It is starting to annoy me so much that i want a farm when i am older. But my family farm stopped at my dads generation and a good sized farm can cost 3 million so theres not a chance
@dipshit2k10 Read Joel's book, You Can Farm. It tells things that a young person can do to get into farming.. Remember, debt is bad! You can start with a backyard chicken coop and sell eggs. Trade a couple days after school at a local farm in exchange for boarding a calf, a pig, or a couple goats.. You have lots of options. Just explore them all and make your decision after that.
Now, this is the part where we get all the corporate Monsanto fuckers out of the department of agriculture. Then, the government might actually make the decision for the people and the planet, not for some corporation that is killing the world.
I really wished we lived in a world/country where there were local farmers like Salatin available everywhere. This guy is awesome. This type of farming would solve many of the country's ills (pollution, global warming, food-borne illnesses, etc.)
I live quite near Mr. Salatin's Polyface Farm. I think he likes to separate himself from the farming community nearby. I agree with and admire some of his practices and procedures he implements on his farm. However, I think it is his condescending rhetoric about the nearby farmers that has driven a wedge between him and the neighboring farms. He thrives on that attention to sell his books at the end of his speaking engagements. He is simply a passing chuckle here, not your legend.
@eazonthru Have you read his book, I'm sure its free to rent at the library if you don't want to purchase it. It helps explain alot of your complaints. His whole idea is that conventional farming is morally wrong and unsustainable. When you're a conventional farmer that's hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, hearing its all for nothing is understandably upsetting and hard for most people to handle.
@Genuinemythman I enjoyed your civil reply. I will look for his book and read it open-mindedly. However, I would like you to know that where we live (Mr. Salatin included) most of the farms are generations old and are not tripping of the transmission types as he says. I still feel that he has a way about him that seems to push conventional farmers away before they can hear his message. thanks again.
If you haven't, I beg you to read Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma." His description of what goes on at Polyface Farm changed my eating habits by giving me some understanding of what we're being fed by the vested corporate interests who want Joel and his ilk to be put out of business. One other book recommendation: John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up." mmendation
@tastycajun0381 My grandfather left me a 60-acre working beet farm. I run it with my cousin Mose. We sell beets to the local stores and restaurants. It’s a nice little farm... sometimes teenagers use it for sex.
Your awesome Mr. Salatin. I live in the central valley of California and the ol' farms like yours are nearly a thing of the past. I long for simpler times when local grown food went right to the local markets or you shopped at the farms themselves. Everything now is so Agri-Industrialized. Keep up the great work; you have a following.
Your awesome Mr. Salatin. I live in the central valley of California and the ol' farms like yours is nearly a thing of the past. I long for simpler times when local grown food went right to the local markets or you shopped at the farms themselves. Everything now is so Agri-Industrialized. Keep up the great work; you have a following.
God Bless you Joel! Keep on getting the word out. This society is not in sync with gods will. Balance will return. The question is will humanity still be around to enjoy it!
Joel makes so many good points, especially in connection with the way in which honest labor is demeaned in this country, in contrast to more effete, status-enhancing (and not very useful) pursuits such as the fine arts or the sciences such as medicine. Medicines wouldn't be necessary if we all lived like Joel.
need to to roll together and greatly decrease the Dept of Ag, FDA and USDA and then put Joel and crew in charge to totally overhaul and put the restrictions on the big commercial operations where it should be.
Amish farm was recently shut down by FDA for selling "raw milk" aka non filtered, pasteurized watered down crap most Americans call milk. I grew up drinking real milk from my grandparents dairy farm and I'll bet 99.5% of Americans have no clue of what milk honestly tastes like.
wish I could have a farm like that and the skills to make it work. This is very inspiring...it's sad however that agri-businesses have to be taxed- seems like these folks should be tax free which would increase their cash flow and make happier campers out of farmers! Cheers to all the farmers who feed this world!
Yea it's awesome but it's also fucking hard work. Before sun up to after sun down. Then you get to give half your earnings to the government if they don't shut you down before you make it to market.
I wanna be a farmer! I don't know how to start though. If anybody has any advice for me I'd appreciate it, I've been reading about it and getting very confused. I dunno how to get started.
@SummerCicadaMusic Buy - or borrow - his book, "You Can Farm" It's a great place to start! Do a search for permaculture or holistic management. Lots of information there, too. Join WWOOFERs or find a farm to apprentice on. Good luck!
@SummerCicadaMusic Buy a plot of land and meet and see as many old or elderly farmers as you can, they love helping people farm and tell about their years on the farm . You can only read so much but your not going learn anything until you do it .
