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Joel Salatin is a farmer, author, and outspoken advocate for regenerative agriculture. His first exposure to farming came on his father's 1,000-acre chicken and dairy farm in Venezuela. In 1959, following the election of President Rómulo Betancourt—who implemented a land redistribution program—the Salatin family relocated to Virginia. There, they purchased Polyface Farm in Swoope, nestled in the Shenandoah Valley. Today, Salatin owns and operates the farm, which has become a national model for sustainable and ethical agricultural practices. Salatin is widely recognized for his pioneering work in rotational grazing, soil health, and decentralized food systems. Through his books, public speaking, and media appearances, he challenges the industrial agriculture model and promotes local food networks, transparency, and self-reliance. His work has been featured in documentaries such as Food, Inc. and Fresh, and he is the author of several books, including You Can Farm, Folks, This Ain't Normal, and The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, in which he critiques industrial farming and advocates for a return to localized food systems. In addition to his writing, Salatin serves as editor of the monthly magazine Stockman Grass Farmer, dedicated to pasture-based livestock production. He also teaches a two-day agribusiness course in conjunction with the magazine. As an educator and speaker, Salatin has addressed audiences at institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, and the 2020 Libertarian National Convention, where he spoke about limiting government regulation in farming. ----- With gratitude to our sponsors: RA Optics https://raoptics.com/bttp Use Code: Nicole ----- Backyard Butchers Go to https://www.backyardbutchers.com/pages/nicole and use code “Nicole” for 20% off your steaks and tallow direct from the Texas ranch. ----- Sky Horse Publishing https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/ ----- Mama Suds https://mamasuds.com Use code 'NICOLE' ----- MASA Chips http://masachips.com/bttp Use code 'BTTP' ----- Sign Up https://shop.backtothepeople.net

