Joel is an American treasure. Piercing intelligence, salt of the earth honesty and a big heap of humor I appreciate that Mr Salatin also does with ideas that which he preaches for the soil. Keep burying and recycling and w time and patience the intrinsically good stuff will prevail. We can use some good idol smashers like him in more places than I can name. Thanks Mr. Melli for the well done video. Really does your subject justice.
I'm so frickin impressed by what Joel Salatin has accomplished and is preaching. A true patriot. Godspeed Joel .... just awesome. I'm getting involved and invested in what you are preaching. Thanks.
Joel Salatin is the John Galt of Farming. Bravo. I'm inspired to try and combine square foot gardening and his mobile/modular/management intensive system.
I've got 50 years of experience and I am still learning. I am a professional as well growing things with degrees and hands on experience of decades day in day out hands in the soil. Better get started as soon as possible. Go to Stack Exchange when you have any questions! I'm on there as well...some very excellent professionals to guide you! I don't think the technology system is going to help anyone learn what they need to know to grow their own food.
“All this innate luxury, we’ve squandered.” 15:10 Brilliant description full of pathos & wisdom which is a combo we see far too often in this fallen world.
Greetings from New Zealand. I am pleased to hear and see that there are passionate people who are opting out of the Industrial food production ! Maybe if we can get together we can break the Monsanto Monopoly
@ 20:55, “language adultery”, perfect term. Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1981... I asked a fish vendor what was the difference between “fresh” scallops and “fancy” scallops. His answer... fresh are fresh, fancy are frozen.
On the "look" of it. Anyone feeding a backyard flock knows that knows that going to the grocer costs less. The value obtained is in quality and in raising your own. I am the Hogman, feeding hogs on a medium size family operation. We produce 9,000 fat hogs per year. This farm produces feed grains and specialty crops also. I keep a small flock, a Holstien cow and am the family butcher who keeps a garden, where most of my food is grown. My comment above is my best guess. Cheers.
The $9./acre was for the soil ammendments, not the tractor fuel. As you know, this is significantly lower than conventional chemical fertilizer. Using eco-ag methods, non-GMO corn & soy can outproduce GMO, as you note - but when the crop is under stress, like the recent widespread drought, the difference can be HUGE. Appreciate your response. Best regards.
I agree with your points. There is a return of small scale farming. Let me point out a typical hurdle. In 2008 when feed was 80% of today's price, we were shipping fat hogs. At the same time you could buy a whole pork loin retail for 89c. per lb. This was nearly the producer's cost, walking a live hog out the door. The "big producers" don't actually grow or raise. They process and market. Their names are; Cargill, Co-Alliance, Tyson, Smithfield, ect. The Plowman and the Herdsman are Men.
@23:00 Sounds weird but somehow seeing those happy pigs just made me cry my ass off like a little girl. Seeing the pigs coming close to Joel and touching him like a domestic cat or something, it was like they were thanking him for allowing them to have such a badass life free from worries and you know, just doin' their thing. It was so emotional for me seeing this. My grandpa has pigs at his rice farm but they are grown the industrial way, closed in small boxes all the time, I never saw a pig behaving like this. So cool.
+FeelingShred your grandpa, saw the days before pig where crated 24/7. Talk to him, he might change his mind. And tell him how it makes you feel. I grew rice and Mississippi, and watermelons, and the yield difference was GREATER after 3 year in rice going organic. Put the difference from inputs, was about 25-30% less,. so you don't really lose money.The only really bitch is labor. To keep up with weeding and what not. So tell him he will make more, going organic.
We respect love and support the effort to do a traditional and clean Polyface farming, we hope more people understand and support their local farmers that willing to use the bio production system
I love the way this guy runs his farm! He is so in tune with his animals and with nature. I do believe (I hope) that this is going to be the wave of the future, the methods that he's using. I grew up on a small farm until I was 16, and my dad weren't nearly so sophisticated in the movement and management of plants and animals as this guy is. He basically used 19th century methods until he died, which was what he knew back then.
As i see it Salatin is a pioneer and leading a paradigm shift. Your point is well taken, and I am sure his family has had to struggle both economically and politically as he says he is beginning to slice off some of the market share and as I have witnessed that pisses off the "Big Producers" who call their legislators and councilman and create havoc. However he has been at this for awhile and seems to have his market niche worked out so I am not so sure he is not "profitable".
I love the brainstorming that's taking place in this video. Been a fan of this kind agriculture due to my ol' hippy mother, but the realism expressed herein was truly inspiring.
I really wish there was an online community of people like Joel Salatin. I think that there is lots of useful information. I just wish it was available to everyone in the world. I think we need Joel to do some videos like Geoffrey Lawton on Permaculture and Animal Farming. I wish there were opportunities to intern,apprentice and learn for free just requiring labor on the individuals part.
To ride out this paradigm shift and whatever the Universe has in store for us over the next decade or so. We figure we hang together or hang separately Our biggest issue right now is finding Non GMO organic grain for feed. Might be growing it myself soon. I understand your point and it is well taken same thing happened in trucking. JB Hunt and SWIFT hauling freight for .75 a mile when it cost that to operate a truck, killed a lot of small operations off.
