Joel Salatin in Idaho: 10 Threads to Farming Success

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This video was recorded on Nov. 18th 2014 at the Sustainable Agriculture Symposium sponsored by the Idaho Center for Sustainable Agriculture. This is segment 3 of 3 of a lecture by Joel Salatin.

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- work with and on the landscape
- eclectic awareness
- entrepreneurial "can do" spirit
- live frugaly
- assemble your team
- direct market
- gross-margin analysis for each production
- multi-entreprise
- time and motion studies
- portable farming
Bought the neighbor's house in a foreclosure, took down the house, cut down a bunch of huge old trees to let the sun in and now preparing to animal farm and garden and water retention.
Did not get the fifth point
My hero!!
Another word is "husbandry" for Mr. Salatins style of farming. I like it.
Joel is a great speaker and can motivate even the laziest person to get up and do something for the environment!
- Make just enough money to pay your property taxes. :)
- 40 years ago, everyone knew that the skin and fat of chickens was good for you! (And on a pasture-fed chicken that has not been dusted with toxins, or had it's bedding dusted with toxins, or raised on medicated feed... that eats bugs & grass along with a healthy ration, that gets sunshine and fresh air - it IS!) Not to mention that the skin and bone adds a lot of flavor!
- "The solution is the compilation of a lot of little things done right." Joel Salatin
- 'And it doesn't regulation. It doesn't take litigation. It doens't take negotiation. It doesn't even take a non-profit organization.' Joel Salatin
- BTW, borrowing from another fast-food outlet, we call that glued together food-like substance "Chicken preTenders."
But Joel - If there is a Monsanto plant in the crowd, that's your opportunity to CONVERT them! :)
come for the knowledge, stayed for the wisdom and the comedy
Joel Salatin is a genius.