{"id":1806803,"date":"2023-01-16T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806803"},"modified":"2023-01-16T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:28:04","slug":"lunatic-farmer-joel-salatin-you-cannot-have-freedom-without-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lunatic-farmer-joel-salatin-you-cannot-have-freedom-without-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lunatic Farmer\u2019 Joel Salatin: \u2018You Cannot Have Freedom Without Participation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flunatic-farmer-joel-salatin-you-cannot-have-freedom-without-participation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806803&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Through a series of serendipitous events, America\u2019s most famous farmer Joel Salatin spoke at Hillsdale College for a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu\/programs\/cca-ii-parallel-economies\/local-food-as-parallel-agriculture\">Parallel Economies<\/a>\u201d Conference that was just posted online for free<\/p>\n<p>After a 45-hour trip from South Africa to small-town Michigan, Joel didn\u2019t miss a moment to engage with the hundreds of attendees. Joel gave a lecture to the packed auditorium after Q&#038;A and multiple interviews. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\/11\/16\/2022\/parallel-economies-agriculture\">Local Food as Parallel Agriculture<\/a>.\u201d His visit ended with a book signing, which he did for many of his fans, both old and new. He displayed no sign of jet lag and was cheerful and kind throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are desperate to find alternatives or parallel systems in finance, business, media and food because the woke ideology has so corrupted public discourse. If left unchecked, wokeism can become a widespread phenomenon. <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2023\/01\/05\/climate-impact-labels-affect-fast-food-selections\/\">every crevice<\/a> Our lives can control our thoughts and behavior. Joel\u2019s words of wisdom are therefore particularly resonant, and only growing in interest as Americans seek to frame their lives in more resilient and self-reliant ways.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that I discovered the self-described \u201clunatic farmer\u201d In spring 2020. There were few bright spots in what we euphemistically call &#8220;spring 2020&#8221;. \u201cThe Shutdown.\u201d Joel Salatin was one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>We had started to watch homesteading channels on YouTube together. I was watching my husband, and then one night, a lady mentioned a name so tenderly that I had to go back and hear it again. She claimed that Salatin was on. <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4ftPQAYtdWSzh23GadelrV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast<\/a>. His tone of affection caused me to examine him.<\/p>\n<p>I learned of a man, a farmer in the truest sense of the word, who had a compelling story to tell about soil, about the real meaning of environmentalism and stewardship of the land, and about the animals who are allowed and encouraged under Joel\u2019s watchful eye to be what God intended them to be. He described some of the life-giving, self-sustaining practices that make all the hard work worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared the heartbreaking story of his family fleeing Venezuela at the age of 4 to return to the United States in 1962. They settled in the Shenandoah valley. It was so badly eroded that it took three generations of Salatin farmers for the land to be brought back to life.<\/p>\n<p>I was hooked. I became even more interested in his books and decided to purchase them. \u201c<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/polyfaceyum.com\/product-cat\/merchandise\/%23!\/FOLKS-THIS-AINT-NORMAL\/p\/171059405\/category=43780190\">Folks, This Ain\u2019t Normal<\/a>\u201d \u2014 if ever there were a befitting title for the times in which we live! \u2014 and \u201c<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/polyfaceyum.com\/product-cat\/merchandise\/%23!\/EVERYTHING-I-WANT-TO-DO-IS-ILLEGAL\/p\/171059403\/category=43780190\">Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal<\/a>,\u201d It is also appropriate. I subscribed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\">Lunatic Farmer<\/a> blog, where he spotlights issues such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s harassment of Amish farmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\/9\/9\/2022\/amish-farmer-stands-for-food-freedom\">Amos Miller<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\/11\/5\/2022\/vicious-vegans\">vicious vegans<\/a>,\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\/2\/3\/2022\/more-on-cow-vr-goggles\">virtual reality goggles<\/a> For cows.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just farmers or homesteaders who care about these topics and could be in the crosshairs of our own government. The USDA announced in September that they would expand their uber-creepy surveillance program. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsa.usda.gov\/news-room\/news-releases\/2022\/usda-opens-peoples-garden-initiative-to-gardens-nationwide\">People\u2019s Garden<\/a> Initiative, launched originally in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Salatin\u2019s words resonate with those of us who grieve for the state of the nation and struggle with how best to pursue its restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1674,"featured_media":1806806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[15019,15021,6919,4439,10370,14343,15020,6540],"class_list":["post-1806803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-lunatic","tag-farmer","tag-federalist","tag-freedom","tag-joel","tag-participation","tag-salatin","tag-you"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}