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1.6 Million Bees Gone 🐝, A Family’s Wild Escape 🥾 and the "Woodstock" of Homesteading 🧑🌾
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🚨 PATRIOT BULLETIN:
Just an hour south of Nashville, The Homestead Festival is a two-day gathering that brings together leading voices in sustainable living, homesteading, and purpose. Hosted on Rory Feek’s 100-acre farm, it’s part music festival, part skills workshop, part heart-centered reset.
Expect hands-on demos, inspiring talks, and good old-fashioned front porch pickin’. Whether you’re growing tomatoes on a balcony or raising chickens in the backyard, this one’s for anyone chasing a simpler, more intentional life. Join the homesteading movement →
New data confirm the worst honey bee colony losses in nearly two decades—over 1.6 million colonies wiped out, with commercial beekeepers reporting an average 62% loss. Even small-scale keepers took a hit: hobbyist beekeepers (1–49 colonies) lost an average of 51%. The economic fallout is already topping $600 million, and the ripple effects could soon hit your plate: fewer pollinators means lower crop yields, rising grocery prices, and potential shortages in everything from almonds to apples.
USDA scientists are racing to identify the cause, analyzing everything from pesticide residues to emerging pathogens. But the bottom line is clear: our pollination system is breaking—and with it, a key pillar of U.S. food production. Read more →
Dennis and Amy—aka Holdfast Alaska—left suburban New England behind for a remote, off-grid homestead deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Now, they're raising their daughter in a cabin with no running water, six-hour grocery runs, and wolves lurking on water treks. After a decade of trial and error, they're finally living their dream: hunting moose, fishing salmon, and homesteading with zero property taxes on land bordering 10+ million acres of national forest. Read their story →
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POLL OF THE WEEK
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SURVIVAL SKILL OF THE WEEK 💪
The #1 Crop for Self-Sufficiency 🌿 (it’s not potatoes)
Instead of chasing a “magic crop,” discover how to grow crops across key categories—from roots and legumes to herbs, fermentation staples, and forageables.
Potatoes for bulk, onions for year-round flavor, climbing beans for protein, winter squash for long-term storage—it’s all here, plus a few surprising picks. This is practical advice for real-world self-reliance, built on diversity, adaptability, and smart planning.
LISTEN UP 🎙️
The featured podcast episode of the week:
Joel Salatin dives deep with Nick Freitas on how to actually build your escape hatch: resilient homesteading, food freedom, and the battle-tested methods that kept his family going after losing everything. An incredible story about resilience that’s packed actionable homesteading tips. 🎧 Listen to the full episode →
“Control the food and you control the people. That’s ultimately the motivation of centralized food systems.”
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