The suburbs are cages, the institutions are machines, and everyone keeps waiting for others to save them. The Globalists' hidden networks, the WEF conferences where they talk about the future like they already own it, the bureaucrats and corporations all talking about me. They tell me I am imagining patterns, but history is full of people who ignored the warning signs until the world collapsed around them.
That's why the land is the answer. Not someday, but now. Millions of families must leave their festering exurbs and return to the soil before there is nowhere left to go. Every abandoned field, forgotten acre, and piece of earth must live again as farmland. Regenerative agriculture. Organic gardens. Orchards. Communities growing their own food instead of depending on systems controlled by Hollywood and Tokyo. Chickens in the yards, pigs turning the soil, cows grazing the pastures, vegetables growing everywhere. A civilization rebuilt from seeds and animals and human hands, before the last connection to the earth is destroyed.
They say I'm obsessed and angry. But they never explain why every generation thinks the warnings are impossible until after the disaster. They point to the horrors of history and say those things could never happen again, but they forget how quickly societies can be transformed when people surrender their judgment and stop questioning. The old regimes, the revolutions, the massacres, they all began with people believing they were just following the current of history.
The soil knows. The fields know. The world is sick, and the only way to survive is to rebuild from the ground up before everything disappears. They can keep their towers and meetings. I want seeds and tractors. I want barns full of animals and families who remember how to hunt and butcher. When the system breaks, the people who planted will be the only ones who have anything left.
I'm with you. I live in NJ which used to be known as the Garden State. But politics sold us out and we've turned into a state that uses its great soil to build house after house, especially in the past 2 years. Getting the children involved is the answer. And what better place to grow up than on a farm or a home with an awesome garden (just like I did).
I propose a new homestead act. 160 acres per household exempt from property & income tax is you are regenerative growing food for human beings. No monocrop corn or soybeans…
Sounds super socialist. Whose land will you be giving away? It's not 1862, and all that land out west is owned. So you want an actual Communist redistribution - not some maga fearmongering imaginary "Communists."
Most of the land went to speculators, cattle owners, miners, loggers, and railroads. Of ~500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders - many of whom couldn't afford to acquire the necessary tools, seed, and livestock.
I just completed a tour Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas-Nebraska-SDak our farmland is a monocrop industrial dump. No farms or animals CAFOs large metal sheds subsidized corn & soy. No food being grown for people save for the occasional beef in a pasture. Corporate rules the farm & politics of today.
Departments of Agriculture and of Labor keep very detailed statistics. It shouldn't be difficult to get an idea of what's being grown in small, famioy-owned farms. Do some research (Your drive doesn't suffice).
Just completed a tour Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas-Nebraska-SDak our farmland is a monocrop industrial dump. No farms or animals CAFOs large metal sheds subsidized corn & soy. No food being grown for people save for the occasional beef in a pasture. Corporate rules the farm & politics. Lots of fat people driving pickups with 4 rear tires. Mature trees being cleared for more corn.
What % of the food chain is fresh unprocessed? How much food is made from scratch?
In 2019, we left California. before the riots and lockdowns and moved to the Southern Utah desert. We had enough room on our lot to plant 12 trees (11 of them fruit trees). The apricots, figs, and peach trees are now providing abundantly. The cherry and persimmon did not make it, as the temperature here in the summer goes well over 100 degrees daily. My daughter started raising chickens for eggs two years ago, so we have cage-free organic eggs. She did not have success with the garden, because of the heat, soil and insects. My primary food is fruit, so I am in 'fruit heaven' this summer.
That's one if the hardest things to deal with when moving to a different area and dealing with the weather.
I have live all off my 66 years in Michigan, minus two years in Florida. My beliefs that Florida would be filled with beautiful produce was shattered the first year. The extreme heat really limits what can be grown, without a fully equipped greenhouse.
Here in Michigan, we might have a short growing season but we grow wonderful produce off all kinds, and the animals do quite well, too.
