I had the amazing opportunity to hear Joel Salatin talk (one of the best birthday presents ever!!!!)He's the owner of Polyface, Inc. (the farm of many faces) in Virginia. He's such a wonderful-charismatic-funny man with a beautiful southern accent (which I have greatly missed). I listened to what he had to say. I learned many things. These were the most profound for me:
- Organic farming can be very profitable! He spoke a lot about his theory/practices (animal/crop roations, forage-only feeding, etc), but mostly about how the way that he looks at the overall picture of his farm (sustainable lumber harvest, compost generation, etc) to actually generate money for him. I think this is the only way to make organic farming appealling to the masses....show them the money!
- The pigness of the pig; This simple idea is how he makes his decisions about how to raise animals for human consumption. He respects the nature of the animal {i.e. how would this animal reside naturally?} and tries to mimic that as closely as possible on his farm.
You can check out his website here: http://www.polyfacefarms.com/default.aspx Now that's what I call transparency - detailed descriptions of his farming techniques, complete with photographs!!
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