Salatin ideas grows and makes life. May he be blessed with long life. Though Alfred Nobels may have not been a murderer, but explosives are used to destroy and kill.
I can’t speak for mark but I just bought 3 acres this year. We have two suscovich tractors going, our egg birds, a small garden and I’m building my pigport. I recommend that if you’re dreaming of this life you should take the plunge. ✌🏻❤️
Dug Nantz we bought a rental property[3 small houses] on two acres in Hawaii, when we are able to finally move out of Pittsburgh, we want to turn it into a small permaculture farm/vacation rental 🌈😃
1. Mobile 2. Modular 3. Management Intensive at 11:50 What we've done here is we've have traded capital-intensive, stationary infrastructure - concrete, fans, Tyson chicken houses - we have traded that capital- and energy-intensive infrastructure, and pharmaceutically-dependent infrastructure - we have traded that for what Wes Jackson calls 'Eyes to Acre ratio'". So our observational (we watch our creatures in order to rotate them on the land) and managerial expertise displaces the pharmaceuticals and highly capitalized intensive stationary infrastructure of the industry. at 13:30 "It takes more farm laborers - workers - on the farm ---- but (looks around) -- what an office!"
while i appreciate your interpretation of his third "M" he never actually said that is what it is. the video, or his train of thought, were cut short before he ever defined that third "M". my guess is he never would use "management intensive" as a third advantage or key if for no other reason than it has a negative connotation
I have been following Joel since 1990 the son and daughter just baby's. I still have the vhs video. I had it converted to dvd. And i still pick it up and watch it's inspiration.
Starting from somewhere is better then never starting at all. You can lease someone’s private land to farm on the cheap while leaving out of a trailer. You can start anywhere on anything. Saying you will never do it be all that it ever was. Start saying you will do it within five years, then you will.
All land is workable...Just not profitable. Just starting the process with whatever means you have, will teach you more than if you never tried at all. Believe in yourself, and give it a shot....If you have enough space for 2-3 5gal buckets, youve got your first garden.
He is right about the capital impediments to getting into agriculture. There is one other obstacle to ppl getting into ag...how the hell do they make any money? This is a difficult question to answer with conventional/industrial ag, but these innovative strategies, like Salatin, Brant, Brown, Ingham and others are putting out there for us, make the profitability of ag more and more attractive.
I love joel.. He is inspiring me to keep it going with my farming technology and cannabis farming company royalplants .. I think farming for a new generation is gonna be a big thing and it will be different! Thanks again Joel and Jeff Gray for uploading and whatever else you do...
With the 'net, you can "intern" at your computer and be entertained & inspired. No need for capital or attending a trade school. But, you have to be a self-starter, not "just" a dreamer. Start with the dream, end with action. And be prepared to fail off & on. Teach yourself as you go. Why? No one can ever take away or tax what you learn. You can go anywhere in the world and be self-sufficient. Others value those who bring knowledge & independence.
I would add one more: Marketing. If there is no market or outlet for what is produced on the farm, it collapses. In addition, there must be sufficient and appropriate infrastructure to enable sales. E.g. in order to cut out the middle man, there must be a meat processing facility owned by the farmer or a farmer’s co-operative.
Gabe Brown's son says 30% of a farmer's time is marketing. [I could be wrong on the figure but it is substantial] Plus, people queue up for healthy eggs and broilers.
Get some chickens, earth worms, and pigs, great prepper animals and be create a closed loop system of the three. Great for sustainability and handling a lot of the yard work.
Hi, I am planning to purchase a 70 acres land which is in floatplane and a natural creek goes through by one side of the land. I am planning to work with this plan by digging few large pounds, together 10-12 acres by 10 feet deep, to capture water when floating, water management. I am planning to use this land as my homestead property and raise animals and grow vegetables and trees. I am also planning to raise fish. I am planning to distribute the dirt that I would be digging from the pounds, and grow pasture on them. I am thinking with this action I would be able to convert a floatplane property to a pasture with few large lakes. Am I in a right track?Do you have any other suggestion on how to convert a floatplane land to a workable one?
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.
Great video. I really enjoy Salatin's talks. I am wondering about the chicken tractors: they are very low to the ground so where do the chickens roost at night? Are there nesting boxes and roosts inside?
+Blue Whistler Farm (Amy) I currently don't have any more Polyface videos to upload, no. I may have more videos in the future, but nothing currently in the can.
He has it planned out so there will be a plot that is ready that has rested for a set number of days. Not sure on the numbers or rather the time. He might also run turkeys or pigs or cattle over the lots too.
He doesn't raise broilers in the winter. They've all gone to freezer camp. For his layers, he puts those in a hoop house (greenhouse) with deep mulch bedding for the winter.