In this podcast, we're sharing one of our amazing guests from the Value-Added Summit, Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm, located in Swoope, Virginia. Joel talks to us about the benefits of and techniques involved with an effective, game-changing implementation of a value-added strategy on farms. Joel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author.  He raises livestock at Polyface. Joel's philosophy of farming emphasizes healthy grass on which animals can thrive in a symbiotic cycle of feeding. He has authored twelve books including Folks, This Ain't Normal, You Can Farm, Salad Bar Beef, and Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal.  Join us to hear this riveting conversation with Michael and Joel from the Value-Added Summit!  You'll hear:  What “Value-Added” means to Joel 2:18 Why farmers start practicing value-added 6:01 Mindset shifts that are necessary to start going forward with effective marketing 13:37 Agriculture entertainment, or “agritainment” Polyface does 34:08 What ended up being a value-added dud that Joel anticipated being a big success 41:33 Great value-added experiences and/or products Joel has come across in his travels 46:51 What the future holds for value-added, and what farmers should be focusing on 1.05:42 Advice Joel has for farmers who are wanting to take their farm to the next level but find it difficult taking the next step 1.09:33 About the Guest: Joel Salatin calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don't like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate. With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 12 published books, and a thriving multi-generational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming, and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world. He's as comfortable moving cows in a pasture as addressing CEOs in a Wall Street business conference. His wide-ranging topics include nitty-gritty how-to for profitable regenerative farming as well as cultural philosophy like orthodoxy vs. heresy. A wordsmith and master communicator, he moves audiences from laughs one minute to tears the next, from frustration to hopefulness. Often receiving standing ovations, he prefers the word performance rather than presentation to describe his lectures. His favorite activity?–Q&A. “I love the interaction,” he says. He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore's Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers' market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. When he's not on the road speaking, he's at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems. Salatin is the editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer, granddaddy catalyst for the grass farming movement. He writes the “Pitchfork Pulpit” column for Mother Earth News, as well as numerous guest articles for ACRES USA and other publications. A frequent guest on radio programs and podcasts targeting preppers, homesteaders, and foodies, Salatin's practical, can-do solutions tied to passionate soliloquies for sustainability offer everyone food for thought and plans for action. Mixing mischievous humor with hard-hitting information, Salatin both entertains and moves people. Seldom using a PowerPoint and often speaking from an outline scribbled in a yellow legal pad, he depends on theatrics, style, and compelling content to hold attention and defend innovative positions. The rare combination of prophet and practitioner makes him both a must-read and must-hear in a time desperate for integrity. leadership, and example. Resources: Website: https://polyfacefarms.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Polyfacefarm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polyfacefarm/   The Thriving Farmer Podcast Team would like to thank our amazing sponsor! 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In Edible-Alpha® podcast #120, Andy sits down with Cliff McConville, founder of All Grass Farms northwest of Chicago. The diversified ag operation provides raw A2 milk, 100% grass-fed beef, pastured pork, organic vegetables, and free-range turkeys, broiler chickens, and eggs, all sold at the onsite farm store or online. After working in the insurance business in Chicago for 25 years, Cliff's last job allowed him to work from home. Now with more free time, he and his partner Anna purchased a suburban horse farm. Soon the documentary Food Inc., Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Joel Salatin's You Can Farm sparked his intrigue in small-scale regenerative farming, so in 2011, he gave it a go on their 8.5 acres. Cliff loved the work and realized it could become a small business, so in 2012, they started selling grass-fed and pastured proteins out of their house. Customers asked for raw A2 milk, which was not on Cliff's radar, but once he researched its benefits, he became a devotee. They bought two Guernsey cows, got licensed to sell raw milk, secured liability insurance, and added the in-demand product to their mix. With business booming, Cliff and Anna needed to increase production, so they leased 20 acres of pastureland near their home. Needing even more pastureland and ideally a dairy barn, they found exactly what they were looking for in the Brunner Family Forest Preserve, a picturesque property along a busy suburban highway. After 18 months of negotiations, they worked out a unique 25-year lease. The forest preserve invested $200,000 to restore the historic dairy barn's roof and foundation while Cliff and Anna foot the bill for septic, electricity, fencing, and other upgrades. They lease 160 acres for $150 per acre and pay the preserve 5% of all farm store sales. Cliff calls this a wonderful partnership, and the property's high visibility has supercharged sales.   Next, Andy and Cliff dig into the financials, as Cliff meticulously tracks production costs, sales, and profits of each enterprise. The largest and fastest growing animal enterprise is beef, while raw milk, which requires a ton of labor and time, isn't nearly as profitable, so Cliff caps production. His data also informs when and where to raise prices to ensure profitability.   Uniquely, All Grass Farms has equity investors, longtime friends who were eager to provide patient capital. Later on, they took out an operating line of credit to help with infrastructure improvements. Most recently, Cliff and Anna began leasing organic pastureland in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, owned by the Yggdrasil Land Foundation. With a triple-net lease, they maintain the buildings, property, and infrastructure and pay insurance, property taxes, and a stewardship fee as rent. Cliff and Anna now live at this property and are looking for a full-time farm manager for the Brunner property, although finding and keeping workers is challenging. Cliff is a great role model for managing farm finances, so tune in to learn more!