Interesting info about Florida with its limited produce. I found that Maui, Hawaii had little fruit in its markets. It mainly produced sugar cane. There were two places, I had always wanted to see...one was Greece and the other Hawaii. i loved Athens, because of the open air markets with all kinds of produce, particularly its ripe ready-to-eat luscious fruit. However, I visited 5 islands and found only some over-ripe bananas in markets. I primarily eat organic fruit, because it has not had it's nutrients destroyed by cooking. which destroys the nutrient value of the food.
I would buy a few acres in the rural communities around me if I had the money, in a heartbeat. I started gardening and canning back in 2001, 25 years ago and I learned from several women in the rural town I was living in and had moved to the year before when I had gotten divorced and moved back to the area where my parents were living and raising my daughters in.
Now I’m divorced again and I’m a service-connected disabled veteran and can’t work and was evicted two years ago because of issues I have because of my PTSD being triggered and my lack of ability to a freezing and drying or make the some into beef jerky as I go. It wouldn’t be that hard. I’m just older and slower.
I’ve been trying to find anyone from around Molalla & Canby rural area here in Oregon that has land with a rental unit like mobile home or small 1-2 bdrm house on it I could rent and have a place to have a decent garden and a yard I could fence for my dog I’d be in 7th heaven. So far no luck but I keep looking. We’d love to be back out in the countryside. I’m not a city person. I’ve been a country girl living out of place for the past 9 years and I really miss being in the country. And nothing from the store tastes as good as fresh food from your own garden grown in soil without chemicals or fertilizer. It’s sooo much better fresh out of the garden… it’s heaven!!!
The "Food Emancipation Proclamation" is an absolute necessity!
The people of this country are in trouble as long as the government can ban things like raw milk yet allow poisons to be put into our foods that they approve of.
Thank God for the last full paragraph, about the dangers of homesteading. It is a delightful idea; a lot of farms selling at the Union Square greenmarket in NYC began when stoned and disillusioned hippies bought cheap upstate land in the 1970s. I'm grateful to God for helping them with their drug dependency and teaching them how to monetize a lifestyle, but am still wary of movements, and they're all over MAHA, whether it's a "movement" to improve our diets or eliminate all drugs from our bodies or make us healthy through exercise. Perhaps I should assume I'm one of the chorus being preached to by lobbyists, because if these are the messages going out to the general public, they are too strong and susceptible to the ubiquitous media manipulation that keeps us, stupid, fat, and unhappy. Why not do what the government did during WWII, and call it "gardening" and eliminate the paranoia (perhaps justified but never pretty)? Have a free seedling day in the spring, offer courses at libraries, advertise how the activity saves money on food, health clubs, and anti-depressants while at the same time making America a stronger, more independent country better able to compete in the world. Would encouraging a million people to grow their own tomatoes and basil be a reasonable trade for encouraging 10,000 to sell their worldly goods and move to Erie County? The driven 30-year-olds who write copy in New York and California seem intent on doing what their parents were intent on doing to them: setting them up to fail.
Thanks for covering the homesteading tsunami! I first heard about it when I went to watch one of Salatin's chicken-butchering demos. That was at another great homesteading con, not mentioned in this piece, in the Missouri Ozarks, where there's another Amish enclave.
As much as I believe homesteading is the way to go when the system furthers its ‘poison machine dependency matrix’, built on an increasingly fragile supply chain, I’m not so sure said system is so poorly invested in the dependency it favors as a control mechanism, that it will just sit there and watch strong, and independently healthy families take their lives and values back. The system would rather set fire to every last thing than watch some ‘not participate’. A successful control grid allows few options to exist outside of it, and will turn very foul when some are achieving it.
The suburbs are cages, the institutions are machines, and everyone keeps waiting for others to save them. The Globalists' hidden networks, the WEF conferences where they talk about the future like they already own it, the bureaucrats and corporations all talking about me. They tell me I am imagining patterns, but history is full of people who ignored the warning signs until the world collapsed around them.