Fantastic! There is a company in Pittsburgh that uses goats as weed eaters on all types of land. From vacant lots to public property to steep hillsides that need cleared. Why not work with nature than try to fight a battle sure to be lost. Economic enough to get a trailer to move the goats and some electric fencingto temporarily set up along with willingness. 🌈😃🤙
A little late but here in the southern United States it varies from a month or two months cold (but withstandable...maybe a snow or two.) To hardly having any winter at all
Usually digging isn’t a problem because the coop is being moved every day. More of a problem is gaps because of uneven ground. Joel puts small pieces of wood wherever he finds a gap. What I do is attach an apron of wire around the sides and back of the pen. This prevents digging and eliminates the need for checking for gaps.
+Jim M It's actually "Altar Call" - he's making a religious joke. After extolling the farm life and having his audience enthusiastically agree (that living the farm life would be great and much better than a cubicle office life), he jokes that he's not making an "altar call" (trying to instantly get them to "convert" to the farmlife). At the end of evangelical Christian proselytizing preaching, there is an "altar call" where the listeners are invited to come in front to the altar and pledge their lives to Jesus.
He's like jesus of the farm! It really drives me batty when people say you HAVE TO BELIEVE OR YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME! Its just a way of pastoral conformity! I love this stuff but a soul is powerfull past words and have to"s". Hes awesome! Thankyou!
Tai was his very first apprentice. Tai sought him out because he came across him a magazine and thought his practices and entrepreneurship structure were different.
AxiSymph™ Amen! God bless your farm and may he open doors to you that you've never thought possible. Remember to share, crops, knowledge and encouragement for others.
nerdchelle I think Joel has about 8 interns (5 months of the year), 2 full-time apprentices, plus several full-time workers (office, delivery) as well as several contract farmers (former apprentices) that manage the rental farms. He's doing several million dollars worth of business, so it's not a small operation by any means.
Right, but he also writes, travels, speaks at conferences, etc. so he isn't there to do as much as he did in the beginning years. During the early years, this was just family. I would suspect that you could reach the level you want and not grow any bigger - he also employs those folks, so he is building local economy in many ways.
I think it's definitely possible to reach a level you want and stop. For Joel, his farm's mission is to heal his own land, but also to develop sustainable models and facilitate their duplication throughout the world. So expansion of his farm is part of developing the models at scale, proving that they work for doing millions of dollars' worth of sustainable business, or thousands of dollars' worth. Plus, if people keep coming to you for food and others are coming to you for jobs, it's tough to turn everyone away.
He and some other farmers bought T&E Meats (originally Tom & Edna's) when it was closing up shop. It's a State-inspected facility, so they can sell their beef and pork legally. The chickens/turkeys are still processed on-farm under the Poultry Processor Inspection Act (PPIA). I believe the rabbits also fall under that purview. There's just not much demand for rabbit processing oversight.
THis model of operation is great for animal husbandry. I would love to see a comparable operation for a plant based system with the same amount of land.
I'd be interested to know what Joel Salatin thinks for "vackseneighshuns" for animals and humans alike... there's a lot of research out there that really affects our health as a whole - both in the use of them with humans and animals as well. There is a farmer named Theo Farmer who owns a similar farm at Helios Farms and he has helped A LOT of people, both with their own health, as well as the health of their animals - domestic and farm as well. Theo is the one who also introduced a lot of Mothers to Dr. Klenner's Vitamin C baby plan which has just helped sooooo many Mothers and Babies have a much stronger and healthier start in life. He does something similar with his animals and it's the most interesting concept I've ever heard of. www.heliosfarms.com/blog-1
The tractors are staggered for sanitation reasons. On a hill, any effluent-filled with pathogens from the poo of the chickens-will run downhill underneath all the other tractors if they're not staggered. So the tractors are staggered so that the lowest one on the hill is furthest in front. The furthest one back is highest on the hill. That means that no chicken tractor should ever move into an area that's had recent manure runoff from a chicken tractor above it on the hill. Does that make sense? Here's a picture of the idea: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b4/71/9f/b4719f250b7fec182bbbf60951a97d18.jpg
Also, it allows for 100% field coverage -- when moving, you move the last one right up exactly beside the next one, before moving it forward, and so on... you get 100% coverage of the field that way...