Rewild the land and yourself by farming in harmony with nature and leaning into regenerative practices that create habitat connectivity. Our guest today, Lynn Cassells, alongside her partner Sandra Baer, owners of Lynbreck Croft, had a shared dream of living closer to the land. And while the pair never meant to be farmers, they found themselves called to the task of stewarding a 150 acre croft in the Highlands of Scotland in 2016. Seized by a vision of farming in collaboration with nature, rather than against it,  they began their mission of creating a place that honored not only their desire to grow their own food, but also the needs of the land and the animals, all working and thriving in a collaborative community.  The whole story of how they unexpectedly became farmers and created a viable and sustainable working farm using their own combination of regenerative and rewilding practices is soon to be available in their upcoming book “Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft”.   Lynn's message - looking back doesn't have to mean going back. Let the land do the leading and don't be afraid to rewild yourself along the way.  Listen to the episode onhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-dirt/id1492217846 ( Apple Podcasts),https://open.spotify.com/show/2lpelAmHPGbMVdOOpxhxTo ( Spotify),https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-good-dirt-981565 ( Podchaser),https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-good-dirt/ ( Podtail), or on your favorite podcast platform. Topics Covered: Regenerative Farming  Croft - A small agricultural unit and form of land use/ legal entity unique to Scotland: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/scotland/housing/finding-a-place-to-live1/crofting-s/#h-what-is-a-croft (source) via citzensadvice.org.uk  Rewilding - taking a piece of land and allowing it become self-willed; taking people out of the equation; reintroducing native species; restoration on a wild scale  Resources Mentioned:  Pre-Order https://lady-farmer.com/collections/books/products/our-wild-farming-life (Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft by Sandra Baer and Lynn Cassells ) https://bookshop.org/a/4727/9781681373713 (Wilding: Returning Nature to our Farm by Isabella Tree)   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002p91 (BBC - This Farming Life) Season 3  https://www.lynbreckcroft.co.uk/courses/ (Lynbreck Croft Courses - “How to Farm” ) The National Trust  Cairngorms National Park  Knepp Castle  https://bookshop.org/a/4727/9780963810922 (“You Can Farm” by Joel Salatin ) Guest Info Connect with Lynn https://www.lynbreckcroft.co.uk/ (Lynbreck Croft) Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/lynbreck_croft/?hl=en (@lynbreck_croft) Follow Us: https://lady-farmer.com/blogs/the-good-dirt-podcast (Our Website) @weareladyfarmer on https://www.instagram.com/thegooddirtph/ (Instagram) Original music by John Kingsley @jkingsley1026 Statements in this podcast have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not to be considered as medical or nutritional advice. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and should not be considered above the advice of your physician. Consult a medical professional when making dietary or lifestyle decisions that could affect your health and well being.

Welcome back to another weekly AA meeting, ladies and gentlemen. Today, we discuss a topic I am very passionate about, all things relating to the growth, transportation, packaging, nutrition, and sale of our food. We dive into food production, constitutional rights, consumption rights, governing agencies, corrupt corporations, food-born illnesses, and agricultural practices. This is a very under appreciated topic but highly important to spread the message of. Please join us by sharing this episode, talking to your local farmers, and investigating where your food comes from, along with the practices and companies behind them. “If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson List of resources for further information and insight -Everything I want to do is illegal: https://polyfaceyum.com/product-cat/merchandise/#!/EVERYTHING-I-WANT-TO-DO-IS-ILLEGAL/p/171059403/category=43780190 -Food, Inc: Available on YouTube for $2.99 -Farmageddon: Available on Amazon Prime -Monsanto Papers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9tV-c0VxE -World according to Monsanto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho0BWyZHQ5Y -Rotten (Raw Milk Episode inParticular): Available on Netflix -Folks, This Ain't Normal: https://polyfaceyum.com/product-cat/merchandise/#!/FOLKS-THIS-AINT-NORMAL/p/171059405/category=43780190 (also available on various audiobook platforms) -Fresh: https://tubitv.com/movies/312588/fresh?start=true&utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed -You Can Farm: https://polyfaceyum.com/product-cat/merchandise/#!/YOU-CAN-FARM/p/171059400/category=43780190 Find more of us on: Twitter at @AppAgoristPod Instagram @AppalachianAgorist

Reducing and eliminating costs on your farm is critical for developing a profitable farm. Learn from Joel Salatin’s book You Can Farm how you can reduce your farm costs. Mentioned in the Show Farm of the Day: Wrong Direction Farm in Canajoharie, New York You Can Farm by Joel Salatin Your home is not an […] Source

Joel Salatin is a farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal; You Can Farm; Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.---Check out Joel's Farm HERE!Check out Joel's Latest Book HERE!---Thanks For Listening!---RESOURCES/COACHING: I am all about education and that is not limited to this podcast! Feel free to grab a FREE guide (Nutrition, Training, Macros, Etc!) HERE! Interested in Working With Coach Danny and His One-On-One Coaching Team? Click HERE! Want To Have YOUR Question Answered On an Upcoming Episode of DYNAMIC DIALOGUE? You Can Submit It HERE!Want to Support The Podcast AND Get in Better Shape? Grab a Program HERE!----SOCIAL LINKS:Follow Coach Danny on INSTAGRAMFollow Coach Danny on TwitterFollow Coach Danny on FacebookGet More In-Depth Articles Written By Yours’ Truly HERE!