At last, a man with a good vision! Just look at the pigs they have a good live they can lay on straw and not on steel bars!! All animals are better of this way! I think its great more farmers should do it this way. Good luck Salatins!!
Nice to someone make such a passionate and articulate case for animal Husbandry. Keeping animals in this way is beneficial In utilizing land that is not suited to intensive row farming and In time actually builds up a deep healthy soil.
This how farm animals should be grown I support Joel salantin lets make it a movement and help out pigs,cows,chickens i saw this horrible video of what they do to animals and i would love to help this poor animals they got feelings also and i think hand made animals will be more healthy
@susansrour Me, too. The best gift he has given me is the excitement and passion to do this work myself for my family. Just imagine if we had small homesteads across the nation. Neighbors exchanging heirloom tomatoes for goat milk soap, or goat meat for chicken meat. We could change the food industrial system and the health of our citizens in a short amount of time.
its funny to me how this guy gets on USA Today and people are in awe of what he dose but yet when u see just a regular ol farmer u call them hicks and hillbillys white trash or rednecks but actually there not any diffrent form Joel its a way of life alot of people dont understand anymore and alot of them probly couldnt handle that way of life cause it aint farmville u cant shut it off it takes hard work and alot of time u work from daylight to dark 6 days a week (we always took sunday off)
I live in rural ohio and farming in my area is a way of life....please people support your local farmers, they raise better food and better people. Urban sprawl will kill us all!
amen brother..my family comes from arkansaw and worked the soil..nothing wrong with that..if any one thinks farming is not the backbone of america think again..meat milk cheese poultry veggies all come from farmers and their hard work
After finding work on an diversified organic farm this summer I have made it my life's dream to farm. Follow my journey if you'd like. fortheloveofpasture.blogspot.c0m
@jeffdustin The biggest purchaser of meat (mcdonalds) want's all of it's animals to taste alike so they'll continue to grow animals in close proximity and keep farming locations to a minimum. If people chose to eat local we'd be getting somewhere but I'm not sure if there is enough grass in the country for even Joel's methods with the amount of cows eaten every year.
@o0Garettsmith0o We need to eat less meat. You should check out lectures and/or read books by Dr. Neal Barnard, Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman if you haven't done so yet.
I don't know if it could be done but I do know that if eating meat was treated like a seasonal commodity we'd probably be better off. Corn fed beef can be grown year round but it's to my understanding that grass fed cows have to be in season. Getting people to chose local grass fed beef would be difficult because of the taste-
I remember the first time I ate a burger in a different country and I thought there was something wrong with the way the produced because the taste seemed so off but this was before I realized that in order to get a tasty mcdonalds burger they have to use all these unnatural additives in the corn that the scientists for major food corporations come up with.
Aside from eating less meat, not eating any that comes from the largest meat production companies is best..
I am proud that my daughter hatched chicken eggs in our apartment, using a toy incubator. I am a daughter of a Math Professor, I am a registered nurse, but my dream is to be an organic farmer, help feed people clean food, that will make them be healthier, just like Joel. I never thought farming as being for low people, au contraire. G-d bless Joel Salatin and all people like him, that want to make this planet a better place.
Well now ...that brought a big smile into my heart !!!! That is something to hear some inteligent people talking for a change !!! Absolutely great ! John Seymour has written some very interesting stuff about this about 70 years ago. Carry on with the brilliant job guys !!!
I think this is great. I literally grew up as a farmer/rancher's daughter. I never knew that I wasn't suppose to be proud that we were farmers. The only thing that scares me today is that if we don't get a hold on what the government is doing and a hold on our population growth then we will be unable to find the land to farm like this man. And it is critical that we stop both! Especially Mansato!
I love the way this guy runs his farm! He is so in tune with his animals and with nature. I believe (I hope) that these methods will be the wave of the future.
We've had enough of the huge industrial farms, polluting the earth and making us all sick and obese. Our food should be grown locally. We need to reclaim our food supply and do it soon. Farming really shouldn't be an industry but a culture.
Love this guy. One of the few people in the US and probably the world who realize that the economy and the environment are ONE AND THE SAME. When you destroy the environment for "the economy" you destroy property, potential capital, and as a result your investment. Unsustainable farms are only truly sustained through lack of property rights and unethical support from the gov't
I just bought two of his books: You Can Farm and Holy Cows and Hogs Heaven. I'm so excited to start reading them! The Salatin family are living the life I want to understand more of.