I respect & appreciate the knowledge of caring for the land responsibly. But, if u ask any farmer what he considers the main goal in his or her life time is to " own" the land so he can hand it down to his children & continue the self sufficient means of the family farmer & life style. When u lease the land u definitely have a mobile business because the real land owners could evict you when any better financial offer comes along & then Joel farmer is homeless with no ware to put his cows unless he pays out the wazoo for more properties. Yes, if u can afford the lease incorporating the costs of animals or vegetation profits of any kind then expansion is possible but, someone else owns your farm! U can not sustain a farm on leased land if your lease is cancelled when a better Financial offer for the lands use competes against it! Orange growers are now finding out that even though u own or lease the land they can't make any money growing an orchard full of oranges as u could 20-30 years ago. The government has now begin to implement so many regulated & mandated chemical treatments to insure nothing dangerous in the plant or orange is transferred in processing that it's no longer profitable per each acre. We need to be concerned about the government & like minded big business thats purchasing all the properties & producing the foods we eat grown from GMO's. We are 1 generation away from thinking all produce is grown in a super market. So, I do take issue with simply just leasing the land only. The approach to eliminate independent farmers from owning & producing anything on a business level is under serious attach! If u research the farmers who own & are hanging on to there farms & fighting big corporations for there own lively hood just look up Monsanto & seeds & you'll see that once u fail to own & protect your land as a farm producing business it's over for the farmer! Sadly, the Amish who most of us respect when it comes to farming are finding out that unless they can find the acreage sufficient enough to produce there gardening produce for market that they are desolving the family way of life & working for someone else in the cities. Once we are dependent on working, living, & acquiring our self sufficient & sustainable means from somewhere else then we become slaves of a system or government that can determine who can afford to have & who can not which by the way this country is suffering from now. It's sad to see us go from a self sufficient society to an electronic addicted culture accepting whatever foods are offered before us. Most of what America eats now is imported from another country. Anyone wonder why? And do u think these third world countries are regulated as we are on how they grow or produce there farming culture? If u do own your land you'll find that your taxes are now becoming an issue to pay even if u don't produce on a commercial level. The critical push to detach or tax burden what handful of producing "land owning" farms left are a dying breed. Again, we are 1 generation from becoming a cubical & electronic existing nation. Deregulate & let the farmers feed this country & export the excess. Farmers have never needed any Financial government handout until regulations, taxes, & foreign allowed imports & GMO's flooded this nations markets. That's why now u see a huge push for farmers markets & even flea markets growing in numbers every year now. And what's the governments main concern? How to tax the profits from the poor families trying to scratch out a living & feed the local community. I'm glad to see this nation getting back to local farming In there community. Sadly, instead of supporting this local growth in communities your seeing the push for all sales to be credit card processed for taxing purposes while the push for a cashless society is one step closer. Becareful, when u own nothing & your services & products are leased then "u" become the livestock being moved wherever the location for your services are required. in essence, u become the livestock. Farming is as precious as our second amendment rights! America's rights are not given, they were fought for & died for & this simple truth will not change if u want to keep them. It's starts with one farmer & a community working to grow, build & trade there services locally & then expanding not large Commercial Warehouses selling foreign produced junk @ a cheaper price to save a dollar & convincing u there's no longer a purpose in providing for your own family when big business provides it cheaper.
Kurt: Watch the video's beginning. You missed Joel's fundamental point: A farm is a farm because it has a farmer. Being mobile doesn't enslave, it frees. The land is slowly being stolen by taxation. Taxation is theft, even if the victims agree it is necessary. It isn't. And it's destroying this society and all others who allow themselves to be robbed for the "common good". That's a lie. The good of each individual IN PRINCIPLE is the only common good. Either each individual has rights or no one has rights. No one is protected or safe. Society is not protected. No one, no govt. thug, no employer can enslave you if you self-govern, you insist on owning yourself, "your services & products". Slavery begins in the mind of the enslaved. Want to live free in an unfree world of slaves? It begins with each individual refusing to forfeit sovereignty by not voting for a ruler. One by one we free ourselves. This does not require a consensus. It does not require a community, but a community of sovereigns is very helpful psychologically and materially.
No one can own land. It all belongs to govt. Putting your name on a deed indebts you to pay rent, i.e., property tax. Your biggest asset is your knowledge. It is instantly mobile and invisible to the govt. thugs. For it to be taxed you have to let it happen, volunteer to be governed. At 75 I have self-governed my whole life and lived free. Try it. You might find it feels good to be sovereign. Warning: Once you have lived freely in an unfree world you will be changed forever. For example, you will look at the obedient tax slaves and wonder if you are a different species.
Joel demonstrates here how little he knows about Ag in the arid & semi-arid western U.S. There is a reason that farmers in Nebraska, some parts of Kansas and other places have center-pivot irrigation sprinkler systems. Because without them they will NOT be able to produce a crop. Hence, you WILL NOT be able to get enough stuff to grow for your mobile chicken coops etc, on the "unused corners" of a center-pivot irrigated farm, or you will need to have FAR FEWER animals per acre, because, if you're depending ONLY on rain-fall in THAT part of the U.S. there will not be enough moisture for the grass and other plants to recover after you've "grazed" it each time, such as what he is accustomed to doing in North Carolina.
