The Post-Partisan Emporium

‘Lunatic Farmer’ Joel Salatin: ‘You Cannot Have Freedom Without Participation’ BY:  SAMANTHA STRAYER Joel Salatin’s words resonate with those of us who grieve for the state of the nation and struggle with how best to pursue its restoration. Through a series of serendipitous events, America’s most famous farmer Joel Salatin spoke at Hillsdale College for a “ Parallel Economies ” conference that has just been posted free online. After a 45-hour trip from South Africa to small-town Michigan, Joel didn’t miss a moment to engage with the hundreds of attendees. After Q&A and several interviews, Joel delivered a lecture to a packed auditorium on “ Local Food as Parallel Agriculture .” He concluded his visit with a book signing for a long line of fans, old and new. Showing no hint of jet lag, he was ebullient and gracious throughout. Woke ideology has so thoroughly corrupted public discourse and daily commerce that Americans are desperately seeking alternatives, or parallel systems, partic

The USDA Wants to Register Your Vegetable Garden in a National Database We should not trust them. Matt Agorist Hello, free thinkers. As you likely know, TFTP has long been an advocate of self-sustainability, off-grid living, and growing your own food. For a decade, we’ve shined a light on the state each and every time we caught them attacking this way of life. From fines  for front yard gardens  to  raiding Amish farmers  for not following the notoriously corrupt guidelines of the federal government, we’ve seen some rather egregious attacks on our rights as humans to use our own property and choose where our food comes from. This new move by the USDA, however, is a little different. It could be nothing — but it could also be a sinister and subtle way for the feds to attack food sovereignty. The USDA is now registering and mapping self-sustainable communities through a gardening initiative that is particularly suspect, especially given the organization’s track record. I looked into it r

They’re coming for your backyard chickens… Kit Knightly Since the “bird flu outbreak” first hit the headlines  OffG has been predicting  how the inevitable agenda would unfold. The first impact was as obvious as it was predictable – the price of chicken and eggs went up, this was just another front in the  war on food . The second planned impact was less immediate, but just as predictable if you know how to read the media, and potentially far more harmful in the longterm – clamping down on alternative chicken farming. This includes both organic farms and individuals keeping their own chickens in their garden. It didn’t take long for the media to prove us right. In fact the Guardian has done it twice in the last ten days. Firstly, last Thursday, the Guardian ran  this article :  “Spread of ‘free-range’ farming may raise risk of animal-borne pandemics – study” Sponsored by the NGO  Open Philanthropy , this piece reports that organic and free-range farming could increase the risk of a zoo