What he represents is patriarchy. We're here to do work as men, as patriots. There's nothing more natural than being a father. Welcome back to 21Patriarch. It is my honor to introduce to you for the very first time Elliott Hulse, first time for me anyhow. Elliott is a father of four, a husband of his high school sweetheart, a strong man, a strength coach, influence for good on the whole, on social media, a lover of men, a friend of men, a great guy. Give him your attention and give him your applause. Welcome, Elliott. Thanks again. Thank you, Michael. And thank you, Anthony, for inviting me to come up here and speak at the Patriarch Convention about the state of the American father. And so we could look directly at the father and the world has done a lot of critique on the father. But what we're actually going to do is step back for a moment and look at the context of the father. If you really want to understand something, you've got to see it in its living environment, right? Was it Jane Goodall who wanted to study the gorillas and the mist, right? She had to go and live amongst them, see where they lived and what surrounded them to better go to understanding of why they do what they do. What we're going to do is we're going to study the father in the context of the world that we currently live in. So we're going to explore a few different elements of the context of the state of the American father. Beginning, of course, with wives and women. There are no fathers without a woman. Fathers require women. Wives are required for husbands and for families to flourish. We need women. So we have to consider the state of women if we're going to understand the state of the American father. We also want to understand the state of the family as it relates to the father, children. We're also going to consider the community. And community is a bit unique in this day where we've pulled back from local community. We've pulled back from the family, as you'll see in my talk later on. But we have almost a, what I would like to say is a digital community and it's strange. We'll explore that, what it means for the state of the American father and bringing it back into a local community. We also, of course, we're going to be talking about the state of the American father. We're going to talk about America. We're going to talk about the country. We're going to talk about the culture. We're going to talk about the world in which we exist. And then, of course, we're going to talk about the father. This refers specifically to God the father, religion, as it relates to our spiritual life. This is also concomitant with our physical fathers, our real fathers. What is our relationship as men to our fathers and the father? And so, if we're going to be taking a look at all this, we have to recognize that there is a contrast or perhaps a opposing force to that which is intended for the American father. And so, we have to consider the enemy. In a world where we like to see everything as flat and even and equal and egalitarian, there's a lot of hesitance to point out who the enemy is. I think I once heard that if you want to know who your enemy is, you look at who you can't talk about, what you can't mention, and you'll see that the enemy is a weaponizer of words. And you'll see that through my talk. We are in a war. It's an old war. It's a war that's been going on since dirt was invented by God. It's a war between good and evil. Now, of course, once again, in a world where nobody wants to judge or label because of the topsy-turvy screwing of our minds, I think a more resourceful way of describing this for the postmodern mind is the contrast between or the battle between order and chaos. God has established an order on this planet for men, for women, for families, for community and country, and it's called patriarchy. So we're going to see how our patriarchy is holding up in a world that has Satan's minions chanting tear down the patriarchy, smash the patriarchy. How are we holding up physically in this spiritual battle? Because everything that we experience physically, everything that we see, hear, touch, and smell, everything that we deal with on the daily, on this degenerate planet, is a manifestation of a spiritual reality and you know this is true because if you consider the war as it's unfolded in this day post-2020, you can see that it's not only an attack on our bodies. A hundred years ago, we had the two world wars. It was a carnal battle, physical battle, bloody battle with bombs and bullets. Today though, the battle has seeped in. It's more insidious. It is a battle for our minds. It's a battle for our emotions. It's a battle for our bodies and the unifying force of that which is spirit and God. So we have to point out, we have to consider, we have to objectify this hidden enemy by giving him a name and we know it's Satan. It goes a little bit further than that though because Satan is a spiritual entity. It's perhaps an idea. Maybe we don't see the devil in the daily but there are minions. There are henchmen. There are men that are workers of iniquity that seek to destroy God's kingdom on Earth, the patriarchy and they are conduits through which Satan does his dirty work as you'll see. On the left there you see Antonia Gramsci on the right is Mark Lucas or John Lucas. I'm just going to read a little bit of a quote from these gentlemen and their intentions. Lucas and Gramsci had taught in the early 1900s communism is impossible in the west until both western civilization and Christianity were destroyed. This was the main aim of what they're going to be cultural Marxism. If we back up for just a moment and we consider the spiritual battle, an interesting note to bring up and something to consider in the light of the situation that we're in on October 13th, 1884, Pope Leo XIII one of the last real popes had a vision where he heard, overheard Satan ask God for the next 100 years to have dominion over mankind. According to the Pope, Satan was granted the time to test mankind in these unknown ways in many unknown ways. Pope Leo fainted after he heard the conversations between God and Satan and he personally composed the St. Michael Prayer, which is said every day after the Mass. So here we have Antonio Gramsci and we have Mark Lucas, both the founders of or the the fruit of the October, November Revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution where the Russian hierarchy was toppled by revolutionaries. The problem was that although they were able to succeed in Russia and they worked their iniquity west towards Germany, they realized it was practically impossible to topple the west with a social revolution or with a political revolution, particularly in America because the working class started to thrive and it was becoming a part of the middle class and so with capitalism Americans were fairly happy. It was very difficult for them to sort of impose this idea of communism. A little bit more about these fellas, if I can get this to work. Lucas, quote, the great obstacle to a Marxist regime was western civilization itself. I see the revolution and destruction of society as the only solution. A worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of old values and the creation of new. So you understand that this was the demise, this was the plan, this was the idea behind cultural Marxism. It was a subversion of the culture by corrupting the minds, the hearts, the emotions of the people as opposed to physically oppressing them. Antonio Gramsci goes on to say, the West would have to be decristionized by any means, particularly that of the long march to the institutions. What he meant by that was taking their time, 100 years, taking their time in order to infiltrate all aspects of all higher institutions throughout the West, particularly in America. The culture must be the new battleground. All cultural barriers to the acceptance of Marxism must be removed or reconfigured according to Marxist principles. Starting with the traditional family, the churches, the arts, the cinema, theater, literature, science, history, media, education, and so forth. So you might ask yourself, how is it that these guys who have this grand idea of a worldwide utopia by toppling the patriarchy and scrambling the culture and would have rebuilt it in their likeness and image rather than the image of God? Well, in 1933, or I'm sorry, in 1923, in Frankfurt, Germany, with the primary goal of destroying traditional Christian culture in Germany, when Hitler came to power in 1933, they fled to the United States since every single member of this school was not only a Marxist but a Jew. So this is the Frankfurt School. With the help of Columbia University, the school reestablished itself in New York City and changed its focus from destroying traditional Christian culture in Germany to destroying it in the United States. They realized that the American working class would not lead a Marxist revolution because it was becoming part of the middle class. Who then would lead this revolution? So what they had to do is they had to find or create and foment disturbance between the people. America was doing fairly well at this time. People didn't want to revolt. Patriotism was high. So they said, who then would lead the revolution? They sifted through our society looking for disaffected people, and in 1953, they settled on the idea of a coalition made up of blacks, students, feminist women, and homosexuals. They also went on to create something called critical theory, which we're hearing a lot more about here today. By crossing Marx with Freud, they invented something called critical theory which involved making the most destructive criticisms of every possible cultural norm in order to destroy the current social order. For example, men are oppressors and women are the oppressed, and they used the media to pour out this contempt. In the institutions of higher education, the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School was commonly known as multiculturalism or political correctness. So there we have the agenda, and then we have the tool by which the American culture could be subverted. Let's just take for a moment a view at some of the main aims of the Frankfurt School, which, by the way, if I can back up for a moment, my entire talk at last year's 21 convention revolved around the research that I've been doing on this particular topic, and I go much deeper. But for a sense of time, we're just going to look at a few of the main aims of this Frankfurt School, and then we can take a look at how it relates to the state of the American father. Number one was the emptying of churches.  