Joel Salatin
To develop environmentally, economically, and emotionally enhancing agricultural prototypes and facilitate their duplication throughout the world.
We’d like to explain why Polyface is your best source of food not because it’s nutrient dense; not because it tastes good; not because it has delightful texture., although all of those are also true. The reason why Polyface deserves your patronage is because it heals land. Over the years, numerous scientists have used Polyface land to study our farming principles.
More wildlife. More earthworms. Cleaner water. More soil. Higher fertility and more dense vegetation. We do not say these things pridefully; far from it. The clear and definite developments attest to the Creator’s design that we humbly follow. If they didn’t work, we would doubt nature’s template, nature’s pattern. But the fact that they do work, and work abundantly and aesthetically, proves the authenticity, the efficacy, of living systems’ design. Healing land is what we do. Your patron-age touches land through our hands. It’s that simple. Unless you’ve been sleeping lately, you know that the local food/alternative food space is getting crowded. Just 15 years ago Polyface was the only game in town. Today, dozens compete in this space. That’s a good thing, but just like any growing movement, it comes with downsides. All sorts of different narratives, marketing phrases, and claims vie for your attention. This chorus can be con-fusing at best; paralyzing at worst.
Online Training
Make your homesteading and self-reliance dreams a reality! Let Joel Salatin guide you through the process of creating a successful and profitable homestead or farmstead. Introducing Foundations of Farming and Homesteading For the first time ever, Joel Salatin’s 60+ years of farming knowledge and experience has been condensed into a video course just for you.
Polyfaces Film
‘Polyfaces’ is a joyful film about connecting to the land and the community. Produced over 4 years it follows the Salatin’s, a 4th generation farming family who do ‘everything different to everyone else’ as they produce food in a way that works with nature, not against it. Using the symbiotic relationships of animals and their natural functions, they produce high quality, nutrient-dense products.
His speaking and writing reflect dirt-under-the-fingernails experience punctuated with mischievous humor. He passionately defends small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm. Four generations of his family currently live and work on the farm.
Books by Joel Salatin
Joel’s Blog
"Frequent meditations or devotionals centered on food and farming that bring a wise and humble conscience to practice, policy, and participation."
Joe Rogan Experience #1478
Joel Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain’t Normal, You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. His latest book, co-authored with Dr. Sina McCullough, Beyond Labels: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion One Bite at a Time is available for preorder now.