Mr Salatin....if I were born a few years before I was your wife would have had some competition!! You are truly one of the most brilliant minds of our time. I have tried to get signed up for your 2 day seminar but it is "sold out" for quite a time. I am anxious to figure out how to do what you do on my 10 acres....how can we scale it down to fit? And how can we defeat S 510?
$9 will not buy the diesel fuel to work that acre. But it is true that in some instances round-up ready corn and soybeans are recently out-performed by conventional corn and bean production.
Hi, thank your efforts, I am trying to do the same pattern and strugling with pigs. Could you please answer on how your ppigs able to stay in the forest and not to run away? Thank you!
Either you pay now, or you will pay more later. Pay for better, slightly more expensive food now, or pay later by experiencing more medical expenses, more costly medical expenses, and a shorter life. You vote with your dollar.
You are correct thenewyardbirds! You would be very wise to study his system, and consider research at library or online to best utilize small pieces of land. Coming from a farm, I can tell you, I wish we would have had such incredible insight as this man does. I will have another farm in the next couple of years and will no longer rely on this government for anything.
I love his passion, I feel the same way he does! Government needs to get out of the farming business and let good farms like Polyface do what they do best!
This is great to know.. I made a post on this in the communities and will make another due to his response on facebook to someone who went to him directly there.. It was a slip of the tongue.. He uses only non-gmo grain and does not use gmo grain.
The name of the acoustic song in the intro is "How does it feel?" by Deadhorse. th-cam.com/video/8jrOfe0Zr3U/w-d-xo.html There's some funky over-dubbing in the beginning...it clears up at the 0:39 mark. Here's a repeatable loop of the good part (from 0:39 to 1:17): goo.gl/cKdrAD You can buy the full song [Explicit] off Amazon for $0.99: goo.gl/1kYkAW PS: I have no affiliation with the musical group, Polyface Farms or Meet the Farmer TV...I'm just a fan.
The only thing I know to do there is quit buying their poison and educate non-producers to do the same. I live in Idaho and we pasture chickens and have laying chickens and a few goats, mainly at this point to service our own needs. But we are working towards a CSA. We are in the process of creating a consortium of producers of various types so we can pool our skills and resources, everything from Meat and eggs to vegetables and Bio-diesel, firewood, hay and grain, whatever it takes.
to Micah. thanks for the advice- for ALL its benefits the internet occasionally does sit behind the legendary library w/ all its' hard copies. I remember the thrill and happiness I felt when I could go to the card catalog, search for the book I wanted, using the Index, then locate it in the stacks using its' Dewey Decimal Number... Then finding all the similar, but different, books with similar, and different, outlooks on the same subject. Thanks, again, Micah for the memory pump.
Years ago I was at a meet the neighbors and I was seated at a table with a missionary( I know Joel doesn't drink beer but I do) and I was half lit and this missionary who lives in an overly large house was regaling the table about going to some south American country and getting a water well built and puffed his chest out and bellowed guess what they wanted to be and i hollered out civil engineers!!!!!!!!!!!!! He deflated for a nano second and said No! The wanted to be Christians!!!!!!!! I sullenly said you would be better off teaching them to fish rather than give them a fish and lost my appetite and left/ My husband stayed and said I made an impression on the missionary. God Bless Joel
When you harvest the chickens do you have to have a USDA inspector present? In fact, how do you go about slaughtering animals per USDA standards & inspection?
If you like the info in this video, buy Salatin's books: You Can Farm; Salad Bar Beef; Pastured Poultry Profits. There are many opportunties to apprentice in farming. Polyface has apprentices. So do many farms. Ask around. Search online. Good luck!
Great video. Good to see somebody standing up against the machine that seems to get bigger by the year. I'd like to learn these techniques and then move to someplace like Malaysia or Laos to apply it all. No way would I start a polyface farm here in the USA. Too many powers have decided our food will be factory-style, with chemstuff and Monsanto in the middle of it all. No thanks. I'd like to take Joel's model and build a farm, with a goat dairy added. It'd work great in the right country. The USA was built on farming, but farming today is so needlessly restrictive I wouldn't begin to try it. I'd be afraid to start a big garden in the back yard. RFID chips in chickens? Give me a break, Big Ag.
Systorable Running away from your home is not the answer. People have to exercise something called "desobedience" with the government. Politicians only have the powers we allow them to have. Sounds a bit romantic, I know, but in the long haul we see little things turning into big snowballs, like this revolution on podcast information and the marijuana issues being brought to wider audiences more and more.
In a way I think you are right. But I am not quite as cynical as you. It is about the associated businesses. The processors, equipment suppliers, feed companies, chemical suppliers, seed producers etc. All of which have a vested financial interest in maintaining the status quo. The conventional farmer himself doesn't really make all that much after supporting all these other corporate interests. Salatin found a way to get a majority of that income back in the farmers pockets.
