Brownstone Institute Retreat,
is being held at Joel Salatin’s farm near Stanton, Virginia.
I will be speaking at the Brownstone Institute Retreat, which is being held at Joel Salatin’s farm near Stanton, Virginia.
It would be great to meet some of you there!
RECLAIM YOUR INDEPENDENCE
Polyface Farms, Swoope, VA
September 12-13, 2025
The experience of the last five years – from lockdowns and closure to vaccine mandates and mass surveillance – blew open a once-hidden machinery of control at all levels of society, nationally and globally. This Goliath has invaded medicine, tech, media, large corporations, and, above all else, government at all levels. The devastation for liberty and rights, even the future of civilization, has been nothing short of traumatic for the whole of humanity.
Brownstone Institute’s first retreat at Polyface Farms offers loyal Brownstone readers a chance to join us in an exciting opportunity to learn from the best minds on the subjects of health freedom, food freedom, monetary freedom, educational freedom, freedom from censorship, and more. This will all be held at the home of one of the world’s greatest leaders in regenerative farming.
You can join with these powerful thinkers to share knowledge and expertise, discover hidden histories, learn about the many industrial complexes that have gained so much power, and find ways around and through this crisis.
There has been a dramatic shift in the political and intellectual history of our time. We’ve gone through a half-century or longer being distracted by various news items…technological advances, end of cold war…we were enticed to believe that there could be a technical fix for many of our problems. We keep missing the point. Our times have presented us, maybe by accident, with the realization that the system is not only not working for us, but is acting as our enemy.
We have to reclaim some sense of independence over our lives. The applications are in the financial world, what we eat, and the medicalization of society. Ultimately, we need a spiritual recapturing of things. Reorienting our sense of who we are and our purpose in this world. How we manage our time, finances, health…whom we trust.
We need to reconnect at Polyface and take a lesson from the farmer in all this. We started off as an agrarian society and became the greatest country in the world, but along the way we have lost the values of that society, becoming enticed by technology, with the promise of making our lives easier.
What are the values of agronomy? What is the meaning of security, the meaning of the homestead, the value of a family, the discipline of routine? The farmer pays close attention to the cycles of life, and the seasons of the year. What is reality? The agrarian life exemplifies the reality of what has value – including the inherent goodness of work.
The romance of routine is largely lost in our current world. We need to reexamine the way we look at the world and our own culture, reminding ourselves of what is truly valuable to us as humans. We had a huge wakeup call and got a view of reality that had been hidden to us before the Covid lockdowns.
Join us in Reclaiming Your Freedom.
Featured in the program are many of the most effective thought leaders in the last five years, the people who refused to be canceled and have a record of speaking truth to power. Even as so many institutions of the past failed to step up during the crisis of our lives, these people were the light who showed the way back to fundamental principles of Enlightenment values.
You will leave feeling part of a grand and global movement – energized, knowledgeable, and ready to lead the way back to sanity and freedom. You will find colleagues for your own work in your community and build trusted friendships to depend on for the difficult years to come. These are truly times in which you can make a difference. This event shows the why and the way.
The event begins on Friday morning with an early morning registration and a delicious breakfast and ends Saturday afternoon.
The ticket includes all sessions, breaks, and breakfast and lunch on both conference days. Rather than divide attendees up by various packages and price points, this ticket allows everyone to participate in forming a real community of collegiality and friendship.
The price includes all sessions and breaks Friday and Saturday, plus breakfast and lunch Friday and Saturday) is $265 and includes the Farm Tour Saturday morning (8:45 – 10:45 am) of Polyface Farm.