The West was considered Christendom, and they knew that they needed to de-Christianize the West according to Gramsci in order to subvert the people and make the state their God. Belledad, a well-known revolutionary, has boasted in saying that in the 1950s they were able to get 11,000 of their men in the seminaries. Essentially what they did is that they found revolutionaries and homosexuals and put them into the seminaries of the school, of the church. And so much of what we see unfolding in terms of pedophile scandals in the church were planted, that was created, it was made such by putting these men into the seminaries, making them priests, making them into the spiritual leaders of the people, but then corrupting them as a result. It's not arbitrary that there were so many homosexual priests. Number two, declare women to be an oppressed class and men to be the oppressor. Lennon is known for saying that in order for a revolution to take fold, you need to have the women on board. There are many different tools and techniques that have been used in order to subvert women, in order to corrupt them, correct their minds, and turn them against men, one of which is this idea of oppressed and oppressor. And we'll see this as a theme throughout their practice in order to create strife, create trouble, create separation, and chaos in our culture. Abolish the differences between educations of boys and girls. If we're looking at the fruits of their practices starting in the 1950s, we get to this place today where we now find that men and women are practically depolarized. We've been taught that men should behave more like women, women should behave more like men, and as a result, relationships aren't working. So we know that the work that they're doing is working because our lives are not. Encourage the breakdown of the family. Number two, number three, and number four, you can almost pinpoint under the category of feminism. The ability to divorce, the ability to live promiscuously, the ability to destroy the family through these principles are paramount to the school's agenda. Encourage, and these are stated agendas. I'm not making this up. This is what they wanted to do in order to subvert the culture. Sorry, this clicker's a little sticky. All right. I should probably memorize this stuff, right? It ain't working. So, okay, encourage the breakdown of the family. I think I just need to get closer.  So, recently I saw a clip from a children's program that I remember watching when I was a kid called Muppet Babies, right? And so, Gonzo was always a little weird. If anybody remembers Gonzo, he's a guy with a long nose. Little wacky, little weird, but apparently in the new woke version of Muppet Babies, Gonzo wants to be a girl. He wants to wear a dress. And so, we have four-year-olds now having to confront this idea of transgenderism. One of the ways they've confused the genders as well as the fruit of their intention of teaching sex and homosexuality to children. Now it's all the rage to be a rainbow person. But back in the day, it was something it was considered unheard of. Well, when you have drag time, drag queen story time, and Lil Nas X and Gonzo going Gonzo wanting to wear a dress, you see that their plans are working. Create dependency on the state or state benefits. And so, this supports feminism. It also supports the breakdown of the family. It supports the degradation of our culture through the dependence on the state, through handouts and such. And since 2020, we can see exactly how far they can go, where there are stimulus packages and money being sent through the mail to everybody with a heartbeat. And as a result, the economy is taking its hits. This is a byproduct of their plan to create dependency on the state and state benefits, as opposed to the father and the family. Controlling and dumbing down the media. Has anybody ever seen that clip that Joe Rogan put out just a few days ago, where he pieced together news clips as they were being presented across the board of all media outlets? And every single one of them began with brought to you by Pfizer. Brought to you by Pfizer. We want to thank our sponsor, Pfizer. Brought to you by Pfizer. So when we consider the dumbing down and controlling of the media and how it's unfurled its demise on our people, we can see that it's the pharmaceutical companies, it's the processed food manufacturers, it's the state with their cronies controlling our minds and our bodies.  Huge immigration to destroy identity. So when you change a person's mind and a heart, particularly a man, to be a bit more feminine than is natural for him, boundaries begin to dissolve. And one of the weaponized words that the Marxists have used is this idea of inclusion and that there should be absolutely no boundaries and that everybody should gather together and build like we're in the Tower of Babel. Well, it's not working. It's not working out very well for us. It's working out real well for them. This is crazy. It's working out real well for them because as a result of the influx of, well, you know, the open border or the southern, there is a changing of cultural identity. There is a perverting of patriarchal pride and patriotism. In the light of the intention of the Marxists and the Frankfurt School, we can now take another look at the state of the American father. As it relates, there is no father for the American father because the West has been de-Christianized. Essentially, most of us have become atheists and whatever religion is left is sort of a therapeutic, sort of feel-good kind of religion that more resembles paganism than Christianity. Wives and women. We can see that through the subversion of the family and the culture that relations between men and women are not very good. The children have been essentially given over to the state, through the media, through the education, all of these institutions that that long march that Gramsci was talking about and how they impact the lives of our children. Community essentially destroyed. Why? Because we no longer rest on our neighbors, we no longer rest on our counties, we no longer rest on the people that are actually in our physical environment. Instead, we depend on a national state. We depend on a consolidated power-hungry monster that is seeking to involve itself and control every aspect of our lives. There is no community. And as far as country is concerned, there is a growing sentiment of hate towards America, towards our Fatherland, towards patriotism and towards my ability to get this conversation done. So, to back up just a minute and kind of just take a big picture view of what I'm talking about in terms of the state of the American father, we are perverted, subverted, and controlled and manipulated by Satan. And guess what is winning? Through his minions, the Marxist, we have seen the degradation of our relationship to our Father, relationship with women, children and family, destroyed, community, non-existent, and pure hatred in our country for our own culture. So, I ask you, how is it that the American father is to do his job, given the circumstances or the context in which he finds himself? I'm not blaming women, children, the community and the state. I'm not even blaming Satan for all this as easy as that would be, right? Who we need to look at in terms of our lack of protection of these things is ourselves. There's enough nitpicking and picking on and degrading the masculine in our culture. It's not my intention here, but my intention here is to show you exactly where we dropped the ball. Make no mistake about it, men, we are slaves. And like I said before, this is a spiritual battle so we no longer find ourselves in these physical changes that maybe we once did.   We lack the ability to take the most powerful, energetic force in our body and the ability to direct it towards building God's kingdom on Earth and instead, our minds, our bodies are locked up in lockstep with a plan that is not of our best interest. According to E. Michael Jones in libido dominante, sexual liberation and political control, the elites have known for a very long time that if they can make a man, make a man a slave to his sexual instincts that he's that much more easily manipulated. When a man is steeped in sexual sin, he will excuse all of the sin around him because of the guilt and shame that he holds.  We've got to consider and so what I'll offer is just a few things that we can do a much better job in with regard to taking back our sexual power, taking back our strength, taking back our ability to lead this world the way God intended for us. Straight out of Jesse Lee's handbook, I love the way he says this, it's about fornication. This is not a popular topic. This is not something people like to hear you say. I can only point this out because I've seen the deleterious effects of fornication having sex out of wedlock. One of the things that men in this atmosphere particularly tend to complain about is the promiscuity of women. We all know that promiscuity defiles your future marriage bed.  Now we can point fingers all we want, well who are these women having sex with? And as a result of us giving away our sexual power to these women and working towards their demise and corruption, we then lose ourselves. One of the biggest issues that I even heard Steve talking about is choosing the wrong woman. We marry the wrong woman, particularly because we tolerate bad behavior of these women because we're having sex with them. Make no mistake about it, no matter how tough you think you are.  