Quitting your job to start farming is not an easy thing to do. Checkout this episode for some practical tips on how to do it successfully. Mentioned in the show You Can Farm by Joel Salatin Farm of the Day: Caledonia Farm Deep Work by Cal Newport Source

Hello, welcome to the first week of the not-really-a-lockdown anymore:This week Veronika's 1st choice is:Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077x8pcThis is a BBC podcast written and presented by Natalie Haynes, who "takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome." Series 6 (the current series) features Classical mythical women.Moving on, Vic’s 1st Choice is:Joe Rogan with Joel SalatinJoel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain’t Normal, You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. His latest book, co-authored with Dr. Sina McCullough, Beyond Labels: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion One Bite at a Time is available for preorder now.You can (still - listen to our news about JR and Spotify) watch the episode on You Tube:https://youtu.be/4-7O3fOXXKoor listen via the podcast page:http://podcasts.joerogan.net/Then Veronika's 2nd Choice is:Wind of Change - a Crooker Media productionThis is the premise of this story/podcast:"It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall just fell. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. And the soundtrack to the revolution is one of the best selling songs of all time, the metal ballad “Wind of Change,” by the Scorpions. Decades later, New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumor: the song wasn’t written by the Scorpions. It was written by the CIA. Wind of Change is his journey to find the truth."https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/And last, but definitely not least, Vic's 2nd choice is:Adam Buxton with George the Poet https://adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/ep125-george-poet-london-podcast-festival-2019Adam talks with British poet, rapper and podcaster George Mpanga, aka George The Poet. This was recorded in front of a live audience at The London Podcast Festival in September 2019. And then edited by Adam Buxton and his production team.And that's it! At the risk of overusing our favourite adjective (too late?) we think that all of the above are BRILLIANT.As always, thank you for listening! If you want more podcast recommendations follow us on Twitter at @PodTrawlersAnd if you like this podcast, please do spread the word, and give it a gold star on wherever you listen to your podcasts! Thank you also to Anna Meredith for her brilliant music, as always, and also, this week, to the Scorpions, for forever implanting an ear worm, in our ears and into the ears of Europe at a very very crucial time in history.#bestpodcasts#podtrawlers#nataliehaynes#adambuxton#georgethepoet#windofchange#theCIA#thescorpions#joerogan #joelsalatin#sustainablefarming#theclassics#theamazons

Joel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal, You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. His latest book, co-authored with Dr. Sina McCullough, Beyond Labels: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion One Bite at a Time is available for preorder now.

Joel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain’t Normal, You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. His latest book, co-authored with Dr. Sina McCullough, Beyond Labels: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion One Bite at a Time is available for preorder now.

