I'm so happy that we've been able to put this together - Joel Salatin is a living legend in the field of 'beyond organic' and permaculture farming.
Note that this is an online video workshop, but by attending in Ailsa Craig, you will save a significant amount of money compared to doing the workshop online at home (one sixth the price for all three days), plus you'll get to meet other fellow farmers, aspiring farmers, and urban agriculture enthusiasts.
Full details, including how to pre-register, follow below.
3 days of workshops with Joel Salatin, the inspiring owner of Polyface Farms featured in the film Food Inc!
March 20: You Can Farm – The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise. Register here.
March 21: Pastured Poultry Profits - Net $25,000 in 6 Months on 20 Acres. Register here.
March 22: Salad Bar Beef. Register here.
Get a discount if you Register for all 3!
Workshops will be held at Ye Olde Towne Hall in Ailsa Craig.
(Misguided) Industry experts agree: local, organic and sustainable alternatives are inefficient, perhaps even dangerous, often even illegal, and certainly never profitable!
Well, once you’ve read even one chapter of Joel Salatin’s eight books, you’re pretty clear that such a horror-story of a farming model may be promoted by governmental agencies and underwritten by the petrochemical industry, but it needn’t represent your reality!
With three generations of family farming history, a lifetime’s experience in entrepreneurial small farming, and growing international acclaim to back him up, Joel demonstrates conclusively that the dream of a profitable, healthy, sustainable, beyond-organic small farm enterprise is quite achievable. In fact, Joel describes it as “making a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country.”
What does that mean in real life? Well, the Salatin family and their working team at Polyface Farms proudly say that they “haven’t bought a bag of chemical fertilizer in half a century, never planted a seed, own no plow or disk or silo.”
Instead, Polyface uses a contrarian land-healing practice that Joel calls “mob-stocking herbivorous solar conversion lignified carbon sequestration fertilization” (in other words, farming the way Nature intended, with diverse and integrated livestock feeding on and fertilizing bio-diverse pastures and woodlands).
And despite all the industry experts’ dire predictions, Polyface has achieved both local and global fame, supplying a customer base of more than 3,000 families, 10 retail outlets, and 50 restaurants, being profiled in Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, and Gourmet (among other media coverage), and being featured in the movie Food, Inc. and the New York Times best-seller The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Whether you grow veggies in pots on your apartment balcony, or whether you’re an aspiring livestock systems farmer, or whether you’re somewhere in between, these three days will have you drawing up plans to increase both your yield and your bank balance!
Tickets $40 in advance, available at the door for $50, or all 3 workshops for $100!
Please note, these workshops are being live-webcast from Alberta. Joel will not be here in person. This event is being hosted locally by Wild Craft Permaculture and Transition Middlesex.
