2025 Schedule (Reference Only)

Event Details: Baofeng Radio Programming

Denob � Canadian Preppers Network

Need to learn about programming your Baofeng radio? Unsure about how to use some of the menu items in your Baofeng? Then this is the demonstration for you! Denob will give an overview of all 40 menu options and show how to program simplex and repeater channels with both the keypad and CHIRP software. Be sure to bring your radios if you have them as this will be a hands on experience. If you have a programming cable and laptop, all the better!

Denob's Bio

Denob started overseeing the Canadian Preppers Network back in 2008, and acquired ownership some time later. A Licensed ham radio operator and avid food storage enthusiast, he moved away from the city life and now resides on a semi rural property in Quebec where he grows food, stores supplies, and gathers skills to prepare himself and his kids for the worst, while hoping for the best.

This presentation is for the complete novice or experienced user both. We will be focusing on basic skills but taking those skills to the absolute max. This instruction will maximize your ability to navigate with compass alone in real life. If you own a compass bring it with you along with a notebook and pens. For those without, a compass will be provided during class.

Dan Flowers was a professional soldier for 14 years.  Served and was wounded in Iraq.  Subject matter expert to the Army Rangers Training Battalion at Camp Rogers Georgia.  Dan has been an avid outdoorsman since he could walk.  Some of his teachers include: Tom Brown Jr, Dr. Gino Ferri, Guru Dale Hall, Charles Worsham. Dan has been using herbs for over 30 years and is a Clinical Herbalist.

Disclaimer: Do not bring firearms and/or ammunition to this event. 

Note: This event is still be updated. 

We're planning to have a firearms expert come in and discuss some basics principals around shotguns and firearms in general. This will be an open platform presentation where the audience can engage and ask questions directly.

This is a very sensitive area for some people. And there are parts of this process that some people will never get accustomed to. Please note that any animals will be professionally sourced from organic farms with the intention of being raised for meat. With that said we will be dispatching animals at next year's Preppers meet. This will include pigs and rabbits at the least right now. Participants will have the opportunity to dispatch their own animal. We will be teaching the correct and ethical manner/procedures. This is an important and vital skill to have and everyone will be guided by professionals step by step. We will also have a special presentation on the ethics of animal dispatching/hunting with Jeremy St. Onge to take place Thursday evening. Our intention is one based in education while having the deepest roots of integrity and respect for processes involved.

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Shelley currently lives on a small hobby farm in an area where the power goes out often.  She has been canning for her family for over a decade, motivated by food sensitivities of her children and concerns about "extra" ingredients in store-bought products.  Her 30+ years as an organic gardener started as an adversity to spraying chemicals on food plants, and led her into taking plant science at a top rate post secondary school.  Continuing to learn and expand her abilities, she spent 5 years training with the Army Reseves, took a Wilderness Survival Course, portaged Algonquin park, and was a Scouting leader for many years.  By continuing to add home skills to her day-to-day living, foraging was an easy next step to her self-reliance goal.  She lives this lifestyle everyday, and what started out as teaching these skills to friends and neighbours has become an enjoyable and satisfying hobby of creating courses and sharing her knowledge and experience.  Visit www.betterlifeskills.com for more class info. 

Making Mead

Bio PJ Aiello

PJ Aiello is a dedicated beekeeper and seasoned engineering professional with over 30 years of experience in Mechanical Design-Drafting. Delving into beekeeping in 2020 amidst the challenges of the Covid pandemic, PJ's passion for sustainability and resilience drove him to embark on this journey despite lockdowns and supply chain disruptions. Self-taught through online resources and hands-on experience, he overcame obstacles to establish his hives. PJs commitment to sharing his knowledge, gained through trial and error, underscores his belief in the importance of beekeeping as a prepping skill and its invaluable contributions to agriculture and human health.

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Bio: David Arama & WSC Survival School Inc offer survival and outdoor pursuits courses and camps (youth and adults). David is featured on numerous survival reality shows, and is a consultant for the media for disaster and extreme weather events. He also runs Marble Lake Lodge, and a 340 acre off-grid retreat.

Today we'll be preparing rabbits bred specifically for meat. There will be a professional demonstration and guided assistance if you want to participate with the process. Participants will be able to purchase and dispatch, and prepare their own rabbit, with assistance. You will have an opportunity to cook your own rabbit as well. Topics covered will include the ethical treatment of animals, skinning, anatomy, and safe food handling. These are critical skills for anyone interested in homesteading or wilderness self reliance. Viewer discretion is advised for this event. Tell Stacheruk is an avid hunter, trapper, hiker, outdoorsman, and wigwam builder. Tell is the founder of the Oshawa Bushcraft Facebook group and YouTube channel, he is a regular instructor at the annual prepper meet as well as most of the primitive skills gatherings in southern Ontario. Tell will be assisting with the rabbit dispatching component.

