Franklin Sanders is an author, writer, speaker, investor, army veteran, and precious metals expert. Since the late-1960s, he has been studying economics and monetary systems, and since 1980, he has operated a gold and silver exchange business as founder and owner of The Moneychanger. He began a 15 year legal battle with the federal government and the state of Tennessee to confirm that gold and silver are indeed Constitutional forms of money, a battle he eventually won. His exploits have earned him a reputation amongst federal officials as the “The most Dangerous Man in the Mid-South.”
He has authored several books about gold and silver investment and his life as an agrarian and family farmer. He also created and writes the Moneychanger Newsletter, about investments, markets, and alternative health. He resides with his wife, Susan, their children and their families in Westpoint, Tennessee on a family homestead.
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Franklin’s training sessions:
- How to Build Your Local Economy and Why You Need to Do It Now
- Why Homestead & Go Off-Grid?
- Lessons in Pioneer Homesteading
- Local Economy and Income from Homestead Production
Franklin was featured in our film, Summit Online Course, and Summit Event Video Course.
Praise for Dogwood Mudhole
“The Sanders’ family farm saga of relearning agrarian home-based craft, at once hilarious, humbling, and holy, proves that learning curves are real. From feverish preparations for Y2K to eventual pig litter tsunamis, At Home in Dogwood Mudhole reveals the despair and wonder of building a self-reliant homestead.”
— Joel Salatin, Agrarian, “lunatic farmer,” and New York Times bestseller of Folks, This Ain’t Normal and Everything I want to do is illegal
“Faith, family, farming, hard money, and Southern history. Those are the core themes that coalesce into Franklin Sanders’ newest book, an autobiographical collection of essays titled At Home in Dogwood Mudhole.”
— Herrick Kimball, author of Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian and inventor of the Whizbang Chicken Plucker.
“At Home in Dogwood Mudhole is an agrarian epic . . . The tale is told with vivid and unflagging immediacy, courage, wisdom, Christian faith, and good humor. Franklin Sanders is a gifted writer and original thinker who avoids two of the most common American faults: spiritless practicality and easy sentimentality.”
— Clyde Wilson, Emertius Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina and editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun
“Full of highs and lows, the [Sanders] family’s journey to an agrarian lifestyle is a must read for all homesteaders!”
— Melissa Jones