I've seen it happen time and time again where a man is with a woman that has more red flags in a Chinese parade. That's who's that, Coach Adams. More red flags, but he cannot see it. Why? Because she has him literally right by his organs. We give our power away by accepting their manipulation, their openness which then becomes a manipulation. I am of the opinion and I will stand by and fight for the ideal of saving oneself for marriage. If we're wanting to win back women, win back our families, win back our country, we've got to stop giving our sex away. We're slaves to it. And it's not just with women, it's also with pornography. Stop watching porn. According to Libido Domenandi, E. Michael Jones states that when the Israelis wanted to take over Palestine, one of the very first things that they did when they came in was they littered the entire cities with pornographic material, literally just papers, magazines, pornography. So they scattered pornography over the cities. Then the next thing they did is they went in and they took over three of the four television stations and broadcast pornography 24 hours a day. So these people were on lockdown, and this was back in the 1980s, they were on lockdown, we know what that means now, all of us, and they were forced to stay home and stare at a screen that they would be hopefully getting news from, but instead porn. Think about 2020 lockdowns in Pornhub. There's a reason why because you make the men very weak, you make them very passive, you corrupt the women, you destroy the culture. They don't need to use bombs and bullets. They use sexual license and pornography in order to enslave us as men and as fathers. Part of the problem is that sex seems so fun. We get a sense of pride from it. We think that we're doing something and that we're big men because we can have sex or have this false sense of pride when we're rubbing off to some porn. But make no mistake that every time we do that, every time we give our power away, the enemy is winning and he's smiling and he loves it. I'm not up here trying to make your life miserable, but things aren't working out really well and it has a lot to do with what we're choosing to do with our dicks. Stop being effeminate. The word effeminate essentially means an aversion to doing what's hard, stop fucking, and an aversion to doing what's hard and attachment to that which is pleasurable. Think about all of the activities. Think about all the vices. Think about all the things in our lives that make us effeminate. Addiction to media. Addiction to games. Addiction to women. Addiction to food. Addiction to drugs. Addiction to alcohol. These are all weapons. They're all tools used to what? Sovert your power and make you a slave. We've got to take a good look at ourselves, guys. The problem in the West, which was very different than the Bolshevik Revolution and the Revolution in the East, because it's one revolution that rose there and has made its way west, is that back then, in that place, they had to do it with force. They had to take over and corrupt the people by force. Political force, bombs and bullets. Today, we willingly lay back and allowed them to step over us. Why? Because comfort. Well, I don't want to give up my iPhone. Well, I don't want to give up Amazon. I don't want to give up Google and Gmail and YouTube. I don't want to give up all the creature comforts that keep us, what? Trapped slaves to our effeminacy. It's our fault. We've got to start saying no. I know it sounds hard because it's like, what is Eliot saying? Is he telling us that we should have miserable sexless lives? No. I'm saying we could have that much more if we had self-control. Those are base things. Those are easy things. Those are things that keep us heavy, that keep us ball and chained. They feel good, though, and that's why it's so insidious and that's why Satan uses it as his tools. And then finally, we've got to take, look, the first three are about what not to do. We've got to take back our power. I've said enough about that. We've got to turn our sexual energy into generativity. But we've got to take responsibility for the mess that we're in. We are in a war, men, and we're not woke up enough to realize it. We are in a war right now and we haven't picked up our swords. We're in a war right now in the defense. Make no mistake about it. I said spiritual war, which can kind of sound a little out there. But the non-conventional warfare that we're experiencing on our soil by a biological attack from a communist enemy is proof that you can't see it. Where's COVID? I don't see it. You're not going to see the war. It's not going to be written on the wall. The media ain't going to tell you about it. We're right smack in the middle of it. Now, I said 100 years, right? God, at the end of the age, will promise Satan 100 years to what? Create that separation between the wheat and the shaft. This is our time. This is our calling. We're here for a reason because we get to choose. Are we a part of the kingdom of Satan or the kingdom of God? Our fathers. We're talking about the state of the American father, but if you can't even look at and confront your relationship with God the father, there's no hope. The West was built in one on Christendom, not communism. So we got to take responsibility and that might mean that we got to make some really tough decisions. That might mean we have to get very uncomfortable. That might mean we have to set ourselves apart and turn away from the world and do things a bit differently. Luckily, we have tradition. Luckily, we have the patriarchs of the past. Luckily, we have a blueprint and a pattern in the father to show us exactly what kind of a world we can build. I even think in terms of that word father when we talk about the founders of our nation, our culture, our country.  Which doesn't mean anything. So, here we are. The state of the American father with a vision of what it would look like if we took back our power. Chased men. Strong men. Stoic men. Men that deliberately set boundaries. Men that stand up and say no even if it means that people will hate us. Men like the men of old, the patriarchs. That's possible. And if we could just start to mount that attack, we could start to mount that defense against our own demise by turning away from sin. We might have some hope. It begins with us. But as the fathers, and by the way the word patriarchy literally means father rule. As the fathers, as the leaders, as the men, patriarchs, in our homes, in our communities, in our countries, if we take back our power, we might be able to make some effective change in these other five areas. So much so that the enemy would cower and run in fear. But it's not going to be easy. I'm going to put forth some suggestions. Ideas. Things that maybe we can get behind and agree upon and maybe put some wheels on and move forward with as a means to win back our world. So, let's take a look first at women, right? That's the basic building block of everything that we're doing here. It started with Adam and Eve, man and woman. We can't take a look at community. We can't take a look at children. We can't take a look at country if we can't take a look at our partners in all this. Our help mates in all this. Our wives and our women. So I have a few suggestions. Number one, we have to hold women accountable. Now, it requires that we hold ourselves accountable first. Men prefer chased women for wives. Now, if you want whores then that's what you're going to get if we keep doing the things that we've got. But if we want to restore the family, we want to restore community, we want to be at one with our fathers, we have to expect women to live up to a standard that we set for them. Prefer purity. Prefer women who don't have a track record for making bad decisions, i.e. single mothers. Prefer women who honor their flesh by not marking it with tattoos. That's my opinion. Honor women that honor femininity over feminism. Teach women what we want. Show them what we want. Not by speaking it, but by our preferences. Learn to say no. That's the hardest part. It started with Adam when his wife tempted him. He said, sure, babe. Happy wife, happy life. What's got us in the mess that we're in? Be willing to be without them. This whole idea that every man supposed to be with a woman I think is actually pretty new. There was a time when they were confirmed bachelors. These were just men that did McTow before McTow was a thing. There were men that dedicated their lives to reverence of the father. We don't have as many monks as we once did. But if we're not going to be a monk we got to go for marriage. That's my opinion. It's monk or marriage. And if we're going to get involved with women and have marriages we have to expect that they're going to behave like wives. And there's all kinds of association with that that's real tough to swallow because of the subversion of our public schools. They're bringing together boys and girls in the classroom and the oppressor or pressed lie that Satan has been telling them. I could continue to go on but women are happier when they're under the mantle of a strong alpha male. They don't want to be in control. They don't want to keep killing their babies. They don't want to keep destroying our families through divorce. But they can't help themselves if we're weak and we don't stand up and we stop tolerating it. Everything from chastity to abortion. We have to say no. It's not arbitrary. These are up for debate. My opinion is as long as we continue to go along with evil, evil will gladly destroy our lives. And the picture I painted before is clear evidence that our lives are not going the way we want them to. Take back marriage is number two. I'm a fan of marriage. I believe that a man and a woman are healthier throughout their lives if they come together and become one flesh. We're actually two halves of a whole. We're better together. Of course there's a possibility for family as a result. But when the state owns our marriages through marriage license when the state owns our children through social security when the state has all of its fingers, all of its tendrils and nasty fucking claws in every aspect of our lives, they corrupt it. The reason why marriage is part of the reason why marriage has been corrupted is because the state has decided that it's in their best interest. Their best interest is absolutely their best interest to destroy the family and make the women and children dependent on the state. They don't need us. They don't want us.  Now if there are any lawyers in this room or any statesmen watching this video, I propose please reach out to me and let me know if you'd be willing to put forth some legislation some rule in the game where we can take back marriage and let it be between a man, a woman, and our creator. Not the government. Why is the government involved in so many aspects of our lives? Why do I need a license for everything I do? Why do they need to be involved with the type of family I choose to create? There's a good reason why because when the women and the children are dependent on the state the man is degradated and dejected and useless like we've become. A abolished divorce. Marry once and once for all. These make-believe Brady Bunch families do not foster an environment where children will thrive. Also it perverts in the child's mind what a family should look like and of course in our world where Satan has taken his fullest measure through Marxist ideals and has created all kinds of perversions of the family. There's one kind of family that I hate to burst anybody's bubble or to rub it in anybody's face who's had mistakes.  