Joel Salatin - How to Farm - Original

The man is just a non-stop mountain of information, isn't he? What a guy...

And it would be another source of farm income. If he's letting cows be cows, pigs be pigs, and chickens be chicken to make a living he may as well let the farmer be a farmer and let that help the farm too. This is the longest video I've seen of him, and the whole video is about his farm, not just part of someone else's video. I really enjoyed watching this.

He's the superstar of farming!

​@timkruse4548 exactly, make the computer make money too. His youtube revenue would probably be pretty good. Especially if they did a recent follow up on improvements they have made or changed. I bet there's tons more data.

They’re just pushing the narrative as it pays and offers favors to be repaid

He's not a scammer . Only the government says that

People who say that will never own anything.

Whoever said he was a scam? The downsides of the system are fairly obvious being that it costs more money per lb or meat produced. Joel freely admits that; the only real argument is whether or not the extra cost is worth it; Ehich it appears to be.

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You'll have your own local challenges, but if you take the model of mimicking nature's systems to help the soil regenerate and you become a soil and grass farmer rather than a "protein fabricator," it can work. You can find ways to work with the unique attributes of your ecology. One of the top-of-my-head differences you'll likely face is water - Joel has 450 acres of wooded hillside behind his farm where he builds ponds and uses gravity to deliver water to his fields... Not a lot of elevation to leverage in Texas. But by building soil, you'll be doing exactly what a grassland needs: increasing the soil biomass and building water-holding capacity.

If you here his other interviews he says you can just leave the cows two three days without moving them. It's very forgiving if you miss a day or two.

I have had the privilege of walking Polyface on a rainy day. The jobs are relatively simple, and the scenery is captivating. Rain is a part of a real human life, and it brings the grass and the trees to life. There in the Shenandoah Valley it seems like you can reach up and touch the rainclouds; they hang low and cover the forested mountains. Working near the cattle munching the damp grass, being rained on felt less like being chased indoors and more like being given a cool drink on a hot day. I'm not saying it's never hard work, that its never cold and difficult, but a life's work like that doesn't make you wish you were inside watching the news.

Thanks for the reply I just was saying people should see the days that are not all sunny and nice like all of his video's are. Its not all ice cream and pie.@@BeyondIntention

@@Roger-br4dhit’s worth the ugly days to have safe food to feed your family

You do not get it lol I agree with what your saying but the people that have never done this are not thinking about the cold ,rainy days because the pictures you show do not include the bad days.then when they get neck deep into doing this. after they have sold there house and moved. they find its not for them and they are broke. I am just saying to give them the whole picture.@@narrowpathfarm

75 I believe

I think he said 100

Bunnies dig out of dirt , eat wood and their fecal matter & urine are highly acidic. So wood cages/housing would rot very fast or be eaten and destroy a pasture pen. And putting bunnies on dirt would allow them to dig out and escape. So you would have wasted your money investment for nothing. I have seen metal cages drug across the yard, BUT the bunnies need to be put away at night, then taken out in the morning. But this is time-consuming, and most people will not bother with this.

Bunnies will kill each other if free ranged. Got to separate males and females.

​@@denisewilson8367 check out Polyface Designs for the summer hare pen structure that they use in summer for growing out the young weaned rabbits on grass. It has wood slats to prevent digging out and allow grass consumption.

Joel frequently acknowledges that their rabbitry is the furthest they get from the ecological model. Rabbits are notorious for contracting coccidiosis in captivity, one reason more "natural" rabbit colonies and warrens often fail, and they are not only difficult to contain in anything but metal cages (I've been to Polyface even recently and seen big meat bunny escapees hopping around the tractors), but the meat breeds also have difficulty adapting to truly forage-based diets. Like the broiler chickens, there is a big difference between wild-type cottontails and a big New Zealand or Flemish Giant. It apparently took them a lot of breeding to end up with a strain that could tolerate it.