This last weekend Kristie, Kaylee and I had the opportunity to go visit Joel Salatin's Polyface Inc. farm in Stauton, VA.
Joel is one of the leading pioneers in the sustainable farming movement and is very good at what he does. Their farm focuses mainly on meat production (pastured beef, poultry, pork and rabbits) and is a second generation operation. According to him, the farm was started by his father back in the 60s from near scratch. Today it is arguably one of the most famous sustainable agriculture farms and an operation that employs 20 people and has operations on 7 separate farms.
Joel hosts a 'field day/open house' every 3 years where they hold talks and allow people to just roam free all over the farm. We took a ton of pics and will post little mini-pieces on each of his operations as we sort through the data. So here's a few pics to get us started and stay tuned in the future for more detailed descriptions of all the knowledges we gained this last weekend.
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| 1700 people showed up for the 2011 PolyFace Inc. farm visit |
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| The pasture where all the magics happen. |
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| Joel leading the 8AM farm tour |
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