myśliwiec The Independent American Gardener | TIAG Community The Independent American Gardener

09/09/2026

09/09/2026

What do you know about Paw Paws?

Did you know:
They are known as the Hillbilly Banana or Hillbilly Mango
They taste like a creamy mix between the two (mango/banana)
You can break it in half and squeeze out the meat when its ripe.

The Paw Paw tree is part of the understory layer of a food forest.
They thrive in undisturbed floodplains.
Deer do not like the paw paw tree, which gives the young saplings a better chance at survival.

They grow in patches known as clonal colonies. Which means they grow from a single parent room system under the soil! How cool!

Have you ever had a Paw Paw?

09/07/2026

Imagine a place where farmers markets ran all the way down the street, and right into the front barn doors of a great big event room space, rain or shine.

Where gardens grew on tge roof, and bees thrived.

Where every drop of rain across 20,000 sqft of building and concrete, was captured, stored, filtered and than reused and repurposed to grow Abundant native foraged foods like Pawpaw, black walnut, hazelnut, blueberry, strawberry, grapes, and medicinal herbs like Yarrow, echinacea, plantain...
Imagine this place was completely powered by its own 40kw solar array system mounted on would-be wasted roof space, while passive solar water heaters supplied every need of warmth, and radiant floor heating, completely powered by the sun.

Imagine a greenhouse decorated with the hardiest of fruits and vegetables and dappled with year round seating where college students and kids, and families alike could enjoy 100% locally sourced and wild foraged smoothies and treats, from herbalist, regenerative farmers, local market gardeners all grown chemical free from NON-gmo heirloom seed.

Imagine guest speakers like Jamon Myśliwiec, joel Salatin, Rob Avis, and local farmers ranchers and regenerative entrepreneurs meeting in the gathering hall to offer education, practical solutions, legal council, philanthropy, and startup farm support to everywhere attending community member that can reach this HUB.

Imagine food in abundance being distributed here, to shelters and youth food drives, disaster relief and local elders.

Imagine an adjoined workshop, where beehives were built, insulated and horizontal, for a natural solution to beekeeping everyone could access, taught from stage and in backyard across the region.

Imagine a diversity of garden and home resources, including dynamic accumulator and nitrogen fixing species both grown and in seed, being made available in the market garden, Lulus Garden, to replace the need of fertilizers, so you could feed your family without importing a single resource.

Imagine an educational wing in the north end, where permaculture design certification in collaboration with NCMC was taught be regenerative agriculture professionals specializes in permaculture design and agroforestry from America's most premier agroforestry school, partnerships and collaborations to certify locals, and existing students of Missouris fastest growing community College, with resources like augmented reality sandboxes for property design, and rela world local projects like curb cuts and fruit tree planting and management across town in commercial settings, not just family hones and farms.

This and more is the vision for our building in Trenton.

If you read thia far and want to see us make this happen, we have access to everything ive mentioned here and more, our only missing piece is financial.

If you want to help us fund this revolutionary vision, work out the kinks in our plans amd partner with us in business and philanthropy; WE NEED YOU.

These images are a combination of our recent time teaching at the famed Ozarks Homesteading expo, and our building in Trenton MO.

We are already doing this work.
All we need is YOU.

Comment or message me to get involved.

09/06/2026

We had an absolute blast at the Ozarks Homesteading expo, speaking on a core ethic of Permaculture; "People care", food forests, and other solutions beyond gardening!
The Independent American Mama helped teach a fantastic object lesson with a water Bottle, and we had some good sports volunteer from the crowed for it!

The speakers dinner at the end wrapped up our evening and we met The Ozarks Foraging Chef, Wild Foods by Dyllan and enjoyed locally foraged pawpaw treats and other goodies with all the speakers from the expo, including joal salatins son Daniel, and moody from Rogue Foods conference, ans whole food buying club, Erin Martin Hollingsworth from Food is Medicine, and Hollingsworth from smoke river ranch and many more incredible minds doing the work it takes to secure food freedom across america.

It was great to learn more about everyone, what they do, and hear some personal stories, speak with the attendees on real life solutions and learn from some of the best in the game while sharing our own mission and vision for Regenerative Communities EVERYWHERE.

Big thanks to Cheryl Franklin for having us out this year!

09/06/2026

Remember who you are, and why you are here!

08/27/2026

📣 Attention: FREE admission to the Ozark Homesteading Expo in Marshfield, MO next weekend 🙌🏼
For the first 6 people who:
Schedule an in-person consultation/property walk with Jamon,
Or sign up with one of the Masterplan design programs we have through Haven Permaculture.

This is a Fantastic way to Kickstart your homesteading journey: a consultation, a mentor and guide, and an opportunity to learn from SO MANY great speakers and vendors at next weekends expo!

08/25/2026

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