Complete Details: https://preppersmeet.com/preparedness-simulation.php

Aleks is a classically trained French chef with over two decades of experience in gourmet and survival cooking. Since 2004, he has been teaching bushcraft cuisine and off-grid meal preparation, helping preppers, outdoorsmen, and survivalists turn even the most unconventional ingredients into nutritious meals.

From 2004 to 2014, Aleks ran a chapter of Zombiesquad, a preparedness and survival nonproift that used the zombie apocalypse as an engaging metaphor for real-world disaster readiness. The organization focused on community resilience, hands-on survival skills, and practical disaster response.

Now, Aleks works in disinformation studies and radio broadcasting through Volya Radio, an English-language platform covering Ukrainian news, culture, and war updates. Broadcasting through X (formerly Twitter), Volya Radio is dedicated to combating misinformation and providing accurate, frontline reporting on Ukraine and global conflicts.

At the 2025 Canadian Preppers Meet, Aleks will be leading the Desperate Prepper Foods seminar, exploring the culinary potential of rabbit and other unconventional survival foods.

With a passion for food, preparedness, and truth in information, Aleks is always eager to share knowledge, swap stories, and engage with the prepper community.

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 The Presenter
John Anonymous has been using techniques and tactics since the late 1980s. He has an MBA in information technology management and worked in the IT industry before retiring to be a homesteader

Bugout Dan will be hosting a beginners workshop on learning medicinal herbs.

What You'll Learn:

• Specialty Focus on 12 Common Herbs (Ontario)
• Proper Identification & Principal Actions
• Herbs & Modern Pharmaceutical Comparisons
• Real World Experience Wound Management
• Dosage Guidelines & Modes of Consumption

Dan Flowers was a professional soldier for 14 years.  Served and was wounded in Iraq.  Subject matter expert to the Army Rangers Training Battalion at Camp Rogers Georgia.  Dan has been an avid outdoorsman since he could walk.  Some of his teachers include: Tom Brown Jr, Dr. Gino Ferri, Guru Dale Hall, Charles Worsham. Dan has been using herbs for over 30 years and is a Clinical Herbalist.

Tell Stacheruk is an avid hunter, trapper, hiker, outdoorsman, and wigwam builder. Tell is the founder of the Oshawa Bushcraft Facebook group and YouTube channel, he is a regular instructor at the annual prepper meet as well as most of the primitive skills gatherings in southern Ontario. In this workshop we will learn how to navigate by land with a map and a compass. Other topics covered will include pacing, bearings, selecting a proper compass and map.

Extreme climate change is happening. 

Learn how to forecast extreme weather events, and how to be prepared for tornadic storms, blizzards and squalls, floods, ice storms, and forest fires. At home, at the homestead, cottage, rv, and in your vehicle. Also factors into decisions when buying property, eg flood zones, snowsquall zones, forest fire prone areas.

Includes using weather apps, and how to predict weather hands-on using wind direction, cloud types, and barometric pressure changes.

Led by David Arama, Weather Consultant for CBC TV/Radio, Environmental Scientist & Climatologist Expert.

Bio: David Arama & WSC Survival School Inc offer survival and outdoor pursuits courses and camps (youth and adults). David is featured on numerous survival reality shows, and is a consultant for the media for disaster and extreme weather events. He also runs Marble Lake Lodge, and a 340 acre off-grid retreat.

This will be a hands-on workshop on how to assist and move someone who is injured including building an improvised stretcher, and hypowrap system to assist in managing shock in a significantly injured individual. The workshop will allow for active participation and opportunity to observe for those that don't feel comfortable lifting.

Ken Piercey of Hard and Fast CPR has an extensive background as a Registered Nurse working in Remote locations throughout Canada including outposts, Flight Medicine, Emergency, and Camp settings. Ken is extensively involved in First Aid, CPR, First Responder, and Nursing education and brings this knowledge and experience forward in all of training programs and selecting the right gear and equipment for our clients.

Ken is also offering a Remote First Aid (formally called Wilderness First Air) certification on July 7th-8th at the Preppers Meet location. Participants are welcome to camp all week. To get more information visit our Remote First Aid Page

 

Mushrooms for Survival with River Ziemniak

About me:

I'm a student of mycological ecology in my fifth year of study and an avid forager. I'm an expert identifier of fungi as recognized by my peers in the online mycology community, and a volunteer identifier for an international emergency identification service. I work closely with multiple online identification, foraging , and discussion groups, including moderator and admin duties. I'm active in a local London prepper community (Forage City).