It's hard not to make mistakes. I'm only blessed to have been preserved, saved I think, the grace of God. But we have to go into it. Like I said either we're not going to do it or we're going to do it. Divorce we know is about 60% of the families. We also know that in certain states 90% of the divorces are initiated by women. Higher standards for our women. Taking back our marriage so it's between us and the government have nothing to do with it. Abolishing divorce makes marriage and family stable. There's no out. And I know that's scary for people who believe that all of life is lived in this flesh.  Only a spiritual people according to our founding fathers, I believe it was Madison, said could maintain a republic. That's why we had to get God out of our lives. So that they could destroy the family destroy the republic. We're there guys. You know I said this to my kids the other day because I'm in a constant culture battle with my children as well they see TikTok. That you've heard this before and I just want to use it as an example for where we are right now with the frog in the boiling pot. It's taking 100 years for that frog in that pot and that slow increment turning up of the heat to where we are right now we're boiling the death and most of us don't even know it. We have no idea that we're bound for hell. For the hey what's the big deal? Hey just accept everything. Hey you only live once. Hey you're effeminate. We're acting like weak men as a result. Honor God in your marriage. A lot of times men hear this idea of having authority in your family. It sounds like a good idea because it's our natural state it's our natural place. It comes authority that is giving us from above. You want a woman to respect you you respect your father. You want your children to respect you you respect your father. All power comes from above and there's an order. Love comes from God to Christ to man to child to woman to child. If we have no head we have no authority. I'm not here to proselytize. I'm not here to save anybody. I'm not here to change anybody's mind but I'm pointing out what works contrasts to what we got which don't work.  It's the only way fellas patriarchy is order. What we have now is chaos. Patriarchy comes from above. Honor God in your marriage. So we can have a nice time men and women. We can have nice relationships. We can have a good life together. I'm not here to brag simply because I know that I'm just as degenerate as the rest of y'all. I've made bad decisions in my life and I can only say that the grace of God has given me leeway to present this message because he's given me a good wife, a good family a good life. I couldn't speak with this kind of conviction but I didn't do it myself Lord knows so we can make this work again we can make families work again we can make marriage work again this is my dream this is God's dream for us let's move on to family and children. Make children respectful again. It's not even that hard it really isn't. But when we don't teach the children the small things the easy things the little things like please and thank you, say hello we are giving them over to the culture and as you understand by the demise of the Frankfurt school they want the state and the media to teach your children how to behave if you watch how the children behave in the media and in the movies and what they teach our children is the right way to relate to your parents the right way to relate to authority the right way to relate to God you'll see that these children are going to be completely lost small things by teaching your children that your mother and father are worthy of your respect it's not an easy thing I understand in our Miley Cyrus world where dad's big bumbling fool and the mom's a tyrant remind them of the sacrifices that you make as a father because otherwise they'll take it for granted remind them that your mother has given her body to bring you forth remind them that they're here because of our love for each other and our love for you remind them that you don't have anything that doesn't come through me now of course the media the children believe that at the drop of the dime they can call up whatever bureau that they want and rat on your parents about not following the cultural standard for things but we got to stay in our ground and we got to know what's right and we got to show them and teach them simple things though guys right I'm talking kind of high and mighty right now a lot of philosophical ideas but teach them to say thank you and you know how you do that you and your wife demonstrate every me and my wife serves me on my table I thank her they hear me thank her and my wife reminds my children to thank your father in fact before I got here I was on the phone with my wife FaceTiming they just spent some time in Orlando at a resort and the whole car chimes thanks dad my children are teenagers now why? because my wife expects them to thank me it's a respect thing homeschool your children there's no question about it the enemy wants their souls and we got to protect them it's not an easy thing to do it's not an easy thing to do in order to have a wife that stays at home also when I decided when we decided that Colleen was going to stay home we were over $90,000 in debt she had the only benefits when she was a school teacher she quit that job and it was up to me a lowly personal trainer training people out the back of my van with trash no future the future was not painted pretty for me but I had to make that decision I think that's the decision that we have to make as men first and then enroll our women that maybe we don't have to have all the trappings of a quote-unquote good life maybe we don't have to keep up with the Joneses like Steve was talking about before maybe we don't have to have constant vacations in cars but we will retain and save the souls of our children we started homeschooling for the first time last year 2020 has brought so many blessings into my life thank you COVID because it exposed the stupidity that was going on in the schools my opinion is children don't wear masks while they're going to school my opinion is you don't abolish phys ed and recess you don't put plastic between the kids but you gotta understand that at the end of this 100 year reign for satan he's speeding things up and becoming more obvious with the cards that he's playing and if you don't pull back and have a sense of what the hell is going on right now be swept away by the fear and the chaos that's unfolding we gotta make hard decisions one of which is parents should be the primary educators of our children why would I want anybody else to raise my children anyway sometimes I look at these schoolteachers and they'll knock against schoolteachers but just by virtue of your stature I say you ain't teaching my kid fat, depressed divorced degenerate, dejected miserable people and yet I'm going to trust my children eight hours a day with you I don't even know your values have you been seeing what's going on a bunch of crazy shit's been going on with the schools lately number one of which is this push towards cultural Marxism in the classroom right they call it critical race theory if that's not bad enough parents have been speaking out against it and when the parents go to the school board meetings what they're finding is that the FBI is infiltrating and labeling parents as domestic terrorists for demanding that their children be taught rightfully in a righteous way we gotta bring them home bring your wife home, bring your child home I see no reason why a woman needs to be out working in the world, that's my opinion there's no reason why even if we have to live a little bit below the Jones's standards I see no reason why my children should be trained by strangers and the culture that's going down the toilet hard decisions must be made we gotta take back this world afford children innocence again man it's so hard to keep children innocent right do you see what they did how they weaponized the media through little nods X little nods X that shows my mind he shows up on the scene with a very catchy tune kind of like a country cowboy rap song right it was pretty clever and all the kids are singing it all the kids are enjoying it and it's on Sesame Street and the kids shows not but a year later this is why you see Satan works real fast right now not but a year later he's given Satan a lap dance and he's pregnant as a man how did they get into my bedroom how did they get into my living room how did they get into the minds and souls of my children the media the way we afford our children innocence and this is man I wish you know there's a lot of things I'm speaking about that I wish I did better I didn't know I didn't grow up with screens so when screens came I was like what's the big deal we are literally bringing the perversion into our home every time we show our kid a screen they have unlimited access to unlimited ideas and unlimited perversions and then we wonder why we can't keep them straight literally demonstrate faith in God I'm not sure it comes naturally to children and even to women I question this reverence towards a God you know there's this resistance to authority and I think that kind of is natural in the woman and then it trickles down into the children but I think that men operate best in authoritative structures this is why we call God the Father God is above why isn't God below God is above so if we want our children we want our wives we want our family to trust the father to have faith to not freak out and become depressed and dependent then we have to do it ourselves we gotta try to our best ourselves let your children see you pray I allow my children to know that I rest in my faith that God will make things work out well I remind my wife and my children that everything that we get comes through the father and that we are graced we are blessed we are lucky we are fortunate I know we live in a world of God's and so everything that I have I did it oh I did it look at me I got it I don't operate that way we gotta show them that humility to our authority and by demonstrating faith we do so so we're starting to get a little bit more of a clearer picture we start resting authority back from Satan and delivering our families it could be I like these 1950's paintings by the way kind of nostalgic about it we can start to see a picture of the American