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Because the average American farmer is now 60 years old, half of all agricultural equity will change hands in the next 15 years.\u00a0 If young people can\u2019t get in, old people can\u2019t get out; both generations need an access ramp: one to get on and one to get off. Farm launch protocols require access to land (not<\/span><\/p>\n ownership), markets, capital and labor (team building). Drawing on a lifetime of experience in this space, Joel leads aspiring farmers through the launch process.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The dinner plate links the soil to our micro-biome; it\u2019s the conduit in which degeneration or regeneration flows. The choice is ours. In a convenience-dominated culture, connecting life and land requires conviction and participation, which in turn demands investment. The foodscape our grandchildren inherit is being determined today, every day, by our menu decisions. Let\u2019s make both land and life a great place to be.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.7″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Joel Salatin, 62, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson.\u00a0 Those who don\u2019t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate.<\/span><\/p>\n With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 12 published books, and a thriving multi-generational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world.\u00a0 He\u2019s as comfortable moving cows in a pasture as addressing CEOs in a Wall Street business conference.<\/span><\/p>\n His wide-ranging topics include nitty-gritty how-to for profitable regenerative farming as well as cultural philosophy like orthodoxy vs. heresy.\u00a0 A wordsmith and master communicator, he moves audiences from laughs one minute to tears the next, from frustration to hopefulness.\u00a0 Often receiving standing ovations, he prefers the word performance rather than presentation to describe his lectures.\u00a0 His favorite activity?\u2013Q&A.\u00a0 \u201cI love the interaction,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia.\u00a0 Featured in the <\/span>New York Times <\/span><\/i>bestseller <\/span>Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma<\/span><\/i> and award-winning documentary <\/span>Food Inc., <\/span><\/i>the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers\u2019 market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products.\u00a0 When he\u2019s not on the road speaking, he\u2019s at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.<\/span><\/p>\n Salatin is the editor of <\/span>The Stockman Grass Farmer<\/span><\/i>, granddaddy catalyst for the grass farming movement.\u00a0 He writes the <\/span>Pitchfork Pulpit<\/span><\/i> column for <\/span>Mother Earth News,<\/span><\/i> as well as numerous guest articles for <\/span>ACRES USA<\/span><\/i> and other publications.\u00a0 A frequent guest on radio programs and podcasts targeting preppers, homesteaders, and foodies, Salatin\u2019s practical, can-do solutions tied to passionate soliloquies for sustainability offer everyone food for thought and plans for action.<\/span><\/p>\n Mixing mischievous humor with hard-hitting information, Salatin both entertains and moves people. 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BUILDING A RESILIENT FOODSCAPE: LINKING LAND AND LIFE<\/span><\/h2>\n
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