About the talk:

I'll be discussing various mushrooms that can be found in Ontario. I will be going over how to tell them from similar mushrooms, where and when to find them, and how to use them. There will be dried specimens of several of the mushrooms i will be covering that will be passed around for inspection, and if time allows, a brief question period. 

A brief overview of topics:

- A (very) brief primer on mushroom ID
- Fomes: Otzi the iceman and the tinder fungus
- Trametes versicolor: Turkey tail and its many benefits
- Calvitia: Pufballs can stop bleeding!
- Vitamin D: How to prepare your foraged mushrooms to get the most out of them

Eugene - radio comms enthusiast since adolescence willing to share practical approaches on how to benefit from amateur radio operation. Willing to represent the Cambridge Amateur Radio Club in portable operation, and encourage Annual Preppers Meet attendees to Get On The Air (GOTA) with the available equipment and antennas onsite. These are intended for Shortwave frequency bands, Very High Frequency 146.5 MHz, Ultra High Frequency 446.1 MHz as Simplex (point to point) or using available repeaters in the area, and to make contacts with other licensed amateur radio operators - both nearby and distant. 

As a member of the Radio Amateur of Canada (organization representing all licensed operators with the federal Government of Canada), I would like to shine more light on this topic, as RAC is holding an important role in our freedom of using RF energy for communications and technological advancements. We are benefiting from 10% of the total radio spectrum frequencies allocation guaranteed for amateur radio use, and directly competing with multi-billion-dollar telecom industries, military, aviation, industrial use, etc. 

The primary technological cycle starts with amateurs experimenting with innovative techniques, which are later commercialized, and you are invited to become involved with hands-on experience, allowing you to always be prepared and know how to communicate wirelessly as needed and for fun. 

The possibility of speaking with astronauts orbiting earth on International Space Station should encourage you to be curious and come by to see us and learn more about it. 

I've seen a lot of so-called 'groups' over the years and the many complications that come with them. The idea of bugging out and having a team or group have no universal rules or guidelines with respect to their creation/expectations/maintenance/etc. There's also endless concerns with group members: people not putting in their weight, drama amongst members, not taking the preparedness seriously and so forth.

Lately, 'groups' relating to preparedness amount to sharing meaningless links on Telegram or Signal, nonsensical conspiracy theories and wasting your time handing out bumper stickers or flyers. What is a group? Really? A group of friends that hunt together and eventually deciding to take things to the next level if something happens? A group of 'Preppers' that understand this can't be done alone? A group of neighbors that banded together because of Covid - realizing it was more beneficial to be together? Is that the extent of it?

In this presentation I'll be exploring angles of groups from a different lens rather than conventional or traditional perspectives. This will be an open platform discussion - questions, answers and stories - engaging with the audience. In addition to existing challenges I'll also like to discuss alternative ways of thinking and approaching mutual assistance groups but more importantly, solutions.

Biography: Founder of the Preppers Meet and the organizer for the Ontario Prepper Survival Network. 

We preppers love to talk about gear and EDC, but what about what's between both ears? Join along with Frugal Gunnie to learn how you can adopt a prepper mindset, evolve yours, and focus on sound approaches and methodologies in your preparedness journey, as fits your lifestyle.

Learn a few mental techniques you can use to feel ready and prepared at all times, despite any chaos you may be experiencing. Find out some simple ways to increase your emergency preparedness while not spending a single dime! Also learn how to prioritize prep choices and options, while still being able to remain in the moment and enjoy life.

Claude (Frugal Gunnie) is one of the regulars on the Canadian Prepper Podcast. Claude is pretty mobile, he has a Tacoma decked out with more gear than you can possibly imagine and he wants to share with you his journey in Mobility. 

Please check out Claude's YouTube channel: 

https://youtube.com/@frugalgunnie?si=LtjVGWVKZQYtgwrx

We're excited to announce our good friend Zachary Gault will be hosting our annual fire starting challenge!

Zachary Gault is the founder and Head Instructor at Primitive Living, an educational establishment that specializes in the art of Wilderness-Living Skills and Survival. Primitive Living operates out of Northern Ontario, Canada.

Website: https://www.primitiveliving.ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primitive.living/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PrimitiveLivingChannel

What happens when you mix prepping with AI?

In a world rapidly competing for various controls of what we know as "Artificial Intelligence" it was only inevitable that it eventually connected with preparedness. These fascinating technologies are shaping and continuously reshaping how we approach things, communicate and gather information including sensitive types such as that of our own health. Artificial intelligence is also helping us with how to prepare better, more effectively and more importantly teaching us in areas we may have never previously considered.  Working with AI could provide greater advantages which could translate into money and time saved, more effective/appropriate measures let alone untapped areas we have yet to even conceive of. This translates  into having a strategic edge or a superior (gold-plated) wild card of sorts.

