Since the United States was founded nearly 250 years ago, Americans have felt a strong connection to the land. Almost all of the Founding Fathers were farmers, including George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, who once said: “The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
“A man who cultivated his own soil was immune to moral corruption, Jefferson said, unlike the deplorable merchants who ‘have no country’ and therefore no real attachment to their nation,” author Andrea Wulf wrote in Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation. Americans looking to take their liberty to the next level might consider following in the Founders’ footsteps by planting a vegetable garden – it’s a simple way to take control of what goes on the dinner table. Start on the path toward self-sufficiency and become the American the Founders envisioned today.
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