From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