family and the American father as it was intended to be prior to the 1950's let's talk about community I'm so blessed just once again I didn't know what I was doing 20 years ago when I moved to Florida 2020 has shown us just how important it is to number one decide on where you're going to live based on the values of the people that are there you can do that now back then I didn't think anything of it but at the same time we have to consider who we're putting into the seats that rule over us that make the decisions about us in 2017 we had an election between Ron DeSantis and a black guy who ended up being a coke addict and homosexual but that's a different story and it was teetering I didn't know at the time that by having DeSantis be our governor here in Florida that we would be the free republic of Florida in a world gone crazy post-COVID I'm once again I'm grateful I see the gods grace in my life but it reminds me and I think it should remind all of us as American fathers talking about Americans look at the state that you live in look at the values of the people there look at who they elect to the seats that govern over us and decide whether you're going to fight and make things right or flight and go to where it's right I think we are seeing a balkanization of our country the split is no longer ideological it's the lines are being drawn states like Florida and Texas maybe Arizona and some of the others these more red states these are states that honor for the most part nobody's perfect for the most part honor this patriarchal vision that I'm painting for you here where we rest our power back and bring it into our homes through our fathers hold your states governor accountable guys I don't know what the heck happened in California there though because it seemed like you guys were under the tyranny of what's that guy named Newsome and you had a chance didn't they have a recall and they had Larry Elder come through how did that not happen I don't know if there's cheating going on there or what or people are just so brain dead that they or have Stockholm syndrome and they want that kind of tyranny to lord over them I can't figure it out but Satan's time is short 100 years is almost up hold your county representatives accountable so again I'm blessed to live in Florida I was living in Pinellas County very much a liberal Marxist state county within the state right once again by the grace of God I was blessed to be able to move to Lake County where I live now which is about 40 minutes north surrounded by cows and pastures got 42 acres out there red as you can possibly get our representative representative in the county Anthony Sabatini this is an example of the kind of guy that he is he just put forth a I don't know what you call it legislation he just put forth something where he says that Florida is to become a constitutional carry state that means not only are they going to be more bands on our ability to carry our arms but there will be no rules whatsoever and we'll go right back to Constitution this is the kind of man that I am happy to have be the authority in my county and in my state listen I think one of Satan's lies is that we need to disregard politics and I'm not saying politics is everything but we can see clearly that if we don't speak up and we're not we don't hold the people accountable that we put in the seats particularly in our local community that's why I'm not talking about the country I'm not talking about the president I'm talking about the local communities that if we don't get involved that there's somehow more spiritual you see you ever meet these spiritual people they're so spiritual that they're no earthly good you're making no good decisions to support God's kingdom on earth but you're spiritual it doesn't make any sense to me we have to be active you got to have your feet on the ground you got to look around you got to be participating in what's going on number three create homeschool communities once again community is dissolved we outsource all services to the corporations to the government we don't care for each other anymore there was a time when there was homeless people the church and the families would get together and they would help them now you see homeless people you throw your hands up because they're like yo just go to the soup kitchen go to the state the state takes care of everything when we create homeschool communities we create a safe space with common values for our children to grow up with other children with common values this is a dream of course I'm homeschooling now we don't have a community we get ourselves involved in a lot of different things but if we're to rest back our power and be the patriarchs we're intended to be then we need to build our local communities even if that means again it's not easy but even if it means that we got to pull ourselves up out of where we are and start over and create our own there's still enough wide open space to do that guys besides the fact that Bill Gates and the Chinese Communist Party are the two largest landowners in our country there's still time and there's still space and we can set ourselves apart create community like minded community like values community and have a faith community all honoring the father all looking up living that patriarchal order we got to we need help we need one another we need community so that picture starts looking a little bit more like Florida right so I got to shout that out country be patriotic remember I told you when I showed you all those plans of the Frankfurt school to infiltrate all the institutions of our country through that long march one of the things that they insisted was that there needs to be a turning of values such that people hate their fatherland you can't you can't expect to have a strong culture a proud culture people that want to work hard and sacrifice if they hate their country they hate their history they hate the word patriotic comes from patriarch they hate our fathers to be patriotic is to be a lover of the fatherland be patriotic what does that mean also too right because the America that we're living right now is more of the corporate states of America than the ideal of the founding fathers I think that there was a grace from God in the words and the writings of our founding fathers I think that God knew that he could establish something new and beautiful in America if it was preserved the Republic if it was preserved but when we have critical race theory even from when I was a kid there was no critical race theory but they started that idea way back in the 1950's right so they were un-solid unfolding it and I remember because I'm a byproduct of this mess too that America was stolen you ever hear that this is what they taught me this is what they taught us America was stolen now let me get this right we study history and all throughout history there are conquerors and we praise the conquerors Alexander the great we call them great dude was a conqueror so as we look back on history there's the conquerors and there's a conqueror but America was stolen you gotta understand that words are weaponized and they use these ways to subvert us and to make us think that somehow there should be no pride for the beauty that was created in this country look there's winners and there's losers that's the way it's always been that's how we grow that's how we evolve that's how we are as a people on this planet I'm kinda happy that the Europeans won right I wouldn't want to be living in the T.P. right now preserved tradition you know they like to the Marxists call this progress progress once again is a weaponized word to make you think that there's something good about it right and it's almost like a sort of it's a mine cramp because a cell that keeps reproducing in your body is progress right it's giving you cancer it's killing you it's progress not all progress is good again once again I remember when I was a youth and someone would say progress I would think of myself as a progressive I did but progress leads to the chaos that we're experiencing in the world right now where nobody knows up from down girl from boy left from right it's all confusion progress equals confusion it equals chaos tradition is order it's foundational it's righteous it's what got us here seek tradition now I'm not saying every tradition all tradition that we need to do things as they've been you know a thousand years ago but look to our ancestors and realize they weren't stupid people we're not we might probably actually be dumber than them we're not smarter than them because we live in a progressive liberal world they knew what they were doing why they did it and it was for good reason particularly American tradition through the constitution be generative man this whole yolo attitude extends not just to the degradation of my own life and making bad decisions but the lives of our children we have to think look Satan knew it was going to take him a hundred years these people are patient Antonio Graham she called it what the long march of the institution he knew he wasn't going to live to see what we got here today these people are patient a part of the problem is that we forget we're so easy to adopt the new ways of doing things the new styles the new technology that we live for the now when we forget the future live for your grandchildren live for your grandchildren grandchildren set up a solid foundation have hope be generative to generate build generations think long term and pray for America pray for America ask the father to guide us to protect us I don't know if we're a lost cause at this point because God unfolds his retribution and his justice when he's ready and I'm not sure we could turn around there was a days of Noah Noah was informed that hey I can't fix these people I'm going to wipe them out then there was a time of Jonah and God spoke to Jonah and said tell the people to get the act together you know what Jonah did took him and swallowed by a whale belly of the beast he had to go through some dark times but he came out on the other side and he spoke up and the people repented and they prayed and they were saved I don't know if there was 25 billion abortions at the time but we're way far more diabolically disoriented than the days of Noah I would imagine but I could be wrong and that's not to say that your prayers aren't worth anything but the revolutionaries fought with their pellet guns we got to do what we can do we got to do all that we can do and we got to ask the father to help us for forgiveness I ask for