Joel Salatin illuminates the path of successful farm entrepreneurship with his articulation of the common threads of success for beginning farmers and what makes a farmer thrive. “Twenty years ago Joel Salatin wrote You Can Farm, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With another 20 years of experience under his belt, bringing him to the half-century mark as a full-time farmer, he decided to build on that foundation with a sequel, a graduate level curriculum. Everyone who reads and enjoys that previous work will benefit from this additional information. In those 20 years, Polyface Farm progressed from a small family operation to a 20-person, 6,000-customer, 50-restaurant business, all without sales targets, government grants, or an off-farm nest egg. As a germination tray for new farmers ready to take over the 50 percent of America's agricultural equity that will become available over the next two decades, Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley stands as a beacon of hope in a food and farming system floundering in dysfunction: toxicity, pathogenicity, nutrient deficiency, bankruptcy, geezers, and erosion. Speaking into that fear and confusion, Salatin offers a pathway to success, with production, profit, and pleasure thrown in for good measure.” =================================== Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: ecovillagelibrary@gmail.com or leave a voice message and get featured in the next podcast episode! (anchor.fm/ecovillage-library) Support the Ecovillage Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/ecovillagelibrary =================================== Ecovillage Library beginner's reading list: 1. Permaculture A Designer’s Manual: https://amzn.to/2JQ83ja 2. The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: https://amzn.to/2YAe5I3 3. Nature and the Human Soul: https://amzn.to/2TEVB5n 4. The Hand-Sculpted House: https://amzn.to/2HLnLKx 5. Holistic Management: https://amzn.to/2HMNnXu 6. The Art of Living: https://amzn.to/2V4oJo9 7. A New Earth: https://amzn.to/2HMNN00 8. Creating a Life Together: https://amzn.to/2TFZwiw =================================== About Christopher Kinney: Christopher Kinney works in the field of civil engineering and sustainable development and has worked with over 30+ communities around the world in the areas of water resources, natural building, sustainable agricultural systems, renewable energy, appropriate technology ecological footprint analysis and ecovillage design. Music Credit: Strivers by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackr Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ecovillage-library/message

In this farm podcast, Joel Salatin and I have a provocative discussion about how to quit an unfulfilling job and start a farm business. Joel offers some real gems in this episode, as he outlines his seven rules for starting a profitable farm. We talk at length about his latest book, Your Successful Farm Business, which can be thought of as a graduate course to the book that got so many people started in farming, You Can Farm!

Joel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks This Ain't Normal, You Can Farm, Salad Bar Beef, Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, and Your Successful Farm Business: Production Profit Pleasure. Joel is the most famous farmer in the world who has been featured in documentaries like FOOD.Inc and raises livestock using holistic management methods on his farm in Swoope, Virginia, called Polyface Farm.

The act of farming frequently requires faith to see it through, our guest today is Noah Sanders, author of Born Again Dirt: Farming To The Glory of God. Today, we’ll discuss how he started farming, why he wrote Born Again Dirt, what having born again dirt means, and so much more. Get The Grocery Bag! - https://intellectualagrarian.com/bag Show Notes Noah was introduced to farming through a copy of You Can Farm by Joel Salatin Started farming in 2009 commercially Farming is a more civilized way of going into the wild and surviving on your own “Resources come from right relationships” Rora Valley has started a “Farmship” model, where customers are supporting the farmers in return for produce like a modified CSA Born Again Dirt was a started as a study in how to serve God as a farmer Two major ideologies of farming are either tend toward worshiping nature in sustainable circles, or worshiping man in industrial systems The book was written to scratch his own itch More Show Notes at - https://intellectualagrarian.com/sanders/ Noah's Links: http://roravalleyfarms.com/ http://redeemingthedirt.com/ http://foundationsforfarming.org/new/ http://a.co/iMPy0Ht Our Links: https://intellectualagrarian.com https://www.facebook.com/intellectualagrarian https://www.instagram.com/intellectual.agrarian http://farmingthedream.com https://www.facebook.com/farmingthedream

Our guest today is an old, young, friend. David Fell from Abiding Acres, where he raises sheep, chickens, and my favorite: beef. This isn’t any average beef cattle, but pure bred Red Devons, a heritage breed ideal for the grass based system at Abiding Acres. Today, we’ll be discussing what got David farming, why they raise sheep, what’s special about the Red Devon and why it’s better than an average Angus steer. Whether you’re a meat eater or not you won’t want to miss this interview with David Fell. Get The Grocery Bag! - https://intellectualagrarian.com/bag Show Notes David starting farming when he was 10 years old, with his family’s encouragement and involvement. Abiding Acres raises grass fed Red Devons, pasture poultry, and pastured lambs. David’s two favorite Joel Salatin books are, You Can Farm and Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal. The Red Devon was the first pure bred breed of cattle. George Washington raised Red Devons. Even More Show Notes - https://intellectualagrarian.com/abidingacres/ Abiding Acres Farm Links: http://www.abidingacresfarm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Abiding-Acres-Farm-152779475086580/ Our Links: https://intellectualagrarian.com http://farmingthedream.com https://www.facebook.com/intellectualagrarian https://www.instagram.com/intellectual.agrarian  

