Howdy, y’all! Welcome to the Jacobin People’s Farm and Jam Commune.

Don’t worry if you feel a bit out of place at first. Most of us were city folk at one time, shopping for food grown by people we’d never met and wondering why socialism hadn’t taken off.

We know what that’s like — living on the grid, toiling at a laptop instead of working Mother Gaia’s fertile soil. Then one day you’re scrounging around a Trader Joe’s for some prepackaged mozzarella balls when it hits you real hard: Why are you letting some company make cheese for you when you could be making the cheese, but for socialism? Maybe the problem isn’t your theories. It’s the concrete beneath your feet. It’s the hustle and bustle. That’s when you know the heartland is calling out to you.