SNAPS SNAPS speaking truth to power about imperialism and colonization! Let's not repeat that in other parts of the world in the name of food justice and sustainability!
GOD BLESS JOEL! I live in a small town. But they wont let anyone raise backyard chickens here. So i have to move some where else. What can i do to raise awearness and change the law?
Maybe help a local politician write a new law that would allow... If you offer to do some of the work we seen that it helps. There may be a loophole too so ask... Please let us know about your progress.
Interesting...people see a farm like this and they're blown away like this is a new concept. Don't get me wrong, Joel Salatin is great, but my father and grandfather and great grandfather farmed like this years ago...raising hogs, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, and chickens outdoors with plenty of sunshine, pasture and fresh air...almost ALL farmers did up until probably the 1960's when industrialized agriculture and factory farms and confinements took over.
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I would like to know something, I'm in Quebec , Canada and i'm 36 lost my job not so long ago and am now thinking about buying land and produce different thing, like Polyface Farm but surely at smaller scale to begin. I was looking up on the internet about what you need to be a producer, they all talk about firs getting a bachelor degree in Agriculture, that was a buzzkill for me.
I hope you are correct. I read a couple of his books and did not glean that from the readings that grazing lands are not counted in arable alnd figures if you are right then this is wonderful.
the Europeans were very successful thrifty raising their families and used a lot of the same techniques that Mr. Salatin is selling; composting, crop rotating, free ranging, species happiness -the farmer valued his animals; these same methods out produced aboriginals hunter gatherer society; not sure the landscape that Mr. Salatin paints the picture of perfect fields before the Europeans really existed. I really like the system that Mr. Salatin has reinvented; today we really have the knowledge that our forebearers did not have; but greed has caused us to detrimentally destroy the landscape and the species for money instead of improving our properties even though we are sophisticated and intelligent enough to know the difference, thank you Mr Salatin.
@@ElectronicMusicUnderground As a German Descendant we filled in marshes, terraced hills and cleared the land , out growing our heritage between the Danube & Rhine Rivers, populating most of Northern and Western Europe and still our successful farming techniques sustained larger and larger families, that is why the US is so successful today because of that heritage, at first we were hunter gathers living in clans, my ancestors would be sick eating so much meat and processed, God is good
@@ElectronicMusicUnderground brother i am not disputing your culture, I am just saying how successful these farming methods were/are, I agree with you, and your three sisters method, still works today. Root veggies were our specialty, so the intense farming on little acreages provided more than enough food, to feed families. As for today, everywhere the land is being destroyed, by all cultures, God tells us Heaven and Earth will pass away, but believers will inherit the new Heaven and Earth, Praise God
Hogs were one of the last species in the standard US diet to be industrialized. As recently as thirty years ago, there were still quite a few small family farms raising hogs, either as a major income producer or as a sideline, many ran them in the woods at least part of the time. In Spain, hams from traditionally forest finished hogs can bring THOUSAND$ each. Some Europeans knew how to farm sustainably and some still do.
Mr. Salatin is the real deal, very articulate and educated. He is driven by his faith and passion, I can see why he has the policy makers and corporate chumps on his ass.
Can you imagine how much more Joel could produce on prime corn belt land? Just think about it. Much of PolyFace is hard scrabble land with less that a few inches of topsoil over rock. In the part on Indiana I grew up there was 2-3 feet of rich black topsoil over many feet of subsoil and clay. Already Joel produces more per acre than feed lot sourced from agribusiness commercial prime land. What could be possible in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, etc.. actually is hard to comprehend. Sky's the limit.
Excellent point. Reversing desertification can be done sustainably using natural biological process to stimulate the eco-system into regenerating itself - in ways that are appropriate for the climate. Allan Savory founded Holistic Management Int'l after seeing what works - and didn't - in dry regions of Africa. Geoff Lawton shares the results of using Permaculture principles & processes in Jordon in 'Greening the Desert'. Both can be seen on TH-cam. Fossilwater irrigation kills the land.
@hplaserjet2001 I think it might have been better if you just supplied the source for this material. I've been trying to read along, but I find it confusing. All the best.
@NickRitar - this is really some of the best news I've had in recent weeks, possibly months. Joel is doing such good and important work, it seemed like such a disconnect - very happy to hear it was just misspeaking!! Cheers :D H
Dude, you don't need some B.A. to be a farmer. My advice would be to find a farmer near your home that will take you on for a certain amount of time---a year, eighteen months, etc---have you work and live on the farm as an apprentice, learn the ropes, etc. After that, you'll probably be good to start your own farm. Lots of people have worked on Polyface for a year and started their own farms. Go for it!
Part 2: It's a first step toward the same kind of corporate control of an animal line that Monsanto is aggressively pursuing with various grain and vegetable lines. There are more than 160 countries and territories mentioned where the patent is sought including Europe, the Russian Federation, Asia, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand. WIPO itself can only receive applications, not grant patents. The applications are forwarded to regional patent offices.
He wants to do it all bio....what is wrong with that?i don t understand why some people is against that...come to Greece to see how we do the same things the same way.