forgiveness every day I call a man and I make bad decisions I've made bad decisions and I use that flag because it represents the idea of America not the corporate states that we live in today as it relates to the father forgive your parents Jesse, shout out forgive your parents Christ says if you come to the temple and you're asking me for something you're going to the father and you have a request you're coming to bring a sacrifice he said if you have something against your brother you got something against your mother you got something against your father you got something against anybody stop right there, don't even come to me go and ask for forgiveness or forgive forgive, let it go let it go, let it go because otherwise we're going to be ruled by anger and we're going to be operating from the same place that the people that seek to destroy us are operating from they say you become like your enemy so we have to drop the anger as it relates to all that this world has laid upon us and of course our parents are fruits of that they didn't know they're doing the best that they can they're diabolically disoriented just as much as we were I think they did the best that they can and if we could let go of our primary life givers there'd be a lot more room and space for relationship with the Lord repent, I love this word one of the newest words in my vocabulary it literally means turn around but I haven't to think that this is the one thing that people just can't do we have to admit that we were wrong we got to admit that we made mistakes we got to admit that we weren't going the right way and then what? turn around but if we don't admit, if we don't acknowledge if we don't take responsibility there's no turning around this story is most evidently displayed in the story of the prodigal son there's a father, he's got two sons one of his sons says, hey dad give me my money and let me get out of here he takes his money, he goes he blows it, he goes and lives yolo hires prostitutes, gets drunk lives the good life like most Americans, he goes out there but then at some point he loses all his money and he realizes, oh man my father has a kingdom back home my father loves me back home I've wasted it all, I screwed up that's the first thing he had to recognize I screwed up beautiful thing about that story I always remember is that as soon as he said alright, I'm going back to my father he turns around, you know what? his father saw him coming if we just acknowledge we're wrong and turn around and start back towards the father he will come back to us he wants us to come home but it can't happen if we don't acknowledge that we've been wrong that's why I say acknowledge that you're a sinner be born again what does that mean? that's the turning around process that's from this day forth I will end to make better decisions different decisions, take responsibility for, start unfolding some of the points that I laid out here for you I can't be the old me to create a new world I have to be completely transformed any spiritual ideas, Christian ideas about how to allow that to unfold in your life explore that and have trust in the father have trust in the father we're talking here today about the state of the American father but if the American father has no trust in father then we're lost we're a lost cause we take our we take our atonement with the father and it becomes marred in the world this is why we're so easily manipulated have trust especially when things are tough I was listening to Jesse yesterday he was talking to a young man whose wife decides that she's not connected to him anymore and wanted to leave one of the best things I heard my man say is feel that pain be okay with the pain, go through the suffering but have trust cause on the other side of it things are going to be so much better I painted a dark picture for you I also painted a picture for what it could be easy it ain't going to be light there's going to be some pain there's going to be some sacrifice be willing to go through it remember I said stop being effeminate that means an unwillingness to get uncomfortable fellas, men this is what's required of us this is what's expected for us and this is the only way we can turn this boat around come full circle we're in a spiritual battle there are forces that seek to destroy us but there are also forces that seek to help us seek to support us I mentioned briefly that Pope Pius the 14th, 13th spoke of a vision that he had where God granted the devil 100 years, now some people say that 100 years began about the 1920s that will bring us right about where we are right now and there's this concept that as as we get closer to the end of an age time speeds up you can't deny that time has sped up since 2020, we are at the peak of this battle and so Pope Pius also learned to pray, he also started to pray a prayer he was delivered a prayer that's indicative of this picture that we see right here I say give all faith and trust to the father but the father also has his angels he has his spiritual warriors that help support us in this warfare and so he created or was revealed the prayer of Saint Michael and goes like this Saint Michael the archangel protect us in battle be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil may God rebuke him, we humbly pray and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host by the power of God cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits that prowl around the world in the souls, amen that my friends is the state, the backdrop the vision, the expectation of the American father and if this is a vision that you can get behind then join me this evening at a workshop that I'll be doing Anthony will tell you about it or it may be on the schedule where we can come together as like-minded men and start to unravel and unfold this plan to then recreate God's patriarchy on the planet thank you alright guys if you have questions for Elliot you can ask him over here in the back while he's snapping photos and stuff we are- I can do it up here though you have a couple that you can if y'all, if you guys have questions okay guys we got a couple extra minutes if you want to ask some questions on the mic let's do it sorry Tanner hey Elliot, amazing man thank you I love the many ideas that you're giving us so I'm kind of curious like if you would take all of those many many ideas and just um give me like a few things that you would really stand up for what would it be if I had to consolidate everything I just said bro, I got to- I remind myself and I often try to remind people that I don't do anything of my own accord I try to get out of the way as much as possible because I've watched how my ego can destroy things and as a result it's allowed me to rest more heavily on faith in the father so if I could say wrap it up in one thing which which is intertwined with every aspect of our being trust in the father alright yep, that's it, thank you that's it, that's all I'm done oh we do? okay cool, I don't mind actually you know I like talking so one reason the left has been so successful is that they've turned that a lot of Christian communities they're diverse the denominations don't work well together but so they've been able to divide us up how do we come together even though we don't share similarities in how we worship the father but also stay together and against the left well this is my opinion and it's based on history there was one church and satan has had his plan since the beginning to divide that church and if we want the tradition of the church we go back to the og church what's the og church I tend to think that the orthodox and the Catholics got it right Martin Luther was a rebel all we've been talking about here is how the Marxist rebels have come in and infiltrated it's my opinion that Martin Luther is not to be celebrated and regardless of what the I don't trust the history books by the way whereas what they tell us in history class which we know is the history of what the Marxists want us to believe that that somehow the church was so corrupt that it needed to be dismantled destroyed and then atomized fraction the way it is right now as we see today where anybody have a church church church church church church there's no tradition there's no deposit of faith there's no lineage there's no culture it's whatever you want it to be it's not what our satan's plan so I was baptized Catholic I didn't make much of it but in my walk I realized that Western tradition was born out of the Catholic faith so I don't see us all getting back together and getting along I don't know how it's supposed to be but if I had to encourage someone I would say look at the fathers remember we talked about the fathers of our country and apostolic fathers look at the the OG monks and originators of the church try to go back to where the seed was planted that's my opinion try to understand that on that note the past two years where the church has taken a knee to the states through these mandates all of the churches from top to bottom totally subverted satan is in the church you just look at the pope who's supposed to be the leader of the largest Christian denomination look at the Protestants and how they have women preachers and men are feminized listen I love tradition but I'm very leery of institution because it can be infiltrated as it has been that would be my question with a pope calling for a church state with teeth he wants them coming back together that's in the future for sure can you speak to the community that homeschool community and faith community how do you offset people took the knee to the mass to the job all that stuff rebuilding that community faith and homeschool how do you separate from that state that state power I'm not exactly sure what you're asking you're rebuilding it you're rebuilding your faith community and homeschooling there's going to be consequences at some point if the state and the church have teeth if they're going to prosecute you or persecute for that what do you think was setting up for that in the future well the history of the church is found in the martyrs right this is how you become a canonized saint apparently so I think being willing to suffer to be required willing to suffer humbly to fight and to not expect that it's just going to be an easy walk rainbow ride the best way to get a perspective on what could be expected is a great book called live not by lies by Steve Draher it's called handbook for christian dissidents and the entire book is based on how alexander so genisky and the christians in eastern europe dealt with the bolsheviks and the communists and the marxist revolution as it was unfolding in russia and eastern europe these were tough people and they fought back they had to go underground essentially and that might be what we have to do we might have to go underground thank you you got it bro thanks guys what he represents is patriarchy we're here to do work as men as patriars there's nothing more natural than being a father