That's why the land is the answer. Not someday, but now. Millions of families must leave their festering exurbs and return to the soil before there is nowhere left to go. Every abandoned field, forgotten acre, and piece of earth must live again as farmland. Regenerative agriculture. Organic gardens. Orchards. Communities growing their own food instead of depending on systems controlled by Hollywood and Tokyo. Chickens in the yards, pigs turning the soil, cows grazing the pastures, vegetables growing everywhere. A civilization rebuilt from seeds and animals and human hands, before the last connection to the earth is destroyed.
They say I'm obsessed and angry. But they never explain why every generation thinks the warnings are impossible until after the disaster. They point to the horrors of history and say those things could never happen again, but they forget how quickly societies can be transformed when people surrender their judgment and stop questioning. The old regimes, the revolutions, the massacres, they all began with people believing they were just following the current of history.
The soil knows. The fields know. The world is sick, and the only way to survive is to rebuild from the ground up before everything disappears. They can keep their towers and meetings. I want seeds and tractors. I want barns full of animals and families who remember how to hunt and butcher. When the system breaks, the people who planted will be the only ones who have anything left.
I'm with you. I live in NJ which used to be known as the Garden State. But politics sold us out and we've turned into a state that uses its great soil to build house after house, especially in the past 2 years. Getting the children involved is the answer. And what better place to grow up than on a farm or a home with an awesome garden (just like I did).
I first saw Joel on The Highwire with Del Bigtree... he is doing an awesome job getting the information out there 👍
If you watch 'Clarkson's Farm' on amazon prime you can see a lot of what the UK farmers are up against... a great series and recommended 😎🇨🇦
I propose a new homestead act. 160 acres per household exempt from property & income tax is you are regenerative growing food for human beings. No monocrop corn or soybeans…
Sounds super socialist. Whose land will you be giving away? It's not 1862, and all that land out west is owned. So you want an actual Communist redistribution - not some maga fearmongering imaginary "Communists."
Most of the land went to speculators, cattle owners, miners, loggers, and railroads. Of ~500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders - many of whom couldn't afford to acquire the necessary tools, seed, and livestock.
He didn't say "land giveaway!" He's talking about taxes!
"Homestead Act - 160 acres per household" - All that chiropractic care fried your thinker.
I just completed a tour Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas-Nebraska-SDak our farmland is a monocrop industrial dump. No farms or animals CAFOs large metal sheds subsidized corn & soy. No food being grown for people save for the occasional beef in a pasture. Corporate rules the farm & politics of today.
I am talking about land people already owned.
I case you have not noticed our farm land is an industrial dump not growing food for people.
Departments of Agriculture and of Labor keep very detailed statistics. It shouldn't be difficult to get an idea of what's being grown in small, famioy-owned farms. Do some research (Your drive doesn't suffice).
https://claude.ai/share/c9d73d71-39b1-44bd-9fbc-4903bdb5317a
1% regenerative in US versus 8-10% in Europe
Look at the food on the shelves no comparison chips & gmo shit in the us tasty fresh fruit and vegetables in Europe
Just completed a tour Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas-Nebraska-SDak our farmland is a monocrop industrial dump. No farms or animals CAFOs large metal sheds subsidized corn & soy. No food being grown for people save for the occasional beef in a pasture. Corporate rules the farm & politics. Lots of fat people driving pickups with 4 rear tires. Mature trees being cleared for more corn.
What % of the food chain is fresh unprocessed? How much food is made from scratch?
AI is the death nail.
In 2019, we left California. before the riots and lockdowns and moved to the Southern Utah desert. We had enough room on our lot to plant 12 trees (11 of them fruit trees). The apricots, figs, and peach trees are now providing abundantly. The cherry and persimmon did not make it, as the temperature here in the summer goes well over 100 degrees daily. My daughter started raising chickens for eggs two years ago, so we have cage-free organic eggs. She did not have success with the garden, because of the heat, soil and insects. My primary food is fruit, so I am in 'fruit heaven' this summer.
That's one if the hardest things to deal with when moving to a different area and dealing with the weather.
I have live all off my 66 years in Michigan, minus two years in Florida. My beliefs that Florida would be filled with beautiful produce was shattered the first year. The extreme heat really limits what can be grown, without a fully equipped greenhouse.