You are so Right and are being the BEST Steward of the land.
I will loudly state my son is going be a "Farmer (Steward of the land), once I proclaimed this at our soccer/baseball game and he decided to go to attend an Ag School we were Ousted. They can stick together and have their cook-outs with food from the "SUPER" stores and Wal-Marts of the world. To that all I can say I wish them good health, they will need all the help they can get.
I wish this is how all farms worked. This is a paradise, the animals are so happy, and there's actually grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma is an amazing book. I'm much more conscientious about the food I buy now after reading it.
I wish there were multiple Polyface farms all over the US, I'd buy my food there and nowhere else.
I've been to the Salatin Poly farm farms a couple of times now. They have as close to heaven on earth as you get. they are clean christian honest folk that are making the world a better place one fresh egg at a time
thats pretty awesome how you have the animals rotated in a way that they each pick up after one another. i have never thought about that.its really awesome
If anyone is interested, there is a cool book called the Omnivores Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. It's about the author and how he follows the path of food from when it's made to when it gets to your plate.
However, we are building a small farm and would like to compliment the land rather then 'use it up' and pollute the ground water etc. If you ever visit you will get up from the table after eating and have energy not want to go to sleep,
my farmer here in Alberta is a student of Joel's so all my eggs and other meats come from a similar farming methodology. I took a tour one day with other farmers. What I saw was the way I thought farming was done, but the farmers kept asking questions to him about "why this, and why that". I could barely believe that nobody else farmed this way.
Joel's way of farming is *normal* as far as I'm concerned
Joel was a great addition to the Food, Inc. documentary and was one of the few bright spots in it. I read "You Can Farm" by him a number of years ago and I have a great deal of respect for this guy. Jefferson would love Joel too I think. He's a sharp guy and great teacher.
Genius is a loosely used word, but truthfully i feel this man is a genius, He ideas and plans are a key to the proper way to raise meat. Great man who i envy and would love to meet. Truely my Hero
Everybody needs to see this video! What Joel Salatin and Polyface Farm is doing is critical to the food security of this country and it is environmental stewardship at its finest.
Texas has a number of eco friendly alternative farms. No matter where you live, if you live near an alternative farm you should support it. We need to make single faceted industrial farming economically nonviable.
sad but true. too bad that closeness to earth is perceived as unrefined, base, substandard, etc; the perception that distance from the planet is betterment is causing so many problems today yesterday and tomorrow.
It looks like a wonderful farm. I've always believed that a happy animal is a productive animal. Animals will give us whatever we require of them they only need food, shelter, and love in return.
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survivalinurbania 2 days ago
what species of grass are you growing for grazing
EdwardRichtofenDr 1 week ago
It's the farmer from Food Inc, Great movie, everyone should watch it!!
UpstateHydro 1 week ago in playlist Polyface Farm
@UpstateHydro SO happy that schools are now showing FOOD, INC....YESSSS!!!
h2overit 2 days ago
Thank you so much for this video, you're truly doing something spectacular!
FarewellThoreau 1 week ago
great job i wish there was more like you
girostijuana 2 weeks ago
Well done
Iwillcutyou220 2 weeks ago
It is starting to annoy me so much that i want a farm when i am older. But my family farm stopped at my dads generation and a good sized farm can cost 3 million so theres not a chance
dipshit2k10 4 weeks ago
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@dipshit2k10 Read Joel's book, You Can Farm. It tells things that a young person can do to get into farming.. Remember, debt is bad! You can start with a backyard chicken coop and sell eggs. Trade a couple days after school at a local farm in exchange for boarding a calf, a pig, or a couple goats.. You have lots of options. Just explore them all and make your decision after that.
jeffery19677 3 weeks ago
Now, this is the part where we get all the corporate Monsanto fuckers out of the department of agriculture. Then, the government might actually make the decision for the people and the planet, not for some corporation that is killing the world.
bromonster 1 month ago
@bromonster
How about to stop corporate AND government control.
You said it yourself indirectly: corporate can only rule because of such an intrusive and excessive government control.
stap0510 1 month ago 2
@bromonster
There is a reason he wrote a book named: Everything I want to do is illegal.
It's about regulation through legislation.
Who enforces legislation? Government.
stap0510 1 month ago
TOTALLY better than industrial farming!