@helkyrie just got word from Mr Salatin himself, he let us know that it was a misspeak... he meant to say NON-GMO. We are host Joel for a series of talks here in Australia.
Well the other thing you may not realise is that 2 acres can easily feed a person. Actually many people. You can probably feed 4 people on 1/10th an acre. I know in my teens we had surpluses of food from a 1/2 acre garden. That fed 4 teenagers (3 active boys in sports) my parents year round and my grandparents 6 months/year. With TONS left over. We also had 3 cows a milk goat 200 chickens and a few dozen rabbits on another acre. Now that was significantly better ground than Salatin has though.
The guy does know what he is talking about ! Great stuff ! However is better if lots of people join in straight away because the industry doesn´t like competition and something terrible might happen to this brilliant man otherwise !!!
Politicians don't get embarrassed, they get corrupted. They don't care what we think as long as they somehow get reelected. If that means taking campaign funds from lobbies, so be it!
So how do we address this domestically. I live in a food desert. I have a car so I can drive to the nearest farmers market or even head out to farms to pick up dairy and produce. However, what about all those folks who don't have that privilege and are stuck eating modified corn and crappy produce? OR can't afford to purchase local organic produce?
Part 1: Monsanto pig patent applications were published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but on actual breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result. If these patents are granted, Monsanto can legally prevent breeders and farmers from breeding pigs whose characteristics are described in the patent claims, or force them to pay royalties.
One incentive not normally recognized in regards to industrialized farming is the incentive to plant crops in dryer climates. In dry places like, eastern Colorado, New Mexico, west Texas, and Arizona, industrial farmers can control the amount of water their crops receive. The same results cannot be achieved in wet climates. This desire to make the deserts bloom places enormous strain on the ecosystem and local water supply. The entire southwest is in a water crisis, but growth continues.
8:10 'sequestration' was the word Joel was looking for. 10:00 How about adding a layer to google earth: "food" designed to house, display, and educate us on the food cycle. 12:30 I wish he had explained how each part of his farm interacts with the others to create essentially a high knowledge/low tech solar power plant. How much of the kilowatt/sq. meter gets harvested into what he sells? 18:50 Maybe the chance to see a video of the life of the food we're about to eat would get us to eat better.
I'm wondering, is it possible for someone to become a farmer by learning by themselves and the help of the community? I'm trying to give myself confidence to jump in this adventure. Let me know what you think or what your experience are. Thanks, :)
Monanto made GMO crops to need their chemicals. A conventional farmer in New England, tried using organic/ biological/ natural approaches to reminerealize his soil & re-introduce soil life this year & his corn outproduced the expected yeild of the GMO seed he planted. One growing season w/biological techniques during a drought year has convinced him. And he did it for $9./acre - a fraction of the conventional chemical-based method.
I wish there was someway many people could stand up and fight these viscous corporations. 1. These animals are being horrifically treated and 2. The meat of these animals are contaminated with harmful chemicals. I almost now always go buy from my local farm. Whats it gonna take for people to stand up and fight these corporations. I fear that will happen when a devastating Ecoli or salmonella plague will occur
@piucaprim and anybody else willing to help. I am 16 and am very interested in this kind of Agriculture as a career, but have a few questions. How much does it earn(not in it for money but curious)? What is the work like? Is it a good career/life in general? I know nothing so how do I get started (kindof a city kid but willing to learn)?
@jjmedal Everything in Europe and the USA is based on cheap oil and the hard work of a dozen generations which came before us. You are following the right path. Food independence is the first step towards freedom and prosperity.
Joel is an American treasure. Piercing intelligence, salt of the earth honesty and a big heap of humor I appreciate that Mr Salatin also does with ideas that which he preaches for the soil. Keep burying and recycling and w time and patience the intrinsically good stuff will prevail. We can use some good idol smashers like him in more places than I can name. Thanks Mr. Melli for the well done video. Really does your subject justice.
I'm so frickin impressed by what Joel Salatin has accomplished and is preaching. A true patriot. Godspeed Joel .... just awesome. I'm getting involved and invested in what you are preaching. Thanks.
Love Joel Saladin and his philosophy! I have read most of his books and yet I still can't stop watching his lectures and so on.
Joel Salatin is the John Galt of Farming. Bravo. I'm inspired to try and combine square foot gardening and his mobile/modular/management intensive system.
I've got 50 years of experience and I am still learning. I am a professional as well growing things with degrees and hands on experience of decades day in day out hands in the soil. Better get started as soon as possible. Go to Stack Exchange when you have any questions! I'm on there as well...some very excellent professionals to guide you! I don't think the technology system is going to help anyone learn what they need to know to grow their own food.
“All this innate luxury, we’ve squandered.” 15:10
Brilliant description full of pathos & wisdom which is a combo we see far too often in this fallen world.