Here in Michigan, we might have a short growing season but we grow wonderful produce off all kinds, and the animals do quite well, too.
Interesting info about Florida with its limited produce. I found that Maui, Hawaii had little fruit in its markets. It mainly produced sugar cane. There were two places, I had always wanted to see...one was Greece and the other Hawaii. i loved Athens, because of the open air markets with all kinds of produce, particularly its ripe ready-to-eat luscious fruit. However, I visited 5 islands and found only some over-ripe bananas in markets. I primarily eat organic fruit, because it has not had it's nutrients destroyed by cooking. which destroys the nutrient value of the food.
I would buy a few acres in the rural communities around me if I had the money, in a heartbeat. I started gardening and canning back in 2001, 25 years ago and I learned from several women in the rural town I was living in and had moved to the year before when I had gotten divorced and moved back to the area where my parents were living and raising my daughters in.
Now I’m divorced again and I’m a service-connected disabled veteran and can’t work and was evicted two years ago because of issues I have because of my PTSD being triggered and my lack of ability to a freezing and drying or make the some into beef jerky as I go. It wouldn’t be that hard. I’m just older and slower.
I’ve been trying to find anyone from around Molalla & Canby rural area here in Oregon that has land with a rental unit like mobile home or small 1-2 bdrm house on it I could rent and have a place to have a decent garden and a yard I could fence for my dog I’d be in 7th heaven. So far no luck but I keep looking. We’d love to be back out in the countryside. I’m not a city person. I’ve been a country girl living out of place for the past 9 years and I really miss being in the country. And nothing from the store tastes as good as fresh food from your own garden grown in soil without chemicals or fertilizer. It’s sooo much better fresh out of the garden… it’s heaven!!!
I hope you find the spot you're looking for, Bonnie.
The "Food Emancipation Proclamation" is an absolute necessity!
The people of this country are in trouble as long as the government can ban things like raw milk yet allow poisons to be put into our foods that they approve of.
Thank God for the last full paragraph, about the dangers of homesteading. It is a delightful idea; a lot of farms selling at the Union Square greenmarket in NYC began when stoned and disillusioned hippies bought cheap upstate land in the 1970s. I'm grateful to God for helping them with their drug dependency and teaching them how to monetize a lifestyle, but am still wary of movements, and they're all over MAHA, whether it's a "movement" to improve our diets or eliminate all drugs from our bodies or make us healthy through exercise. Perhaps I should assume I'm one of the chorus being preached to by lobbyists, because if these are the messages going out to the general public, they are too strong and susceptible to the ubiquitous media manipulation that keeps us, stupid, fat, and unhappy. Why not do what the government did during WWII, and call it "gardening" and eliminate the paranoia (perhaps justified but never pretty)? Have a free seedling day in the spring, offer courses at libraries, advertise how the activity saves money on food, health clubs, and anti-depressants while at the same time making America a stronger, more independent country better able to compete in the world. Would encouraging a million people to grow their own tomatoes and basil be a reasonable trade for encouraging 10,000 to sell their worldly goods and move to Erie County? The driven 30-year-olds who write copy in New York and California seem intent on doing what their parents were intent on doing to them: setting them up to fail.
😆 🤣 😂
Wow! Just Wow! 🤣
Sounds like a movement, Lynn! A good one, though.
Thanks for covering the homesteading tsunami! I first heard about it when I went to watch one of Salatin's chicken-butchering demos. That was at another great homesteading con, not mentioned in this piece, in the Missouri Ozarks, where there's another Amish enclave.
If interested, see here: https://www.brunettegardens.com/p/ozarks-homesteading-expo
As much as I believe homesteading is the way to go when the system furthers its ‘poison machine dependency matrix’, built on an increasingly fragile supply chain, I’m not so sure said system is so poorly invested in the dependency it favors as a control mechanism, that it will just sit there and watch strong, and independently healthy families take their lives and values back. The system would rather set fire to every last thing than watch some ‘not participate’. A successful control grid allows few options to exist outside of it, and will turn very foul when some are achieving it.