Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true. Joel Salatin agriculturebombardchicken share on social
Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others. Joel Salatin chickenchickennessconfine Change image and share on social
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. Joel Salatin charterchickencorner share on social
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here. Joel Salatin callcultivateecology share on social
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns. Joel Salatin adherebusinessfarm Change image and share on social
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society. Joel Salatin figuregrowkleenex Change image and share on social
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. Joel Salatin cutdesigndomestic Change image and share on social
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. Joel Salatin citycollardeserve Change image and share on social
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness. Joel Salatin clevernesscompartmentalizecount share on social
