Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farm gives our class a tour of the farm, explaining his methodology and reasoning along the way. He also explains why the methods used on his farm are more sustainable, safe and productive than methods used by modern agribusiness in today’s food production. Polyface Farm’s Website: www.polyfacefarms.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
hay what is that thing on the floor . is that straw ?
How big is that hoop house?
“it bypasses […] processing”.
It’s more easy to get rid of plastic with small scale than large scale agriculture, mister said it himself, and indeed there will be no solution as long as small scale “is not something wich is sort of accepted as central to the sustainability debate.”
Thank you – I will check out Mr. Holmgren’s material.
Natural & healthy = artificial & toxic ? no. Relativism is n°1 thinking reversal.
“Permaculture ≈ “garden agriculture”. […] but gardening is not something wich is sort of accepted as central to the sustainability debate.
We say that it actually is, […] not primarily because of the elements of the production system, but just because it bypasses the whole chain of supply from the farm gate through all the packaging & processing & transport & storage, to final consumption.” D. Holmgren
Well a lot of stuff is toxic in some way or some concentration but you have to start some where and get going. I still don’t think thinking reversal and orwellian are the right labels for food produced this way. How much of that toxicity really ends up in the soil and the produced food and at what significant concentrations? can you buy less toxic stuff in your supermarket? can you produce less toxic food and live by selling it?
PVC is toxic on its own, not to mention the adjuvents, especially when it’s labelled “uv resistant”, with LDPE then it’s particularly the adjuvants. In both case we have to look at the whole chain, helpless are the fabrication, consommation (short-lived stuff unless.. adjuvants) & dumping processes. Things that will stay in the soil & the oceans are clogged with it already.
Khaki Campbells : lovely eggs & meat & love sleeping outdoors even when freezing, just break the pond’s ice & it’s happy.
do you have proof for this?
Trashing the place indeed. This type of plastic is one of the most dangerous consommation product ever made on the face of the Earth. Miles of it here.
Imagine instead of the white plastic here you have asbestos. Now everyone know it would be a real concern. Yet this white plastic is as toxic, if not more toxic than asbestos. Trials and errors maybe.
The place is actually completely trashed and people think it’s the most super healthy way. This is thinking reversal, almost orwellian stuff.
Gm grain is real cheap. Asbestos is real cheap.
Those are some lucky chickens!
The mother rabbit is used to Joel’s scent. Not like a wild animal.
They are beautiful to Joel, because they are the least costly way to give the chickens sunlight, warmth and shelter through the winter. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I love it.
that’s a myth, nearly every rabbit breeder out there moves kits around.
Why can’t we “POSSIBLY PROCLAME” sustainability or safety? Can’t you see how many chickens were there? What do you mean inhumane? Do we need to build a castle to grow animals and vegetables? His uniform is very much appropriate with this line of job. It’s for dirt purposes. Anyway, hope to see your farm also so we could learn from you aryafeydakin.
“Those greenhouses look inhumane” Oh well we may as well all give up and just keep trashing the place then.
that little rabbit will die, his mom will not feed him because he have a new scent
his voice is annoying
Rhode Island Red hens?
You sound just like my mother!
Thumbs up for the crazy chicken in the final seconds of the video!
5:47: Favorite part!
ONly in his neck of the woods, in texas here we can do it all year! (Long live texas)!
Those white greenhouses are ugly as sin, can’t we come up with something else…