In our latest episode, Wild Abundance travels to Swoope, Virginia for a fun and fascinating conversation with Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms.  Polyface is truly one of our favorite sources of amazing local food! In this conversation we do learn that there are a strangely high number of acres of American soil devoted to raising horses - but tune into to hear the real juicy meat of the show:

• Local food catches fire!
• The Polyface Story - economy, environment and emotion
• "Bad Trip" - Joel's scoop on industrial farming
• Sustainable farming - respecting nature and life
• Sweet Soil - Creating a terrain of health
• Disease is easy - pathogen friendly food supply
• Taste Matters - pastured food is beyond delicious
• Seasonality at Polyface - healthy for farm and family
• Protecting Consumer Freedoms - Joel on the Weston A. Price Foundation 
• Saving You From Nature - the great irony of "food safety"
• Good food production is romantic and beautiful

 

About Joel Salatin and Polyface - "The Farm of Many Faces":

 

Polyface, Inc. is a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

 

We produce:

• Salad Bar Beef
• Pigaerator Pork
• Pastured Poultry (Eggs, Broilers, Turkeys)
• Forage-Based Rabbits
• Forestry Products

We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture. Writing, speaking, and farm tours offer various message venues.

 

Experience the satisfaction of knowing your food and your farmer, building community.  We are your clean meat connection.

 

Joel Salatin is unarguably the world's foremost voice on local, sustainable and artisanal farming.  A prolific writer, speaker and advocate, Joel has been featured in the movies Fresh and Food, Inc. as well as in Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivores Dilemma.  His own writing includes the new release The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer as well as Everything I Want to Do is Illegal, You Can Farm, Salad Bar Beef, Holy Cows and Hog Heaven, Pasture Poultry Profits and Family Friendly Farming.

 

Visit Polyface online at: www.polyfacefarms.com