A few of our employees got the chance to go see Joel Salatin a few days ago! A prolific writer and public speaker, Joel Salatin's main gig is as a family farmer at Polyface Farm. He has taken part in various documentaries like Food Inc and Farmageddon.
He explained that organizing a compost pickup and then using it in your town for growing gardens is only halfway there. Skip the pickup truck! Compost at your own house! And what to do with all those food scraps? Feed them to your chickens. He said there was a reason that every house used to have chickens once upon a time. Feed your food scraps to the chickens, and they turn it into eggs and fertilizer for your gardens, thus helping you have fertile ground to grow your own food. Joel said that if every household had their own chickens, there would be no factory farmed egg industry, which would save tons of money and resources.
Joel was nearby our offices in Concord MA to speak at the Fenn School as a part of the Concord Museum's Agriculture Exhibition. It was a fantastic talk, just as lively and challenging as you've come to expect. He opened out minds about what it means to be truly and explained how his "beyond organic" farm works. It was inspirational! Here are a few pictures from the night.
Joel did a book signing afterwards. He stayed as long as people wanted to talk and ask questions! He was promoting his new book "Folks, This Ain't Normal". Check it out!
He explained that organizing a compost pickup and then using it in your town for growing gardens is only halfway there. Skip the pickup truck! Compost at your own house! And what to do with all those food scraps? Feed them to your chickens. He said there was a reason that every house used to have chickens once upon a time. Feed your food scraps to the chickens, and they turn it into eggs and fertilizer for your gardens, thus helping you have fertile ground to grow your own food. Joel said that if every household had their own chickens, there would be no factory farmed egg industry, which would save tons of money and resources.
Joel was nearby our offices in Concord MA to speak at the Fenn School as a part of the Concord Museum's Agriculture Exhibition. It was a fantastic talk, just as lively and challenging as you've come to expect. He opened out minds about what it means to be truly and explained how his "beyond organic" farm works. It was inspirational! Here are a few pictures from the night.
600 people gathered at the Fenn School - a school for boys that teaches gardening and farming!
Joel did a book signing afterwards. He stayed as long as people wanted to talk and ask questions! He was promoting his new book "Folks, This Ain't Normal". Check it out!
Bethany (Regulatory & Social), Jesse and Findley Davis with Joel Salatin
Allisa St Pierre (Marketing), Heather Moser (Planning & Innovation) and Findley.
Labels: agriculture, folks this ain't normal, gardening, joel salatin, local
We have been checking out this cool new local food movement website. Max Kane has created FarmMatch.com, a site used to connect farmers to consumers. Brought to our attention from the Food Freedom Group, you can enter your info and let the site match your farm needs to local farmers.
The site takes into account quality requirements like grass-fed or GMO-free and gets down to the nitty-gritty details of what types of products you're looking for. If you're interested in nuts, you can specify: macadamias, but not pecans.
Said Kane of his site, "We are doing what has never been done before. Everything on the internet offers food discovery and then stops. FarmMatch.com is a quad discovery system offering food, market, community, and voice discovery, all necessary to build community around food. The market discovery for farmers alone is priceless."
It also caters to restaurants. People looking to eat local can find offerings in their area. Joel Salatin praised the website, saying "A hurried, harried populace disconnected from food needs network facilitators and I haven't seen anything more comprehensive for accomplishing this than Max Kane's FarmMatch!"
Thousands of people have signed up for the website all over the world, but its looking a little sparse in our area near NH. Try it out and let us know what you think!
Labels: consumer, farm, farm match, farmers, joel salatin, markets, match, max kane, share
Fighting the good fight can be tiring. For all of our optimism, concerns about soil depletion, the logistics of true sustainability, and the apparent staying power of factory farms can plant little seeds of doubt in our otherwise happy outlook. Luckily, men like Joel Salatin exist. And not only does he exist and do good and noble work, but he tirelessly strives to help people understand that a picturesque food future is closer and more simple than we think. Check out this excellent video interview with Joel Salatin of Polyface farms. He breaks down the natural, simple answer to our current food, farming (and lifestyle) challenges. The answer stems from looking to the past for answers, not the future. Please pass around this inspiring and encouraging perspective. More information on this program as well as additional resources from Joel at Food Freedom News. And take a few minutes to find out more about Joel and Polyface Farms. Enjoy!
Labels: farming, food, joel salatin, local, permaculture, sustainability, the future
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