Bijamaton 1 month ago
I really wished we lived in a world/country where there were local farmers like Salatin available everywhere. This guy is awesome. This type of farming would solve many of the country's ills (pollution, global warming, food-borne illnesses, etc.)
cebukid70 2 months ago
Wow this farm needs a medal omg what a farm!!!!
tid100 2 months ago
soy..grow some..hep//too
JTO500 2 months ago
1:43 i came
MomntrySilence 2 months ago
shut up
muna9876 2 months ago
"HEY LADIES" "HEY LADIES" =D
somebody234 3 months ago
I live quite near Mr. Salatin's Polyface Farm. I think he likes to separate himself from the farming community nearby. I agree with and admire some of his practices and procedures he implements on his farm. However, I think it is his condescending rhetoric about the nearby farmers that has driven a wedge between him and the neighboring farms. He thrives on that attention to sell his books at the end of his speaking engagements. He is simply a passing chuckle here, not your legend.
eazonthru 4 months ago
@eazonthru Have you read his book, I'm sure its free to rent at the library if you don't want to purchase it. It helps explain alot of your complaints. His whole idea is that conventional farming is morally wrong and unsustainable. When you're a conventional farmer that's hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, hearing its all for nothing is understandably upsetting and hard for most people to handle.
Genuinemythman 4 months ago
@Genuinemythman I enjoyed your civil reply. I will look for his book and read it open-mindedly. However, I would like you to know that where we live (Mr. Salatin included) most of the farms are generations old and are not tripping of the transmission types as he says. I still feel that he has a way about him that seems to push conventional farmers away before they can hear his message. thanks again.
eazonthru 4 months ago
If you haven't, I beg you to read Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma." His description of what goes on at Polyface Farm changed my eating habits by giving me some understanding of what we're being fed by the vested corporate interests who want Joel and his ilk to be put out of business. One other book recommendation: John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up." mmendation
harry21868 5 months ago 3
Wow, it's sad how this is called 'unconventional farming'.
TheyCallMeBtoo 5 months ago 7
video was very interesting bro.
wildcattna 5 months ago
@tastycajun0381 My grandfather left me a 60-acre working beet farm. I run it with my cousin Mose. We sell beets to the local stores and restaurants. It’s a nice little farm... sometimes teenagers use it for sex.
powerofone321 5 months ago 2
Your awesome Mr. Salatin. I live in the central valley of California and the ol' farms like yours are nearly a thing of the past. I long for simpler times when local grown food went right to the local markets or you shopped at the farms themselves. Everything now is so Agri-Industrialized. Keep up the great work; you have a following.
RabidKoyote 5 months ago
Your awesome Mr. Salatin. I live in the central valley of California and the ol' farms like yours is nearly a thing of the past. I long for simpler times when local grown food went right to the local markets or you shopped at the farms themselves. Everything now is so Agri-Industrialized. Keep up the great work; you have a following.
RabidKoyote 5 months ago
RESPECT for the farmers!
mammamya1 6 months ago
God Bless you Joel! Keep on getting the word out. This society is not in sync with gods will. Balance will return. The question is will humanity still be around to enjoy it!
outlaws2009 6 months ago 2
I saw Joel speak at a Kentucky farmer's convention. It changed my life.
dstew454 6 months ago
Fabulous and simply obvious. Back to nature. Wonderful.
wiferunt 8 months ago
Joel makes so many good points, especially in connection with the way in which honest labor is demeaned in this country, in contrast to more effete, status-enhancing (and not very useful) pursuits such as the fine arts or the sciences such as medicine. Medicines wouldn't be necessary if we all lived like Joel.
IClausius 8 months ago
need to to roll together and greatly decrease the Dept of Ag, FDA and USDA and then put Joel and crew in charge to totally overhaul and put the restrictions on the big commercial operations where it should be.
Amish farm was recently shut down by FDA for selling "raw milk" aka non filtered, pasteurized watered down crap most Americans call milk. I grew up drinking real milk from my grandparents dairy farm and I'll bet 99.5% of Americans have no clue of what milk honestly tastes like.
plasticsguy01 8 months ago
I have been quoting him for year. Been learning a lot from this man!
bishopjladams 9 months ago
I am in Arizona and would love to know of any farms that are like your here. I love your ethos. Thank you for what you do.
oxman0313 9 months ago
You are a true hero. Take care brother.
housecry 9 months ago
Hope to visit them someday
nowata09 9 months ago
Now THIS is the way to farm!
xenathegoat 10 months ago 29
wish I could have a farm like that and the skills to make it work. This is very inspiring...it's sad however that agri-businesses have to be taxed- seems like these folks should be tax free which would increase their cash flow and make happier campers out of farmers! Cheers to all the farmers who feed this world!
celluloidreverie 10 months ago 2
Yea it's awesome but it's also fucking hard work. Before sun up to after sun down. Then you get to give half your earnings to the government if they don't shut you down before you make it to market.
notunauthorized 10 months ago
I want to have my own farm like this!
