Joel Salatin Quotes
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We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
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Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
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Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.
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What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
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Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.
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The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'
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An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
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I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
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Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
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The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
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My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
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We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
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I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.
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Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.
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The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.