The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer by Joel Salatin (English) Paperback

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Joel Salatin is the most famous organic farmer in the United States, featured prominently in Michael Pollans bestseller The Omnivores Dilemma as well as in the recent documentary films Food, Inc. and Fresh.

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Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's half-century as a "lunatic" farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional.In today's conventional food-production paradigm, any farm that is open-sourced, compost-fertilized, pasture-based, portably-infrastructured, solar-driven, multi-speciated, heavily peopled, and soil-building must be operated by a lunatic. Modern, normal, reasonable farmers erect "No Trespassing" signs, deplete soil, worship annuals, apply petroleum-based chemicals, produce only one commodity, erect Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, and discourage young people from farming.Anyone looking for ammunition to defend a more localized, solar-driven, diversified food system will find an entire arsenal in these pages. With wit and humor honed during countless hours working on the farm he loves, and then interacting with conventional naysayers, Salatin brings the land to life, farming to sacredness, and food to ministry.Divided into four main sections, the first deals with principles to nurture the earth, an idea mainline farming has never really endorsed. The second section describes food and fiber production, including the notion that most farmers don't care about nutrient density or taste because all they want is shipability and volume. The third section, titled "Respect for Life," presents an apologetic for food sacredness and farming as a healing ministry. Only lunatics would want less machinery and pathogenicity. Oh, the ecstasy of not using drugs or paying bankers. How sad. The final section deals with promoting community, including the notion that more farmers would be a good thing.

Author Biography

Called "the high priest of the pasture" by The New York Times, Joel Salatin likes to refer to himself as a "Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer." He lives with his family on Polyface Farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia "Salatin has developed a system of pasture rotation that produces nutrient-rich grass and maximizes the composting of animal waste. Each species on the farm is dependent on another. The cows, for example, eat the nutrient rich grass in Pasture A and then are moved to Pasture B. The chickens then move to Pasture A where they pick through the cow pies eatin

Details ISBN0963810960 Author Joel Salatin Short Title SHEER ECSTASY OF BEING A LUNAT Publisher Polyface Language English ISBN-10 0963810960 ISBN-13 9780963810960 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 630 Illustrations Yes Residence Swoope Imprint Polyface, Incorporated Country of Publication United States Pages 300 Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-06-17 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2013-06-17 AU Release Date 2013-06-17 NZ Release Date 2013-06-17 US Release Date 2013-06-17 We've got this

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