Laurie Neverman

Laurie Neverman is the founder of Common Sense Home, one of the leading online resources for practical preparedness, gardening, food preservation, and self-reliant living. Alongside her husband and family, she has spent more than twenty years transforming a bare piece of Wisconsin farmland into a resilient homestead featuring productive gardens, renewable energy systems, food preservation infrastructure, and practical solutions for everyday challenges.

Known for her calm, common-sense approach to preparedness, Laurie teaches that resilience isn’t built overnight—it’s created one skill, one project, and one season at a time. Through Common Sense Home, she has helped millions of readers learn how to grow food, preserve the harvest, build self-reliance, and navigate uncertainty with confidence.

At the Resilient Living Summit, Laurie will present “Common Sense Preparedness: Building Resilience One Step at a Time” and “Gardening for Resilience: Growing Food When Conditions Aren’t Perfect,” sharing lessons learned from decades of hands-on experience building a resilient life from the ground up.