Daniel Salatin at Polyface Farms in Swoope, Virginia
United States of Green visited Polyface Farm and interviewed Daniel Salatin at this third generation organic farm. Daniel and his family are training a whole new generation of farmers on how to grow food and raise livestock organically and sustainably. Thank you Salatin family!
Interview with Daniel Salatin at Polyface Farms, Swoope, Virginia
United States of Green was psyched to go to the legendary Polyface Farms and meet Daniel Salatin, a third generation farmer. Daniel's father Joel may be the better known name but Daniel, his wife and three children are carrying the permaculture torch on. As you will discover in the video, Polyface has an intense internship program and is training new farmers, old and young so they can go out in the world and promote sustainable farming practices developed by the Salatin Family. Thanks Daniel for your time and all the hard work done by you and your family. Beautiful farm. Beautiful positive energy.
Cows Grazing in Open Field at Ployface Farms, Swoope, Virginia
Polyface Farms in Swoope, Virginia is an incredible, living organic laboratory!
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Polyface Farms represents America’s premier non-industrial food production oasis, an alternative to conventional food production. It's one of the most sustainable, organic grass farms in the United States according to Michael Pollan's Ominvore's Dilemma.
Virginia Farming: Salatin Childrens Book
Children love a good story. And children can learn a lot about agriculture by reading a good story. This week we talk with the authors of a new children’s book about farming. Joel and Rachel Salatin of Polyface Farm – and boy do they have a story to tell. We also have a report this week about fall harvest conditions. Plus, some tips on cleaning up your vegetable garden at this time of year.
The real Polyface Farm...how love affects the beauty of the land
The real Polyface Farm...how love affects the beauty of the land. Today is our first stop along the Farmstock 2018 tour. We'll stop and walk around Joel Salatin's Polyface farm in Swope Virginia. I'll take you around and show you some of the farming practices, building and we got an interview with an intern on the farm! Hope you guys enjoy the vlog! We had an awesome time!!
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Polyface Farms - Farm Tour
We took a tour at Polyface Farms is Virginia. Joel Salatin's son took us on a hayride tour through there pastures. Very simple, clean and efficient farm. Really thankful to be able to see it in real life.
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Local Food to the Rescue Joel Salatin Chautauqua Boulder Colorado Aug 29 2011
here are poor audio recording clips from my lame cell phone of an absolutely fantastic talk by Joel Salatin, please let me know if you know of a better recording, hopefully with video! (I just threw in some still photos from the web).
Local Food to the Rescue
with Joel Salatin
Aug 29 2011
Presented by Transition Colorado, an evening with Joel Salatin, the world's most recognized beyond organic and strictly local, clean food farmer. Prolific author and inspiring speaker, who with his family owns Polyface Farm in Virginia, and is featured prominently in the New York Times bestseller, The Omnivore's Dilemma and the Oscar-nominated documentary, Food Inc. as well as Fresh: The Movie. In this unforgettable presentation, Joel will reveal the astonishingly obvious steps we all must take towards a food future that is beyond sustainable. Click here for more information.
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Polyface Farm is a farm located in rural Swoope, Virginia, United States, run by Joel Salatin and his family. The farm is driven using unconventional methods with the goal of emotionally, economically and environmentally enhancing agriculture. This farm is where Salatin developed and put into practice many of his most innovative and significant agricultural methods. These include direct-marketing of meats and produce to consumers, pastured-poultry, grass-fed beef and the rotation method which makes his farm more like an ecological system than conventional farming. Polyface Farm operates a place where consumers go to pick up their products.
Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm - Working with Herbavores and Plants Pt.2
Joel continues his welcome to Polyface and discusses the wisdom of farming with nature.
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Steve Baker, Owner, Bakers Farms of Mt. Jackson, Virginia - oldest
Steve Baker is the owner of Baker Farms in Mt. Jackson, Virginia. Mr. Baker has been farming for over 35 years, since he got out of high school. He started with one pig and has successfully grown it to a small hog farm. Mr. Baker notes that there are many regulations out there that are very burdensome but in particular is worried about the proposed regulation of requiring a CDL for farm equipment and the Chesapeake TDML regulation that is affecting farmers in the region. In order to comply with the Chesapeake TDML, he had a to get a professionally developed nutrient plan that governs his manure management and he closely monitors and documents where and how each load of manure is spread on his fields.
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What A Christian-Libertarian-Environmentalist-Capitalist-Lunatic-Farmer Can Teach You About How...
In today's podcast, I interview Joel F. Salatin - a self-described “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-Farmer”. We discuss his new book The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs and much, much more.
Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. He raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants. In high school, Salatin began his own business selling rabbits, eggs, butter and chicken from his family farm at the Staunton Curb Market. He then attended Bob Jones University where he majored in English and was a student leader. He graduated in 1979. Salatin married his childhood sweetheart in 1980 and became a feature writer at the Staunton, Virginia newspaper, The News Leader, where he had worked earlier typing obituaries and police reports. Tired of “having his stories spiked,” he decided to try farming full-time after first getting involved in a walnut-buying station run by two high school boys. Salatin’s grandfather had been an avid gardener and beekeeper and a follower of J. I. Rodale, the founder of regenerative organic gardening. Salatin’s father worked as an accountant and his mother taught high school physical education. Salatin’s parents had bought the land that became Polyface after losing a farm in Venezuela to political turmoil. They had raised cattle using organic methods, but could not make a living at farming alone. Salatin, a self-described “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic-Farmer” produces high-quality “beyond organic” meats, which are raised using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial, sustainable agriculture. Jo Robinson, the author of Pasture Perfect: The Far-Reaching Benefits of Choosing Meat, Eggs and Dairy Products From Grass-Fed Animals (2004) said of Salatin, “He’s not going back to the old model. There’s nothing in county extension or old-fashioned ag science that really informs him. He is just looking totally afresh at how to maximize production in an integrated system on a holistic farm. He’s just totally innovative.” Salatin considers his farming a ministry, and he condemns the negative impact on his livelihood and lifestyle of what he considers an increasingly regulatory approach taken by the agencies of the United States government toward farming. Salatin now spends a hundred days a year lecturing at colleges and to environmental groups. And now from Christian libertarian farmer Joel Salatin is a new book - a clarion call to readers to honor the animals and the land, and produce food based on spiritual principles: The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation. This book is an important and thought-provoking explanation of how by simply appreciating the marvelous pigness of pigs, we are celebrating the Glory of God. As a man of deep faith and student of the Bible, and as a respected and successful ecological family farmer, Joel Salatin knows that God created heaven and earth and meant for all living organisms to be true to their nature and their endowed holy purpose. He intended for us to respect and care for His gift of creation, not to ravage and mistreat it for our own pleasure or wealth. The example that inspires the book's title explains what Salatin means: when huge corporate farms confine pigs in cramped and dark pens, inject them with antibiotics and feed them herbicide-saturated food simply to increase profits, they are not respecting them as a creation of God or allowing them to express even their most rudimentary uniqueness - that special role that is part of His design. Every living organism has a God-given uniqueness to its life that must be honored and respected, and too often that is not happening today. Salatin shows us the long overlooked ethics and instructions in the Bible for how to eat, how to shop, how to think about how we farm and feed the world. Through scripture and Biblical stories, he shows us why it's more vital than ever to look to the good book rather than corporate America when feeding the country and your family. Salatin makes a compelling case for Christian stewardship of the earth and how it relates to every action we take regarding our food. He also opens our eyes to a common misconception many Christians may have about environmentalism: it's not a bad thing, and definitely not just the province of secular liberals; it's really a very good thing, part of heeding God's Word.
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-How Christians abuse God's creation, and what's wrong with the average church potluck...[9:10]
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Class Tour of Polyface Farms - Part 5 (1/2) The Importance of Grass
Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farm gives our class a tour of the farm, explaining his methodology and reasoning along the way. He also explains why the methods used on his farm are more sustainable, safe and productive than methods used by modern agribusiness in today's food production.
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Rob Greenfield Interviews Joel Salatin: The Lunatic Farmer
I am grateful to have spent the weekend with Joel Salatin at Polyface Farms.
Joel was one of my early wake up calls to the reality of our current global, industrial food system. Through his appearance in Food Inc. and as one of the main subject of Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, he woke me and millions of others up.
Joel has been leading by example for a more sustainable food system for decades and I think it's important for us all to hear his very well rounded perspective.
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Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms discusses grass-fed cattle
On a lunatic tour of Polyface Farms, June 18, 2010, Joel Salatin, owner, discusses the process and benefits of raising cattle on grass.
For the past 50 years, raising beef in the United States has generally been about growing beef bigger, faster, and cheaper on as little land as possible. Contrary to the pastoral image one may have of farming, most cows raised in the United States these days eat corn -- which they were never meant to eat -- and get sick from it. Cows in the US receive a fair amount of antibiotics to compensate, and their manure is collected in huge lagoons that are too riddled with antibiotics to feed back to the corn that feeds them.
Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farms, believes in raising animals in a way that mimics the processes of nature: Cows graze one area of grass, and a few days later, chickens graze the same area and eat the fly larvae out of the manure. The manure from both fertilizes the grass. Joel Salatin discusses a little of this process, here.
Here In My Ranch, Just Got This New Horse
I took a quick visit over to check out my new piece of land I just bought over in Virginia close to my first mentor Joel Salatin’s farm. I brought my friends from LA to check it out and a video crew so you can see what life is like over there.
There’s a reason why Joel Salatin is one of the world’s top agricultural leaders as he pioneered grass-fed farming and in this video, you’ll see some of the farm hacks he came up with to increase efficiency while maintaining ethical values like pasture-raised farming and grass-fed farming.
I credit Joel as a huge reason why I’m successful now as he was my first mentor that taught me invaluable lessons and helped me run one of my first businesses.
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