Elemental Family Farm

10/02/2026

Big Gigantic news! Elemental Family Farm is moving!

It’s official, we no longer own a home in Washington State. We now own a home in Hamilton Montana on almost 20, stunning, quiet acres, surrounded by gorgeous mountains and valley views. It’s an old property, in need of ALL the things inside and out. It’ll be a work in progress, for all the years to come. It’ll be our Daughters Legacy property. We will pass there, and she will raise her children on the farm.

It’s taken us 4 years to finally achieve this move. During Covid we knew we had to leave this state. We consider ourselves to be political refugees. WA state doesn’t have much of America left in it.

When we are finally finished with this gigantic American move. We will sit back on our MT deck looking over the purple mountains and say to ourselves, can you imagine if we had not put our home up for sale this year? Because at one point, we decided not to even try again this year. Then spirit changed our minds. Thank God, we were listening to a higher power outside of ourselves.

09/21/2026

In 1984, the State of Idaho sent armed deputies to take children from their homes and threw their parents in jail.

The charge? Educating their own children at home.

Three brothers and their wives in New Plymouth, sixteen children between them, chose to teach their kids themselves. At the time, Idaho law said a child had to be "comparably instructed, as may be determined by the trustees of the school district." That one vague phrase let local officials decide whether your teaching measured up, and if they didn't like the answer, they could bury you in it. These parents were convicted, put on probation, and when they wouldn't hand their children over to the district's terms, the judge sentenced all six of them to six months in the Payette County jail. And the state went after the children, too. In January 1985, armed sheriff's deputies arrived at the family's home and took the children away into foster care, while their parents stood by, helpless to stop it.

Their answer was simple: "They're my children. There's no doubt God gave them to us."

Idaho became one of the freest states in the country to homeschool only because that injustice sparked a movement that spent years fixing the law so it could never happen again. A descendant of that very family, Brandon Shippy, serves in the Idaho Senate today.

But here's what every Idaho family should understand: that freedom lives in statute. What one legislature grants, another can take back. Scroll the comments on my post from last night and you'll find Idahoans, right now, demanding the state regulate homeschoolers, set standards, decide which parents are fit. The impulse that jailed those parents never went away.

That's why I'm proposing one line for Idaho's Bill of Rights: "The right of the people to educate their children outside of the public schools of the state shall not be infringed."

Not a program. Not a dollar. A promise, placed where no future legislature can quietly erase it, that Idaho will never again jail a parent or seize a child over how that child is taught.

"Freedom is a fragile thing," Reagan said. "It is never more than one generation away from extinction."

Let's put this one beyond their reach.

Had you heard of the Shippy story? Tell me in the comments.

And if it's new to you, share it. This is our history, and it's exactly why this freedom belongs in the constitution.

09/18/2026

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09/14/2026

07/19/2026

Helping out a fellow Dexter Farmer, series
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Procrastin Acres's, in Monroe, WA. Located on Woods Creek Rd near Lake Roesiger. Call Zach (425)293-5992

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07/02/2026

As America reaches her 250th birthday, I can’t help but think about 1776. 🇺🇲🇺🇲

We fought to be free from Britain… 💪

Only to become a nation that can barely feed nor clothe herself without cargo ships, foreign suppliers, fragile supply chains, and grocery shelves that empty faster than folks want to admit.

The FDA says America imports about 15% of its overall food supply, including about 55% of fresh fruit, 32% of fresh vegetables, and 94% of seafood.

USDA says U.S. agricultural imports reached a record $213 billion in 2024.

That’s not independence.
That’s dependency with a flag on it.

You cannot call a nation truly free when her people don’t know how to grow food, raise animals, preserve meat, milk a cow, save seeds, or feed their own families.

America doesn’t just need fireworks.
She needs farmers.
She needs gardens.

She needs pantries full of home-canned food, freezers full of local meat, children who know what soil feels like, and families who understand that food security is national security.

Because: freedom isn’t just the right to vote, speak, and worship.

Freedom is also being able to eat when the shelves go bare.

Happy 250th, America.

May we remember that independence was never meant to come from a drive-thru, a cargo ship, or a government program.

It was meant to be grown, raised, harvested, preserved, and protected.

Receipts:

FDA — U.S. imports about 15% of overall food supply; 55% of fresh fruit; 32% of fresh vegetables; 94% of seafood:
https://www.fda.gov/food/importing-food-products-united-states/fda-strategy-safety-imported-food

USDA ERS — U.S. agricultural imports reached a record $213 billion in 2024:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/agricultural-trade

USDA ERS — Fresh fruit import share reached 59% and fresh vegetables 35% in 2023:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/110713

06/26/2026

Sunny the Rockstar feeds her bull calf and another.