ELAVET1 10 months ago
lol my momma tells every one i am going to be farming when i get older farming is my life and alwaysw will
TheCowboykid11 10 months ago
Ha! I like how he refers to pastures for cattle as, "salad bars" :P
MQnoob 10 months ago 2
this is awesome
HN118 11 months ago
What about in the winter. Do you guys cut alfalfa? Also do you guys plant crops as well as raising animals?
jim22018 11 months ago
I wanna be a farmer! I don't know how to start though. If anybody has any advice for me I'd appreciate it, I've been reading about it and getting very confused. I dunno how to get started.
SummerCicadaMusic 11 months ago
@SummerCicadaMusic Buy - or borrow - his book, "You Can Farm" It's a great place to start! Do a search for permaculture or holistic management. Lots of information there, too. Join WWOOFERs or find a farm to apprentice on. Good luck!
lavenderdawnstar 11 months ago
@SummerCicadaMusic Buy a plot of land and meet and see as many old or elderly farmers as you can, they love helping people farm and tell about their years on the farm . You can only read so much but your not going learn anything until you do it .
gillamfarms 6 months ago
Joel Salatin is my HERO!
Cowboy nerd is a go go!!
nomnomdeguerre 11 months ago
hahah the chickens really dont like him messing with their eggs!
nepalnt21 11 months ago
Farmer are a dieing breed I gives me hope. When I see videos like this .
hriding14 11 months ago
At last, a man with a good vision! Just look at the pigs they have a good live they can lay on straw and not on steel bars!! All animals are better of this way! I think its great more farmers should do it this way. Good luck Salatins!!
steinderbush 11 months ago
Thanks to Joel Salatin, I am becoming a farmer.
bigapple10506 1 year ago 2
@bigapple10506 beautiful
nepalnt21 11 months ago
I LOVE HIM HE IS SO WONDERFUL AND SMART!
justanotherblob 1 year ago
i like the explanation didn't care much for the rant though.
ellenranit 1 year ago
@ellenranit The man is passionate in that which he believes. I admire that. We need to get excited about our life's work.
lavenderdawnstar 11 months ago
nice videos
SahibzadaFurrukhRafi 1 year ago
Very interesting... what do you do in winter to feed the cows?
matrxmax 1 year ago
Nice to someone make such a passionate and articulate case for animal Husbandry. Keeping animals in this way is beneficial In utilizing land that is not suited to intensive row farming and In time actually builds up a deep healthy soil.
Crushedknee 1 year ago
JOEL FOR PRESIDENT I would vote for him.
london1817 1 year ago 63
@london1817 there is already somebody running for president that is just as good as Joel, if not better, his name is Ron Paul.
wranglerx07 5 months ago
@london1817 Secretary of Agriculture at the least!
twofsandtwogs 1 month ago
@twofsandtwogs I like the way you think!!
london1817 1 month ago
This how farm animals should be grown I support Joel salantin lets make it a movement and help out pigs,cows,chickens i saw this horrible video of what they do to animals and i would love to help this poor animals they got feelings also and i think hand made animals will be more healthy
princemoneyboy 1 year ago
Joel Salatin is my hero. I wish I lived close to his farm so I could buy everything from him.
susansrour 1 year ago
@susansrour Me, too. The best gift he has given me is the excitement and passion to do this work myself for my family. Just imagine if we had small homesteads across the nation. Neighbors exchanging heirloom tomatoes for goat milk soap, or goat meat for chicken meat. We could change the food industrial system and the health of our citizens in a short amount of time.
leadingbyxample 1 year ago 3
A returning to the land..that connection to it..Couldn't agree more..leave automation and factories to machines and let farming return to the people.
Crushedknee 1 year ago 4
Well said. Farmers never get credit for their importance to our economy and existance.
hotstuff7655 1 year ago 3
Fantastic and vey well done.
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LeliaBnhyi 1 year ago
I like how he has the chickens. :)
I just wish that I has as much of field as him.
pIants2010 1 year ago
Awsome!
pIants2010 1 year ago
its funny to me how this guy gets on USA Today and people are in awe of what he dose but yet when u see just a regular ol farmer u call them hicks and hillbillys white trash or rednecks but actually there not any diffrent form Joel its a way of life alot of people dont understand anymore and alot of them probly couldnt handle that way of life cause it aint farmville u cant shut it off it takes hard work and alot of time u work from daylight to dark 6 days a week (we always took sunday off)
thehossboss20 1 year ago 3
SHAYTARDS LIKED THIS :D
99smelliot 1 year ago 3
this guy is frigging awesome! he must be good at playing farmville
mesho101 1 year ago 3
thumbs up if ur watching cuz shaytards liked it :)
nyckid92 1 year ago 4
WE DON'T DO THAT!
