CollinsFarmNC

Small(but growing) regenerative Farm in Salisbury, North Carolina

[King Arthur Fan @brandilwells]

Alan Watts on the love of dogs 🐶

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

30+ years ago, when I was a kid, I'd do whatever I could to listen to the adult conversation. Now that I'm adult, the conversations seem so dull. Has it always been like this?!

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

Grateful for what I do have, but, if I could add just one thing, it would be a friend or family near us that cares about eating well, and living well, in similar ways that I do. Being healthy, and not being alone in that, would be nice 🙏🏻

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

I like this email from ol Joel Salatin

[AcmeAcres.us @idahobeef]

For 5,000 years, one productive beef cow has been worth about one ounce of gold.

Mesopotamia. Rome. The Viking Age. The ratio held.

In 1926, a good cow cost $22. A $20 gold coin held 0.9675 ounces of gold. Almost exactly one ounce per cow.

Today, a young productive beef cow sells for $4,000 to $5,000 at auction. Gold sits around $4,300 an ounce.

The ratio has held for five millennia.

As Rational Ranchers broke down, the experts see gold at $5,000 before year end. Banks like JPMorgan and UBS agree. The dollar keeps printing. Gold climbs. Cattle follow the pattern.

I'd rather hold the cow. She produces calves. Gold just sits there.

Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

@mastashredda @SamaHoole I was drinking a bunch of raw milk and mostly doing carnivore... something flipped when I dabbled in I'm not sure what, but I really enjoyed the raw milk and miss it badly. I'll try the kefir thing and see what happens, thanks!

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

I guess posting a quick cow move is the way to go... my herd numbers have shrank out of necessity, but hopefully I can still feed my family, and help continue to heal the land!

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

@mastashredda @SamaHoole I've heard this before... do you have a specific kefir you were drinking?

[AcmeAcres.us @idahobeef]

The US cattle herd is the smallest since 1951. 86 million head.

China rejected 22 tons of Argentine beef this year for chloramphenicol, an antibiotic banned in food animals because it causes blood disorders. Now we're importing that same beef to lower prices.

American farmers are paying record costs for diesel, feed, and fertilizer. Instead of backing them, we're importing from countries that can't meet our own safety standards.

A breakdown from Riverside Homestead Life flagged a Mexican import shipment that tested positive for salmonella. The processing plant hadn't been inspected in seven years.

In 1981, Jack in the Box was caught with horse and kangaroo meat labeled as beef. An Australian supplier swapped the real thing.

JM Smucker's Gravy Train dog food tested positive for pentobarbital, a euthanasia drug. The suspected source: rendered horse carcasses.

When the supply chain breaks, you find out who's cutting corners. I raise my own and sell direct. No mystery meat in my freezer.

Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

@SamaHoole I get on x hoping you have a new post several times a day. Truly the best account, at least for me. Thank you so much.

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

@sovernTranch A lot of the solar farms around me are too low to the ground for cattle. At least from my observation. Also, how do you convince these companies to allow it? I tried and there's very few willing.

[Kristen Meghan👩‍🔬🐻 @KristenMeghan]

Coming from someone who actually is credentialed on the human and environmental impacts on these hyperscale data centers, and not funded by China.

[Daniel Concannon @TooWhiteToTweet]

Yesterday, in front of an audience with the lowest in-group preference on Earth (White people), JD Vance bombastically condemned ethnic identity politics, while literally being scheduled to speak at the REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION on the SAME DAY.

Six hours later, at his closed-door speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition, in front of an audience with not only the highest in-group preference, but the most identity-based organizations on Earth (Jewish people), he told them that they're the VICTIMS of the very ethnic identity politics he'd earlier condemned in front of the White audience.

Wait. What?

Yes, JD Vance condemned identity politics to the only group that doesn't do them, at a non-identity based gathering.

Then JD Vance told the group that does identity politics the most that they're the victims of other people's identity politics, at their own identity-based gathering.

All in a six-hour span.

I lack the vocabulary to effectively describe what a perfect inversion of reality this is.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

The pro-datacenter pushers say we’re “in a race with China.”

The United States already has 13 times as many listed data centers as they do — 4,767 to 376.

China has four times our population.