Greetings from New Zealand. I am pleased to hear and see that there are passionate people who are opting out of the Industrial food production ! Maybe if we can get together we can break the Monsanto Monopoly
Ashley King yes. Thanks
Ashley King Here a new one right of the presses:
th-cam.com/video/9P-cmLQo6Tg/w-d-xo.html
@ 20:55, “language adultery”, perfect term. Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1981... I asked a fish vendor what was the difference between “fresh” scallops and “fancy” scallops. His answer... fresh are fresh, fancy are frozen.
Met Joel in Woodstock NY a couple weekends back, and was greatful to see and hear him speak. Such a passionate man with real convictions....
On the "look" of it.
Anyone feeding a backyard flock knows that knows that going to the grocer costs less. The value obtained is in quality and in raising your own.
I am the Hogman, feeding hogs on a medium size family operation. We produce 9,000 fat hogs per year. This farm produces feed grains and specialty crops also.
I keep a small flock, a Holstien cow and am the family butcher who keeps a garden, where most of my food is grown. My comment above is my best guess. Cheers.
The $9./acre was for the soil ammendments, not the tractor fuel. As you know, this is significantly lower than conventional chemical fertilizer. Using eco-ag methods, non-GMO corn & soy can outproduce GMO, as you note - but when the crop is under stress, like the recent widespread drought, the difference can be HUGE. Appreciate your response. Best regards.
Love this video. Makes such good sense. Excellent work Joel
I met Joel today, a really passionate fellow about loving and saving our good earth.
You are truly an inspiration, Joel. Keep up the great work!
I agree with your points. There is a return of small scale farming.
Let me point out a typical hurdle. In 2008 when feed was 80% of today's price, we were shipping fat hogs. At the same time you could buy a whole pork loin retail for 89c. per lb. This was nearly the producer's cost, walking a live hog out the door.
The "big producers" don't actually grow or raise. They process and market. Their names are; Cargill, Co-Alliance, Tyson, Smithfield, ect.
The Plowman and the Herdsman are Men.
@23:00 Sounds weird but somehow seeing those happy pigs just made me cry my ass off like a little girl. Seeing the pigs coming close to Joel and touching him like a domestic cat or something, it was like they were thanking him for allowing them to have such a badass life free from worries and you know, just doin' their thing. It was so emotional for me seeing this. My grandpa has pigs at his rice farm but they are grown the industrial way, closed in small boxes all the time, I never saw a pig behaving like this. So cool.
+FeelingShred your grandpa, saw the days before pig where crated 24/7. Talk to him, he might change his mind. And tell him how it makes you feel. I grew rice and Mississippi, and watermelons, and the yield difference was GREATER after 3 year in rice going organic. Put the difference from inputs, was about 25-30% less,. so you don't really lose money.The only really bitch is labor. To keep up with weeding and what not. So tell him he will make more, going organic.
Pigs are among the 5 most intelligent animals on Earth.
We respect love and support the effort to do a traditional and clean Polyface farming, we hope more people understand and support their local farmers that willing to use the bio production system
I love the way this guy runs his farm! He is so in tune with his animals and with nature. I do believe (I hope) that this is going to be the wave of the future, the methods that he's using.
I grew up on a small farm until I was 16, and my dad weren't nearly so sophisticated in the movement and management of plants and animals as this guy is. He basically used 19th century methods until he died, which was what he knew back then.
As i see it Salatin is a pioneer and leading a paradigm shift. Your point is well taken, and I am sure his family has had to struggle both economically and politically as he says he is beginning to slice off some of the market share and as I have witnessed that pisses off the "Big Producers" who call their legislators and councilman and create havoc. However he has been at this for awhile and seems to have his market niche worked out so I am not so sure he is not "profitable".
Joel is so awesome! Been watching as much footage as I can and learning like crazy! I love it!
I am planning to start an operation like Joel has in the near future. He is one of my best role models.
I love the brainstorming that's taking place in this video. Been a fan of this kind agriculture due to my ol' hippy mother, but the realism expressed herein was truly inspiring.
Amanda Harig thanks for your very valuable comments and feedback.
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I really wish there was an online community of people like Joel Salatin. I think that there is lots of useful information. I just wish it was available to everyone in the world. I think we need Joel to do some videos like Geoffrey Lawton on Permaculture and Animal Farming. I wish there were opportunities to intern,apprentice and learn for free just requiring labor on the individuals part.
To ride out this paradigm shift and whatever the Universe has in store for us over the next decade or so. We figure we hang together or hang separately Our biggest issue right now is finding Non GMO organic grain for feed. Might be growing it myself soon.
I understand your point and it is well taken same thing happened in trucking. JB Hunt and SWIFT hauling freight for .75 a mile when it cost that to operate a truck, killed a lot of small operations off.
he is my hero! when i get my land - i plan on using a lot of his teaching !
Beautiful video and talks!!
Thankyou Joel, because of food inc, I'm making changes & choices from where I am. I believe in all u do!
a true inspiration. I HOPE TO VISIT ONE DAY--MAYBE IN 2013!!
The whole program great... the bit about the Pigs...WOW!!! and yes, hubris is the word. Thanks for this.
The way things need to be for sure!
