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Chaplain
David Smith, ThD 809 North Central Avenue PO Box 443 Bowie, Arizona 85605, (719) 421-9109, abbotdavid@protonmail.com |
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Associations
Glentivar Publishing Battleharp Music Apothecary (Herbal Healing)  David Smith, Pastor and Director of Windwalker Ranch and Bowie Cowboy Church. |
 Our
Mission
We
continue to develop Windwalker Ranch as a Christian Preppers ranch to especially help kids
who have no families or dysfunctional families. Our plan is to
develop a K-8th home school and residency program for kids to learn and
be in a safe environment.
We are moving as quickly as we can to get off-grid to be self-sufficient in food and transportation. Soon the US will fall into economic chaos and political unrest and it is only the independent ranches and farms that may survive. Our kids will be trained to build and manage survival food growing systems and stock in desert conditions. We seek to follow the Code of the West based on the Christian Holy Scriptures and the 10 Commandments. This is the law of the Ranch. Windwalker Ranch is a small 30 acre ranch in Bowie AZ as a nonprofit "church" educational organization owned by St Michaels Abbey. We have facilities to host residency housing, training camps for youth and adults, an equestrian park for training donkeys and horses and, a 22 site RV park with water - each with a food garden. We also have a large 4000 sq ft barn with outbuildings for our Ranch business and educational needs.   Empower with Training We are compelled to combine self-sufficient food production in teaching each guest LIFE skills that include the design and construction of Lodging Systems, the development of Industry Enterprises, the development of Food growing systems and the design and building of home-grown alternative Energy systems. In this Christian humanitarian mission, we hold to the guiding ideals of simplicity, portability and a sustainable life-style. This is made possible within a small footprint while also achieving the highest personal satisfaction of a fulfilled life mission.   Donkey, Llama, Sheep & Goat RanchingWe are currently venturing into small stock ranching for meat and milk to make cheese. In the State of Arizona, we can free range on land if an owner does not fence out stock. For us, this is 1000's of acres adjacent to the Ranch where flocks can feed watched by a shepherd with guardian animals. Work Shops Windwalker Ranch currently hosts a wood shop, metals & blacksmithing shop, auto mechanics shop, electronics digital control lab and a music composing studio.  Survival Camps We would like to offer 5 day survival camps as a two day walk in and two day walk out in leading a donkey (or other draft animal) with cart with one day rest at the Hot Wells Dunes for relief. Students will be on the search for food along the way and cook their own meals over camp fires. Greenhouse Farming We are developing a twelve acre greenhouse farm with 14 - 23 foot round dome greenhouses for the growing of organic vegetables utilizing hydroponics, aquaponics, vermiponics and aeroponics methodologies. We are also building a mobile apothecary vehicle to sell medicinal herbs with the growing, preparation and distribution of medicinal herbs commonly found in the deserts of the South West.  Windwalker Ranch is always open to grant writing and a proposal process to acquire funding to establish our programs as a future expansion of our already offered classes and workshops. We hope to expand into many small economically depressed towns scattered throughout SW Arizona as funding is available.  Lettuce,
cucumber and peas growing in January in Tombstone
Above is a sample of one of
our medium sized systems as a single grow unit with lettuce,
cucumber and snow peas
growing as a test in January 2017.  Apothecary "Medicinal Herbs" Ambulance |