TEDxMidAtlantic - Joel Salatin - 11/5/09

Joel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Salatins 550-acre farm is featured prominently in Michael Pollans book, The Omnivores Dilemma and the documentary film, Food, Inc.

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[taw00]

"Our [ministry] is the ministry of healing the land."

"If we devote ourselves to sacredness in our vocations, the world will rise to meet us."

"Serendipitously, my success is tied to the cumulative effect of everyday stories and faithfulness to injecting sacredness and nobility into every little action of my day."

There it is.

[douginct]

He's one of the real brilliant lights of our generation.

[bdaniel79]

"If we devote ourselves to sacredness in our vocations, the world will rise to meet us". Amen to that!

[greatsage73]

Inspirational.

[OctoBox]

I've never sat up straight, back away, in my chair to listen to a lecture on Youtube

[TheSchwabyLlama]

This guy gets a high 5.

[Awaitingcertainty]

"Nature's template and bio-mimicry" - Nice!

[Awaitingcertainty]

"Nobility of personal ministry." Nice.

[impalapez]

LEAD BY EXAMPLE!!!! Always great to see amazing people walking the talk!!!!

[matrxmax]

Wow ! Great speech

[buffeliscious]

I first read about this marvelous farmer in Michael Pollen's "Omnivores...". The question is, how does someone who embraces the sacredness of life with this truthful story get to have his story placed in front of the story full of lies that corporate america tells? The Monsanto story for instance, which tells us this old way of farming will "never feed the growing population, etc, etc, etc", gets full billing. If I see one more Monsanto ad in a progressive national magazine, I'll vomit.

[joelserpentarius]

Thank you Universe. Thank you Joel Salatin.