Mr Salatin....if I were born a few years before I was your wife would have had some competition!! You are truly one of the most brilliant minds of our time. I have tried to get signed up for your 2 day seminar but it is "sold out" for quite a time. I am anxious to figure out how to do what you do on my 10 acres....how can we scale it down to fit? And how can we defeat S 510?
Thanks Mr. Salatin for keeping the hope alive in this world. :)
$9 will not buy the diesel fuel to work that acre. But it is true that in some instances round-up ready corn and soybeans are recently out-performed by conventional corn and bean production.
I love this guy, God bless him. ✝️
Hi, thank your efforts, I am trying to do the same pattern and strugling with pigs. Could you please answer on how your ppigs able to stay in the forest and not to run away?
Thank you!
Either you pay now, or you will pay more later. Pay for better, slightly more expensive food now, or pay later by experiencing more medical expenses, more costly medical expenses, and a shorter life. You vote with your dollar.
This is something I always tell my family. Exact words!
You are correct thenewyardbirds! You would be very wise to study his system, and consider research at library or online to best utilize small pieces of land. Coming from a farm, I can tell you, I wish we would have had such incredible insight as this man does. I will have another farm in the next couple of years and will no longer rely on this government for anything.
I love his passion, I feel the same way he does! Government needs to get out of the farming business and let good farms like Polyface do what they do best!
Illuminating video! Keep up the excellent work!
This is great to know.. I made a post on this in the communities and will make another due to his response on facebook to someone who went to him directly there.. It was a slip of the tongue.. He uses only non-gmo grain and does not use gmo grain.
Thanks from California soon to b in Texas going to start there thanks for all ur knowledge
Thank you so much for these videos.
Powerful Joel Salatin
The name of the acoustic song in the intro is "How does it feel?" by Deadhorse. th-cam.com/video/8jrOfe0Zr3U/w-d-xo.html
There's some funky over-dubbing in the beginning...it clears up at the 0:39 mark. Here's a repeatable loop of the good part (from 0:39 to 1:17): goo.gl/cKdrAD
You can buy the full song [Explicit] off Amazon for $0.99: goo.gl/1kYkAW
PS: I have no affiliation with the musical group, Polyface Farms or Meet the Farmer TV...I'm just a fan.
The only thing I know to do there is quit buying their poison and educate non-producers to do the same. I live in Idaho and we pasture chickens and have laying chickens and a few goats, mainly at this point to service our own needs. But we are working towards a CSA. We are in the process of creating a consortium of producers of various types so we can pool our skills and resources, everything from Meat and eggs to vegetables and Bio-diesel, firewood, hay and grain, whatever it takes.
to Micah. thanks for the advice- for ALL its benefits the internet occasionally does sit behind the legendary library w/ all its' hard copies. I remember the thrill and happiness I felt when I could go to the card catalog, search for the book I wanted, using the Index, then locate it in the stacks using its' Dewey Decimal Number... Then finding all the similar, but different, books with similar, and different, outlooks on the same subject. Thanks, again, Micah for the memory pump.
Years ago I was at a meet the neighbors and I was seated at a table with a missionary( I know Joel doesn't drink beer but I do) and I was half lit and this missionary who lives in an overly large house was regaling the table about going to some south American country and getting a water well built and puffed his chest out and bellowed guess what they wanted to be and i hollered out civil engineers!!!!!!!!!!!!! He deflated for a nano second and said No! The wanted to be Christians!!!!!!!! I sullenly said you would be better off teaching them to fish rather than give them a fish and lost my appetite and left/ My husband stayed and said I made an impression on the missionary. God Bless Joel
good vision,greetings from belguim keep on going this way
this video is awesome
When you harvest the chickens do you have to have a USDA inspector present? In fact, how do you go about slaughtering animals per USDA standards & inspection?
If you like the info in this video, buy Salatin's books: You Can Farm; Salad Bar Beef; Pastured Poultry Profits. There are many opportunties to apprentice in farming. Polyface has apprentices. So do many farms. Ask around. Search online. Good luck!
Great video. Good to see somebody standing up against the machine that seems to get bigger by the year. I'd like to learn these techniques and then move to someplace like Malaysia or Laos to apply it all. No way would I start a polyface farm here in the USA. Too many powers have decided our food will be factory-style, with chemstuff and Monsanto in the middle of it all. No thanks. I'd like to take Joel's model and build a farm, with a goat dairy added. It'd work great in the right country. The USA was built on farming, but farming today is so needlessly restrictive I wouldn't begin to try it. I'd be afraid to start a big garden in the back yard. RFID chips in chickens? Give me a break, Big Ag.
Systorable Running away from your home is not the answer. People have to exercise something called "desobedience" with the government. Politicians only have the powers we allow them to have. Sounds a bit romantic, I know, but in the long haul we see little things turning into big snowballs, like this revolution on podcast information and the marijuana issues being brought to wider audiences more and more.
In a way I think you are right. But I am not quite as cynical as you. It is about the associated businesses. The processors, equipment suppliers, feed companies, chemical suppliers, seed producers etc. All of which have a vested financial interest in maintaining the status quo.
