Jared Brandon

Homesteader in the Northeast learning to live more peacefully and abundantly through self-reliance and care for my family. Owner of Farmstead Supplies.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax."

Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?"

Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely."

Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke."

Activist: "But the land's worth millions."

Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm."

Activist: "So sell a corner of it."

Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way."

Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it."

Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill."

Activist: "It's still an asset."

Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@durandcompton Don’t just throw it in the wash. You’ll end up with scrambled eggs all over. Trust me 😂

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

Critical infrastructure that has no business sucking up farmland.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

What’s your honest opinion on data centers?

I want to be able to tell elected officials how you feel about them.

[The Adoptive Dad @anadoptivedad]

As a dad in the adoption process, you think you're gonna feel all this joy and excitement.

What happens when you don't?

https://t.co/n4jf5FrOwV

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

They want you dependent on them. Solving problems means you don’t need their handouts. In turn, you threaten their existence.

[Untapped Growth⚔️👑⚔️ @untappedgrowth]

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

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

A dad.

[Sofia @Sofia50020Sofia]

One thing in this 1978 garage shouldn't exist.

Can you spot it?

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@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.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@OldHollowTree Assuming this was a pollinator seed mix. Did you seed this field by hand or mechanically?

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@BasedMikeLee Then you’re supposed to follow up with supporting arguments.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@CaseyBHead @flintlockactual This is what warfare looks like in the post-AI apocalypse.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@hollyonthefarm @GardenerFliss That are sad little people BECAUSE they don’t have gorgeous gardens. Trolls are what happens when people don’t grow things.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@FAFOFarmsTX @XAlbaRita That last bit is gold. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

Why does this surprise me less after reading that this is a same-sex couple?

Evil begets evil.

[Back-Up Tambourine Player @UpTambourine]

"kill this baby"

"I AM SUING YOU FOR HARMING THE BABY"

The brain dead walk amongst us.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@BuffaloRon I am now aware. Mission accomplished.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@UpTambourine @danae_hudlow This is how they learn.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@AcornBluffFarms Look at that pig! What a beaut!

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@cattlemanON @agave_redux It’s such myopic thinking.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

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.

[AGAVE @agave_redux]

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.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

@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.

[Jared Brandon @SelfReliantCtzn]

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.

[James Fishback @j_fishback]

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.