Growing a Movement: A Small Farm Republic Milestone

The Official Launch of Small Farm Republic!

The big milestone for this substack is the formal release and distribution of my book Small Farm Republic, officially announced on June 29, which has helped me grow my audience here quickly. The growing “movement” is the increasing awareness of Americans of the vital importance of local food and family farms. Especially as globalists seek to slaughter cows to control food supplies, and Bill Gates peddles fake lab meat to save humanity from carbon dioxide, more people are investigating where their family’s food comes from, and how it is processed and distributed. 

For 100 years our nation’s small farms have been consolidated into larger operations or forced out of business, but there are seeds of true change afoot. I am so deeply grateful to you, my readers, who have loyally absorbed my content and encouraged me to keep writing, especially about agriculture and food. My success is your success—no man is an island, and I write to warn and prepare people for the food inflation (and toxification) which will steadily increase. We all are impacted by this together.

This substack has grown steadily, thanks to people sharing my content with others they think will benefit. The more we can restore America’s Small Farm Republic, the more we will secure liberty–and healthy food–for future generations. On this Independence Day, let us remember that a nation that loses its food supply implodes like Rome of old. A thriving local agricultural landscape supported colonists in the American Revolution, and is just as vital to liberty today: we abandon local food supplies at our peril.

Writing pieces for this Small Farm Republic newsletter has freed me to address any topic I want, and I have enjoyed experimenting with some personal stories about farming and my past. I will be interviewing more farmers and other interesting people who bring different perspectives to the issues that are discussed here.

My hope is to build on the foundation of this substack and the book Small Farm Republic in order to publish another book, to continue fighting for small farms, cleaner food, and cows! So please share this newsletter with others, and read my book so that you can combat the “manure deniers”…. 

I invite you to consider upgrading your subscription if you are a free subscriber. Of course I welcome free subscribers! But I will be posting more paid-only content, and paid subscribers permit me to continue to invest more time to ensure Small Farm Republic becomes a permanent and influential voice for small-scale and regenerative farmers (and their customers) everywhere! 

(With Joel Salatin at Polyface Farms in Virginia in February)

I have a lot of interesting content in the pipeline for you. In addition to more farmer interviews, I will be writing about different aspects of the food supply, animal husbandry, food inflation, and personal stories about farming in Vermont. (I published a commentary this morning on American Thinker, about the virtues of cows!).

We are busy with farm chores. We moved our 15 yearling lambs down the road to fresh pasture yesterday, as captured on my YouTube channel. In two weeks we will wean this year’s 26 lambs!

I have been talking with many talented writers and media personalities about food, farming, cows, and my book. Recently I spent some time with Mel K, and we covered a lot of interesting ground. I expect to be sharing more interviews here soon, as well as my presentation about Scripture and food at Polyface Farms last month….

Small Farm Republic is now the #1 best selling book on Amazon in the Agriculture & Food Policy category! If you have read it, please post a review there and elsewhere, and encourage others to equip themselves to defeat the manure deniers (people who slander cows and their methane). The cow-climate connection continues to capture international attention: Small Farm Republic directly addresses the importance of regenerative agriculture (and pastured cows!) to improve both food quality and the environment. The timing of this work is ideal.

(Our newest addition, a bull calf: half Beefalo, half Hereford.)

As the world watches globalists push to eliminate all cows and compel humanity to subsist on a diet of patented fake meat and insects, Vermont’s way of life and rural character display the true future of farming, rooted deeply in our history and our agrarian culture.

Thanks again for sticking with me and sharing my work!