The conventional farmer himself doesn't really make all that much after supporting all these other corporate interests. Salatin found a way to get a majority of that income back in the farmers pockets.
SNAPS SNAPS speaking truth to power about imperialism and colonization! Let's not repeat that in other parts of the world in the name of food justice and sustainability!
GOD BLESS JOEL! I live in a small town. But they wont let anyone raise backyard chickens here. So i have to move some where else. What can i do to raise awearness and change the law?
Maybe help a local politician write a new law that would allow... If you offer to do some of the work we seen that it helps. There may be a loophole too so ask... Please let us know about your progress.
Interesting...people see a farm like this and they're blown away like this is a new concept. Don't get me wrong, Joel Salatin is great, but my father and grandfather and great grandfather farmed like this years ago...raising hogs, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, and chickens outdoors with plenty of sunshine, pasture and fresh air...almost ALL farmers did up until probably the 1960's when industrialized agriculture and factory farms and confinements took over.
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I would like to know something,
I'm in Quebec , Canada and i'm 36 lost my job not so long ago and am now thinking about buying land and produce different thing, like Polyface Farm but surely at smaller scale to begin.
I was looking up on the internet about what you need to be a producer, they all talk about firs getting a bachelor degree in Agriculture, that was a buzzkill for me.
I hope you are correct. I read a couple of his books and did not glean that from the readings that grazing lands are not counted in arable alnd figures if you are right then this is wonderful.
Wait... the pigs in the forest. Joel said, "... then they eat GMO grains, like the chickens..." Did I hear that right? I'm confused.
the Europeans were very successful thrifty raising their families and used a lot of the same techniques that Mr. Salatin is selling; composting, crop rotating, free ranging, species happiness -the farmer valued his animals; these same methods out produced aboriginals hunter gatherer society; not sure the landscape that Mr. Salatin paints the picture of perfect fields before the Europeans really existed. I really like the system that Mr. Salatin has reinvented; today we really have the knowledge that our forebearers did not have; but greed has caused us to detrimentally destroy the landscape and the species for money instead of improving our properties even though we are sophisticated and intelligent enough to know the difference, thank you Mr Salatin.
@@ElectronicMusicUnderground As a German Descendant we filled in marshes, terraced hills and cleared the land , out growing our heritage between the Danube & Rhine Rivers, populating most of Northern and Western Europe and still our successful farming techniques sustained larger and larger families, that is why the US is so successful today because of that heritage, at first we were hunter gathers living in clans, my ancestors would be sick eating so much meat and processed, God is good
@@ElectronicMusicUnderground brother i am not disputing your culture, I am just saying how successful these farming methods were/are, I agree with you, and your three sisters method, still works today. Root veggies were our specialty, so the intense farming on little acreages provided more than enough food, to feed families. As for today, everywhere the land is being destroyed, by all cultures, God tells us Heaven and Earth will pass away, but believers will inherit the new Heaven and Earth, Praise God
Hogs were one of the last species in the standard US diet to be industrialized. As recently as thirty years ago, there were still quite a few small family farms raising hogs, either as a major income producer or as a sideline, many ran them in the woods at least part of the time. In Spain, hams from traditionally forest finished hogs can bring THOUSAND$ each. Some Europeans knew how to farm sustainably and some still do.
did he say his pigs and chickens eat local GMO grain right after 21:00???
How many acres are set for pigs, cows, rabbits, birds? How much of that is forestation?
Mr. Salatin is the real deal, very articulate and educated. He is driven by his faith and passion, I can see why he has the policy makers and corporate chumps on his ass.
I am suprised the CIA have not assassinated him. This guy I great.
Can you imagine how much more Joel could produce on prime corn belt land? Just think about it. Much of PolyFace is hard scrabble land with less that a few inches of topsoil over rock. In the part on Indiana I grew up there was 2-3 feet of rich black topsoil over many feet of subsoil and clay.
Already Joel produces more per acre than feed lot sourced from agribusiness commercial prime land. What could be possible in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, etc.. actually is hard to comprehend. Sky's the limit.
Excellent point. Reversing desertification can be done sustainably using natural biological process to stimulate the eco-system into regenerating itself - in ways that are appropriate for the climate. Allan Savory founded Holistic Management Int'l after seeing what works - and didn't - in dry regions of Africa. Geoff Lawton shares the results of using Permaculture principles & processes in Jordon in 'Greening the Desert'. Both can be seen on TH-cam. Fossilwater irrigation kills the land.
@hplaserjet2001 I think it might have been better if you just supplied the source for this material. I've been trying to read along, but I find it confusing. All the best.
I am just wondering what do you think about aquaponics?
@NickRitar - this is really some of the best news I've had in recent weeks, possibly months. Joel is doing such good and important work, it seemed like such a disconnect - very happy to hear it was just misspeaking!! Cheers :D H
Dude, you don't need some B.A. to be a farmer. My advice would be to find a farmer near your home that will take you on for a certain amount of time---a year, eighteen months, etc---have you work and live on the farm as an apprentice, learn the ropes, etc. After that, you'll probably be good to start your own farm. Lots of people have worked on Polyface for a year and started their own farms. Go for it!
