Man Uses Stimulus Check to Start Community Farm, Teach Others How to Get Off Gov't Assistance

"Use that assistance and buy 4/5 plants a month and at the end of the year you don’t even need the assistance anymore. You have an orchard.”                                                                                                                                                                                                        [Man Uses Stimulus Check to Start Community Farm, Teach Others How to Get Off Gov't Assistance]( "Use that assistance and buy 4/5 plants a month and at the end of the year you don’t even need the assistance anymore. You have an orchard.” [Matt Agorist]( Feb 16 [Comment]( [Share]( Over the course of the pandemic, millions of Americans received two measly checks as part of the government's "stimulus" package. The amounts were laughable and amounted to just a few dollars a day and could barely pay for anything. One man in Florida, however, decided to do something with his check that is now serving as a lesson in sustainability and independence. He started a home garden and is helping to free his neighborhood by teaching them food freedom. Instead of blowing his stimulus on useless consumer items, Tampa, Florida, native Michael “Spirit Mike” Chaney used it to start a revolution. Chaney said that after watching people [fight over toilet paper](, bleach, and food at the grocery stores during the pandemic, he knew he had to do something. “If the stores don’t have food, what am I going to do? I don’t know how to hunt. At that time I didn’t know how to fish,” he said. “I didn’t know anybody that grew anything or had the knowledge to grow anything.” So, he decided to learn for himself, and apply that knowledge to a .3 acre plot of land he lives on. Chaney used his first stimulus check to buy the infrastructure for his farm and a few plants and it has grown from there. He is now showing his neighbors how to use their government subsistence, and even food stamps, to become independent. “If you use that government assistance all you need is a plot of land; use that assistance and buy 4/5 plants a month and at the end of the year you don’t even need the assistance anymore. You have an orchard.” Chaney said. To read the rest of this story and find out how you can help Chaney, please[visit our website here.]( [Comment]( [Share]( If you liked this post from [The Free Thought Project](, why not share it? [Share]( © 2021 Matt Agorist [Unsubscribe]( 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 [Publish on Substack](