Homesteader in the Northeast learning to live more peacefully and abundantly through self-reliance and care for my family. Owner of Farmstead Supplies.
Meanwhile I get terrorized by the government for working to reverse the national farm crisis and restore rural economic viability
Fucking frustrating
Grifting off the government with fraud as a foreigner- ✅ allowed
Fixing real problems as an American- ❌ straight to jail
@FAFOFarmsTX@XAlbaRita Our challenge is finding someone locally who thinks the same way we do about agriculture who would be a good mentor. Most in our area are dug-in conventional farmers.
@hollyonthefarm@GardenerFliss That are sad little people BECAUSE they don’t have gorgeous gardens. Trolls are what happens when people don’t grow things.
I’ve heard stories about old farmers having no one pass their farms on to.
But I suspect this is closer to the real story.
This attitude keeps would-be farmers with from owning land and building something generational.
My boomer dad in his 70s called me "boy" and threatened to kick my ass all because he's losing his hearing and was mad I had to speak louder to him.
He also refuses to sell me any of his land, even just 5 acres, because it would "lower the property value".
My wife and I have been living in a 20 year old rv for 6 years now because of it.
@homesteadpilot Meanwhile, the parents of boomers were often very open handed. My FIL parents built him a house on 50 acres of land and bank rolled his business. But he wasn’t at all interested in helping us out with our adoption costs. But he’s also not very interested in us or our kids.
I understand the idea behind this, but as a homeschooling parent I think it would do more harm than good to local communities.
Schools would suffer, and students would lose the most in the end as budgets got slashed year after year. Communities would fall apart.
If you decide to pull your child out of public school and homeschool them,
You should receive the full $13,000 that would have been spent on your child in public school.