He mentions jobs, but neglects to disclose that he has a lot of free labor in the form of ‘interns’ which very few farms have. As far as the idea of beautifying the landscape, I doubt you’d convince many people those shabby looking chicken tractors would beautify their property! His ideas are sound, to a point, but a lot of rhetoric too. If you’re going to be mobile you’d better have a bulletproof lease agreement, for example.
His labor isn't free. He feeds and houses them. His training is invaluable. And as far as Internships go, every corporation and politician has them too. By being "mobile" the lease agreement isn't as important as always looking for more lease land to move to. Many cattle operations do this already.
@@WhosKite I could Johnny blueberry seed my way to Florida and ... Too much highway time, might be right for some thouvh. I began farming to connect into the ecosystem, get to know the wild things well enough to learn a bit. As to challenges : Really it is the programs licensed by the Secretary of Commerce, under public law 94-490 October 13th 1976 that have the greatest impact on food production in the 22 years I have had berries and grapes.
Belt and suspenders! This is never a good sign in the engineering world... Is there some reason why farmers need both a belt and suspenders to keep their pants up?
are you talking to me ? ...... if so , i dont know what you have been smoking because you make No SENSE ........ your the troll , your a rude little man , dont troll me .... move onto someone else or ill report you for harrassment
I love Joel Salatin! Somebody give him a Nobel prize
The nobel prize isn't worthy of HIM.
Salatin ideas grows and makes life. May he be blessed with long life.
Though Alfred Nobels may have not been a murderer, but explosives are used to destroy and kill.
Just bought a farm in south jersey, im 40 and your gonna help me be a success
Mark Disario how’s it going?
How's the farm going?
come on Mark! We want to know!
I can’t speak for mark but I just bought 3 acres this year. We have two suscovich tractors going, our egg birds, a small garden and I’m building my pigport. I recommend that if you’re dreaming of this life you should take the plunge. ✌🏻❤️
Dug Nantz we bought a rental property[3 small houses] on two acres in Hawaii, when we are able to finally move out of Pittsburgh, we want to turn it into a small permaculture farm/vacation rental 🌈😃
1. Mobile
2. Modular
3. Management Intensive
at 11:50 What we've done here is we've have traded capital-intensive, stationary infrastructure - concrete, fans, Tyson chicken houses - we have traded that capital- and energy-intensive infrastructure, and pharmaceutically-dependent infrastructure - we have traded that for what Wes Jackson calls 'Eyes to Acre ratio'". So our observational (we watch our creatures in order to rotate them on the land) and managerial expertise displaces the pharmaceuticals and highly capitalized intensive stationary infrastructure of the industry.
at 13:30 "It takes more farm laborers - workers - on the farm ---- but (looks around) -- what an office!"
Thanks for distilling these super useful points!
while i appreciate your interpretation of his third "M" he never actually said that is what it is. the video, or his train of thought, were cut short before he ever defined that third "M". my guess is he never would use "management intensive" as a third advantage or key if for no other reason than it has a negative connotation
@@MrBraffZachlin 11:18
@@ocalicreek fair enough and thank you idk how i missed that. phone musta rang lol.
I have been following Joel since 1990 the son and daughter just baby's. I still have the vhs video. I had it converted to dvd. And i still pick it up and watch it's inspiration.
This is so incredibly encouraging, as I don't think I'll actually get to become a farmer with workable land until around the age of 60.
Starting from somewhere is better then never starting at all.
You can lease someone’s private land to farm on the cheap while leaving out of a trailer. You can start anywhere on anything.
Saying you will never do it be all that it ever was.
Start saying you will do it within five years, then you will.
All land is workable...Just not profitable. Just starting the process with whatever means you have, will teach you more than if you never tried at all.
Believe in yourself, and give it a shot....If you have enough space for 2-3 5gal buckets, youve got your first garden.
"All Those Wasted Corner's". That is pure country gold.
This Man Is Knowable! Great Wisdom! With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding! Thank You Sir! A True Hero!!!!!!!!!
Most important thing is for this to be shared so the world can know and then push for this!
He is right about the capital impediments to getting into agriculture. There is one other obstacle to ppl getting into ag...how the hell do they make any money? This is a difficult question to answer with conventional/industrial ag, but these innovative strategies, like Salatin, Brant, Brown, Ingham and others are putting out there for us, make the profitability of ag more and more attractive.
Wow, this guy is brlliant. Very informative, scary and enouraging.