I was going to say I'm old enough to remember that I was a mere lad at the time, but the first energy crisis, late 70s, early 80s, and there was a lot of interest in heating greenhouses with non-conventional methods, so they tested a number of different animals relative to the BTUs they gave off. Guess which animal won? Not chicken. That's why I'm interested. Rabbits. Rabbits. And there actually were greenhouses that had rabbits in them to help defray the heating cost. Well, K is growing chickens, not rabbits, but I think this will be equally intriguing. So K and F, it's all yours. Well, thank you very much. My talk is, of course, as you can see by the slide, diversified high-tenile rotations using chickens in the rotation for insect control, soil fertility management, and additional heating, or how to foul up a high-tenile operation. When we applied for the grant, the objectives at our farm are fertilization, weed and pest control, heat management, and to extend the growing season. The problems that we were facing, we are mainly an herb and produce farm. I grow plants, and the plants are what we sell, and then we also sell the fresh-cut herbs, and the high cost of propane was killing us in the high tunnels. Managing soil quality and fertility in a chemical-free system. We are chemical-free. We are coming off of old wheat ground, which means the nitrogen has been sucked completely out of our soil. We have high acid. We're soil in the world, so naturally we chose to farm. Controlling insects in a chemical-free system. The solution as I saw it that would require the least amount of work for me personally is a six-plot rotational system with rotations of the herbs and the vegetables, adding the chickens and fallow into the plots with a various combination of coverings on the high tunnels, the low tunnels, and to run the fallow plots uncovered or naked. Chickens also were introduced into the plot system both for the benefits of heating, fertility, and insect control. First of all, of course, you have to erect the high tunnel. We did have two high tunnels and a seedling house that we were already using, but for the purpose of the grant, we wanted four tunnels and two plots for the rotation. How many of you have your own high tunnels? So you know the joys of putting up high tunnels. I'm from Kansas, so there is nothing that blocks the wind from Oklahoma to Nebraska, and so about the midpoint is where we live, where it's really kicking up steam sweeping across Oklahoma. So the high tunnel erection was very important. As you can see with this particular high tunnel, the year I got the grant was the year of the incredible drought and high heat. So naturally, again, we're going to a high tunnel production system. We had a plot of tomatoes that were already planted, had not produced one single tomato. So we decided that's a great place for the high tunnel. We'll just put it over the tomatoes and see what we can do. So where the arrow is, that was the low tunnel with the tomatoes covered. Safety first. The best thing that I can tell you for an operation of any kind is if you have sons, many, many, many sons of all ages, and then they bring their friends with them. So Jacob, my youngest, is up the tree trying to cut back enough so that the elms, which shed terribly, don't overhang the greenhouse. Many of you probably had a greenhouse collapse. Again, this is the existing tomatoes. You can see the tomato plants that look like they ought to be doing something, but just absolutely did nothing that year. So we went ahead, put the high tunnel right over that non-producing tomato bed, and we picked our first tomatoes on December 15th that year. They were planted in April. I may point out that the tomatoes were not particularly good, but that was not the point. The point was I had something round and red to put on a sandwich. Again, putting up the high tunnel, the joy of pulling plastic. Again, waiting for a day that is not windy in Kansas is brutal. Probably here in Missouri too, but in Kansas it is very tough. We had all the boys on speed dial. We said, when it's not windy, we're going to call you. It was not windy 10 minutes before sunset. They came smoking in. There's gravel everywhere. They go sliding through. We laid the plastic out. And this time, you all are familiar with how to tie the rope on the plastic. My middle son came up with putting a plastic bottle top from like a two-liter bottle of Coke in and wrapped the rope around that, held up a treat. I mean, it went right over. Nothing pulled out. It literally took 10 minutes to get that tunnel covered. You can see the dark picture. That is after the wiggle wire was on. And we were literally in the complete dark, but it was up and I was thrilled. I think I had a grant report to write like 10 minutes before we got it up. So these are the completed tunnels. This particular one, number one has three-foot sidewalls with roll-up sides. This is the largest tunnel. This is where the chickens spend the most time because it's the largest area for them. And also the height of this particular tunnel makes it, it's cooler in the summer and it's warmer in the winter because of its height. Number two has seven-foot sidewalls. They're Lexan sides. They are double wall Lexan. And that's the one that we put the brooder bench in for the baby chicks. Number three is a quonset style. It has no sidewalls. It's just the quonset, but the sides are able to be rolled up. Number four has three-foot sidewalls like the other one. But we've set it up to where it can be covered with anything, either wire or mesh or tarp or plastic or screen or nothing. Again, our main focus is production of vegetable and herb transplants. Then we do potted herbs and tomato plants for sales at farmer's market and planting and growing of produce for market. This is the first step. We ordered the chicks. I had had a car accident several years ago, so we had been without chickens for about four years. It was killing me. I'd buy the eggs in the store and you know how you got your good hard shell at home. First egg I broke all over the kitchen. I hit that against the thing and it just exploded. I said we were going to have chicks and we're going to have chicks quick. So we ordered the chicks and in the transplant house we have the large benches. What we did was we made frames that went all around the base of the benches and this is where we set up the brooder.  Yeah, that didn't last very long, but that first pin feather, boy, they're out in the greenhouse and they're under the brooder. So we've got the plant tables with the screen all the way around it and doors so that we can get in and feed them and then they have two lights, two of the heat lamp lights are suspended underneath. So the plants on top keep the chicks warm, the chicks heat does the plant and right away I noticed that we had good root growth of my tomato plants particularly. They were just way ahead of anything that I'd ever grown before. It's a web bench top, but yes, the first thing I thought, oh, let's put plastic there so that when we water the tomatoes, we're not watering the chickens. So yes, it's solid, but it's because a solid bench just doesn't work very well. This one, you know, just covered with recycled greenhouse plastic is what I do. When I change a greenhouse, I just save that. This is the plants over top of the brooder. Again, we just get such beautiful growth because they've got that bottom heat rising and it's work to treat.  You can see there's hanging baskets across this plant bench. When we brace the greenhouse, my husband made V-shapes and we've got the hanging basket poles across. So what I do with those is if there's a night where there's a super-freeze warning and I'm a little bit worried about the chicks, anything maybe under 38 to 32 kind of concerns me a little bit, especially if they're very tiny, then I use those plant racks and just tarp it. So we've got an extra insulation of tarp that hangs down to the floor so it gives the chicks, you know, it completely covers that screen. So they get that added insulation. And this you can actually pull the tarp with one hand. Sometimes it takes me going one side and the other side, but it's very quick and easy to just move that tarp to the side so I don't take it on and off.  The lack of wind of course in the high tunnels gives the plants that extra edge. So I've got just beautiful, good-looking plants by the time our market opens. The market that we go to the most starts the first Saturday of April, runs clear through the end Saturday of October. So this gives me a good edge. I'm a real stickler for not selling people plants before it's too early to plant them. So the most things that I sell in April usually are perennial plants and then I try to push them back till May because I don't think it's serious when people are planting basil and tomato too early, but that's my other soapbox. Now what do we do? We've got the chicks done and the reeder, they've finished off. So we're going to take them outside because once we get past that stage, I usually do spring chicks. So now we don't want them in a high tunnel because it's going to get too hot pretty quick. So we do outdoor runs. Again, I mentioned the first year of our research grant. It was the highest temps. I wish I had temperature information for you that first summer, but I melted three thermometers in the greenhouses. So that's how hot it was. The considerations are, again, I mentioned to you that I do not like to work personally. I don't mind watching other people do it, but we needed a method of moving the chickens from the brooder into the next high tunnel or run. Something easy to do, fighting the instinct to home of the flock because those of you that grow chickens, you know, once they've slept two nights someplace, they think that's where they live and they will never deviate from that. So I needed to fight that homing instinct and something else for the safety of the chickens, i.e. the city coons that the naturalists say, oh, yeah, trap that coon, take it out to the country. Yeah, I don't want your city