America’s most famous farmer, Joel Salatin joins us to discuss how healthy, conscious farming systems beget healthy food systems and a healthy ecology. Joel Salatin was featured in Michael Pollan’s bestselling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and is author of his own series of books including Folks, This Ain’t Normal and You Can Farm. We’ll be discussing what holistic farming is really all about and why it is that most supermarkets don’t sell consciously and holistically farmed choices of meat, even though they want you to think that they do. Importantly, we’ll be talking about how, contrary to popular opinion, when you choose meat wisely, you can help to heal both human and natural systems.

Joel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include "Folks, This Ain't Normal"  "You Can Farm" and "Salad Bar Beef"

In today’s episode I continue to discuss Joel Salatin’s book You Can Farm.  I discuss the topic of choosing a location to put down roots and start farming. Source

In today’s episode we talk about the farming enterprises that Joel Salatin warns farmers to avoid.  These farming enterprises should not make up the majority of your business plan. If you want to learn more about why Joel Salatin thinks these enterprises are something to stay away from check out the book You Can Farm: […] Source

Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal, You Can Farm, and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free from harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Joel joins us today to talk about his unique farming methods, and why they improve both your health, and the health of the animals. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Click here to read the free transcript of this episode (coming soon).

Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal, You Can Farm, and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free from harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Joel joins us today to talk about his unique farming methods, and why they improve both your health, and the health of the animals. Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Click here to read the free transcript of this episode (coming soon).

Virginia farmer Joel Salatin has become one of the most well known names in the world of alternative farming after his notable presence in Michael Pollan's best-selling book The Omnivore's Dilemma and an important role as part of the popular documentary Food Inc. In February 2010, Joel was interviewed by Lauren Berlekamp of the Erie Wire. Joel spoke to Lauren about his unique and seemingly common-sense approach to farming, but more specifically, they spoke of the nutritional comparisons of his grass-finished beef vs. the more common grain-finished beef; they spoke of the politics and regulations surrounding the livestock sector in the United States and their impacts on smaller-scale producers; and they spoke of how Salatin's model of success, including his new relationship with a large American fast-food chain, is a replicable and financially rewarding model for farmers who seek to produce more responsible food. Also featured on the episode, a great talk delivered by Toronto's Judy Rebick. Rebick is the Canadian Auto Workers-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University and helped launch rabble.ca - an independent multi-media portal for Canadian and global perspectives. In November 2008, Rebick spoke at the annual convention of Canada's National Farmers Union and encouraged farmers there to take advantage of what she referred to as the 'perfect storm', whereby the dominant top-down social and economic models are collapsing - clearing the way, as she believes, for a bottom-up and community-centered approach to begin better serving our needs. Guests/Voices Joel Salatin, farmer/author, Polyface Farm (Swoope, Virginia) - Joel is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. Joel raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals. He believes that Polyface Farm arguably represents America�s premier non-industrial food production oasis. The Salatins strive to develop emotionally, economically, environmentally enhancing agricultural enterprises and facilitate their duplication throughout the world. Judy Rebick, canadian auto workers - sam gindin chair in social justice & democracy, Ryerson University (Toronto, ON) - Between 1990 and 1993 Judy Rebick was the president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. She later became the co-host of CBC Newsworld's prime time show Face Off and then worked on the show Straight from the Hip. She became a regular contributor to CBC TV's Sunday Report and CBC Radio and in 2001 helped launch rabble.ca - an independent multi-media news and discussion web site.