Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
Joel F. Salatinis an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain't Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
mean thinking people
'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
oxygen ecosystems roots
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.
world lessons way
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
christian humorous libertarian
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.
safety police wipe
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
giving good-food
Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
moments god-is-in-control imperatives
My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
mean needs cows
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
eggs smell cooking
I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.
writing firsts wells
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
customers
Always listen to your customers.
interesting people advice
My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.
courts protected suggesting
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.
sell suddenly work
We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.