Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
Joel F. Salatinis an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
acre fifth food fuel per produce
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
truth
The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
chops great ham pork
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.
costs food mechanical system type
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
farmers financial produce stress
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
chickens cows
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
taste whatever
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
deal ducks laying main
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.
came farm
Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
brink changed civilization collapse fast
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
incredible
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.
building food term
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
adhere business instead run
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.