This was truly great!
Part 2: It's a first step toward the same kind of corporate control of an animal line that Monsanto is aggressively pursuing with various grain and vegetable lines. There are more than 160 countries and territories mentioned where the patent is sought including Europe, the Russian Federation, Asia, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand. WIPO itself can only receive applications, not grant patents. The applications are forwarded to regional patent offices.
He wants to do it all bio....what is wrong with that?i don t understand why some people is against that...come to Greece to see how we do the same things the same way.
Why GMO grains for the chickens and pigs?
The audience is listening! You go guys!
@helkyrie just got word from Mr Salatin himself, he let us know that it was a misspeak... he meant to say NON-GMO. We are host Joel for a series of talks here in Australia.
Well the other thing you may not realise is that 2 acres can easily feed a person. Actually many people. You can probably feed 4 people on 1/10th an acre. I know in my teens we had surpluses of food from a 1/2 acre garden. That fed 4 teenagers (3 active boys in sports) my parents year round and my grandparents 6 months/year. With TONS left over. We also had 3 cows a milk goat 200 chickens and a few dozen rabbits on another acre. Now that was significantly better ground than Salatin has though.
The guy does know what he is talking about ! Great stuff !
However is better if lots of people join in straight away because the industry doesn´t like competition and something terrible might happen to this brilliant man otherwise !!!
Politicians don't get embarrassed, they get corrupted. They don't care what we think as long as they somehow get reelected. If that means taking campaign funds from lobbies, so be it!
So how do we address this domestically. I live in a food desert. I have a car so I can drive to the nearest farmers market or even head out to farms to pick up dairy and produce. However, what about all those folks who don't have that privilege and are stuck eating modified corn and crappy produce? OR can't afford to purchase local organic produce?
Part 1: Monsanto pig patent applications were published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but on actual breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result. If these patents are granted, Monsanto can legally prevent breeders and farmers from breeding pigs whose characteristics are described in the patent claims, or force them to pay royalties.
Does Joel have a complete book on sustainable living?
Joel.....how long were you in the Marine Corps?
One incentive not normally recognized in regards to industrialized farming is the incentive to plant crops in dryer climates. In dry places like, eastern Colorado, New Mexico, west Texas, and Arizona, industrial farmers can control the amount of water their crops receive. The same results cannot be achieved in wet climates. This desire to make the deserts bloom places enormous strain on the ecosystem and local water supply. The entire southwest is in a water crisis, but growth continues.
You give us new hope for America - It's not looking real good from out here ...
(australia)
Respect to this guy. Farming is hard, yet rewarding work. Too bad industrialism has taken over farming.
8:10 'sequestration' was the word Joel was looking for.
10:00 How about adding a layer to google earth: "food" designed to house, display, and educate us on the food cycle.
12:30 I wish he had explained how each part of his farm interacts with the others to create essentially a high knowledge/low tech solar power plant. How much of the kilowatt/sq. meter gets harvested into what he sells?
18:50 Maybe the chance to see a video of the life of the food we're about to eat would get us to eat better.
I'm wondering, is it possible for someone to become a farmer by learning by themselves and the help of the community?
I'm trying to give myself confidence to jump in this adventure.
Let me know what you think or what your experience are.
Thanks, :)
Yes, I believe. Did you actually start?
Salatin is a boss! This is how I run my small farm.
Monanto made GMO crops to need their chemicals. A conventional farmer in New England, tried using organic/ biological/ natural approaches to reminerealize his soil & re-introduce soil life this year & his corn outproduced the expected yeild of the GMO seed he planted. One growing season w/biological techniques during a drought year has convinced him. And he did it for $9./acre - a fraction of the conventional chemical-based method.
I wish there was someway many people could stand up and fight these viscous corporations. 1. These animals are being horrifically treated and 2. The meat of these animals are contaminated with harmful chemicals. I almost now always go buy from my local farm. Whats it gonna take for people to stand up and fight these corporations. I fear that will happen when a devastating Ecoli or salmonella plague will occur
21:47 whoaaaa! He just said the pigs eat local gmo grain like the chickens as well??????
Am I crazy or did he really just say that?
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At 21:50 did he really mean to say his pigs and chickens eat GMO grain....?
thanks for posting these!!!
How do I find out to use the forest in my area.
You heard it right, but Joel simply misspoke. he meant non-GMO.
i want to work on this farm in a very serious way. i absolutely love what polyface is doing.
@piucaprim and anybody else willing to help. I am 16 and am very interested in this kind of Agriculture as a career, but have a few questions. How much does it earn(not in it for money but curious)? What is the work like? Is it a good career/life in general? I know nothing so how do I get started (kindof a city kid but willing to learn)?
joel salatin is pretty punk rock
@jjmedal Everything in Europe and the USA is based on cheap oil and the hard work of a dozen generations which came before us.
You are following the right path. Food independence is the first step towards freedom and prosperity.