I love joel.. He is inspiring me to keep it going with my farming technology and cannabis farming company royalplants .. I think farming for a new generation is gonna be a big thing and it will be different! Thanks again Joel and Jeff Gray for uploading and whatever else you do...
Awesome video. I'd love to go and do a internship with them, then bring the ideas back to Australia.
With the 'net, you can "intern" at your computer and be entertained & inspired. No need for capital or attending a trade school. But, you have to be a self-starter, not "just" a dreamer. Start with the dream, end with action. And be prepared to fail off & on. Teach yourself as you go. Why? No one can ever take away or tax what you learn. You can go anywhere in the world and be self-sufficient. Others value those who bring knowledge & independence.
Thank you!! Great video!💖
Capital impediments
This vocabulary is indicat9of the intellect working with nature engenders.
Thank you for what brings you joy
I would add one more: Marketing. If there is no market or outlet for what is produced on the farm, it collapses. In addition, there must be sufficient and appropriate infrastructure to enable sales. E.g. in order to cut out the middle man, there must be a meat processing facility owned by the farmer or a farmer’s co-operative.
Gabe Brown's son says 30% of a farmer's time is marketing. [I could be wrong on the figure but it is substantial] Plus, people queue up for healthy eggs and broilers.
I would trade it in a heart beat
Love this. Inspiring
Very interesting. I'm not a farmer, but very interested in survival prep, so looking at it from that standpoint.
Get some chickens, earth worms, and pigs, great prepper animals and be create a closed loop system of the three. Great for sustainability and handling a lot of the yard work.
I love everything about Joel Salatin. Please be mindful about the volume. All my gear at 100%, and I can't hear what the man is saying
he is so good.
learning to farm a small 8ft by 4ft vegetable plot in my backyard, then on to chickens as well. Clearly my scaling is hobbyist level.
Love it!
Hi, I am planning to purchase a 70 acres land which is in floatplane and a natural creek goes through by one side of the land. I am planning to work with this plan by digging few large pounds, together 10-12 acres by 10 feet deep, to capture water when floating, water management. I am planning to use this land as my homestead property and raise animals and grow vegetables and trees. I am also planning to raise fish. I am planning to distribute the dirt that I would be digging from the pounds, and grow pasture on them. I am thinking with this action I would be able to convert a floatplane property to a pasture with few large lakes. Am I in a right track?Do you have any other suggestion on how to convert a floatplane land to a workable one?
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.
I also need major help at my farm. I’m hoping I can scratch a living out of the land.
My Dad picks up my poop, but I don't know if that little baggie would work for a cow.
All the videos about him make me want to read one of his books.
MegaSafetyFirst then do, 30 minuets before bed is all it takes
Do it
So smart!
Great video. I really enjoy Salatin's talks. I am wondering about the chicken tractors: they are very low to the ground so where do the chickens roost at night? Are there nesting boxes and roosts inside?
The chickens just roost on the ground. Birds often roost in grass and the chickens don't mind.
Thank you.
They are meat chickens do not roost . only live about 6 to 8 weeks before killing day.
Jim McKee pst, chickens will start roosting on elevated perches by 4 weeks old or so if they have the opportunity
and what about predators ??
9:10 seconds chicken freaks out for no apparent reason and hits the frame of that mobile chicken coop, hahah
xD hahaha very diligent
Would love more videos! Have any waiting to be uploaded?
+Blue Whistler Farm (Amy) I currently don't have any more Polyface videos to upload, no. I may have more videos in the future, but nothing currently in the can.
How do you do to sale all the chickens?
Wenn ich sehe die Käfige offen- habt ihr kein Problem mit Marder oder Fuchs?
What happens when all the chicken boxes reach the end of the field? Do they rotate or just reverse direction with just one week vegetation growth?
He has it planned out so there will be a plot that is ready that has rested for a set number of days. Not sure on the numbers or rather the time. He might also run turkeys or pigs or cattle over the lots too.
Typical convention is to not run over the same land twice in the same year.
Do the these chicken tractors with low roofs work in warmer climates? I seem to not find good ideas about warm and dry climate pastured chicken
Yes, we use them often here in Texas. You'll need birds that are heat hardy and not cold weather birds.
What does he do with the chickens in the winter?
He doesn't raise broilers in the winter. They've all gone to freezer camp.
For his layers, he puts those in a hoop house (greenhouse) with deep mulch bedding for the winter.
That makes sense, thanks!