Open Platform Discussion

Join us for this open mic and open platform discussion on this topic. Some of you have already expressed interest and used AI in preparing already. And as most of you are aware it’s progressively becoming more useful in providing suggestions and frameworks. This is a chance to express and learn from each other's experiences. Collectively, it will be easier to figure out what worked, what didn’t, who is on track and how we can all benefit from these great, emerging technologies. 

Hosted by Denob

Denob started overseeing the Canadian Preppers Network back in 2008, and acquired ownership some time later. A Licensed ham radio operator and avid food storage enthusiast, he moved away from the city life and now resides on a semi rural property in Quebec where he grows food, stores supplies, and gathers skills to prepare himself and his kids for the worst, while hoping for the best.

Guest Speaker: Omar

Omar, an Ottawa Valley based survivalist, naturalist, IT professional and Business Analyst , with an Algonquin College Diploma in Outdoor Adventure Naturalist and Wilderness First Responder certification, he hones rugged survival skills. A former business professor, Omar uses tech and AI to boost preparedness planning and is eager to share this expertise with the prepper community, empowering resilience from wilderness to strategy sessions.

Tom Marazzo will be joining us to discuss his latest book: The People's Emergency Plan: A Civilian Guide to Structured Emergency Planning

The People's Emergency Plan is a powerful, no-nonsense guide that teaches civilians how to plan like the professionals who handle emergencies at the highest levels. Drawing from 25 years of military service, including advanced training in the Operational Planning Process (OPP), author and retired Canadian Army Captain Tom Marazzo brings a proven framework to the average person-breaking it down into simple, actionable steps.

Tom Marazzo has dedicated most of his life to serving Canadians. He joined the Army Reserve at sixteen and eight years later, enrolled in the Regular Force Army, rising to the rank of Captain. After 25 years of service, Tom retired from the Armed Forces in 2015.

It’s with great pleasure to announce that Tracey Wilson of the Canadian Coalition of Firearms Rights will be joining us at this years Preppers Meet. Tracey brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspectives on many of the challenges that law abiding firearm owners face in Canada today. We’re certainly glad to have organizations such as the CCFR exist as they empower Canadians with greater education, understanding and rationality in what is seemingly a growing and complex area of discussion. We welcome Tracey Wilson to this year's Prepeprs Meet on Saturday night as our keynote speaker. For more information contact info@preppersmeet.com

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Having been interested in Preparedness has taught me to always work on learning skills. I've spent the past few years learn skills from gardening to food preservation to firearms marksmanship to HAM radio communications. Now, knife sharpening. 

Understanding that the most dangerous knife blade is one that's not sharp is what brought me to my latest endeavor. Not satisfied with being self taught I have taken classes to learn the skills required to bring a blade from dull to razor sharp and now I want to share those skills at the Preppers Meet. Join me for a presentation on the techniques of knife sharpening. Learn what equipment to own and avoid. Bring a knife and try your hand at sharpening.

Steve, The Slingshot Stove Guy will be hosting a Shooting Range Stove event so, come out and learn all about slingshot shooting stoves. No experience required as there will be lessons on how to shoot slingshots use stoves properly, effectively and above all safely! Lessons and shooting stoves are free. 

Steve will not have Slingshot stove merch for sale: 

Slingshot frames, Band-sets, Targets, Holsters, All new Ammo Pouches and no more!

Cash only please. (No E Transfers)

The Slingshot Stove Guy was a huge hit at last years is brand new to the Annual Preppers Meet, and he is back this year with more stove related topcs slingshot shooting.

Bio: Steve Thomas. Steve is a regular at the Harvest Gathering and here at the Annual Preppers Meet. Steve has his very own YouTube Channel. Check him out. 

https://youtube.com/@DX1895?si=HQq8y_ES-5O4EkKt

Can't get enough edible plant knowledge? Did the plant walk inspire you?  Join us to learn how to correctly ID and track down the plants you love (and need) in any scenario.

This presentation will be inside the lodge building.

Shelley currently lives on a small hobby farm in an area where the power goes out often.  She has been canning for her family for over a decade, motivated by food sensitivities of her children and concerns about "extra" ingredients in store-bought products.  Her 30+ years as an organic gardener started as an adversity to spraying chemicals on food plants, and led her into taking plant science at a top rate post secondary school.  Continuing to learn and expand her abilities, she spent 5 years training with the Army Reseves, took a Wilderness Survival Course, portaged Algonquin park, and was a Scouting leader for many years.  By continuing to add home skills to her day-to-day living, foraging was an easy next step to her self-reliance goal.  She lives this lifestyle everyday, and what started out as teaching these skills to friends and neighbours has become an enjoyable and satisfying hobby of creating courses and sharing her knowledge and experience.  Visit www.betterlifeskills.com for more class info.