SmurfsRCool 1 year ago
thumbs up if shay sent you here :)
icsk8freak 1 year ago 5
Few more days and ill have catched up to them. Somebody fertilize my crops pls, ill send you a gift back ktnx.
Mixxerson 1 year ago
This is not a new way of farming if anyone thinks it is
exazenge 1 year ago
@exazenge very true people have been doing this for years and years and i was one of them but anymore ur starting to see less and less
thehossboss20 1 year ago
I am very happy that I am taking BS Agriculture! It was really the perfect choice for me :)
agchemistify 1 year ago
shay sent me. But yeah I had this idea of what polyface is doing. Also i bet the beef pork and chicken is so much better than the mass market meat.
eaaudas 1 year ago
now i wanna be a farmer
williamnoob232 1 year ago
haha, love the Ending "My sons gana be a FARMER!" and Shaytards fan FTW
flyboysix 1 year ago
Shaytards sent me.
vomimbre 1 year ago 5
@vomimbre same here
spiceupyourlife1000 1 year ago
shay
Lagard0 1 year ago
This guy is Amazing ;)
TheMrLomul 1 year ago
Shaytard fan was here...*ahem*
SuperNZSkater 1 year ago 2
Were Joel Salatin and his farm also featured in Food Inc? I liked that movie.
ecmmas 1 year ago
@ecmmas thats what I thought haha
MeMyselfAndKgore 1 year ago
I live in rural ohio and farming in my area is a way of life....please people support your local farmers, they raise better food and better people. Urban sprawl will kill us all!
TheDrew0301 1 year ago
Shay.
CableMayo 1 year ago 4
Hello , beard lover !
jaames007bond 1 year ago 2
@jaames007bond Thats Wheezy not Shay :P...
Ayjayo 1 year ago 2
Thumbs up for the American Farmer!!!!
MichaelSpeaks 1 year ago 3
Love those bar-rocks
KallyJones 1 year ago
amen brother..my family comes from arkansaw and worked the soil..nothing wrong with that..if any one thinks farming is not the backbone of america think again..meat milk cheese poultry veggies all come from farmers and their hard work
baldklown 1 year ago
After finding work on an diversified organic farm this summer I have made it my life's dream to farm. Follow my journey if you'd like. fortheloveofpasture.blogspot.c0m
shichyeah 1 year ago
Those are some good looking animals.
Theomacho 1 year ago
Every small town needs a Joel Salatin for some local food supply. This could never work if people continue to eat so much meat though.
AmericanCritiquer 1 year ago
@AmericanCritiquer if locals eat lots of meat, there will be more, not fewer Joel Salatins.
jeffdustin 1 year ago
@jeffdustin The biggest purchaser of meat (mcdonalds) want's all of it's animals to taste alike so they'll continue to grow animals in close proximity and keep farming locations to a minimum. If people chose to eat local we'd be getting somewhere but I'm not sure if there is enough grass in the country for even Joel's methods with the amount of cows eaten every year.
AmericanCritiquer 1 year ago
@AmericanCritiquer Maybe we should eat less meat. If we ate 30% less could it be possible? What do you think?
o0Garettsmith0o 1 year ago
@o0Garettsmith0o We need to eat less meat. You should check out lectures and/or read books by Dr. Neal Barnard, Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman if you haven't done so yet.
I don't know if it could be done but I do know that if eating meat was treated like a seasonal commodity we'd probably be better off. Corn fed beef can be grown year round but it's to my understanding that grass fed cows have to be in season. Getting people to chose local grass fed beef would be difficult because of the taste-
AmericanCritiquer 1 year ago
@o0Garettsmith0o 2nd comment...
I remember the first time I ate a burger in a different country and I thought there was something wrong with the way the produced because the taste seemed so off but this was before I realized that in order to get a tasty mcdonalds burger they have to use all these unnatural additives in the corn that the scientists for major food corporations come up with.
Aside from eating less meat, not eating any that comes from the largest meat production companies is best..