Fantastic! There is a company in Pittsburgh that uses goats as weed eaters on all types of land. From vacant lots to public property to steep hillsides that need cleared. Why not work with nature than try to fight a battle sure to be lost. Economic enough to get a trailer to move the goats and some electric fencingto temporarily set up along with willingness. 🌈😃🤙
Hello.how many months of winter in the place where you live?I am from Russia and I am interested in the experience of American farmers)thanks
A little late but here in the southern United States it varies from a month or two months cold (but withstandable...maybe a snow or two.) To hardly having any winter at all
How do you keep predators from getting underneath the coop by digging?
Usually digging isn’t a problem because the coop is being moved every day. More of a problem is gaps because of uneven ground. Joel puts small pieces of wood wherever he finds a gap. What I do is attach an apron of wire around the sides and back of the pen. This prevents digging and eliminates the need for checking for gaps.
Whic country??
"how many people would love to trade their dilbert commute". holy cow, would I.
What are the 3 M's? Modular, Mobile...What's the other?
+awaitingcertainty
"Management Intensive"
When is the alter call?
+Jim M It's actually "Altar Call" - he's making a religious joke. After extolling the farm life and having his audience enthusiastically agree (that living the farm life would be great and much better than a cubicle office life), he jokes that he's not making an "altar call" (trying to instantly get them to "convert" to the farmlife). At the end of evangelical Christian proselytizing preaching, there is an "altar call" where the listeners are invited to come in front to the altar and pledge their lives to Jesus.
+awaitingcertainty I meant alter as in alter the world but Altar is ok too.
He's like jesus of the farm! It really drives me batty when people say you HAVE TO BELIEVE OR YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME! Its just a way of pastoral conformity! I love this stuff but a soul is powerfull past words and have to"s". Hes awesome! Thankyou!
What I want to know if the chickens aren't hot in Those small coob??? Mine is 8 feet tall like lol
Joel Salatin dod you really mentor tai lopez, and how is he as a person
Tai was his very first apprentice. Tai sought him out because he came across him a magazine and thought his practices and entrepreneurship structure were different.
AxiSymph™ Amen! God bless your farm and may he open doors to you that you've never thought possible. Remember to share, crops, knowledge and encouragement for others.
I saw there was a video on youtube where joel was talking about him but IDK who tai lopez is so I didnt care to watch it.
what about winter?
at least your layers have to be put in a stable of some kind.
He puts them in hoop houses for the winter and then grows food in them in the summer.
So about how many people does it take to manage a farm like this?
nerdchelle I think Joel has about 8 interns (5 months of the year), 2 full-time apprentices, plus several full-time workers (office, delivery) as well as several contract farmers (former apprentices) that manage the rental farms. He's doing several million dollars worth of business, so it's not a small operation by any means.
Right, but he also writes, travels, speaks at conferences, etc. so he isn't there to do as much as he did in the beginning years. During the early years, this was just family. I would suspect that you could reach the level you want and not grow any bigger - he also employs those folks, so he is building local economy in many ways.
I think it's definitely possible to reach a level you want and stop. For Joel, his farm's mission is to heal his own land, but also to develop sustainable models and facilitate their duplication throughout the world. So expansion of his farm is part of developing the models at scale, proving that they work for doing millions of dollars' worth of sustainable business, or thousands of dollars' worth.
Plus, if people keep coming to you for food and others are coming to you for jobs, it's tough to turn everyone away.
Jeff Gray how has he made himself his own meat processor legally?
He and some other farmers bought T&E Meats (originally Tom & Edna's) when it was closing up shop. It's a State-inspected facility, so they can sell their beef and pork legally. The chickens/turkeys are still processed on-farm under the Poultry Processor Inspection Act (PPIA). I believe the rabbits also fall under that purview. There's just not much demand for rabbit processing oversight.
Animals and an environment that can sustain those animals with GREEN stuff. And a farmer that manages all those animals and environment.
Water and salt needed too. Animals and humans. And all managed with fencing to keep animals on that green stuff.
Where can I go to see the mathematics of farming chickens this way?
Just search TH-cam for some of his videos. I think there’s a video of him with a man named Justin talking about it.
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How do you remove chicken poo?
THis model of operation is great for animal husbandry.
I would love to see a comparable operation for a plant based system with the same amount of land.
Frank Johnson Check out Paul Gautschi
How old were the researchers who concluded the age is 35.
Just curious not trying to take a jab at Joe but wearing a belt plus suspenders that's seems abit odd. Great vid all the same
I know a few ole boys that do the same. Lol
It’s so he can carry tools on his belt.
