Joel and Teresa Salatin co-own T&E Meats in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the closest federal inspected abattoir to Polyface. Keeping this community-oriented facility in business during the transition from its former retiring owners was and continues to be a great satisfaction. We are reaching out now to our larger community to fill a significant and critical need at the […]

A handful of farmers around the world have figured out how to make a white collar salary from their enterprises.  Using his own and others’ experiences, Joel Salatin offers the common principles utilized by these successful farm businesses.  YOU CAN FARM, for 20 years, has inspired thousands to start farms; this is the graduate level material refined and gleaned […]

To develop environmentally, economically, and emotionally enhancing agricultural prototypes and facilitate their duplication throughout the world.  Notice this does not say anything about sales volume. Thematically, this mission statement addresses farming directly and food tangentially. Good farming does not necessarily create good food systems because the food can spoil or be adulterated in processing. One […]