AmericanCritiquer 1 year ago
wow, if this is how all farming was done, the world would be starving more than it is already.
dntbdum 1 year ago
This is great!!!!! What state is this in?
jacknash711 1 year ago
@jacknash711 jack, thanks. joel's incredible. he's in staunton, virginia.
denzelg51 1 year ago
I am proud that my daughter hatched chicken eggs in our apartment, using a toy incubator. I am a daughter of a Math Professor, I am a registered nurse, but my dream is to be an organic farmer, help feed people clean food, that will make them be healthier, just like Joel. I never thought farming as being for low people, au contraire. G-d bless Joel Salatin and all people like him, that want to make this planet a better place.
elenacerasela 1 year ago
spread the word... if you want to eat meat this is what needs to be done!!!
BlkUnk 1 year ago 4
If this was how all farming was, i would love to do it.
flabitacrabits 1 year ago 3
Well now ...that brought a big smile into my heart !!!! That is something to hear some inteligent people talking for a change !!! Absolutely great ! John Seymour has written some very interesting stuff about this about 70 years ago. Carry on with the brilliant job guys !!!
urutuc 1 year ago
I love it....I wish I could be a farmer!!!
katieadz 1 year ago 3
Love this man!! Ingenious, smart and brave. Everyone needs to see and learn from him.
calitochiquito 1 year ago 3
I think this is great. I literally grew up as a farmer/rancher's daughter. I never knew that I wasn't suppose to be proud that we were farmers. The only thing that scares me today is that if we don't get a hold on what the government is doing and a hold on our population growth then we will be unable to find the land to farm like this man. And it is critical that we stop both! Especially Mansato!
RightOnQ62 1 year ago 2
I could watch Joel Salatin talk for hours and always be intrigued
SweatLaserXP 1 year ago 38
Bless you, Mr. Salatin.
shoegal7 1 year ago
your awsome Joel, I'm showing your vids to my husband. I want to follow your ranching practices. You ROCK!!!
ruscon100 1 year ago
He is the guru of intelligent farming,,,,my opinion.
tisra2000 1 year ago
is it just me, or do those cows seem more lively than most?
IamMeredithK 1 year ago
I like this farmer i to hope this will be the way of the future
BowHunter445 1 year ago
The ending is just classic! You Chopain playing soccer moms!
mehranm2 1 year ago
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luketshotkey 1 year ago
I love the way this guy runs his farm! He is so in tune with his animals and with nature. I believe (I hope) that these methods will be the wave of the future.
We've had enough of the huge industrial farms, polluting the earth and making us all sick and obese. Our food should be grown locally. We need to reclaim our food supply and do it soon. Farming really shouldn't be an industry but a culture.
sabolden 1 year ago
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MovieGenius 1 year ago
i would work for you any day Joel I live on a farm used to have hogs until we got wiped out by sickness just crop farm now in Iowa
international1256 1 year ago
I wish more people would research this.
hisblood27 1 year ago
Love this guy. One of the few people in the US and probably the world who realize that the economy and the environment are ONE AND THE SAME. When you destroy the environment for "the economy" you destroy property, potential capital, and as a result your investment. Unsustainable farms are only truly sustained through lack of property rights and unethical support from the gov't
takadi 1 year ago
Read his books i have & i now have 500 chickens & going on 1500 (polyface Farm)
FARMERCHICKEN1 1 year ago
I just bought two of his books: You Can Farm and Holy Cows and Hogs Heaven. I'm so excited to start reading them! The Salatin family are living the life I want to understand more of.
Dorottya83 1 year ago
You are so Right and are being the BEST Steward of the land.
I will loudly state my son is going be a "Farmer (Steward of the land), once I proclaimed this at our soccer/baseball game and he decided to go to attend an Ag School we were Ousted. They can stick together and have their cook-outs with food from the "SUPER" stores and Wal-Marts of the world. To that all I can say I wish them good health, they will need all the help they can get.
brholb 1 year ago
Interesting
GiveMePins 1 year ago
Love this guy!!
aunthill167 1 year ago
I love that Joel calls his chickens "ladies".
I wish this is how all farms worked. This is a paradise, the animals are so happy, and there's actually grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma is an amazing book. I'm much more conscientious about the food I buy now after reading it.