Where is this beautiful piece of land
Swoope, Virginia, USA
@@JeffGray thanks!
we just have cold months)
I'd be interested to know what Joel Salatin thinks for "vackseneighshuns" for animals and humans alike... there's a lot of research out there that really affects our health as a whole - both in the use of them with humans and animals as well. There is a farmer named Theo Farmer who owns a similar farm at Helios Farms and he has helped A LOT of people, both with their own health, as well as the health of their animals - domestic and farm as well. Theo is the one who also introduced a lot of Mothers to Dr. Klenner's Vitamin C baby plan which has just helped sooooo many Mothers and Babies have a much stronger and healthier start in life. He does something similar with his animals and it's the most interesting concept I've ever heard of. www.heliosfarms.com/blog-1
Why are the chicken tractors staggered across the field?
The tractors are staggered for sanitation reasons. On a hill, any effluent-filled with pathogens from the poo of the chickens-will run downhill underneath all the other tractors if they're not staggered. So the tractors are staggered so that the lowest one on the hill is furthest in front. The furthest one back is highest on the hill. That means that no chicken tractor should ever move into an area that's had recent manure runoff from a chicken tractor above it on the hill. Does that make sense?
Here's a picture of the idea: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b4/71/9f/b4719f250b7fec182bbbf60951a97d18.jpg
Also, it allows for 100% field coverage -- when moving, you move the last one right up exactly beside the next one, before moving it forward, and so on... you get 100% coverage of the field that way...
I think the definition of vegetarian is "poor hunter"
Nikes average is brought down by all the 8 year old they have in their sweat shops 😂
I respect & appreciate the knowledge of caring for the land responsibly. But, if u ask any farmer what he considers the main goal in his or her life time is to " own" the land so he can hand it down to his children & continue the self sufficient means of the family farmer & life style. When u lease the land u definitely have a mobile business because the real land owners could evict you when any better financial offer comes along & then Joel farmer is homeless with no ware to put his cows unless he pays out the wazoo for more properties. Yes, if u can afford the lease incorporating the costs of animals or vegetation profits of any kind then expansion is possible but, someone else owns your farm! U can not sustain a farm on leased land if your lease is cancelled when a better Financial offer for the lands use competes against it! Orange growers are now finding out that even though u own or lease the land they can't make any money growing an orchard full of oranges as u could 20-30 years ago. The government has now begin to implement so many regulated & mandated chemical treatments to insure nothing dangerous in the plant or orange is transferred in processing that it's no longer profitable per each acre. We need to be concerned about the government & like minded big business thats purchasing all the properties & producing the foods we eat grown from GMO's. We are 1 generation away from thinking all produce is grown in a super market. So, I do take issue with simply just leasing the land only. The approach to eliminate independent farmers from owning & producing anything on a business level is under serious attach! If u research the farmers who own & are hanging on to there farms & fighting big corporations for there own lively hood just look up Monsanto & seeds & you'll see that once u fail to own & protect your land as a farm producing business it's over for the farmer! Sadly, the Amish who most of us respect when it comes to farming are finding out that unless they can find the acreage sufficient enough to produce there gardening produce for market that they are desolving the family way of life & working for someone else in the cities. Once we are dependent on working, living, & acquiring our self sufficient & sustainable means from somewhere else then we become slaves of a system or government that can determine who can afford to have & who can not which by the way this country is suffering from now. It's sad to see us go from a self sufficient society to an electronic addicted culture accepting whatever foods are offered before us. Most of what America eats now is imported from another country. Anyone wonder why? And do u think these third world countries are regulated as we are on how they grow or produce there farming culture? If u do own your land you'll find that your taxes are now becoming an issue to pay even if u don't produce on a commercial level. The critical push to detach or tax burden what handful of producing "land owning" farms left are a dying breed. Again, we are 1 generation from becoming a cubical & electronic existing nation. Deregulate & let the farmers feed this country & export the excess. Farmers have never needed any Financial government handout until regulations, taxes, & foreign allowed imports & GMO's flooded this nations markets. That's why now u see a huge push for farmers markets & even flea markets growing in numbers every year now. And what's the governments main concern? How to tax the profits from the poor families trying to scratch out a living & feed the local community. I'm glad to see this nation getting back to local farming In there community. Sadly, instead of supporting this local growth in communities your seeing the push for all sales to be credit card processed for taxing purposes while the push for a cashless society is one step closer. Becareful, when u own nothing & your services & products are leased then "u" become the livestock being moved wherever the location for your services are required. in essence, u become the livestock. Farming is as precious as our second amendment rights! America's rights are not given, they were fought for & died for & this simple truth will not change if u want to keep them. It's starts with one farmer & a community working to grow, build & trade there services locally & then expanding not large Commercial Warehouses selling foreign produced junk @ a cheaper price to save a dollar & convincing u there's no longer a purpose in providing for your own family when big business provides it cheaper.
