Freedom Farm, Chapter 3 arrives Saturday (things escalated)
Hello from the pasture,
We are now officially two chapters into Freedom Farm — my ongoing experiment where I release one chapter per week as a podcast and let the sheep (and you) help shape the book in real time.
If you’re just joining us:
This is a modern adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, set in the Catskills, where social media replaces state propaganda and sheep are slightly more self-aware than is comfortable.
New chapters drop every Saturday.
And yes — the podcast series is available only to paid subscribers, because the sheep have unionized around the concept of “premium content.”
They remain firm on this.
Quick recap of Chapter 2
Chapter 2 introduces Fancy Pants, a sheep who looks mildly suspicious at all times and spends his free time doing something no human on the farm is doing:
Fixing things.
While Chester Gilt is busy posting about “grit, grind, and growth,” Fancy Pants is quietly repairing a broken section of fence that has been falling apart for years.
Old Shearson watches.
Chester scrolls.
And somewhere in that gap between performance and reality, a pattern begins to emerge:
The farm isn’t failing by accident.
It’s failing because the only ones doing the work…
aren’t the ones in charge.
You can catch up here:
Chapter 3 arrives this Saturday
Without giving too much away:
The sheep stop waiting.
And as it turns out, when you combine livestock, poor leadership, and a live-streamed audience…
things can escalate quickly.
If you want to follow the story as it unfolds, you can upgrade to a paid subscription and join the experiment.
Paid subscribers get:
• the weekly Freedom Farm chapter podcast
• the ability to comment and shape the draft in real time
• early access to what may or may not become a finished book, depending on how much feedback the sheep ignore
And because the sheep believe in practical incentives, all paid subscribers also receive 10% off farm stays at the REAL North Star Farm (www.northstarfarm.com).
When you upgrade, you’ll get a coupon code in your welcome email that you can use anytime when booking.
So the subscription supports both independent satire and actual goats you can look at in person, which feels like a fair trade.
You can upgrade here:
It’s $5/month or $50/year, which the sheep assure me is roughly the cost of one latte.
Possibly two, depending on whether Marvin is correct that streaming platforms are just a front for a much larger groundhog operation.
Thanks for being part of this.
Things are about to get… louder.
More soon,
Justin
Temporary Shepherd of the Editorial Flock
Pasture Politics