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1,000 OF THESE SCHOOLS NEEDED

  Last week I had the distinct pleasure of spending a day at St. Martin's Academy in Fort Scott, Kansas.  I became acquainted with the school in the fall of 2020 (remember that?) when a busload of students stopped by for a farm tour as part of a trip to the east coast…

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TARIFFS AND TRADE

David Stockman was President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury, and the youngest cabinet member to ever serve in the federal government…

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UNHELPFUL HELP

Have you ever tried to help someone and then discovered your help wasn't appropriate?  I have…

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DEFUND ELITES

You can like or dislike the current goings-on in Washington, but you have to admit we're learning a lot of things…

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CHANGING MINDS

I'm writing from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport waiting to board to come home after speaking at the Heritage Homestead Festival in Waco and the Great Homeschooling Conference in Columbus, Ohio…

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SEEKING ADVICE

Today I received the following letter and request to add my signature…

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WORM TEST

Bill Mollison, co-founder of permaculture, always said the solutions to the world's seemingly complex problems are amazingly simple.  I've been thinking about food, farm chemicals, RFK Jr., and policy…

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MYTHOLOGY

I've just finished a fairly comprehensive book titled MYTHOLOGY by Edith Hamilton.  I'll never forget a 10th grade English unit on mythology and find the whole study fascinating because it explains the stories concocted by Greeks and Romans to explain things…

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FARM SUBSIDIES

I've been in Iowa the last couple of days doing a farm consult and then a homestead summit.  One of the other speakers was D. C. Savage whose book Agritopia tackles the crop insurance/farm subsidy program…

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ORGANIC DEPENDENCY

The howlers are howling.  I'm hearing from organic/sustainable/regenerative/ecological farming organizations--most of them non-profits, screaming about Trump's budget cuts through USDA…

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NUTRITION VS. TOXINS

I've had some wonderful conversations over the last couple of days with folks trying to organize the proper requests in this new MAHA awareness moment…

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