Kurt: Watch the video's beginning. You missed Joel's fundamental point: A farm is a farm because it has a farmer. Being mobile doesn't enslave, it frees. The land is slowly being stolen by taxation. Taxation is theft, even if the victims agree it is necessary. It isn't. And it's destroying this society and all others who allow themselves to be robbed for the "common good". That's a lie. The good of each individual IN PRINCIPLE is the only common good. Either each individual has rights or no one has rights. No one is protected or safe. Society is not protected.
No one, no govt. thug, no employer can enslave you if you self-govern, you insist on owning yourself, "your services & products". Slavery begins in the mind of the enslaved. Want to live free in an unfree world of slaves? It begins with each individual refusing to forfeit sovereignty by not voting for a ruler. One by one we free ourselves. This does not require a consensus. It does not require a community, but a community of sovereigns is very helpful psychologically and materially.
stfu you make zero sense and you didnt watch the video
for those who want to know how to claim land....google the "adverse possession"...good luck :)
Good way to come up missing with your face on a missing persons poster.
No one can own land. It all belongs to govt. Putting your name on a deed indebts you to pay rent, i.e., property tax. Your biggest asset is your knowledge. It is instantly mobile and invisible to the govt. thugs. For it to be taxed you have to let it happen, volunteer to be governed. At 75 I have self-governed my whole life and lived free. Try it. You might find it feels good to be sovereign. Warning: Once you have lived freely in an unfree world you will be changed forever. For example, you will look at the obedient tax slaves and wonder if you are a different species.
Joel demonstrates here how little he knows about Ag in the arid & semi-arid western U.S. There is a reason that farmers in Nebraska, some parts of Kansas and other places have center-pivot irrigation sprinkler systems. Because without them they will NOT be able to produce a crop. Hence, you WILL NOT be able to get enough stuff to grow for your mobile chicken coops etc, on the "unused corners" of a center-pivot irrigated farm, or you will need to have FAR FEWER animals per acre, because, if you're depending ONLY on rain-fall in THAT part of the U.S. there will not be enough moisture for the grass and other plants to recover after you've "grazed" it each time, such as what he is accustomed to doing in North Carolina.
just sounds like you're butthurt and making excuses for not taking any action
Would love to hear what Joel has to say about people like Bill Gates buying up farmland & where that's all going.
I thought it said joe stallins farming at first....
The commune 😎
High fertilizer production.
He mentions jobs, but neglects to disclose that he has a lot of free labor in the form of ‘interns’ which very few farms have. As far as the idea of beautifying the landscape, I doubt you’d convince many people those shabby looking chicken tractors would beautify their property!
His ideas are sound, to a point, but a lot of rhetoric too. If you’re going to be mobile you’d better have a bulletproof lease agreement, for example.
His labor isn't free. He feeds and houses them. His training is invaluable. And as far as Internships go, every corporation and politician has them too. By being "mobile" the lease agreement isn't as important as always looking for more lease land to move to. Many cattle operations do this already.
@@bigdpw i really want to an internship like this but live in the UK so he won't take people on from outside the USA
Cow’s grazing on the side of Highway’s no so good full of heavy metals from the cars !
Bill Gates must have watched this video. He is now the largest farmland owner in the US. Scary and strange times.
Hello from 2020, corona COVID-19 greets you
I'll trade you
Maybe it's just my puter but i can barely hear him with the volume turned all the way up. I gave up and shut the video off.=(
It's your machine. I had to turn up the volume somewhat but not all the way.
Mobile blueberry farm ?
That will be a trick
Get a bunch of people to let you plant blueberries in there yard and have an enclosed trailer to do harvesting and processing?
@@WhosKite I could Johnny blueberry seed my way to Florida and ...
Too much highway time, might be right for some thouvh.
I began farming to connect into the ecosystem, get to know the wild things well enough to learn a bit.
As to challenges :
Really it is the programs licensed by the Secretary of Commerce, under public law 94-490 October 13th 1976 that have the greatest impact on food production in the 22 years I have had berries and grapes.
Is this the guy that Tai Lopez lived with for a few years ?
Yes
If you don't own the land then you are a "share-cropper"
Belt and suspenders! This is never a good sign in the engineering world... Is there some reason why farmers need both a belt and suspenders to keep their pants up?
suspenders and a belt...
He’s got all his bases covered in case there’s a failure. 😃
don't those get incredibly hot for the chickens
trump 2016!!
15 thousand lies....thanks.
I don't look at it as a business in decline. It's the entire country that's in decline.
nomads
so this guy is famous now ? does he make more money by talking or farming ?
are you talking to me ? ...... if so , i dont know what you have been smoking because you make No SENSE ........ your the troll , your a rude little man , dont troll me .... move onto someone else or ill report you for harrassment