coons. Coyotes, neighbors, dogs, whatever else, owls, rats, possums. So, oh, they're bad on everything. So we created a mobile chicken house. We did the quick and easy frame. We didn't have to make it too big because they're not going to be staying in the house. This is just where they're going to go to sleep at night. Then we put it on an old boat base. We had a boat trailer that we found. We put a heavy welded steel panel that's got the short grid. So the chickens aren't getting through it and nothing really, a mouse probably could, but not a rat, could get through the base of it. The ideal thing about this is the manure just falls right through it. There is no cleaning out of this chicken house. It's completely self-cleaning. That's the part I like best. Okay, so then when we move it, it will pull with just the small garden tractor. We don't even have to get the tractor out. This is the soil I'm fighting, if you would notice. That's how it looks. That's really the color and texture of our soil. So this is why we're wanting to get some more fertility into it. So the first outdoor we run, we put between the grain bins and the Lexan high tunnel. We left the chicks out there. They had it cleaned up completely in about three weeks. We had several. I think we probably had 80 because we ordered and by that time we had 80. So they ran through that pretty easily. They scratched it. We did not leave them out there too long, but immediately the soil was just good and we got them in out of that area, tilled it in and were able to plant potatoes. In our excitement of actually growing something, I did not get a picture of the potatoes. So I gave you a picture of me cutting the potatoes. But it was very fast and we were able to plant on March 17th, which I had an aunt who never planted potatoes anytime at March 17th. The next location when they went from that run, they went into the high tunnel without covering. And this was another place. You can see the green in the background. That is how that looked when they moved in there. It was completely unused soil. It had not been tilled if it had been. We've been there 30 years. So it has not been used in all of our 30 years and probably maybe 30 years before that. No. It's a wire covered. Sorry. Yeah. You can see it better down at the bottom, but it is wire covered and it's got chicken wire over the top of it. And then this is the other side view of the mobile chicken house and this is the egg layer box on the side that flips up together the eggs. They were in there a whole long time and I think in the next picture you'll see where they stayed a little bit longer. It didn't seem that the soil was vastly improved, although we did get some squash to come up in it. I think probably it needed another season beyond to lay fallow. We did a low till after this, but like I said with it open it just didn't seem like that maybe it was still too hot and the manure was still too hot for it. These are 20 by 24, 20 by 24 wide and 6 foot high. We'll run through this pretty fast because I'm probably running out. Then we moved them to the tunnel with the roll-up sides and it is 16 foot tall, 15 and a half in the middle. So this is a taller tunnel. This is where the tomato plants were that you saw earlier and they cleaned it up. We left them in there three months and then took them out and I think we planted the third month after that. So they had a little bit of time to live in there and scratch in there and completely, completely till up that soil. So Dave got in there with the tiller. This greenhouse when we get a doorway at the end it will actually let our little tractor in so we won't have to till by hand. But again the no shoveling, but this soil broke down or the manure in this house broke down much faster than it seemed to in the uncovered tunnel. There's just no other way to explain to you the beauty of this soil versus what you saw on the outside. It's right next to it and literally there's a line where the chickens were to where the outside is that it isn't. You want to really lay down and roll in it. So what I chose to do is have my husband plant so I could take pictures. What we did then is after we planted, since we are potted plant producers, I used the potted plants as row covers, weed barrier really. If they had those laying on the ground it increased incredibly my greenhouse space or high tunnel space so that the plants could be in there and they finished off much faster and the lettuce grew beautifully. And you can see in just another two or three weeks the amount of growth. This is soil that wouldn't hardly grow anything and I was like dancing around. We actually had Swiss chard and lettuce for the first day of market. We have never had that before in our lives. Just a quick marketing tip. Listen to what people are talking about.  I was selling Swiss chard right over left hand over hand and it wasn't my, what I call my older crowd usually bought the Swiss chard and nobody knew how to do with it but I was having younger customers and younger customers. I thought what are they doing with it? And I heard the term green smoothies and I thought well that sounds interesting. So I went online, checked out green smoothies, went to work, made green smoothies for my office. I said here try this. And we posted the QR code which takes them directly to my internet site and had a whole thing of green smoothie recipes and I doubled my sales by the next week because the crowd that was buying it just had their phones out there and snatched that. Strawberry was one of the open row. We used the spun row cover in Kansas again. You can see the success rate. It's hard to keep nail down. It's hard to keep on in our wins but it did do its job and kept the birds and the chickens out long enough for the strawberries to kind of mature without a peck in every single one of them. Bracing is so important. If you're in a heavy snow country you will ultimately lose a high tunnel. The little collapsed tunnel here. How many of you were in for Dr. Gu's presentation that was just in here? This was something that was at Great Plain Growers one time and it was from the East Coast they had this wonderful idea that you could make quick and easy high tunnels with PVC pipe. And I said that will never work in Kansas. Oh yes, it's very structurally sound. So we made this PVC pipe tunnel and you can see it just first snow it just absolutely folded. So we propped it up inside with a ladder and then the next week it blew over and broke the four by four posts that we had sitting in it. So I would not recommend a PVC pipe. This is the Quonset house and you can see with just having the chickens in it the snow melts right off. I mean just there's just enough residual heat that it doesn't stick. This kind of blurry picture that is taking without opening the door because it was I think 20 something less degrees than that. So I didn't want to open the door if I didn't have to but that is through the ice on the outside of the door. It was just a sheet of ice on the outside of the door but the inside was beautiful. Never got below 38 no matter what the outside. Never got below 38 with the chickens. Never got below 38. How cold would it get outside? Less than 20 that year. This is I'm on my this is the start of my second year on this. A lot of our customers ask what happens to the chickens. The P2P people you know everybody's concerned about the lifespan of a chicken.  But so we're thrilled when our bullets reach egg laying stage. We try to explain to people the lifespan of a chicken that they have so long. Any friars that they buy in the store are probably eight to 10 weeks old that they cannot fathom that at all. So we try to try to explain to them give them a little little bite. The unexpected joy for me this year is once we had turned the chickens out one of them found her way. Remember that homing instinct found their way back to the greenhouse that they had been in before had a clash of eggs that we didn't find and we got 13 baby chicks out of out of this high tunnel. I have one rooster. I got it free with this last thing. It was an exotic bird. The chicks came and there was this one without any feathers on its neck and it was God awful ugly and I thought oh that must be the exotic bird until I saw a fellow walk by wearing a hat and I thought oh no that's probably the exotic so they sent me pictures yesterday that I didn't get on the thing. All of the babies have a little mohawk. So I'm anxious to see we have five different hen varieties so I'm anxious to see these five different hens wearing a hat. No it was just deformed. It's also my best egg layer equal rights. You know you're going to keep your hands because they're producing something. I tell my roosters right off the bat. They have the same opportunity if they choose to lay an egg or set a nest. They're golden. They can stay if not. We have other ways of dealing with them. I say serve or be served. A lot of people think that's unnecessarily cruel to the animals but I remind you that the tomatoes in the okra suffer the same fate. Okay the positives of this experience beyond having my sons and husbands help tremendously with the project. It did add fertility to the soil almost immediately. We noticed an upbeat in nitrogen. We use a lot of wood chips as pathways and by the time the chickens scratched all that out and did their business that gave also a huge amount of organic addition to the soil without us actually doing a lot of the shoveling and taking care of that you would expect. The extra warmth in the high tunnel was amazing only once in the last two years did the chickens water even freeze and that was just a little tiny scale on the top so I've been more than happy with the additional heat. Significant drop in pest population. I haven't had a really good way to monitor that other than visually but the last two years with the heat we've had terrible grasshopper plagues and while they aren't out and about all the time they have I think they've scared them at least and our production particularly of vegetables was up by more than 50% in the first year. How long did your chickens stay in the brooder? I wait until they're about pull its size probably four to eight weeks. Underneath the bench? Underneath the bench. Do you have to eat the brooder? Just two heat lamps, it's all I've used. I don't put them in there until I've got all their pin feathers. Once they've got pin feathers I figure they're good to go and it's just two heat lamps under each bench.


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