I wish there were multiple Polyface farms all over the US, I'd buy my food there and nowhere else.
rainicornsRlove 1 year ago
this is really awesome
saleenguy57 1 year ago
I've been to the Salatin Poly farm farms a couple of times now. They have as close to heaven on earth as you get. they are clean christian honest folk that are making the world a better place one fresh egg at a time
jamison607 1 year ago
wow i love your concept ,, thanks soo much for being an leader.. we can only wish other farm and learn from you ..
superwhiz88 1 year ago
thats pretty awesome how you have the animals rotated in a way that they each pick up after one another. i have never thought about that.its really awesome
92cowhorse 1 year ago
one of my favorite people in the world!
nhinahara 1 year ago
haha my sons a farmer... we dont do that haha
palmerballer1 1 year ago
This video is a great summary of what Joel Salatin and Polyface farm are all about.
Along with reading "Omnivore's Dilemma," you might enjoy "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Foer.
GreenSolarDude 2 years ago
This guy is great! i luv him
Iamfatterthanyou 2 years ago
If anyone is interested, there is a cool book called the Omnivores Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. It's about the author and how he follows the path of food from when it's made to when it gets to your plate.
waka606 2 years ago
I read the book...I will no longer shop at Safeway or any major chain..I shop locally at PCC here in Seattle...and grow my own food
rousse61 2 years ago
Well well USA TODAY, it is true, even a blind squirrel finds something good every once in a while. Nice job.
motorolarules 2 years ago
Nice catch!
How come?
Tressco 2 years ago
Not sure.
motorolarules 2 years ago
However, we are building a small farm and would like to compliment the land rather then 'use it up' and pollute the ground water etc. If you ever visit you will get up from the table after eating and have energy not want to go to sleep,
motorolarules 2 years ago
my farmer here in Alberta is a student of Joel's so all my eggs and other meats come from a similar farming methodology. I took a tour one day with other farmers. What I saw was the way I thought farming was done, but the farmers kept asking questions to him about "why this, and why that". I could barely believe that nobody else farmed this way.
Joel's way of farming is *normal* as far as I'm concerned
fatlossfundamentals 2 years ago 2
Joel was a great addition to the Food, Inc. documentary and was one of the few bright spots in it. I read "You Can Farm" by him a number of years ago and I have a great deal of respect for this guy. Jefferson would love Joel too I think. He's a sharp guy and great teacher.
folklore1614 2 years ago
Damn we need more farmers like him.
jasonjinx 2 years ago 3
This guy is spot on with everything he says and I hope he continues to spread his message around the place.
Good on him
simmahisyatta 2 years ago 3
great farming. i wish i could have farm like this....
arshad555555 2 years ago 2
Genius is a loosely used word, but truthfully i feel this man is a genius, He ideas and plans are a key to the proper way to raise meat. Great man who i envy and would love to meet. Truely my Hero
joshirelan 2 years ago 2
meat is good in a certain way though but should never be your primary source of food.
MingTheMerciful 2 years ago
I think Joel may be a little crazy but crazy like a fox. I hope to visit his farm soon and learn how to farm in a sustainable manner like him.
arlingtonguy54 2 years ago 3
I <3 Farmers!
nwfkristin 2 years ago 4
cool... awesome vid
jesus saves
Jinsyana 2 years ago
Everybody needs to see this video! What Joel Salatin and Polyface Farm is doing is critical to the food security of this country and it is environmental stewardship at its finest.
Keep up the great work and spread the word
NetminderElite 2 years ago 44
The black and white chickens are barred rocks. Dominiques have rose combs; barred rocks have single combs.
We're doing the same thing as the Salatins on a much smaller scale in Illinois. It's great to see this in mainstream media!
AntiquityOaks 2 years ago
Joel Salatin for President
multistem 2 years ago 68
@multistem What a good idea, but people are too brainwashed to see the need for such a smart man for president.
elenacerasela 1 year ago
Texas has a number of eco friendly alternative farms. No matter where you live, if you live near an alternative farm you should support it. We need to make single faceted industrial farming economically nonviable.
atheistzombie 2 years ago
"we don't do that!"
sad but true. too bad that closeness to earth is perceived as unrefined, base, substandard, etc; the perception that distance from the planet is betterment is causing so many problems today yesterday and tomorrow.
hooray for disconnection/separation.
4trahasis 2 years ago
Awesome video
MysteryManoLove 2 years ago
Big fan of Joel Salatin. I wish I lived closer so I could support them.
mdmassimino 2 years ago 3
Yeah Polyface! You guys rock my world in Charlottesville!
riffraff3055 2 years ago
Are those black and white chickens Dominiques or Barred Rocks?
salemnj1 2 years ago
Barred Rocks.
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LoveAmericaStyle 2 years ago
It looks like a wonderful farm. I've always believed that a happy animal is a productive animal. Animals will give us whatever we require of them they only need food, shelter, and love in return.
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