On a per-person basis that is about 50 times as many sites.

We're so far ahead we can't even see China in the rearview mirror.

And still they want more.

What is the reality of the situation?

They need these data centers to process all the data coming in from the surveillance state/digital prison they are setting up all around us.

Flock cameras everywhere, drones 24/7, gait analysis, facial recognition, social media monitoring, digital id processing, pre-crime calculation crunching, and much, much more.

This is about control and power, and they want us to pay for the infrastructure that will enslave us.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Fourth District Kentuckian Wendell Berry has passed away. He protested the Vietnam War, factory farming, and mountaintop removal. He was loved by many of us for his writings on honest sustainable farming and conservation of the land.

[CollinsFarmNC @collinsfarmnc]

RIP. A true great.

[The Regenaissance @_Regenaissance]

A gargantuan loss in the world of agriculture today.

One of my all time favorite quotes comes from the legendary Wendell Berry:

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”

Rest in Peace to an incredible writer, author, and farmer, Wendell Berry.

[Lynne C. @LynneShasta40]

I hope everyone will read Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. It’s a two minute read. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations I'd never considered.

I took this picture of my receipt in my beautiful town Kerrville Texas. I support this and I can see how this could affect our kids by having gaps in work ethic, financial literacy, and community connection.

Dave Ramsey repost:

HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:

* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.

If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash.

Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.

Copy and paste to your page if you like! Posted from a friend…. I agree 💯

[Josh M. White @cpgjosh]

My wife and I get compliments on our kids behavior so often it’s become an inside joke between us.

We can tell when an older couple or overwhelmed mom at the park is gearing up to let us know they can’t believe how nice & respectful our kids are. It’s almost weekly.

And we say the same thing every time (which is the truth)

It’s their diet. It’s not some secret parenting method. It’s real food.

Your pantry looks like a 711 aisle. Mine has potatoes, onions, rice, & meat sticks. Your fridge has dyes, seed oils, leftover McDonald’s. Mine has raw milk, grass fed beef, raw cheese. Fruit.

And we know this because when our kids eat shitty food, they act like those other kids. Almost instantly.

It’s the food.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Irish famine was not caused by a potato blight. It was caused by a law passed in 1663, and the blight simply arrived to collect.

Ships left Cork the whole time it was happening, carrying butter and bacon under armed guard, past people dying on the quayside.

The version taught in schools is a fungus. Blight arrives, potatoes rot, tragedy. It leaves out why eight and a half million people were standing on one South American tuber to begin with, and that part is not weather. It has dates and it has signatures.

Ireland had cattle before it had writing. The national epic is a war over a stolen bull. Wealth was counted in cows, rank was counted in cows, and for a thousand years the country ran on beef, milk and butter.

Then in 1663 the English parliament taxed Irish cattle out of the English market, and in 1666 banned them outright, in an act that called the importing of them a common nuisance. Ireland was pushed into salt beef, hides and butter for the navy, the colonies and the slave plantations. Produced on Irish land, sold out of Irish ports, eaten somewhere else. The good ground was reorganised around what would survive a sea voyage.

What was left for the people was the crop that feeds a family off a quarter of an acre of bad land. That is not a folk tradition. That is what you are reduced to when the field behind your house is producing somebody else's dinner.

In 1845 the crop failed and the food kept leaving.

Butter, bacon, ham and live cattle going out of Cork and Limerick and Waterford while the workhouses filled. The relief that existed came with the Gregory Clause: hold more than a quarter acre of land and you were entitled to nothing. Give up the ground or starve on it. Somebody sat down and drafted that.

A million dead. A million gone. Eight and a half million down to six and a half in six years, and Ireland is the only country in Europe with fewer people in it now than in 1840.

The lesson everyone takes is about the fragility of monocultures, which is a comfortable lesson, because it blames a plant.

Nobody starves for want of food in a country that is exporting it. They starve because two centuries of decisions, taken by men who were never going to be hungry, left them one thing to eat and that thing could fail all at once.

Ireland's cattle are now the subject of national emissions targets, and the argument is once again about what that land ought to be producing, conducted by people who will not be eating the outcome either way.

The blight came in 1845. The reason it killed a million people was drafted in 1663.